2023: My Readings

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Journal Entry 1 by veleta from Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, January 6, 2023
January

1- Nathan Nolan: Memento Mori

2- Evaristo Acevedo: Los ancianitos son una lata

3- James Joyce: Dubliners

4- Verónica Gerber Bicecci: Conjunto vacío

5- Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain

6- Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Vuelo nocturno (Vol de Nuit)

7- Wole Soyinka, Kristin Ómarsdóttir, Seamus Heaney, Luis Cernuda, Zhou Yaping, Wislawa Szymborską, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Atwood, Gdan Haji, Shinataro Ranikawa, Udayan Vajpey, Anne Carson, Jorge Luis Borges & Other Authors: The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson (Borges and I; Milk; On the Sea; Scissors; Notes Towards a Race Riot Scene; American Citizen)

8- J. A. Hazeley & J. P. Morris: The Cat
Other author: Jorge Núñez, Martin Aitchison, Eric Winter, John Berry, P. B. Hickling, Robert Ayton & Other Illustrators

9- Isaac Asimov: Nightfall

10- Gioconda Belli: Nicaragua Water Fire (Nicaragua agua fuego)

11- Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

12- Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

13- Janice Hallett: The Appeal

14- R. L. Stevenson: An Apology for Idlers

15- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

16- Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: The Blank Wall

17- Emilia Pardo Bazán: La gota de sangre

18- William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death

19- Roberto Arlt: El juguete rabioso

20- Peter D’Agostino: coming and going

21- Dan Santat: After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)

22- Joachim Maria Machado de Assis: The Psychiatrist (O Alienista)

23- Peter Kopek: Patterns (Inside the Design Library)

24- Arnold Lobel: Giant John

25- Etel Adnan: The Arab Apocalypse (L’Apocalypse Arabe)

26- E. B. Benson: Lucia’s Progress

27- Miguel Delibes: El loco

28- Sophy Henn: Edie

29- Junot Díaz. The Cheater’s Guide to Love

30- Elena Quiroga: Trayecto Uno

31- César González-Ruano: La canción del recuerdo

32- José María Pemán y Pemartín: Luisa, el profesor y yo

33- Gabriel Miró: Nómada

34- Lina María Parra Ochoa: Pañuelos de papel

35- Julio Moreno Cirujano: Alegato de culpabilidad

36- Carmen Laforet: Un noviazgo

37- Camilo José Cela: Café de artistas

38- Alejandro Zambra: Reading Comprehension: Text No 2

39- (Jean-Jacques) Sempé: C’est la Vie! The Wonderful World of Sempé (C’est la Vie!)

40- Nicolas Roeg: David Bowie The Man Who Fell to Earth

41- Luis Romero: Ha pasado una sombra

Journal Entry 2 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, March 11, 2023

FEBRUARY

42- Ignatius Ngoma, Esther Mulaisho, Moffat Ganghanari Moyo, Chjilugya Chilangwa, Mukuka chipantra & More Authors: From A to Z Voices from Zambia

43- Stefanie Pence: Tamara de Lempicka (Tamara de Lempicka)

44- Tono: Cuando yo me llamaba Harry. Novela americana.

45- Marilyn Kallett: How Our Bodies Learned

46- Mariano Roldán: Inútil crimen

47- Joseph Gorden-Levitt & wirrow: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
Other Authors: DianeFT; Sean Ono Lennon; Emma Conner; LydiaSaskia; Joab Nevo; Wicked Goblin King and many more authors.

48- Sarah Crossan: The Weight of Water

49- J. P. Morris & J. P. Hazeley: The Shed
Illustrators: Jorge Núñez, Edward Osmond, Martin Aitchison, John Berry, B. H. Robinson, Eric Winter, John Kenney, P. B. Hickling, Harry Wingfield & Jack Matthew

50- Pío Baroja: El tesoro del holandés

51- Álvaro Cunqueiro, Charlotte Brontë, Edward P. Jones, Isak Dinesen, Javier Marías,& Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: Flash Fiction 6
Original Titles: Alberte Merlo’s Horse; The First Day, Flylephant, The Blue Stones, the Honeymoon, Napoleon and the Spectre

52- Carol Shields: Happenstance

53- Carmen Laforet. El viaje divertido

54- Ramón Ledesma Miranda: El vagabundo

55- Darío Fernández-Florez: Lola, espejo oscuro

56- José María Pemán: La noche de San Martín

57- Květa Pacovská: The Little Flower King (Der Kleine Blumenkönig)

58- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper

59- Enrique Jardel Poncela: Los treinta y ochos asesinatos y medio del Castillo de Hull. Novísimas aventuras de Sherlock Holmes

60- José Saramago: The Stone Raft (A Jangada de Pedra)

61- J. A. Hazeley & J. P. Morris: The Meeting
Illustrators: John Kenney, B. H. Robinson, R. Emberton, John Berry and Harry Wingfield

62- Edgar Neville: La niña de la Calle del Arenal

63- John Lehn: The Island Position

64- Mercedes Ballesteros: La sed

65- Carmen Laforet: La niña

66- Pío Baroja: Los amores de Antonio y Cristina

67- Siegfried Sassoon: To My Mother

68- Frank Auerbach: Recent Work

69- Manuel Halcón: La gran borrachera

70- George Orwell: The Penguin Complete Longer Non Fiction of George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London —- The Road to Wigan Pier)

Journal Entry 3 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, March 11, 2023
March

71- James Baldwin: If Beale Street Could Talk

72- Gioconda Belli: Fuego soy, apartado y espada puesta lejos

73- Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life

74- Anonymous: I Found a Dead Girl’s Diary

75- Barbara Hitchcock, Olivero Toscani, Wendy Ewald, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, E. Louise Wachler, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jo Whaley, David Hockney, Gladys, Rena Small, Helmut Newton, Gail Thacker, Fazal Sheikh, Andy Warhol, Judi Natal, Karen Kommer, Paul Banka, Erika Blumenfeld & Other Photographers: The Polaroid Book

76- Venantius Fortunatus: A Basket of Chesnuts (Item aloud pro castaneis)

77- Peter Newell: The Slant Book

78- Thomas M. Disch: 334

79- Haruki Murakami: With the Beatles

80- Sebastian Smee: The Art of Rivalry

81- Will Self: The novel is dead (this time is for real)

82- Elizabeth Taylor: Angel

83- Adelehin Ijasan: Cycle of the Eternal Witness

84- Camilo José Cela: Del Miño al Bidasoa

85- Annie Ernaux: El acontecimiento (L’événement)

86- Harry Harrison, Fritz Leiber, Jerrold J. Mundis, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Gene Wolfe, J. B. Ballard & Other Authors: The Ruins of Earth
Other author: Thomas M. Disch (writer and editor)
Original Title: The Birds, Deer in the Works, Closing with Nature, Shaker Revival, Cage of Sang, Autofac

87- Patricia Highsmith: The Quest for Blank Claviringi

88- Emma Vane, H. G. Wells, Lucy H. Cooper, Ambrose Bierce, Howard R. Garis, Edith Nesbit, M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle & Other Authors: Evil Roots. Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
Original Title: Carnivore; The Ash Tree; The Voice in the Night; The Pavilion; The Moaning Lily; The Giant Wistaria

89- Giovanni Pontiero: The Portugese’s Heritage: José Saramago’s The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

90- E. F. Benson: Lucia in London

91- S. E. Hinton: Rumble Fish

92- William Gropper: Alay-Oop

93- Michel Houellebecq: Lanzarote (Lanzarote)

Journal Entry 4 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, April 28, 2023
April

94- Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost

95- Geoff Ryman: 253

96- Mo Yan (莫言 ; Mò Yán): Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳)

97- Janessa Jordan: Poetry of Art

98- Zelda Fitzgerald: A Millionaire’s Girl

99- Deborah Moggach: Tulip Fever

100- Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

101- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

102- Piper Kerman: Orange Is the New Black

103- Cory Doctorow: Printcrime

104- Ama Ata Aidoo: Certain Winds from the South

105- Terry Pratchett: Snuff

106- Roald Dahl: The Landlady

107- Marina Mayoral, Eduardo Mendicutti, Joaquín Calvo Sotelo & Many Other Authors: Antología de cuentos españoles contemporáneos
Other author: Raúl García Garrido, Ramón J. Sender, Ramón Eira
Original Title: …De su amiga, Celina; Para Marcel; Auto-stop; Con censura; La terraza; Aturuxo el vikingo

108- Louisa Reid: Activist

109- H. G. Wells: The Truth about Pyecraft

110- Andrea Camilleri: The Patience of the Spider (La pazienza del ragno)

111- Jhumpa Lahiri: Introduction (Italian Short Stories)

112- Lucia Berlin: Electric Car, El Paso

113- Patricio Pron: No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles

114- Sigrid Nunez: The Friend

Journal Entry 5 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, June 3, 2023
115- Stephen King: Children of the Corn

116- Shaun David Hutchinson: We Are the Ants

117- Leopoldo María Panero: La mentira es una flor

118- Helen Simpson, Arnold Bennet, Michael Gilbert, Anthony Berkeley, Phyllis Bentley & Other Authors: Resorting to Murder. Holiday Mysteries (A posteriori, The House of Screams, Cousin Once Removed)

119- Annie Ernaux: A Woman’s Story (Une Femme)

120- Sue Miller: Inventing the Abbots

121- Nelly Sachs: The Seeker and Other Poems
(Die Suchende)

122- D. H. Lawrence: The Rocking-Horse Winner

123- Bill Bryson: Shakespeare

124- Amélie Nothomb: Metaphysics of Tubes (The Character of Rain) (Métaphysique des tubes)

125- Alice Munro: The Flats Road

126- Dương Thu Hương: Reflections of Spring (Hồi quang của mùa xuân)

127- Del James: Without You

128- Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere

129- Enid Blyton: The Mystery of the Strange Messages

130- May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen, A. N. L. Munby, Margaret Irwin, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, Edith Wharton & Other Authors: The Haunted Library. Classic Short Stories
Original Title: Afterward; The Work of Evil; The Tractate Middoth; The Book; The Whisperers; The Apple Tree & Other Stories

131- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Futurist Cookbook (La cocina futurista)

132- Jean Rhys: After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

133- Dick Bruna: Miffy Is Crying (nijntje huilt)

134- Edward Gore: Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses

135- Irène Némirovsky: Dimanche (Dimanche)

136- John Hutchinson: Luigi Ghirri

137- Jacob Silverman: The Crowdsourcing Scam.

138- Angela Carter: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

139- Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

140- Katherine Mansfield: The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Journal Entry 6 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 2, 2023
June

141- Sue Miller: The Lake Shore Limited

142- Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

143- Salley Vickers: Where Three Roads Meet

144- Clarice Lispector: Love (Amor)

145- Agatha Christie: They Came to Baghdad

146- Theodore Roethke: Collected Poems

147- John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

148- Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris: The Story of Brexit
Other author: Kenneth Inns, Ronald Sydney Embleton, Septimus E. Scott, Robert Ayton, Eric Winter, Ronald Lampitt, Martin Aitchison, Frank Hampson, Gerald Witcomb, John Berry, Harry Wingfield and More Authors

149- Official Transcript Selection: The Trial of the Chicago 7

150- E. C. Osondu: Waiting

151- Roberto Bolaño: The Third Reich (El tercer Reich)

152- George Saunders: The Semplica-Girls Diaries

153- Chuck Tingle: Stranger Pounds

154- Maurizio Cattelas & Pierpaolo Ferrari: Toiletpaper

155- Bill Brandt: Photographs

156- Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych)

157- Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

158- Vera Stanishevskaya (Estonia), Yvonne de Vries (Holland), Axel Vater (Germany), Karel Zeman (Czech Republic) & Many More Artists: Modern Erotic Bookplates

159- Theodore Menten: Aubrey Beardsley Bookplates

160- Carl S. Junge & Zella Allen Dixson: Bookplates by Carl S. Junge

161- Virginia Feito: Mrs March


Journal Entry 7 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 2, 2023
July

162- Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse’s Story

163- Sarah Pinsker: Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather

164- Emilia Pardo Bazán, Miguel de Unamuno, Azorín, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Ramón López Montenegro, Luis Bello & Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Mundos al descubierto

165- Paul Celan: Selected Poems (Mon und Gedächtnis. Von Schwelle zu Schwelle. Sprachgitter. Die Niemandsrose. Atemwende, Fadensonnen, Lichtzwang, Schneepart)

166- Clarice Lispector: A paixão segundo G. H.

167- Thomas M. Disch: Come to Venus Melancholy

168- Enid Blyton: Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm

169- Julio Cortázar: Viaje alrededor de una mesa

170- Vita Sackville-West: Patience

171- Isabella Tree: Wilding

172- Anonymous (Eire); Jo Ellen Bogart (USA) & Sydney Smith (Canada): The White Cat and the Monk (Pangur Bán)

173- Julie Fogliano (writer) & Christian Robinson (Illustrator): When’s My Birthday?

174- Camilo José Cela: El asesinato del perdedor

175- Jaime Bayly: No se lo digas a nadie

176- Emma Donoghue: Last Dinner at Brown’s

177- Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs and the Wolves (Le Chien et les Loups)

178- Josef Skvorecky: The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka ( Smutek porucika Boruvky)

179- Francis Ponge: Pleasures of the Door

180- Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the Wall

181- Amor Towles: Rules of Civility

182- Emilia Pardo Bazán: La insolación

183- Benito Pérez Galdós: The Novel on the Tram (La novela en el tranvía)

184- Amelia B. Edwards: The Phantom Coach

185- Agnes Chew: Home


Journal Entry 8 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 2, 2023
August

186- T. E. Carhart: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

187- Roberto Bolaño: La literatura nazi en América

188- Clarice Lispector: Perto do Coração Selvagem

189- Xavier Oquendo (Ecuador), Dana Gelinas (Mexico), Leticia Herrera (Mexico), Miguel Espejo (Argentina), Waldo Leyva (Cuba), Lina Zerón (Mexico); Daisy Zamora (Nicaragua); Norberto Salinas (Costa Rica): Modern Mexican Poetry

190- Annie Ernaux: A Girl’s Story (Une Femme)

191- Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Earth

192- Diana Athill: Somewhere Towards the End

193- Camilo José Cela: Garito de hospicianos. O guirigay de imposturas y bambollas

194- 刘慈欣 (Cixin Liu): Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest; Death’s End) (三体/)

195- Rebecca Makkai: Painted Ocean, Painted Ship

196- 谷崎 潤一郎 (Jun’ichirō Tanizaki): Diary of a Mad Old Man [瘋癲老人日記 (Fūten rōjin nikki)]

197- Julio Cortázar: Carta a una señorita en París

198- Fernando Iwasaki: Mal negro en el congo

199- Roberto Bolaño: Estrella errante

200- Luis Loayza: Relatos

201- Chris Steele-Perkins: The Pleasure Principle

202- Brian Evenson: Mudder Tongue

203- Sharlene Teo: Ponti

Journal Entry 9 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, October 1, 2023
SEPTEMBER
 
204- H. P. Lovecraft: The Colour out of Space
 
205- James Tiptree, Jr: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold's Hill
 
206- Richmal Crompton, Chris Spencer, Virginia S. Newlin, Joyce Stranger; Oscar Wilde & Many More: Enchanting Animal Stories
 
207- Federico García Lorca: Seis poemas galegos
 
208- Olivia E. Butler: Bloodchild
 
209- Rachel Swirsky, Naguib Mahfoud, Mia Couto, Andy Weir, Jeanne Shoemaker & ChatGPT: Flash Fiction Special 7

210- André Gide: Viaje al Congo (Voyage au Congo)
 
211- Milan Kundera: The Joke (Žert)
 
212- Manuel Regal Ledo: Chorimas
 
213- Mariana Enríquez: Los peligros de fumar en la cama
 
214- Alexandra Guggenheim: El discípulo de Rembrandt (Der Gehilfe des Malers)
 
215- Knud Meister & Carlo Andersen (Lisbeth Werner): Puck en 2x2=17
(Jeg Elsker Mysterier - To Gange to Er Sytten)
 
216- Eudora Welty: Why I Live at the P.O.
 
217- K. J. Khan: Re: Your Chinchilla
 
218- Andrea Barreira Freije, Ramón Caride, Xosé Duncan, Fernando Méndez & Joao Madureira. Contos do Sacaúntos. Romasanta, o criminal

 
219- Concha Alós: Argeo ha muerto, supongo
 
220- Noel Clarasó: Pigmalión 1950

221- Daisy Johnson: The Superstition of Albatross

Journal Entry 10 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, December 2, 2023
October

222- Arnold Bennett: Murder!

223- Nicolás Guillén: El diario que a diario

224- Eduardo Mendoza: La verdad sobre el caso Savolta

225- Bessie Head: The Man Who Wore Glasses

226- Ulalume González de León: A cada rato los lunes

227- Salvador Elizondo: La mariposa

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230- Marguerite Duras: Moderato Cantabile (Moderato Cantabile)

231- ChatGPT: Untitled
Other author: Mel’s prompt

232- Natalie Turton: Forget What You Know About Book Clubs

233- Thomas Mann: Little Herr Friedmann (Der kleine Herr Friedmann)

234- Richard Wright: The Man Who Was Almost a Man

235- McKenzie Zalopany: Girl Who Games

236- Ruskin Bond: Nature Can Be a Reward in Itself

237- Anonymous: The Dead Man of Varley Grange

238- Wislawa Szymborska, Walt Whitman, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Federico García Lorca: Poems from New York

239- Blake Butler: EWN Indie Publisher E-Panel

240- Joseph Sherida LeFanu: Carmilla

241- Karen Russell: ZZ’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers

Journal Entry 11 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, December 2, 2023
November

242- Eleanor Farjeon: Mrs. Malone

243- James Berry: The Future-Telling Lady

244- R. L. Stine: (More Tales to Give You) Goosebummps Ten Spooky Stories. Special Edition 2

245- Alyson Mosquera Dutemple: The Conservation Candidate’s Speech Tosses Another Draft of His Valentine into the Trash

246- E. L. Doctorow: The Writer in the Family

247- Jacqueline Susann: The Valley of the Dolls

248- Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist

249- Barbara Kingsolver: A Forbidden Territory Familiar to All

250- Pär Lagerkvist: The Lift That Went Down into Hell

251- Cory Doctorow: Craphound

252- John Steinbeck: Cannery Row

253- Louise Erdrich: The Flower

254- T. E. Hulme: 10 Short Poems

255- Adam, Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Marcel Proust & Ben Shattuck: Flash Fiction Special 8
Original Title: (Lilian, toy, UFO, whatever); The Book of Sand; Nicholas Was (Christimas); The Madeleine Excerpt from Remembrance of Things Past; Inventing Wampanoag, 1672.

256- Hiromi Kakakami ((川上 弘美): Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban)

257- César Aira: Un episodio en la vida de un pintor de paisajes

258- Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway

Journal Entry 12 by veleta at Willesden, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 3, 2024
December
257- CHALLENGES: Mine. Foreign.

César Aira: Un episodio en la vida de un pintor de paisajes
Publishing house: Random House
Year of first publication: 2000
Year of the edition I read: 2006
120 pages
Nationality or Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Man or Woman: Man
Finished on Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Marks: 7

258- CHALLENGES: Mine

Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway
Publishing house: Penguin
Year of first publication: 2022
Year of the edition I read: 2022
300 pages
Kindle
Nationality or Country: USA
Language: English
Man or Woman: Man
Finished on Thursday, 30 November 2023
I liked only the story of Emmet and Billy, the siblings.
Marks: 5

December

259- Emmanuella Simon Audu: We Need Another Christmas

260- J. D. Salinger: A Perfect Day for Bananafish

261- Deborah Moggach: The Black Dress

262- Philip van Doren Stern: The Greatest Gift

263- James Berry: Magic to Make You Invisible

264- Calvin Gimpelevich: Among Men

265- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Christmas in Poganuc

266- Maura Dooley, Gwen Harwood, Ruth Miller, Mary Gilmore, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Atwood & Many More Woman Poets: No Bliss Like This (The Honeymoon Is Over; Sous-Entendu; Story of a Hotel Room; Last Testaments)

267- Lauren Groff: The Wind

268- Juyanne James: The Meeting

269- Alecia MacKenzie: Private School

270- Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls (Based on a concept & summary by Siobhan Dowd)

271- Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are

272- Chuck Palahniuk: Haunted

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