lettersfromthelighthouse:June 1: Goat Started Starting off with a cheat, yay! This is my TBR for the

lettersfromthelighthouse:June 1: Goat Started Starting off with a cheat, yay! This is my TBR for the entire month, but let’s be honest here: I’m a terrible mood reader and glad if I manage to stick to a (rough) TBR for most of the month, everything more specific is asking too much. On this pile (top to bottom): Wilhelm Hauff - Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1828): A fairytale collection by my favourite local German Romantic that includes, among others, Das Kalte Herz, Kalif Storch and a frame narrative about dark woods and robbers. All the good stuff. This one also fits the Just grazing and Bleat the Backlist challenges. Heinrich von Kleist - Gesammelte Werke und Briefe (ca.1803-1821, some posthumously): I actually only plan to reread Penthesilea (1808) and one other play from this. Probably my favourite depressed German author of all times. Might fit Bleat the Backlist if I finally read Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1809-10). Ernest Cline - Ready Player One (2012): Everyone has read this except me, even my boyfriend knows about it (and he rarely reads books), and the library had it. Let’s hope it’s not another disappointment. Andrea Wulff - The Invention of Nature (2015): What can I say? It’s a biography of Alexander von Humboldt and I’m an early modernist who works on Spanish America. I lugged this through Panama, Colombia and Peru; I might as well finish it sometime. Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca (1938): Another library book that I’ve been meaning to read for a while. Probably fits the Bleat the Backlist challenge. I also have a bunch of other unfinished books, including these two: Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (1862): Do I really have to introduce this book? I’m slow with my progress for @lizziethereader‘s Les Mis readathon. Currently at page 257/1468. Definitely fits the Buck Up! challenge, and Bleat the Backlist, too. Walter Scott - The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818): Scottish history, a dramatic court case, dialogues in Scots, sisterly love and Walter Scott’s humour? Sign me up! Currently at 111/532 pages (even though goodreads says 793 because the appendix is gigantic). Also fits the Buck Up! and Bleat the Backlist challenges. (I bought this in 2007. Ahem)Not pictured, but definitely also unfinished: Novalis - Hymnen an die Nacht (1800): How long can it take one person to read six poems? Ages, apparently, especially if they look up all the references. Currently at 4/6 poems; there’s no fitting copy on goodreads so I can’t count page numbers. Fits the Bleat the Backlist and Just Grazing challenges. Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles (2012): This should be an easy two-days sail to England Troy, but apparently it isn’t. Currently at page 209/384. Terry Pratchett - Night Watch (2002, audiobook): Fits well with the whole “social commentary/revolutions gone wrong” theme I have going here. Also the one that is most likely to be finished during this challenge because I’m already at about 80%. Fits the Udder Worlds challenge. Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’ Diary (1996, audiobook): No idea if I will ever finish this; I’ve seen the movie and Bridget is getting on my nerves. Also, half of the “funny things” are not funny. Currently at 30%. Bleat the Backlist material. Tad Williams - Stone of Farewell (1990): I started this late last year but since it’s a reread, I’m not too bothered. Currently stuck at 437/727 pages. Fits the Udder Worlds challenge. I’ll count this readathon a success if I can finish two books on this list, not including the Pratchett audiobook, and make progress with two more.  -- source link

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