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Poem for the day:

Prayer
for a New Mother

The things she knew, let her forget again–
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
The gaping shepherds and the queer old men
Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.

Let her have laughter with her little one,
Teach her the endless, tuneless songs to sing,
Grant her her right to whisper to her son
The foolish names one dare not call a king.

Keep from her dream the rumble of a crowd,
The smell of rough-cut wood, the trail of red,
The thick and chilly whiteness of the shroud
That wraps the strange new body of the dead.

Ah, let her go, kind Lord, where mothers go
And boast his pretty words and ways, and plan
The proud and happy years that they shall know
Together, when her son has grown a man.

— Dorothy Parker

Det er en stund siden jeg sist klarte å følge en leseliste (om jeg noen gang kan sies å ha klart det), men når skal jeg gjøre et forsøk på å slenge meg med på Lyrans Jorden rundt på 8 bøker for 2010. Her er utvalget hennes, og jeg tror jeg følger Lilla Os metode med fet skrift på de jeg har tenkt å lese, kursiv på de jeg alt har lest (skremmende få).

Östeuropa
Stalins kossor – Sofi Oksanen (Finland)
Låt tistlarna brinna! – Yasar Kemal (Turkiet)
Aprils frusna blommor – Ismaïl Kadaré (Albanien)

Mellanöstern
Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis (Iran)
Alexandre Najjar – Krigets skola (Libanon)
Hur man botar en fanatiker – Amos Oz (Israel)

Asien
Den indiske tolken – Jhumpa Lahiri (Indien)
Mardrömmen – Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
Människornas jord – Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesien)

Oceanien
Boktjuven – Markus Zusak (Australien)
Fem svarta höns – Nevil Shute (Australien)
Att tro på mister Pip – Lloyd Jones (Nya Zealand)

Sydamerika
Den sista läsaren – David Toscana (Mexico)
Andarnas hus – Isabel Allende (Chile)
Stjärnans ögonblick – Clarice Lispector (Brasilien)

Nordamerika
Och var hör du hemma? – Anne Tyler (USA)
Illusionernas bok – Paul Auster (USA)
Kärlek, vänskap, hat – Alice Munro (Canada)

Afrika
Midaqq-gränden – Naguib Mahfouz (Egypten)
Sultanbrudens skugga – Assia Djebar (Algeriet)
Förändringar – Ama Ato Aidoo (Ghana)

Västeuropa
Kärleken är dödens motsats – Roberto Saviano (Italien)
Ungdomens bröd – Heinrich Böll (Tyskland)
Den röda soffan – Michèle Lesbre (Frankrike)

Drømt opp av Geir Isaxen, som riktignok egentlig oppfordrer oss alle til å lage egen liste. Vi får se om ikke jeg kan få somlet meg til det, men i mellomtiden kan jeg jo sammenligne min lesing med hans. Fortsatt det jeg har lest i fet skrift.

1. Sult – Knut Hamsun
2. Mysterier – Knut Hamsun
3. Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset
4. Cruise – Odd Eidem
5. En folkefiende – Henrik Ibsen
6. Samlede essays – Henrik Groth
7. Under vulkanen – Malcolm Lowry
8. Portnoys besværlige liv – Philip Roth
9. Slaktehus 5 – Kurt Vonnegut jr.
10. Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for snø – Peter Høeg
11. Kong Alkohol – Jack London
12. Norge, mitt Norge – Jens Bjørneboe
13. De dødes tjern – André Bjerke
14. Under gullregnen – Marie Hamsun
15. August Strindberg – Olof Lagercrantz
16. En dåres forsvarstale – August Strindberg
17. En varig fest – Ernest Hemingway
18. Raskolnikov – Fjodor Dostojevski
19. Hundre års ensomhet – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
21. Den store Gatsby – Scott Fitzgerald
22. Haikerens guide til galaksen – Douglas Adams
23. Sjosja – Isaac Singer
24. Jeg, Bakunin – Bergljot Hobæk Haff
25. Garps Bok – John Irving
26. Den Perfekte Spion – John le Carré
27. Oda – Ketil Bjørnstad
28. Hvite niggere – Ingvar Ambjørnsen
29. Manhattan – Torgrim Eggen
30. Gå – Tomas Espedal
31. Yogien & kommissæren – Arthur Koestler
32. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
33. Dracula – Bram Stoker
34. Onkel Oswald – Roald Dahl
35. Rosens navn – Umberto Eco
36. Fra Kristiania-bohemen – Hans Jæger
37. Lillelord-trilogien – Johan Borgen
38. Møte ved milepælen – Sigurd Hoel
39. Uår – Knut Faldbakken
40. Den drukner ei som henges skal – Jon Michelet
41. Steppeulven – Hermann Hesse
42. Gamle mestere – Thomas Bernhard
43. Speil – Jan Kjærstad
44. Storsvindleren Krull – Thomas Mann
45. Epleblomster og ruiner – Marianne Ahrne
46. Stenbukkens vendekrets – Henry Miller
47. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
48. Uro – Finn Skårderud
49. Hvordan Marcel Proust kan forandre ditt liv – Alain de Botton
50. Fakkelen i øret – Elias Canetti
51. Donau – Claudio Magris
52. En historie om lesning – Alberto Manguel
53. Oblomov – Ivan Gontsjarov
54. Menn som hater kvinner – Stieg Larsson
55. Sjakalen – Fredrick Forsyth
56. Nålen – Ken Follett
57. De døde – Jan E Hansen
58. Den gamle mannen og havet – Ernest Hemingway
59. Månen over Porten – Per Petterson
60. Kristianiabohemen – Halvor Fosli
61. Mord på Orientekspressen – Agathe Christie
62. Peer Gynt – Henrik Ibsen
63. Tyven – Gõran Tunstrøm
64. Rosemarys baby – Ira Levin
65. 1984 – George Orwell
66. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
67. Utenfor sirklene – Colin Wilson
68. Ikaros – Axel Jensen
69. Salme ved reisens slutt – Erik Fosnes Hansen
70. Sin egen herre – Tore Rem
71. Prosessen – Franz Kafka
72. Fiskerens sko – Morris West
73. Offisersfabrikken – Hans Helmut Kirst
74. Dagdrivergjengen – John Steinbeck
75. Varulven – Aksel Sandemose
76. Kvalmen – Jean Paul Sartre
77. Den afrikanske farm – Karen Blixen
78. En intellektuell europeers bekjennelser – Jan Myrdal
79. Deg – Annemarta Borgen
80. Ærlighetens komedie – Niels Chr Geelmuyden
81. Veien til Rom – Kjell Arild Pollestad
82. Ragtime – E L Doctorow
83. Postkontoret – Charles Bukowski
84. No country for old men – Cormac McCarthy
85. Vær så snill, vær stille, vær så snill og andre noveller – Raymond Carver
86. Parfymen – Patrick Süskind
87. Firmaets mann – John Grisham
88. Jeeves, den uforlignelige – P G Wodehouse
89. Den talentfulle Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
90. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
91. De elendige – Victor Hugo
92. Aller nederst – Günter Wallraff
93. Latours katalog – Nikolaj Frobenius
94. Lyden av leselykke – Anne Fadiman
95. Gjøkeredet – Ken Kesey
96. Adjø Las Vegas – John O’Brien
97. Entusiastiske essays – Jan Erik Vold
98. Med kaldt blod – Truman Capote
99. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
100. Om kunsten å lese og skrive – Olof Lagercrantz

Because I’m a sucker for lists. Apparently, the BBC think most people have read only 6 books from this list. I think I can beat that. Bolding the ones I’ve read, as usual. Two oddities I noticed: You have Complete works of Shakespeare AND Hamlet, and you have The Chronicles of Narnia AND The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Huh? Read one get one free?

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (well, a lot, anyway)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransom
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo