fifteen in fifteen minutes

From Carrie Frye, blogger in residence at Terry Teachout's blog on the arts in New York City, About Last Night. The rules are that one lists books that will stick with you, in fifteen minutes. No revising, and take no longer than fifteen minutes.

The Recognitions, William Gaddis.
Ruth Park's biography in 2 vols.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.
Shakespeare - Complete works
Gray, Robert, The Land I Came Through Last
The Prelude, William Wordsworth
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Collected Poems, T.S. Eliot
Selected Poems, Ezra Pound
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Great World, David Malouf
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford.
The Siege, Clara Claiborne Park
Collected Poems, W.B.Yeats.
I for Isobel, Amy Witting/Carpentaria, Alexis Wright tie for the finish.

("The Lord of the RIGNS?" my son says, incredulously, walking by.)

Did it in about six. Took another four to tidy it up. Obviously. Would love to do it again and slip Invisible But Enduring Lilacs by Gerald Murnane in, but rules are rules.
I think I could easily do a new one though. I'm going to pour a glass of wine and do this again. My husband is quietly enjoying watching Collingwood while our son is at a drive-in, for God's sake - the carers had only been to the drive-in once before, so they took the Interchange group again. Such a novelty!

My time starts - now.

Defying Hitler, by Sebastian Haffner.
Travelling to Freedom, edited Tony Stone and Peter Stone (I'll post on that one day, actually).
Invisible But Enduring Lilacs, Gerald Murnane.
Winton, Tim. The Riders.
Kureishi, Hanif. The Black Album.
Toibin, Colm. The Master
Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines.
Garner, Helen. The Children's Bach.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Blue Flower.
Ingalls Wilder, Laura. The Long Winter.
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down.
Nehamas, Alexander. A Promise Of Happiness.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
The first half of Roy Foster's History of Ireland, 1600-1970. ( I intend to read it all. I have to buy it first.)
Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy.

I freely admit to doing the first fifteen earlier, like they do on cooking shows. I suppose they do things like this on LibraryThing all the time, do they?

Comments

[Karen (miscmum)]

Oh, its 8am and you've spurred me to do this in my bathrobe, with the kids annoying me. So my list, I think, is somewhat rushed.

I'll post it later in the week. I think like you I'll need to pour a wine to do a revised list ;)

(ps I adore 'Carry Me Down')

[genevieve]

Well, the main benefit is that only fifteen of our precious minutes are allotted :D
Carry Me Down is amazing - only a little while till her next!!