Sam’s readings

Here is most of what I read. With this list you can guess my personality or find books you would like to borrow from me. I may at one time put little reviews (mostly in French) but of course I don’t have time for that.

Currently reading

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Joanne Kathleen Rowling) aka. "The Great Snapes Kills Dumbledore Meme of 2005"
• Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Gabriel García Márquez)

Bought or received, not yet read:

• Blanche-Neige et les lance-missiles (Catherine Dufour)
• L’Ivresse des Providers (Catherine Dufour)
• Merlin l’Ange Chanteur (Catherine Dufour)
• Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
• Pyramids (Terry Pratchett)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett)
• Much ado about nothing (William Shakespeare)
• Où va le mouvement altermondialisation ? (Collectif)
• La Cité des dieux sauvages (Isabel Allende)
• L’innocence perdue (Neil Sheehan)
• Patas Arribas (Eduardo Galeano)

Intend to buy:

• Good Omens (Pratchett/Gaiman)
• Noblesse d’État (Pierre Bourdieu)
• Le Testament (Anderi Makine)
• Textures et couleurs

Read in 2006

• July: Biographie de la faim (Amélie Nothomb)
• July: La Ponctuation ou l’art d’accomoder les textes (Olivier Houdart & Sylvie Prioul)
• June: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Lynne Truss)
• June: Bouvard et Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert)
• May: Eva Luna (Isabel Allende)
• March: Le Procès (Franz Kafka)
• February: L’Idiot (Fedor Dostoïevski)
• January: Le Canard enchaîné - Histoire d’un journal satirique (1915-2005) (Laurent Martin)

Read in 2005

• December: La Pornographie (Witold Gombrowicz)
• December: The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
• November: Le brave soldat Chvéïk (Jaroslav Haček)
• October: 99 francs (14,99 €) (Frédéric Beigbeder)
• October: Le Rideau (Milan Kundera)
• October: L’état de guerre (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• September 19th: L’Amérique (Franz Kafka)
• September 2nd: La maison aux esprits (Isabel Allende)
• August 16th: Mon pays réinventé (Isabel Allende)
• August 1st: La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (Catherine Millet)
• July 23rd: Le château (Franz Kafka)
• June 29th: American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
• June 17th: L’Ignorance (Milan Kundera)
• June 10th: Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz)
• May 27th: Le rideau (Milan Kundera)
• May 18th: Antéchrista (Amélie Nothomb)
• May 13th: The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
• April 23rd: L’espionne et le diplomate (Stéphanie Mesnier)
• April: Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• March: Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
• February 14th: The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
• January 26th: A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde)
• January 22nd: Media Control. The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Noam Chomsky)
• January 20th: The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
• January 18th: Les Combustibles (Amélie Nothomb)
• January 17th: Ensemble, c’est tout (Anna Gavalda)
• January 10th: Mercure (Amélie Nothomb)
• January 7th: Péplum (Amélie Nothomb)
• January 4th: Stupeur et tremblements (Amélie Nothomb)

Read in 2004

• December 24th: La gangrène et l’oubli. La mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie (Benjamin Stora)
• December 7th: Robert des noms propres (Amélie Nothomb)
• December 2nd: Métaphysique des tubes (Amélie Nothomb)
• November 29th: Cosmétique de l’ennemi (Amélie Nothomb)
• November 27th: Attentat (Amélie Nothomb)
• November 21st: Les Catilinaires (Amélie Nothomb)
• November 19th: Hygiène de l’assassin (Amélie Nothomb)
• November 17th: La grammaire est une chanson douce (Érik Orsenna)
• November 16th: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
• November 2nd: Sacrés Français ! Un Américain nous regarde (Theodore Stanger)
• October 20th: De la misère humaine en milieu publicitaire (Groupe Marcuse)
• October 15th: Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination (Helen Fielding)
• October 10th: Pour un catastrophisme éclairé (Jean-Pierre Dupuy)
• September 30th: First Meetings in the Enderverse (Orson Scott Card)
• September 26th: Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
• September 17th: Et si c’était vrai ? (Marc Lévy)
• September 14th: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
• September 5th: Je l’aimais (Anna Gavalda)
• September 2nd: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
• August 23rd: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
• August 17th: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
• August 9th: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
• August 8th: The Salmon of Doubt: And Other Writings (Douglas Adams)
• July 27th: Sept jours pour une éternité (Marc Lévy)
• July 23th: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
• April 15th: Todo sobre mi madre / (Pedro Almodovar)
• January 6th: Jude the obscure (Thomas Hardy)

Read in 2003

• December 27th: Ma ligne 13 (Pierre-Louis Basse)
• December 20th: The picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
• December 14th: American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
• December 3th: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
• November 24th: Le cauchemar médiatique (Daniel Schneidermann)
• November 16th: L’ignorance (Milan Kundera)
• November 12th: Shadow Puppets (Orson Scott Card)
• November 5th: Propagandes silencieuses (Ignacio Ramonet)
• October 27th: Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Caroll)
• October 25th: Comme un roman (Daniel Pennac)
• October 22nd: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)
• October 20th: Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card)
• October 15th: Cause Celeb (Helene Fielding)
• October 12th: Lettres d’Algérie (Philippe Bernard & Nathaniel Herzberg)
• October 8th: Aux fruits de la passion (Daniel Pennac)
• October 6th: Je hais mon chien (Charles Nemes)
• September 25th: Messieurs les enfants (Daniel Pennac)
• September 21st: Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
• September 14th: The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Christopher Marlowe)
• August 29th: Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
• August 16th: Le dictateur et le hamac (Daniel Pennac)
• August 16th: Mort (Terry Pratchett)
• August 10th: Monsieur Malaussène (Daniel Pennac)
• August 9th: Ravage (René Barjavel)
• August 9th: Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)
• August 4th: Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
• August 2nd: Le Pen, les mots (Maryse Souchard, Stéphane Wahnich, Isabelle Cuminal & Virginie Wathier)
• July 24th: Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
• July 22nd: La petite marchande de prose (Daniel Pennac)
• July 20th: Fragilité de la Puissance (Alain Gras)
• July 15th: Dégraissez-moi ça ! (Michael Moore)
• July: La fée carabine (Daniel Pennac)
• July: Pouvoir et Terreur (Noam Chomsky)
• July: Au bonheur des ogres (Daniel Pennac)
• June: La Fabrique de l’Opinion Publique (Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman)
• June: Journal d’une combattante (Naomi Klein)
• May: Love in a blue time (Hanif Kureishi)
• May: L’État voyou (William Blum)
• May: Jours et nuits d’amour et de guerre (Eduardo Galeano)
• April: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Helen Fielding)
• April: Les petits soldats du journalisme (François Ruffin)
• March: La grande désillusion (Joseph E. Stiglitz)
• March: 11/9 (Noam Chomsky)
• February: Questions de sociologie (Pierre Bourdieu)
• February: Bridget Jones’s Diary (Helen Fielding)
• January: Mike contre-attaque ! (Michael Moore)
• January: No Logo (Naomi Klein)

Read in 2002

• December: Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque part (Anna Gavalda)
• December: Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
• November: Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams)
• November: So long, and thanks for all the Fish (Douglas Adams)
• November: Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
• October: L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être (Milan Kundera)
• October: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
• October: De la Propagande (Noam Chomsky)
• September: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
• September: Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
• September: The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
• September: The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
• August: La nuit des temps (René Barjavel)
• August: Non-lieux (Marc Augé)
• August: Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)