Book Bucket List

I had made a list of Books to Read before I die, but never really made an attempt till now to read them, the list has long since been lost, but I have been accomplishing much since I recently started reading again. Since I started my job I have read 6/7ish books. I say "ish" because frankly I wasn't going to finish two of them... Here are some of the books I have read since December last year.

 

• Grimoires by Owen Davies
• Dracula by Bram Stoker 
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Suna no Onna (The Woman in the Dunes) by Kobe Abe
• The Pleasure of my Company by Steve Martin
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• And almost an entire book of Russian Fairy tales (it was HUGE and all of them started sounding the same after awhile so I still have like 10-15 stories I didn't read, but hey I read hundreds!!!)

Of the above, my favorites to read were Grimoires (historical research is almost always fun, till you get past the Renaissance...) and The Pleasure of my Company (which is super short and a fun read; it only took one workday to read it too).

I liked the Inferno (though some of the conversations with the tormented souls were very boring), but the Purgatorio and Paradiso were awful to get through. I never finished the Paradiso and found I was just skimming through Purgatory after awhile. Is it awful that Hell was more interesting?

Now to find more books to read...