End of the year book tag 2017

CONSIDER YOURSELF TAGGED!

Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?

Middlemarch by George Eliot

'We believe in her as in a woman we might providentially meet some fine day when we should find ourselves doubting of the immortality of the soul' wrote Henry James of Dorothea Brooke, who shares with the young doctor Tertius Lydgate not only a central role in Middlemarch but also a fervent conviction that life should be heroic.

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community, and in the great art that enlarges the reader's sympathy and imagination. It is truly, as Virginia Woolf famously remarked, 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.

Thanks to Tome topple I've managed to listen to the audiobook a lot so I'm on page 560.
Paperback, 904 pages

Published 2004 by Signet (first published 1871)

It by Stephen King

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person’s deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing…

The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of It was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until the grown-up children were called back, once more to confront It as It stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

I'm on page 732 of this one & I'm currently reading it together with my book group.

Paperback, 1156 pages

Published January 5th 2016 by Scribner (first published September 1986) 

 

 

Land of the free by Mike Huard
LIVE FREE or DIE! In the year 3016, the United States of America has fallen into great despair. The advent of advanced technology, robotics, and a power-hungry corporation rule the nation. However, there is hope. A sisterhood of enhanced, highly intelligent, beautiful, patriotic, martial arts masters are out to make the country free again. This is a sci-fi and fantasy book. 

I received this book from the wonderful author & I want to finish it as soon as possible so I can give it a review. I am enjoying it a lot so far!  
I'm on page 350 
Ebook, pages 897


Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year?

Not that I've planned but I do feel like these books are a bit darker. I am planning on reading a christmas book for the upcoming christmas season.


Is there a new release you're still waiting for?

No, I usually font wait for new releases. I buy the books when the hype has gone down & I have plenty of books in my shelves that I have to read before I think of something new.


What three books you want to read before the end of the year?

Those above, Middlemarch, IT & Land of the free.


Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year?

Yes of course, there's a possibility that Land of the free is one of them.


Have you already started making reading plans for 2018?

Yes I have, I want to read one classic a month & I want to start the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I will continue participating in the book cirle & in my book group.

 
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Mass Market Paperback, 850 pages

Published July 26th 2005 by Dell Publishing Company (first published June 1st 1991)