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January Reads

MonkeyCatcher

MonkeyCatcher

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What did you read during January?

I finished:

The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time Book 2) by Robert Jordan 681 pages
Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay 610 pages
Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham 586 pages
Watermelon by Marian Keyes 614 pages
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon 980 pages
 
1. Yellow Dog, Martin Amis
2. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
3. Mercy, Jodi Picoult
4. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
5. Cosmopolis, Don Delillo
6. Mapping the Edge, Sarah Dunant
7. South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami

Favourite by far this month was Norwegian Wood, but felt my second read of Murakami wasn't anywhere near as enthralling a read, sadly.

Still on with compiling the stats for the second half of last year, but will get on with this month's in a couple of weeks, possibly comparing them to last year, or something.
 
Out of Thin Air by Peter Ward
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Once Upon a Curse by E.D. Baker
Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
The Princesses of Baramere by Gail Carson Levine
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
The Treasures of Weatherby...forget the author

yes, there is an abundance of YA fiction...reading for my students. I like to have books to suggest to them...plus, I tend to enjoy YA fantasy.
 
VTChEwbecca said:
Out of Thin Air by Peter Ward
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Once Upon a Curse by E.D. Baker
Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
The Princesses of Baramere by Gail Carson Levine
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
The Treasures of Weatherby...forget the author

yes, there is an abundance of YA fiction...reading for my students. I like to have books to suggest to them...plus, I tend to enjoy YA fantasy.
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Good for you! I like YA too from time to time..Have you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak? Great book..narrated by Death himself..
 
Here's how my January 2007 went:
1. Stitch N' Bitch Nation-Debbie Stoller 4/5
2. Complete Idiot's Guite to Knitting and Crochet-Gail Divin 3/5
3. Mason Dixon Knitting-Kay Gardiner & Ann Shayne 4/5
4. Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City- Alicia Cossio 2/5 (Ecuador)
5. QuixotiQ-Ali Al Saaed 1/5 (Bahrain)
6. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn 5/5 (Russia)
7.Foucault's Pendulum-Umberto Eco 4/5
8. Pride of Carthage-David Anthony Durham 5/5
9. Israel, Palestine and Peace-Amos Oz (Israel) 4/5
10. Fools, Thieves and Other Dreamers-Abdouri Ali Waberi. Florent Couoa-Zotti, and Seydi Sow
(Djibouti, Benin, Senegal) 1/5
11. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories-Franz Kafka 2/5
12. Crossing the River- Caryl Phillips(St. Kitts) 4/5
13. Dead Wrong-J.A. Jance 3/5
14. Land Without Thunder and Other Stories-Grace Ogo(Kenya) 3/5
 
Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, & Egyptian Monotheism by Ernest A. Wallis Budge
The Psychology of the Sopranos by Glen O'Gabbard
The Nancy Drew Files: Deadly Intent by Carolyn Keene
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Blitzcat by Robert Westall
 
I seen a copy of The Book Thief at a new bookstore in the next town over. It looked interesting, so I will have to look into it later.
 
claybugg said:
Ohhhh. Are you rereading the series or just starting? I have an unhealthy obsession with all things Wheel of Time.
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Unhealthy obessions are usually the norm here at BAR :D

I'm just starting actually, and have really, really enjoyed the first two - I liked the second better than the first, which isn't very usual for me. I've heard that things start going a bit downhill after book 5, but I'm planning on reading the whole series at the moment regardless. We will see how I go, though :)
 
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 3/5
Eragon by Christopher Paolini 4.5/5 (reread)
Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones 2.5/5
Child of the Dark Prophecy by T.A. Barron 1.5/5
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore 3.5/5
 
1. The Crocodile on the Sandbank – Elizabeth Peters
2. The Curse of the Pharaohs – Elizabeth Peters
3. The Mummy Case – Elizabeth Peters
4. The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, but Could Have, and May Yet by Jill Conner Browne and Karin Gillespie
5. Black Rainbow – Barbara Michaels
6. Forever in Blue – Anne Brashares
7. The Goldfish Went on Vacation – Patty Dann
8. Someone in the House – Barbara Michaels
 
I just read Burns And Edwards by Gordon Burn. I read some of The Swallows Of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra but didn't finish it, so it doesn't count.

January, for me, has been a bad month for reading. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up a book in February.
 
Finished:
Travels In The Scriptorium - Auster, Paul 3/5
Das Urteil - Kafka, Franz 3/5
Move Under Ground - Mamatas, Nick 3/5
Against The Day - Pynchon, Thomas 4/5

ATD ate up much of my reading muscles for January - the others are pretty short.
 
The Book of Shadows by James Reese. 3.5/5

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. 3/5

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. Either 2.5 or 3 out of 5. Not sure which...

I also reread Stephen King's Thinner. That one gets a 4 out of 5.
 
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Sittenfield
One Shot - Lee Child
Crazy for You - Jennifer crusie
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
Love and other Pursuits - Aylet Walderman
A Few Bloody Noses - Robert Harvey
Horrible Histories USA
A Cold day In paradise - Steve Hamilton
 
Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (couldn't resist the sale, LOL!)

Marie Antoinette, by Antonia Frasier

The Fourth Hand, by John Irving (again)

Lisey's Story, by Stephen King.

Thriller, a collection of short stories

And The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon, which was simply fantastic- the best book I have read in ages.
 
Stewart said:
I just read Burns And Edwards by Gordon Burn. I read some of The Swallows Of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra but didn't finish it, so it doesn't count.

January, for me, has been a bad month for reading. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up a book in February.
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I recall this happened to you in around March last year as well. Are you burned out after all that reading in 2007, or have you just been too busy to get in any decent reading?
 
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