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January Reads

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Sickened - Julie Gregory

And I started Capote by Gerald Clarke, a reread after seeing the movie that focused on the In Cold Blood story.

That mutual friend ate up the whole month. It was very good, but not so great as Martin Chuzzlewit which was pure pleasure.
 
so many books i know and want to read..

whoever read child of the dark prophecy: if you didn't like it, they get worse. i read:

the turkish gambit-akunin
guilty pleasures-hamilton(bleh. worse than i thought)
carpe jugulum-pratchett
farenheit 451-bradbury(amazing)
han solo adventures-daley(not very good)
sweet 16 princess-cabot(too short)
shadowmancer-taylor(didn't like it much)
courtship of princess leia-amazing!
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
-the last two i read at about 2 in the morning so i might have lost something, but i'll reread them one day. hamelt isn't really what i expected it to be
the paradise snare(the han solo trilogy)-wonderful book!
How to be popular-meg cabot(she's done better)

not very many good books, I admit. but some interesting ones, and i got lo ts of really good ones out of the library.
 
Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
A Tapestry of Hope by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller.
 
I've included hyperlinks for some of the lessor known authors who shouldn't really be lesser known, and to any reviews I may have written of the book itself.

January Books

08. Beyond a Boundary - C L R James *****
07. Zimmer Men - Marcus Berkmann *****
06. Confession of a Murderer - Joseph Roth *****
05. Spun Out: The Shane Warne Story - Paul Barry *****
04. Calling the Shots: The Captain's Story - Michael Vaughan *****
03. The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky *****
02. Moscow 2042 - Vladimir Voinovich *****
01. Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin *****



***** - Excellent
***** - Very Good
***** - Good
***** - Average
***** - Poor
***** - Ben Elton
 
Fiction:

The Call of the Toad: Günter Grass
The Aspern Papers: Henry James
I Married A Communist: Philip Roth
El Lugar donde Estuvo el Paraiso: Carlos Franz (no translation)

Non-fiction:

Descarte's Baby: Paul Bloom
The Dictators: Richard Overy
Civilization and Its Discontents: Sigmund Freud
Fear and Trembling: Søren Kierkegaard
As Pequenas Memórias: José Saramago (no translation)
The Pocket Essential: Joel and Ethan Coen: Ellen Cheshire and John Ashbrook.
 
I feel like a wimp next to ya'll who can read 7 to 14 books in a month! Here are my reads for January.

Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
I read:

Joanna Harris - Chocolat
Nicole Krausse - Man Walks into a Room
Sarah Macdoland - Holy Cow (didnt finish...very bad)
Vikram Seth - Two Lives
Raymond Carver - Elephant
Lonely Planet Journals - Brief Encounters

Lani
 
I feel like a wimp next to ya'll who can read 7 to 14 books in a month! Here are my reads for January.

Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It's nothing to feel bad about. Sometimes I go a whole month having finished only one book! ;)

You have a cute avatar, by the way!
 
I feel like a wimp next to ya'll who can read 7 to 14 books in a month!

Some of us have an advantage in that we take public transportation to work, so for me that gives me an extra hour or so of reading every day. It makes a big difference!
 
Some of us have an advantage in that we take public transportation to work, so for me that gives me an extra hour or so of reading every day. It makes a big difference!

I've always thought public transport would be great. Maybe when my son starts driving I can get him to drive me! We live in a small town where everyone drives everywhere, we dont even have the option of public transportation.
 
The Inheritance of Loss - Desai, Kiran
Baltimore's Mansion - Johnston, Wayne
Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul - Canfield, Jack (yes seriously, I enjoyed it too)
The Swallows of Kabul - Khadra, Yasmina
The Library at Night - Manguel, Alberto
The Glass Castle - Walls, Jeannette
 
January 2007
Everyman; Philip Roth
The God Delusion; Richard Dawkins
The Road; Cormac McCarthy
Pride of Carthage; David Anthony Durham
The Audacity of Hope; Barack Obama
Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist; by Nick Salvatore
No Country for Old Men; Cormac McCarthy

The best non-fiction book was The God Delusion. Obama's book was o.k., perhaps a top of the line oneconsidering what other politicians have written in the past. The worst one was Nick Salvatore's book on Eugene V. Debs. Debs was an amazing historicalfigure, Salvatore wrote in a dry, academic style that did Debs no justice. It was a Cormac McCarthy month for me and I rank The Road as the best fiction read for me for the month. No Country for Old Men ranks a close second. The lone historical fiction work was David Anthony Durham's book which was a book discussion pick on Colin's forum.
 
@ SFG75
The Audacity of Hope; Barack Obama

Can you tell me what you thought of it? I have a lot of interest in Obama, especially since I am originally from Chicago. I've been eyeing his book in the bookstore for a few weeks now, but I can't bring myself to pay the 30 Euro to purchase it. Is it worth it?
 
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. 3/5

I really enjoyed that book. Ira Levin is an interesting writer. Have you read anything else by him? I've also read Sliver & The Stepford Wives. Both were also good. All three of these made me feel a distrust in men. :p

I read a few comic books last month...
1. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Book 1 - various writers, artists
2. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Book 2 - various writers, artists
3. The Last Temptation - Neil Gaiman 3.5/5

4. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (pop-up, children's version. Don't ask. But this should probably be better for older children. Perhaps 8+?) - Stephen King 3/5
5. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (I think I like the show more - which I watched first, but the book was written well, I'd actually be interested in getting the 2nd book, "Dearly Devoted Dexter.") - Jeff Lindsay 4/5
6. Submission - Marthe Blau 4/5 It's about time I read this. I was just at the used bookstore and ran across this book in perfect perfect condition. I had been wanting it since it first came out here in 2005. I actually didn't think I had time to read anything for awhile because of school, so I thought I'd just buy it (since it was a great deal - half price) and put it on the shelf until I could find time. But when I got home, I sat down and just thought I'd read the first page. After that, I was hooked and couldn't put it down. It was very interesting. It's also the prettiest looking book I own. :p
7. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card 4.5/5 This was great. I actually started it at the end of December. In 2006, I promised myself that I'd read one of my boyfriend's books (or rather books he recommended). So I ended up waiting until the last minute. But I really loved it! I'm interested in reading some of the other ones in the series.
 
So I am definitely still reading The Stand by Stephen King. Slow reader am I lol. But I finally finished 1st semester and now I'm in second semester. And during this semester I don't have English so the reading I do now is going to be for fun. Hopefully I get to read as much as you guys now :) Yay!
 
January
7. Timbuktu, Paul Auster, 181 pages, 4/5 Started January 29th finished January 30th.
6. Snow, Orhan Pamuk, 426 pages, 1/5. Started January 23rd finished January 29th.
5. Saturday, Ian McEwan, 279 pages, 4.25/5. Started January 17th finished January 22nd.
4. Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed, Jim Al-Khalili, 272 pages, 3.75/5 Started January 11th finished January 17th.
3. Perfume, Patrick Süskind, 255 pages, 3/5 Started January 6th finished January 11th.
2. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, 152 pages, 5/5 Started and finished January 5th.
1. V. Thomas Pynchon, 492 pages, 4/5 Started December 20th finished January 4th.
 
I really enjoyed that book. Ira Levin is an interesting writer. Have you read anything else by him? I've also read Sliver & The Stepford Wives. Both were also good. All three of these made me feel a distrust in men

As a matter of fact, yes: The Boys From Brazil. I enjoyed it very much, though my memory of major plot points, characters, etc. is awful. I don't know when I'll get around to reading another Ira Levin book, but if I do, I think the next one will be Sliver. That one sounds promising.
 
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