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November Reads 2006

FrodoLIVES

FrodoLIVES

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I looked and couldn't find a thread for this so forgive me if I'm posting a double :) What did you read this month? I read:

The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan (A-)
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (A-)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (A)
Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier (A)
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayden (B)
 
Dracula, Bram Stoker 3.75/5 315 pages.
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq 3.75/5 264 pages.
Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner 3/5 207 pages.
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky 4/5 615 pages.
The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster 4/5 306 pages.
Ringworld, Larry Niven 3/5 342 pages.

Technically I read most of Dracula during October and finished Ringworld just after midnight December first.
 
Not a bad month for me!

Britain's Interwar Period by Sydney Wood
King Lear by William Shakespeare
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
The Bailey Game by Celia Rees

Also, for the first 5 days of the month I was finishing Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and managed to start The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (and read a volume of manga, but I'm not sure if you guys would count that :p). :)
 
Wow. I here I was being pleased with myself for having finished reading the books that I did...

Exile and the Kingdom ~ Albert Camus (cool)
Sputnik Sweetheart ~ Haruki Murakami (strange)
A Room with a View ~ EM Forster (sucked)
Tom Jones ~ Henry Fielding (hmm...)

I don't supposed Hemingway's The old man and the Sea counts as a book.

And okay, I confess. I haven't finished Tom Jones yet. Just started a few days ago. But I insist on putting it in so as to not feel inadequate... :D
 
This month I have read

Dracula - Bram Stoker
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

and I reread

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling because I had a period of reader's block concerning anything that I was meant to be reading for Uni!

:rolleyes:
 
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - Safran Foer, Jonathan 5/5
Kring torget i Skoghall - Åsbacka, Robert 3/5
The Black Book - Pamuk, Orhan 4/5
The Trees Talk of It Still - Beyala, Calixthe 3/5

And I'd be done with Kate Atkinson's "Not The End Of The World" if I weren't so damn lazy.
 
Another weak month:

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Utz, Bruce Chatwin
Dr Haggard's Disease, Patrick McGrath
Lisey's Story, Stephen King

Books abandoned include Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino, Virgins Of Venice by Mary Laven, and Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. I will return to the latter, it's only because I wanted to read The God Delusion that I set it aside.
 
Natural Novel-Georgi Gospodinov 3/5
The Wedding of Zein-Tayeb Salih 2/5
Travels With Charley-John Steinbeck 5/5
The Bondmaid-Catherine Lim 3/5
Widdershins-Charles deLint 5/5
Marcel- Erwin Mortier 3/5
Comfort Woman-Maria Rosa Henson 4/5
The First Circle-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4/5
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos-Outhine Bounyavong 2/5
In the Shadow of the Ark-Anne Provoost 5/5
The Relic-Eca De Quieroz 3/5
The Book Thief-Markus Zusak 4/5
Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunisia
-Monia Hejaij 1/5
Incipient Feminists: Women Writers in the Sloval National Revival-
Norma Rudinsky 1/5
Blue Highways-William Least Heat Moon 5/5
Two Hill Diggers-Geralda Kauhoroasiva 3/5
 
Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice-2/5
The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher-3/5
Lisey's Story by Stephen King-either 2.5/5 or 3/5; not sure...
When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer-4/5

Also started Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey in November. Hopefully it will be finished sometime this month.
 
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart -4/5
Into The Desperate Country by Jeff Vande Zande 3/5
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith 3/5
 
Virginia Woolf: The London Scene, Six Essays on London Life.
Anthology: Dog is My Co-Pilot.
Barbara Trapido: Brother of the More Famous Jack.Madeline Albright: The Mighty and the Almighty.
 
I had a slow month and only managed to finish one book, as I had exams:

Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs 3/5

I also abandoned As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
 
someone mentioned sputnik sweetheart-what is it about?

Everyone seems to be reading Dracula lately..I finished it in October.

Anyway, my books:
In Search of Dracula-4/5
The Merchant of Venice-3.5/5
Webmage(Kelly McCullough)-4.9/5
Captain Blood(Rafael Sabatini)-4/5
Boris Godunov(Pushkin)-3/5
Firebirds(an anthology)-4/5
Gothic!(an anthology)-3.9/5
I don't remember if I read Beowulf this month or last...
 
I started 8 books but completed only Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz.


Which ones in particular?
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Abc, I'd love to hear more about Widdershins - Charles DeLint

Madeline Albright: The Mighty and the Almighty.
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Lucia, would you recommend this? The subject matter appeals to me, but how readable is it?

someone mentioned sputnik sweetheart-what is it about?
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HermioneWeasley, Sputnik Sweetheart is by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, it is as Notibuti says, very strange (but then everything I've ever read by Murakami is strange). It is basically a love triangle, the narrator loves a girl who in turn loves another woman. But of course it's not just as simple as that. You know, I can't believe I'm finding it so hard to sum it up, perhaps Notibuti can do a better job.
 
Slow month:

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
The Double, José Saramago
Daisy Miller, Henry James
The Night of the Hunter, Davis Grubb

After Mann's lenghty novel, which took me around two weeks to finish, I felt drained up :D
 
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson 5/10
The Baby Game, Randy Hicks 6/10
Born in Death, J.D. Robb 7/10
Everything Must Go, Elizabeth Flock 8/10
Werewolves In Their Youth, Michael Chabon 7/10
The Tailor's Daughter, Janice Graham (unfinished)
The Book of Lost Things, John Connelly 8/10
Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman 7/10

Although I finished a lot of books this month, it was a pretty bad month for me as I didn't enjoy them as much as I usually do. My favorite book this month was The Book of Lost Things. A boy reads fairy tales to his mother while she is dying of cancer. After she passes, he starts to hear the books "whispering" to him. Eventually he gets pulled into their world. My second favorite would be Everything Must Go, which was like "It's a Wonderful Life" on Prozac.
 
The Lickiest Girl in the World By Steven Levenkron
The Devil Wears Prada By Lauren Weisberger
We Need to Talk About Kevin By Lionel Shriver
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
But Inside I'm Screaming By Elizabeth Flock
The Subtle Knife By Philip Pullman
 
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 8/10
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming 6/10
Should You Be Laughing At This? - Hugleikur Dagsson 8/10
Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming 7/10
Selected Stories - Julian Mclaren-Ross 8/10
General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare 8/10
Silence - Shusaku Endo 9/10

Can't be bothered to do any mini-reviews this month.
 
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