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Which Books Did You Read In May?

shadforth

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A Time To Love And A Time To Die-Erich Maria Remarque 4/5
Unwind-Neal Shusteman 4/5
Three Comrades-Erich Maria Remarque 3/5
Viking: Odinn's Child-Tim Severin 4/5
 
Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
Lolita - Nabokov
Blood Engines - T.A. Pratt
Nuclear Power: Both Sides - Michio Kaku

and started Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
 
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (I loved it)
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (It was OK)
The Shining - Stephen King (I liked it a lot)
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (I liked it a lot)
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson (I liked it)
 
Joane Didion-The year of magical thinking 5/5
Norman Mailer--The castel in the forest 3/5
Andrei makine-Confessiion of a fallen standard bearer 4/5
Ricahrd Stark-the sour lemon 4/5
Menis Koumandareas-La verrerie 3/5
Alberto Moravia-Two-a phallic novel 4/5
Eric emmanuel Schmitt-Ulysse from Bagdad 0/5
Nina Berberova-the accompanist 3/5
Jean Echenoz-Je m'en vais(i'm gone) 4/5
Richard Stark-deadly edge 4/5
David Mitchel-Cloud atlas 3/5
Marguerite Yourcenar-A coin in nine hand 5/5
Evgueni Zamiatine-The flood 3/5

Special mention to Moravia and this very original novel.
Jean Echenoz for his different prose.
Marguerite Yourcenar,superbe.
 
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sopher
The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
... and almost half of Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen, which has taken forever to get through....
 
In the Woods, Tana French
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Robert Massie
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Keeping the House, Ellen Baker
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
 
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
 
The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks
Civil War Poetry and Prose – Walt Whitman
The Jewel of Seven Stars – Bram Stoker
The Kouga Ninja Scrolls – Futaro Yamada
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan – Sophie Kinsella
Ranger’s Apprentice #1: The Ruins of Gorlan – John Flanagan
Shopaholic Ties the Knot – Sophie Kinsella
Angel of Music: Tales of the Phantom of the Opera – Carrie Hernandez

My favorite book from the month of May would be The Jewel of Seven Stars.
 
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Healing Passion by Sylvie Ouellette
La Basquaise-Angel Strand

Ibsen-Doll's House,The Wild Duck
Strindberg-The Father
 
I'll try to translate the titles of the books I read in German for better understanding ;)

Elizabeth George - What came before he shot her 4/5
Christoph Marzi - Lilith 4/5
Anne Chaplet - Schrei nach Stille ("Scream for silence") 3,5/5
Christoph Marzi - Lumen 3,5/5
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind 5/5
Volker Klüpfel & Michael Kobr - Laienspiel ("Amateurs Playing") 4,5/5
Viola Alvarez - Die Nebel des Morgens ("The Morning Mists") 4/5
 
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank-Thad Carhart 3/5
Sing Them Home-Stephanie Kallos 4/5
The Radioactive Boy Scout-Ken Silverstein 3/5
The Eyre Affair-Jasper Fforde 3/5
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaeffer &
Annie Barrows 4/5
The Secret of Lost Things- Sheridan Hay 4/5
 
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
I am Legend (and other stories) - Richard Matheson
 
Crazy- Benjamin Lebert (ok, sort of Catcher In the Rye but not nearly as profound)
The Ice Queen- Alice Hoffman (ok, not NEARLY her best)
The Snow Garden- Christopher Rice (pretty good, I kept it)
Nature Girl- Carl Hiaasen (loved it but not his very best)
Shelter- Monte Merrick (good coming-of-age)
The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan (LOVED IT! Amazing fantasy series about Greek gods)
The Sea of Monsters- Rick Riordan (Also great, can't wait to read the rest)
 
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Tao Te Ching - Steven Mitchell translation
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
Animal Vegetable Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
 
The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster (really really good)
Trash - Dorothy Allison (it was alright, but Allison should stick to novels. Unless you're super interested in her personal life, this was kind of boring)
 
Mums@Home - Sophie King
The Best of Paul Gallico
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - David Nobbs
A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Little Face - Sophie Hannah
 
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