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August 2007 - reads

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Baddie

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling 3/5
The secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd 4/5
 
Jailbird - Vonnegut, Kurt 3/5
Play It As It Lays - Didion, Joan 5/5
The Inheritance of Loss - Desai, Kiran 3/5
Carpe Jugulum - Pratchett, Terry 3/5
Myggor och tigrar - Lundgren, Maja 3/5
Jennifer Government - Barry, Max 2/5
Fight Club - Palahniuk, Chuck 5/5
Life: A User's Manual - Perec, Georges 4/5
 
Twelve books in August. Should have been more but AN Wilson and Anne Enright almost eneded my lifelong interest in reading. Links are to my reviews.

  1. Live And Let Die, Ian Fleming
  2. The Grotesque, Patrick McGrath
  3. The Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel García Márquez
  4. Road Story, Julienne Van Loon
  5. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  6. Buenas Noches Buenos Aires, Gilbert Adair
  7. The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies
  8. Animal's People, Indra Sinha
  9. On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
  10. Winnie And Wolf, A.N. Wilson
  11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
  12. The Gathering, Anne Enright
 
Only got to read a couple of books this month, to busy doing other stuff. Hope to catch up on my reading this month.

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling 3.5/5
The Straw Men - Michael Marshall 3/5
 
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King
 
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
The Absolute at Large - Karel Capek
The Home of the Gentry - Ivan Turgenyev
Trans-Atlantyk - Witold Gombrowicz
Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Assault - Harry Mulisch
Herman - Lars Saabye Christensen
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illustrated) - William Blake
The Good Woman of Setzuan - Bertolt Brecht
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Kis
 
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
 
My August books were:

Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
 
Left to Tell-Immaculee Ilibagiza (Rwanda) 4/5

When New Flowers Bloomed-ed. Enrique Jaramillo Levi (Costa Rica, Panama) 3/5

Lady in a Boat-Merle Collins(Grenada) 3/5

Lonely Planet South Pacific & Micronesia 4/5

Unlocking Horns:Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Burundi-David Niyonzima 2/5

The Last Caton-Matilde Asensi (Spain) 3/5

Pnin-Vladimir Nabakov 3/5

Rhinos For Lunch, Elephants for Supper!- Tololwa M Mollel (Tanzania) 4/5 (very cute children's book)

The Welsh Girl-Peter Ho Davies 5/5

The Antipeople- Sony Labou Tansi(Congo) 1/5

Blanket Boy's Moon-Peter Lenhart (Lesotho) 4/5
 
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davis - 6/5
Necromancer - William Gibson - 3/5
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood - 3/5
The Penelopiad - Atwood- 2/5
Saturday - Ian McEwan -4/5
Blindness - Saramago - 4/5
 
Boffo! by Peter Bart-4/5

Vamped by David Sosnowski-4/5

Mordred's Curse by Ian McDowell-3.5/5

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco-3/5
 
Fantasy Moon said:
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King
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I know it's only a few books, but it seems like a great selection! I loved Pride and Prejudice...still do, I've seen and reread it so many times. jane Eyre I liked less but was still very interesting. And Inkheart is of course one of my favorites. It had soo many book references, I love seeing how many of the books I'd read!

Mine for this month:
Mort-Terry Pratchett
Flirting With Pride and Prejudice
Me and Mr. Darch-Alexandra Potter
Stardust-Neil Gaiman
Death Note, #12
It seemed like a good idea...great historical fiascoes
 
Killing Floor - Lee Child
The Hard Way - Lee Child
The Spook's Apprentice - Joseph Delaney
Inside The Cage - Matt Whyman
The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
Half-Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
Silverfin - Charlie Higson
 
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Yes, busy again. :mad:
 
August 2007
Wobegon Boy; Garrison Keillor(audiobook)
The Open Society And Its Enemies; Karl R. Popper

the Keillor book was excellent to listen to. Should you ever have the good fortune of driving five to six hours on the interstate, this would help the time pass quickly. Not only that, but you'd enjoy it.:D Open Society was able to get me to stop reading two books dead in the middle of them and begin anew. It isn't often that a non-fiction book steals my interest away from fiction, but it did in this case. I have the first volume of this book which sets up Plato's theories about "justice" and his preference for the "closed society." Popper does an excellent job of destroying Plato's ideas, soemthing which I never cared for anyways. Oh yeah, and I read a ton of TIME, The Atlantic, and Wall Street Journals to go around.
 
Horus Rising - Dan Abnett
False Gods - Graham McNeill
Galaxy In Flames - Ben Counter
The Flight of the Eisenstein - James Swallow
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
 
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts 4/5
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris 3/5
Soul Kitchen by Poppy Z. Brite 3.5/5
The Girls by Lori Lansens 4.5/5
 
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