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February 2010 Reads

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Geisha of Gion – Mineko Iwasaki
Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
When the Tripods Came – John Christopher
An Old-Fashioned Southern Christmas
Truly, Madly – Heather Webber
Dragons of Winter Night – Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder – David Thomson
Heir to Sevenwaters – Juliet Marillier

So what were your reading accomplishments over the past month?
 
Kleopatra - Klynne, Allan :star3:
The Marriage Bureau For Rich People - Zama, Farahad :star2:
Purge - Oksanen, Sofi :star5:
A Single Man - Isherwood, Christopher :star5:
1632 - Flint, Eric :star3:
 
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. :star5:
Trent's Last Case, by E.C. Bentley. :star4:
The Story of O, by Pauline Réage. :star3:
 
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk :star3:
The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich :star3:
The Death Of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave :star3:
Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen :star4:
A Quiet Belief In Angels - R.J.Ellory :star3:
 
VS Naipaul-A bend in the river 4
Donald Westalke- Bad news 4
Guy de Maupassant- Les rosier de Madamne Husson 3
Edith Wharton - False Dawn- 3
Mark Helprin-A city in winter 2(but good for young adults)
Henry Miller-To Paint is to love again 3
Umberto Eco-Bandolino 4+
Alain Damasio-La horde du contrvent (gave up 300 pages)
Michael Chabon-Manhood for Amateurs 1
Francois Bizot-The gate 3
Honoré de Balzac-The woman of thirty 3
Roberto Bolano-2666 Three quater in
Alaa el Aswany-The Yacubian Buiding 3+

2666 is an incredible novel.
 
February
*M. Scott Peck; The Road Less Traveled and Beyond.
*Azar Nafisi; Reading Lolita in Tehran
*Rollene Saal; The NYPL guide to reading groups
*Calvin Trillin; Remembering Denny
*Bob Woodward; Maestro
 
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux 5/5
Hyddenworld: Spring by William Horwood 3/5
Rollback by Robert J Sawyer 4/5
Go With Me by Castle Freeman 4/5
Moonheart by Charles De Lint 4/5
 
Angel Time by Anne Rice
Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton
Proven Guilty: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Green Mile by Stephen King
 
Currently reading for Feb/March:

Woe is I - Particia O'Conner
A History of Egypt - Jason Thompson
Make: Electronics - Chalres Platt
The Spice Kitchen - Engram & Luber
Green Dolphin Street - Elizabeth Gouge

(I found this last one at a garage sale; I have never read it but have heard some fair praise of the title along the way.)
 
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin (this effer is 1,150 pages)

March will be more productive as I'll try to avoid the books in the four-digit page range.
 
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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