January Reads

[Fantasy Moon]

So what books did you read over the past month?


The White Mountains – John Christopher (reread)
The City of Gold and Lead – John Christopher
The Pool of Fire – John Christopher
Dragons of Autumn Twilight – Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (reread)
The Golden Cat – Gabriel King
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All

 

[eldog]

The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl - Belle De Jour 2/5

Homer And Langley - E.L.Doctrow 4/5

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 4/5

The Pilo Family Circus - Will Elliott 3/5

 

[saliotthomas]

1 Richard Yates-Easter parade
2 Frans Gunnar Bengtsson-The long ship vol 1 & vol 2
3 John Cheever -Audio Collection
4 Jonatham Lethem-Chronic city
5 honore de Balzac-l'auberge rouge
6 Lothar Gunther Buchheim - Das Boot
7 McGrath, Patrick - Asylum
8 Erri de Luca-montdidio
9 Christopher Isherwood - A single man
10 ALan Sillitoe-The loneliness of the long distance runner/saturday afternoon
11 Jean Philipe Jaworski- Gagné la guerre
12 Guy Gavriel kay-Ysabel
13 Christopher Isherwood-Prater violet
14 Jayne anne philips-Lark and Termite
15 Raymond Carver-Cathedral

 

[Landslide]

Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer.
Dead Man's Folly, by Agatha Christie.

 

[sparkchaser]

Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Slow month. :sad:

 

[beer good]

Allah Is Not Obliged - Kourouma, Amadou (CIV) 3/5
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter - Moorat, A E (GBR) 1/5
A Dictionary of Maqiao - Han Shaogong (CHN) 4/5
Strangers - Yamada, Taichi (JPN) 3/5
The Battle of Brazil - Mathews, Jack (USA) 4/5
The Enchantress of Florence - Rushdie, Salman (GBR) 3/5
The Absolute Sandman vol 2 - Gaiman, Neil (GBR) 4/5
Jag är leopardpojkens dotter - Nilsson, Johanna (SWE) 3/5
Northline - Vlautin, Willy (USA) 3/5

Fast month.

 

[shadforth]

The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland 4/5
Everlost by Neal Shusterman 4/5
The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick 3/5
Castle by J.Robert Lennon 3/5
A Crimson Dawn by Janet Macleod Trotter 4/5

Average month

 

[abecedarian]

The Saffron Kitchen-Yasmin Crowther 4/5

The Mountain of the Women:Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour-Liam Clancey 4/5

Devil in the White City- Erik Larsen 3.5/5

 

[dude]

The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

 

[eldog]

1 Richard Yates-Easter parade
2 Frans Gunnar Bengtsson-The long ship vol 1 & vol 2
3 John Cheever -Audio Collection
4 Jonatham Lethem-Chronic city
5 honore de Balzac-l'auberge rouge
6 Lothar Gunther Buchheim - Das Boot
7 McGrath, Patrick - Asylum
8 Erri de Luca-montdidio
9 Christopher Isherwood - A single man
10 ALan Sillitoe-The loneliness of the long distance runner/saturday afternoon
11 Jean Philipe Jaworski- Gagné la guerre
12 Guy Gavriel kay-Ysabel
13 Christopher Isherwood-Prater violet
14 Jayne anne philips-Lark and Termite
15 Raymond Carver-Cathedral

Wow, they are impressive numbers! How much time do you get to read (on average) every day?

 

[Bob Magness]

The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson

Slow month also.

 

[Anamnesis]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allmann
Underground: A Greywalker Novel by Kat Richardson
Insomnia by Stephen King

 

[dude]

Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allmann

oh, so great. Did you like it?

 

[joderu95]

Novels
Car - Harry Crews
The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem
TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution - Robert Anton Wilson

Short Stories
Oceanic - Greg Egan
The Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
Exhalation - "
The Merchant and The Alchemist's Gate - "
The Dark - Karen Joy Fowler

 

[john_call]

1)The Hairy Bikers Food Tour Of Britain - Dave Myers, Si King
2) Levi Roots' Reggae Reggae Cookbook - Levi Roots
3) Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
4) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
5) Caribbean Food Made Easy - Levi Roots
Now currently I am readind this book : The Death Of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave

 

[RachaelF]

I read:
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Vivien Leigh by Hugo Vickers
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts by Lucy Dillon

 

[Anamnesis]

oh, so great. Did you like it?

I thought she was really successful in capturing the atmosphere and details of small-town life. Also, that last scene between Bone and her stepdad was very intense. Sometimes it was hard keeping track of all her cousins and relatives but whatever. It was a good read IMO.

 

[george82]

My favourite book

1. PASSION FOR DEMOCRACY,A by Todorov
2. CHARLES TAYLOR by Abbey
3. RICHARD RORTY by Malachowski
4. EVIL IN MODEN THOUGHT by Nelmun