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July Reads

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
12 Sharp - Janet Evanovich
Sellevision - Augusten Burroughs
Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs
Take a Thief - Mercedes Lackey
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Observatory Mansions - Edward Carey
 
In summer I usually do lighter reading so this month I focused on teen fantasy because they're just fun without being as heavy as a lot of the adult fantasy. I'm drawn to any type of fantasy though. It has always been my favorite book genre.

Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist
Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Peirce
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
First Test by Tamora Pierce
Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
The Burning Bridge by John Flanagan
Page by Tamora Pierce
Squire by Tamora Pierce
Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
 
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
Jack and Jill by James Patterson
Sahara by Clive Cussler
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
Cat and Mouse by James Patterson

Best of the month: Ender's Game
 
I only read two book in July

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
White noise - Don Delillo
 
Books started and finished in July for me were:

Geisha of Goin - Mineko Iwasaki
2nd Chance - James Patterson
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Hamlet - William Shakespeare

I also started Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, but only finished that yesterday. :)
 
Wow - a really productive month for me:

Keeping Secrets - Andrew Rosenheim
Cents and Sensibility - Maggie Alderson
Little Lady, Big Apple - Hester Browne
Kissing Toads - Jemma Harvey
Damage - Sue Mayfield
Endymion Springs - Matthew Skelton
Snowbone - Cat Weatheril
The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich
Deadlock - Sara Paretsky
Frogs and French-kisses - Sarah Mlynowski
Dying Light - Stuart MacBride
 
Stewart said:
Not read it but there's Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's lipogrammatic novel,La Disparition. In English, A Void. From no 'e' in French to no 'e' in English. Madman.

Again, without the 'e': Gadsby by Ernest Wright.
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I've checked The Void out from the library. There's a picture of Perec on the back..he certainly looks mad..however he had it much easier than Adair, what with french allowing "la" as the feminine "the". English must abolish "the" altogether. The sentences don't flow very smoothly, but what can you expect.
 
Only read in July:

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński. Slightly disappointing as it's had a lot of praise. I've since started 'The Emperor' by the same author, which is about the last days of Haile Selassie.

Kenny "Not reading much at the mo" Shovel
 
I've managed quite a few,

Lolita (3/5)
Pig Island (4/5) Mo Hayder
1984 (4/5)
The Perfect Husband (4/5) Lisa Gardner
The Other Daughter (3/5) Lisa Gardner

i've also got Catch 22 lined up, and Harvest (Tess Gerritsen) so many more to read, but so little time!
 
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