Mon - January 19, 2009
Mon - December 29, 2008
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
finished in October sometime ... contemp .....
rating 7
Posted at 08:01 AM Read More
Sun - December 28, 2008
The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
finished 12/28 ........ contemp fict. .........
rating 6.5
Posted at 05:41 PM Read More
The Last Spymaster by Gayle Lynds
finished 12/28 ....... contemp. spy .........
rating 7
Posted at 02:01 PM Read More
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
finished 12/28 ......... contemp fict.........
rating 7
Posted at 12:24 PM Read More
Sat - December 27, 2008
Peter Victorious by E.M. Rolvaag
finished 12/27.......... 20th century US
............. rating 8
Posted at 07:05 PM Read More
Fri - December 26, 2008
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
finished 12/24 .......... 20th century
history/adventure ........ rating 9
Posted at 08:39 PM Read More
Onitsha by JMG LeClezio
finished 12/26 ....... contemp French
(Nobel).......... rating 10
Posted at 08:13 PM Read More
Thu - December 25, 2008
The Riders by Tim Winton
finished 12/25 .... contemp - (Booker)
........... rating 8
Posted at 08:39 PM Read More
Wed - December 24, 2008
The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
finished 12/24.......... 20th cent. Euro/Amer
"classic" ....... rating 8
Posted at 02:06 PM Read More
Tue - December 23, 2008
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
finished 12/23............. English classic
.......... rating 8
Posted at 05:33 PM Read More
Sat - December 20, 2008
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
finished 12/20 ......... contemp detect.
............ rating 8
Posted at 09:10 PM Read More
A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
finished 12/19 .......... contemp detective
........ rating 4
Posted at 03:33 PM Read More
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
finished 12/20 ..... contemp Norwegian/
translated ........ rating 9
Posted at 09:49 AM Read More
Sun - December 14, 2008
Time Regained by Marcel Proust
finished 12/13 ......... 20th cent. classic
(French) ....... rating 10
Posted at 11:00 AM Read More
Fri - December 12, 2008
The Essential Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
finished 12/12 ....... 20th century lit .......
rating 9
Posted at 10:51 PM Read More
Thu - December 11, 2008
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
finished 12/11 ...... 20th century British
poet/play .......... rating 8.5
Posted at 09:19 PM Read More
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
finished 12/11 ........ Brit detective/contemp
....... rating 6
Posted at 09:16 PM Read More
Tue - December 9, 2008
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
finished 12/4 .... contemp (Booker 2008) rating
8
Posted at 06:30 PM Read More
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
finished 12/8 ....... contemp detective .......
rating 7
Posted at 06:25 PM Read More
Sat - November 29, 2008
Passionate Nomad: The LIfe of Freya Stark by Jane
Fletcher-Geniesse
finished 11/29 ........ biography ..........
rating 8
Posted at 11:26 AM Read More
Fri - November 28, 2008
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
finished 11/29 ...... 20th cent. US .......
rating 8.5
Posted at 07:01 PM Read More
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
finished 11/? ..... contemp Japanese .......
rating 8.5
Posted at 06:54 PM Read More
The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer
finished 11/29 ...... contemp detective
......... rating 7
Posted at 06:52 PM Read More
Fri - November 21, 2008
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
finished 11/21 .......... contemp...........
rating 7
Posted at 09:54 PM Read More
Sun - November 16, 2008
The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua
finished 11/15 ........... 20th cent. Israeli
...... rating 8.5
Posted at 10:42 PM Read More
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
finished 11/16 ........ contemp true
crime/memoir ........ rating 8
Posted at 09:33 AM Read More
Sat - November 15, 2008
The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
finished 11/15 ........ French classic .......
rating 10
Posted at 08:30 PM Read More
Tue - November 11, 2008
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
finished 11/11... contemp. detective ......
rating 8
Posted at 04:40 PM Read More
Sat - November 8, 2008
The Captive by Marcel Proust
finished 11/8 ......... classic French (tr.)
.......... rating 9
Posted at 09:19 AM Read More
Thu - October 30, 2008
The Secret Scriptures by Sebastian Barry
finished 10/29 ....... contemp
(Booker)......... rating 7
Posted at 05:53 PM Read More
Sat - October 25, 2008
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
finished 10/25 ....... contemp lit
fict.......... rating 8
Posted at 10:10 PM Read More
Fri - October 24, 2008
Waterland by Graham Swift
finished 10/24........ 20th century (Booker)
...... rating 8
Posted at 11:27 PM Read More
Mon - October 20, 2008
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
finished 10/20 ......... 20th century US
.......... rating 7
Posted at 07:24 PM Read More
Sun - October 19, 2008
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
finished 10/19 ...... Canadian detective ......
rating 5
Posted at 07:25 PM Read More
The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee
finished 10/20 ...... contemp. literary (Nobel)
....... rating 10
Posted at 03:41 PM Read More
Sodom and Gomorrah by M. Proust
finished 10/20 ....... classic French .........
rating 10
Posted at 03:35 PM Read More
Sat - October 18, 2008
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
finished 10/19 ...... contemp historical
fiction ........ rating 6.5
Posted at 10:27 PM Read More
The Limits of Power by Andrew J. Bacevich
finished 10/19 ........ 2008 political ........
rating 9
Posted at 01:08 PM Read More
Sun - October 12, 2008
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
finished 12/12 ...... 20th century French
...... rating 9
Posted at 12:56 PM Read More
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
finished 10/8 ..... contemp Albanian
(ManBooker International) ..... rating 9.5
Posted at 10:11 AM Read More
Massacre River by Rene Philoctete
finished 10/11 ...... 20th century Haitian
...... rating 8,5
Posted at 10:06 AM Read More
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
finished September 20? .... contemp Br.
(Booker) ..... rating 8
Posted at 10:02 AM Read More
Sat - October 4, 2008
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
finished 9/30 ........ contemp detect. Norway
...... rating 8
Posted at 11:20 AM Read More
Sat - September 27, 2008
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
finished 9/27 ........ 20th century Japanese
classic ...... rating 7
Posted at 07:28 AM Read More
Company Man by Joseph Finder
finished 9/24 ....... contemp. detective
.........rating 7 ........
Posted at 07:20 AM Read More
Restless by William Boyd
finished 9/22 ........ contemp spy/detective
....... rating 9
Posted at 07:17 AM Read More
Tue - September 16, 2008
smart board sites
I had to find a place to store these so I could
get to them from home (Mac) to school (Dell).
Posted at 06:21 PM Read More
Sat - September 13, 2008
Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors
finished 9/13 ......... contemp detective
........ rating 6.5
Posted at 02:04 PM Read More
Fri - September 12, 2008
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
finished 9/12 .......... contemp sci-fi
.......... rating 7.5
Posted at 10:20 PM Read More
Sat - September 6, 2008
At Tikon's (Stavrogin's Confession) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
finished 9/6 ........... classic Russian
......... rating 9.5
Posted at 11:31 PM Read More
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
finished 9/1 ........ contemp fict. US ........
rating 8.5
Posted at 09:58 PM Read More
Sat - August 30, 2008
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
finished 8/30 ......... contemp - (Nigerian/US)
.......... rating 8.5
Posted at 01:07 PM Read More
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
finished 8/29 ...... history ............
rating 9.5
Posted at 12:46 PM Read More
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
finished 8/27 .......... 19th cent. British
classic/humor ............. rating 8.5
Posted at 12:40 PM Read More
Sun - August 24, 2008
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
finished 8/24 ........ contemp British suspense
......... rating 6.5
Posted at 07:09 PM Read More
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
finished 8/24 .......... contemp. Brit.
(Booker).............. rating 6
Posted at 08:54 AM Read More
Genghis Khan by Jack Weatherford
finished 8/? ........ history ........ rating
8
Posted at 08:31 AM Read More
World Without End by Ken Follett
finished 8/23 ........ contemp US ...........
rating 5
Posted at 08:25 AM Read More
Thu - August 14, 2008
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
finished 8/14.......... 20th cent. US
........... rating 7.5
Posted at 08:16 PM Read More
Mon - August 11, 2008
The Alchemist by Paulo Cuelho
finished 8/11 ........ Brazilian contemp.
......... rating 4
Posted at 08:15 PM Read More
Sun - August 10, 2008
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
finished 8/10 ...... contemp. US ..........
rating 6
Posted at 04:38 PM Read More
The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
finished 8/2 ......... 20th century classic
....... rating 9
Posted at 12:51 PM Read More
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
finished 8/10 ........ contemp fiction (Brit)
......... rating 8.5
Posted at 12:38 PM Read More
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
finished 7/4 ....... contemp non-fiction
......... rating 7
Posted at 12:35 PM Read More
Barcelona by Robert Hughes
finished 7/28 ......... history ........ rating
7
Posted at 12:32 PM Read More
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
finished 8/2 ....... contemp. British detective
...... rating 7
Posted at 12:28 PM Read More
Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
finished 7/30 ....... Polish travelogue
contemp. .......... rating 7
Posted at 12:25 PM Read More
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
finished 7/25 ....... 20th century classic
......... rating 10
Posted at 12:23 PM Read More
Fri - July 18, 2008
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
finished 7/15 ......... contemp US .........
rating 10
Posted at 08:07 PM Read More
Thu - July 17, 2008
The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
finished July 17 ......... sci-fi .........
rating 6 (and coincidental)
Posted at 08:38 PM Read More
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
finished 7/16 ....... classic French .........
rating 10
Posted at 03:36 PM Read More
Sat - July 12, 2008
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke
finished 7/12 ....... US contemp. detective
...... rating 7.5
Posted at 01:58 PM Read More
Restoration by Rose Tremain
finished 7/11 ......... contemp hist fic. -
Booker........... rating 8
Posted at 01:53 PM Read More
Thu - July 10, 2008
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher HItchens
finished 6/20 (?) ......... contemp
non-fiction ............rating 7
Posted at 06:14 PM Read More
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
finished 7/8 ....... contemp. fiction .........
rating 7
Posted at 06:02 PM Read More
Booked To Die by John Dunning
finished 7/2........ contemp detective
........... rating 7
Posted at 05:59 PM Read More
Sun - June 29, 2008
The Road to WIgan's Pier by George Orwell
finished 6/29 ..... 20th century non-fiction
......... rating 8
Posted at 03:43 PM Read More
Sat - June 28, 2008
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
finished 6/28 ........ contemp Aust. historical
.......... rating 8
Posted at 09:10 PM Read More
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
finished 6/28 ........... contemp
.............. rating 5
Posted at 05:02 PM Read More
Thu - June 26, 2008
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
finished 6/26 ......... classic Russian
........... rating 8
Posted at 11:57 AM Read More
Wed - June 25, 2008
La Cucina by Lily Prior
finished 6/25 ....... contemp. US .........
rating 7.5
Posted at 03:19 PM Read More
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
finished 6/25 ......... mid 20th century, early
pomo ......... rating 6
Posted at 10:50 AM Read More
Tue - June 24, 2008
China Road by Ron Gifford
finished 6/24 .......... contemp travel/history
......... rating 8
Posted at 07:41 PM Read More
Sun - June 22, 2008
Burning Angel by James Lee Burke
finished 6/22.......... contemp detective
....... rating 7.5
Posted at 06:47 PM Read More
Fri - June 20, 2008
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
finished 6/20 ......... contemp fiction /
Canada ........ rating 8.5
Posted at 08:55 PM Read More
Thu - June 19, 2008
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
finished 6/19 ....... contemp fiction / US
...... rating 8.5
Posted at 04:44 PM Read More
MIracle At Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
finished 6/19 ............... contemp fic /
fluffy ....... rating 6
Posted at 04:42 PM Read More
Wed - June 18, 2008
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
finished 6/18...... classic
post-colonial/Nigeria ....... 10
Posted at 08:16 PM Read More
Sun - June 15, 2008
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
finished 6/14 ....... classic Russian .........
rating 8
Posted at 05:39 PM Read More
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
finished 6/14 ........ classic Russian
.......... rating 8.5
Posted at 03:42 PM Read More
Fri - June 13, 2008
The Sea by John Banville
finished 6/5 ........ contemp fiction / Booker
Prize ........ rating 9
Posted at 10:56 AM Read More
Wed - June 11, 2008
A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
finished 6/11 ....... suspense
contemp............ rating 7.5
Posted at 10:06 PM Read More
Fri - June 6, 2008
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
finished 6/6....... French early 20th century
....... rating 8.5
Posted at 11:32 PM Read More
Sun - June 1, 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
finished 6/1 ................... 20th cent.
US .....................rating 8
Posted at 09:15 PM Read More
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
finished 5/08 ........... contemp US /
historical ......... rating 9
Posted at 08:37 AM Read More
Tue - May 27, 2008
Graceland by Chris Abani
finished 5/27 ....... contemp / Nigeria-US
........ rating 7
Posted at 08:45 PM Read More
Mon - May 26, 2008
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
finished 5/26 ....... non-fiction/food ........
rating 5
Posted at 08:35 AM Read More
California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War by Leonard
Richards
finished February .... history ...... rating
9
Posted at 07:28 AM Read More
Fragrant Rice by Janet de Neef
finished in January ....... contemp Bali ......
rating 4
Posted at 07:24 AM Read More
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
finished in February ......... classic Brit
.......... rating 7.5
Posted at 07:23 AM Read More
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
finished February ......... classic Russian
...... rating 10
Posted at 07:21 AM Read More
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
finished February ....... 20th century black
....... rating 9
Posted at 07:19 AM Read More
The Appeal by John Grisham
Finished January ....... contemp detective
.......... rating 7
Posted at 07:15 AM Read More
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
finished February ....... 20th century ...
rating 7
Posted at 07:14 AM Read More
Ubik by Philip Dick
finished in February.... 20th century sci-fi
........ rating 7
Posted at 07:03 AM Read More
Gargantua and Pantagruel
finished February ........ 17th century
........ rating 6
Posted at 06:59 AM Read More
Fingersmith by Susan Waters
finished February .... contemporary US ........
rating 7.5
Posted at 06:55 AM Read More
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
finished February ......... early 20th century
US - Pulitzer ...... rating 7.5
Posted at 06:53 AM Read More
Another Country by James Baldwin
finished 5/19 .......... 20th century US
........ rating 8
Posted at 06:44 AM Read More
Sun - May 25, 2008
Manhattan Transfer
finished 5/13 ....... mid 20th century ........
rating 6
Posted at 05:24 PM Read More
Wed - May 14, 2008
1001 books to read before you die
This is about the list and how many I've read -
Posted at 10:49 PM Read More
Wed - May 7, 2008
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
finished 5/6 ......... 20th century fiction /
Booker Prize ........ rating 7
Posted at 08:49 PM Read More
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
finished 5/8 ........ contemp biography
........... rating 7.5
Posted at 08:43 PM Read More
Tue - April 15, 2008
Invisible Man by Ralph Elison
finished 4/13 ....... 20th cent. US .........
rating 9
Posted at 07:10 AM Read More
Mon - April 14, 2008
How To Read a Book and Why by Harold Bloom
finished 4/13 ............ lit crit
.............. rating 8.5
Posted at 09:19 PM Read More
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
finished 4/14 ............ sci-fi ............
rating 8.5
Posted at 09:08 PM Read More
Sun - April 13, 2008
TBR Challenge update (again!)
I'm moving right along here - there goes one
from the alternates pile. That's #7 out of a total 12 to be read.
Posted at 08:22 PM Read More
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
finished 4/13 ............ contemp
................... rating 8
Posted at 08:19 PM Read More
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
finished 4/13 .......... contemp US
............... rating 8
Posted at 05:29 PM Read More
TBR Challenge - update
I'm plugging along on this 6 down now, 6 to
go. I finished The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick from the main list.
Posted at 05:25 PM Read More
Fri - April 11, 2008
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny
finished 4/5 .... contemp Brit ...... rating
8.5
Posted at 06:28 AM Read More
Sat - March 29, 2008
The WInter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
finished 3/29 .......... 20th century fiction
....... rating 7
Posted at 04:12 PM Read More
Sun - March 23, 2008
The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm
reading 3/23 .......... non-fiction history
.........
Posted at 05:42 PM Read More
The Definitive Annotated Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol - Martin
Gardiner
finished Alice 3/23 ......... classic
............. rating 9
Posted at 05:40 PM Read More
Fri - March 21, 2008
tbr update
Well, it's one more down and one more on the
way - I'm a bit ahead of schedule as I've now completed 5 which is 2 ahead of
one a month.
Posted at 09:39 AM Read More
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
listening 3/20 - 20th century classic ........
rating 8
Posted at 09:31 AM Read More
Thu - March 20, 2008
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
cur. read. ................ 1970s
British-India historical fiction rating ......8
Posted at 11:01 AM Read More
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
finished 3/19 ......... contemp fantasy .......
rating 7
Posted at 08:06 AM Read More
Mon - March 17, 2008
Old New York: Four Novellas by Edith Wharton
finished 3/17 ........ classic fiction
......... rating 8.5
Posted at 03:05 PM Read More
Consequences by Penelope Lively
finished 3/10 (or so)....... contemp fiction
....... rating 7.5
Posted at 03:01 PM Read More
The Overcoat by Gogol
finished 3/14 ....... classic novella .......
rating 9
Posted at 02:57 PM Read More
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
finished 3/17 ...... contemp fiction ........
rating 9
Posted at 02:56 PM Read More
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
finished 3/12 ....... contemp fiction (Booker
Prize) ........ rating 6
Posted at 02:51 PM Read More
Call For The Dead by John le Carre
finished 2/14 ........ classic spy novel
........ rating 7
Posted at 02:48 PM Read More
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
finished 3/10........ contemp memoir .........
rating 8
Posted at 02:44 PM Read More
Sat - March 8, 2008
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
suspense/thriller - read Feb. rating
9
Posted at 07:22 AM Read More
So Big by Edna Ferber
January reading (I forgot) - Pulitzer winner -
rating 7.5
Posted at 07:14 AM Read More
Fri - March 7, 2008
tbr challenge - update
I've read 3 of the books on my challenge list.
I read War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov and Pride and Prejudice. Ubik
(Philip Dick) should have been on the list too but it wasn't so it doesn't
count. I'm reading a fourth now but it's from the Alternates list.
Posted at 06:48 PM Read More
Sat - January 19, 2008
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
finished 1/15 classic rating
10
Posted at 02:50 PM Read More
Thu - January 10, 2008
Wed - January 9, 2008
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
I really "read" this book - a 9
Posted at 11:06 AM Read More
Thu - January 3, 2008
TBR list (to be read) for the year
These are the books I'd like to read this year
- they're sitting on my tbr shelf now.
Posted at 01:43 PM Read More
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