Thu - January 3, 2008
other titles 2007
I got way behind in my blogging so
here's a simple list of books read since the last entry.
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tbr for 2008
These are the books I'd like to get read and
off the mighty tbr shelf.
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Sun - October 14, 2007
High Country by Nevada Barr
finished ? 10/12 ......... contemp. crime
....... rating 7
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Sun - September 23, 2007
Animal, Vegetable, MIracle
finished 9/23 .......... contemp
non-fiction/food ............. rating 7
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Fri - September 21, 2007
Mad Mouse by Chris Grabenstein
finished 9/20 ........ US detective ..........
rating 5
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Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein
finished 9/15 ....... US detective ........
rating 6
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Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
finished 9/2 ...... US detective ........
rating 8
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Malinche's Conquest by Anna Lanyon
finished 9/19 ......... history of Mexico
....... rating 7
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People of the Abyss by Jack London
finished 9/14........ rating 7
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The Shadow of the Cross by Carolyn Garriott
finished 9/10 ........ contemp US .........
rating 7
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
finished 8/12 ........ classic English lit
....... rating 8
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Sat
- July 28, 2007
Dune By Frank Herbert
finished 7/27........... classic mid 20th
century US sci-fi ........ rating 8.5
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The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
finished 7/24 ......... 21st Century
fiction......... rating 6
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A Map of Glass by Jane Urquart
finished 7/26..... contemp fict. Can.
............ rating 7
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Sat
- July 14, 2007
Hide by LIsa Gardner
finished 7/14...... contemp detective ......
rating 6
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Alone by Lisa Gardner
finished 7/13 ...... contemp
detective........... rating 6
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Wed - July 11, 2007
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Urrea
finished 7/10 ...... hist. fiction - contemp
......... rating 8.5
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Sun - July 1, 2007
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
finished 6/30 ......... 20th cent US - Pulitzer
'65 .......... rating 8.5
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Sat
- June 30, 2007
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmtih by Thomas Kenneally
finished 6/30 ......... 20th cent. Aust.
........ rating 8
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The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
finished 6/29 ....... 20th cent. English
....... rating 8
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Mon - June 25, 2007
In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
finished 6/25 ......... contemp US ........
rating 6
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Thu - June 21, 2007
The Pity of it All by Amos Elon
finished 6/24 ...... conemp Euro history
....... rating 7.5
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Sat
- June 16, 2007
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
finished 6/16 ........ contemp fiction UK
.......... rating 6
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The People's Act of Love by James Meek
finished 6/15 .......... contemp. US
............ rating 7.5
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Sun - June 10, 2007
Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald
finished in May some time but forgot ......
1960s journalism....... rating 8
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Mon - May 28, 2007
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
finished 5/28 ...... late 20th cent. European
......... rating 6
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Sun - May 27, 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
finished 5/26 .......... contemp non-fiction
(nutrition) ......... rating 6
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Sat
- May 26, 2007
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr
finished 5/26 ........ Austrian fiction
contemp...........rating 8.5
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Wed - May 23, 2007
The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere
finished 5/23 ........ contemp light romance
.......... rating 7 (enjoyability only)
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Who Owns the Past by Inga Clendinnen
finished 5/23 .......... essay history
Australia .......... rating 9
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Tue - May 22, 2007
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
finished 5/22 ........ contemp fiction
............. rating 7.5
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Sun - May 20, 2007
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
finished 5/20 ........ literary detective
contemp.......... rating 3 .
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Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
finished 5/20 .......... contemp fiction
......... rating 7.5
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Sat
- May 19, 2007
Anthem by Ayn Rand
finished 5/19 ........... 20th cent. fiction
........ rating 4
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Wed - May 16, 2007
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
finished 5/16 ...... contemp fiction .........
rating 9
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
finished 5/16 ......... contemp.
non-fiction/memoir ....... rating 7
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84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
finished 5/15 .......... 20th cent. US memoir
........ rating 7
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Tue - May 15, 2007
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
finished 5/15 ....... contemp fiction .......
rating 7.5
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The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
finished 5/14 ............ classic South
African ........... rating 8
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Mon - May 14, 2007
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
finished 5/14........ contemp fiction .........
rating 6
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Sun - May 13, 2007
Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry
finished 5/11 ......... contemp fiction /
western ........ rating 7
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Against the Day - more words
rereading very slowly ... thoughts at this
point
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Sat
- May 12, 2007
Memoirs of Hadrian by Margarita Yourcenar
finished 5/12 ......... 20th century classic
........ rating 8.5
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Armadale by Wilkie Collins
finished 5/12 ......... Victorian classic
....... rating 6.5
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Sun - May 6, 2007
general progress
Not so many books this year?
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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Finished 5/6 ...... Japanese 20th century
....... rating 8
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Sat
- May 5, 2007
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
finished 5/5 - ..... contemp fiction .......
rating 9
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Wed - May 2, 2007
Emma by Jane Austen
finished 5/1 ........ classic early 19th
century English ......... rating 8
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Sun - April 22, 2007
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
finished 4/22 ........... non-fiction religion
....... rating 8
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Paranoia by Joseph Finder
Finished 4/22 ...... genre detective .........
rating 7
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Sat
- April 7, 2007
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
I continue to read this incredible
book
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
finished in March sometime - classic English
- rating 5 (real mixed)
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Dancing With Strangers by Inga Clendinnen
finished (again) in March sometime
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Mayflower by Nathanial Philbrick
finished in March ....... history ...... rating
7
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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
finsihed 4/7.......... contemp British/Japanese
......... rating 9
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Sat
- March 10, 2007
Sugar Street by Naguib Mafouz
finished 3/10 ....... classic Egyptian Nobel
winner ........ rating 5 for the book, 10 for the trilogy
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Sun - March 4, 2007
Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
finished 3/4 .......... contemp - Africa/
Zimbabwe ....... rating 8
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Sat
- March 3, 2007
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
finished 3/3 ........ contemp fiction (Booker
2006) ..... rating 8
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The Last Refuge by Chris Knopf
finished 3/1 ....... detective .............
rating 4
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Sun - February 25, 2007
Against the Day - rereading and annotating
continuing study ......... rating
10!
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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
finished 2/20......... US history ..........
rating 9
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Mon - February 5, 2007
Never Let Me Go by Kazuko Ishiguro
finished 2/5/07 ......... contemp Brit
............... rating 7
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Sun - February 4, 2007
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
finished 2/3 ........ 1970s fiction Britain
(Booker nominee) ...... rating 7
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The End of Faith by Sam Harris
finished 2/3 .........
religion/philosophy/politics....... rating 6
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Sun - January 21, 2007
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
finished 1/21 ........ non-fiction / religion -
science ........ rating (later)
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The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez
finished 1/21 ..... detective / court room
drama.... rating 6
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Mon - January 15, 2007
The Wild Goose by Ogai Mori
finished 1/15 ........... 19th cent. Japanese
........ rating 8.5
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Hotel World by Ali Smith
finished 1/15 ...... contemp (Booker.)
.......... rating 9
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Wed - January 10, 2007
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
finished 1/10 ........... contemp fiction
........ rating 5
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Sun - January 7, 2007
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
finished 1/3 ......... history Native
Americans.......... rating 8
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Sat
- January 6, 2007
Venus in Transit by Shirley Hazzard
finished 1/5 ....... 20th cent US ............
rating 8.5
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Fri - January 5, 2007
Dancing With Strangers by Inga Clendinnen
finished 1/2 ......... history Australia
........ rating 8.5
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