Archive for July, 2008
Reading Japanese Literature (TSS)
Dolce Bellezza is hosting a second Japanese literature challenge from July 30, 2008 through January 30, 2009. I enjoyed the first challenge immensely as all three of the books I read were excellent! Bellezza gives some great ideas for books to read at her site. Just click on the icon for more […]
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Review: Unaccustomed Earth
Although I haven’t yet read Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning Interpreter of Maladies, after reading Unaccustomed Earth, I can understand why the committee was so impressed with her writing. Her stories of the Bengali immigrant experience were very well developed, and they had closure to them, something I’ve noticed is often times lacking in modern […]
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BAFAB Week Winners!
Winners! Thanks to random.org, the winners of my 3 bookmooch/pbs credits are (comments #10, #11, and #13):
C.B. James
Alisia
Nancy, aka Bookfool
If you can give me your pbs/bookmooch id’s, I’ll get your credits to you. Congrats!
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Review: Daughters of the North
Daughters of the North, known as The Carhullan Army in the UK, is a dystopian novel set in an environmentally and economically ravaged Britain. Citizens are forced to be registered in cities where they are assigned work for the good of the state. Contraception is mandated and every female is fitted with a device for […]
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Harry Potter Wrap-Up
About a month ago, I finished the Harry Potter series (for the first time!). I really liked the HP characters that Rowling created, almost too much, because when there were deaths, I was sorely disappointed. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to those characters, and some of the deaths seemed wholly unnecessary and […]
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Semi-Annual Report (Sunday Salon)
61 books read, all of which can be seen HERE
17170 pages read
Average number of pages per book: 281
21 female authors
30 male authors
46 new authors
11 books in translation
6 languages in translation: japanese (3), hungarian (3), french (2), icelandic (1), german (1), italian (1)
The best books of the first half of the year (not in any […]
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Buy/Give a Friend a Book Week BAFAB
I’d like to give a bookmooch or paperbackswap credit to three different people. If you belong to one of these sites, just add a comment to this post that you’d like to be considered. If you don’t belong, why not? It’s a great way to exchange your old books for new ones. […]
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June ‘08 Monthly Report
50. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (2005, 652 pp.)
51. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (2007, 759 pp.)
52. Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall (2008, 207 pp.)
53. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy (1966, 146 pp.)
54. Life of Pi by Yann […]
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1001 List: the subtractions
Once again, I saw this list at Pages Turned, who got it from Kiri at Book Crossing. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and italicized the ones I’m interested in reading. I’m really shocked at many of the subtractions — too many to list. I do want to point out, though, that […]
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1001 List: additions to the list
The 1001 List has been updated to include more international writers. Pages Turned posted the new additions, which I’ve listed below. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and italicized the ones I’m interested in reading. I’m trying to decide which list I’ll use for the 1% challenge, and I think it’s going […]
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