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The BBC believes the majority of people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Tally your total at the bottom.

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (on my To Read list)

4 Harry Potter series - J.K. ( Read more... )

Today I finished Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture.  I had heard several good things about it and when it won the Costa Book Award it got very cheap and I decided to bought it.

It is the story of Roseanne McNulty, a 100 year woman living in a mental asylum in Ireland.  As she tells the story of her life in papers she hides under the floorboards ( Read more... )

It's been such a long time since I posted (how the hell is it February already?), that I better do a catch-up post.

( See you under the cut )

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