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Quite a few of these are rereads, I should mention off the bat.

1. The Gift, Danielle Steel - This is a nice, light holiday read. I have a general distaste for Steel's writing style, but I usually enjoy her plots. This wasn't a deviation from the norm. If anything, I find it to be a little bit better than Steel's other books: It's considerably ( Read more... )

I've set myself the adventure of reading a mystery set in each of the 50 states of the US. I have a fairly arbitrary system of defining what "counts," but basically I'm giving preference to books written by authors who've spent substantial portions of time in the states they're writing about. Some states *coughDelawarecough* are nearly impossible ( Read more... )

Previously on 50bookchallenge I went on a mystery kick sometime in September, and haven't unkicked. I'm counting from that first mystery, not from the first of any year. Here are the final ten:

41. The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman. Mrs Pollifax is a widow who's starting to get bored with her garden club lifestyle. So she volunteers to join the CIA. ( Read more... )

( challenge start date- 12/08/08 )

Recently I borrowed a mystery or two from the library... read them, returned them, borrowed more, borrowed more, borrowed more -- and I suspect that at this rate I'll accidentally read 50 mysteries by the end of the month, let alone the year. I grew up on Cam Jansen and Encyclopedia Brown, glutted myself with Sherlock Holmes and have long been ( Read more... )

I'm done! I've been done for a while actually but I moved and only have internet when I'm at my parents' place. :(



1. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
2. Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
3. Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
4. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
5. Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
6. Metamorphosis - Kafka
7. Book about German culture
8. How To ( Read more... )

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Embarrassed to say that this is my first post in more than two months. Baseball season has just knocked my reading out of the water, you know?

Anyway, I have a couple of first reads to share:

20. Darcy's Story by "Janet Aylmer" whose name is, I suspect something that does not share initials with Jane Austen. This was, overall, a competent ( Read more... )