Title: Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
Author: Hugh Lofting
Genre: fantasy, animals

Doctor Dolittle wastes no time in setting up the most efficient mail service in the world when he discovers that there is not only an animal language, but animal writing as well. “The Swallow Mail”, as it is called, soon boasts good pens in the post office, postmen ( Read more... )

"Everyday life in the Ancient World ( Read more... )

#26 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a ( Read more... )

Book Thirty-Three

Title: The Tattooed Map
Author: Barbara Hodgson
Page Count: 120
Genre: Fantasyish...I don't know, it's a hard one to classify

Synopsis/Thoughts: This is a very strange little book about two travelers, Lydia and Christopher, who were once lovers but now simply travel together as they enjoy each others' company. This novella ( Read more... )

Book #22 -- Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Blood Suckers (Felix Gomez #2), 370 pages ( Read more... )

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

From the back of the book:

This is the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of a treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the exotic markets of Tangiers and then into the Eqyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the ( Read more... )

... I haven't updated my list here since mid-October. Oops. Well, in my defense, I was preparing to move, and hence packing, and working, and then the holidays hit, and well, now I'm updating. I did quite a bit of reading though, especially in the last month ( Read more... )

It's been a while since my last post... I've been really busy with university and things, so my leisure reading has slowed down, but not quite as much as my ability to get anything else done. Hm.

Anyway... ( here's books 37-44 )

But my goal is really 63 (one more than last year)

46. Ginger Man
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Finished:
( 1-36 )