Jack Dawkins
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Finished Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly by Jeff Stelling(Presenter of Sky's Soccer Saturday and Countdown)
Another football(ish) book 9/10
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Finished Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, Fool Moon is the second of the Dresden Files in which wizard for hire Harry Dresden goes up against all manner of werewolves. Not a bad read, read the 1st 350 pages very quickly but found the last 40 or so pages hard to get into not sure why 6/10
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Completed Modern Football is Rubbish by Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt 9/10
Not really a critque of modern football more a lament for what no longer exsists in the game. Well written with a heavy dose of humour. I would have given it 10/10 but they managed to get a sly dig at Newcastle in tut tut. I know there is at least one other football fan on here and I'm pretty sure there is a smoggie fan on here too, to them and any other football fans I would highly recommend this book.
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Star Wars as a quirky smuggler/reluctant hero who wins the heart of a princess
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Read a few chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson. My toe dabbling into the world of poetry may prove to be quite expensive, lots of poets worth a further look.
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Finished the introduction to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and read The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson.
Received Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard, Ajax,the Dutch and the War by Simon Kuper and The Conquest of Gaul by Caesar... and Newcastle won the Championship
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Bought Millennium by Tom Holland
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Received two books from the book depository:
The Enemy Within by Seumas Milne
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Read a couple of poems including The Raven by Poe
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1 down 99 to go,finished Emperor The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden 8/10
It has taken me about 2 months to read this book but as it was a reread I took my time. This is a very good historical action story and I look forward to the 3 sequels.
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Finished Emperor The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden and read a few more poems The Donkey by G.K. Chesterton a stand out.
I have decided to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
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I pretty much just started "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (almost 30 pages in), and I'm surprised, frustrated and kind of annoyed by how slow it is! I wasn't expecting that at all. I've heard such good things about it, and I may end up loving the book, but the beginning ... AARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Oh dear, I thought the book startted okay, but the middle is literary sludge.....
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My Wife bought me Chickenhawk by Robert Mason.
Read another 50 or so pages of Emperor at the Gates of Rome and read a handful of poems
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spending far too long browsing Amazon .co.uk and .com..... just aswell the boys can get their own breakfast:roll:
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Ordered some books for the first time since Christmas.
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
Sandstorm by James Rollins
The Enemy Within by Seumas Milne(A book about the miners strike)
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caeser
Ajax,The Dutch,The War by Simon Kuper
All books ordered from The Book Depository (top site)
Also read about 50 pages of Emperor The Gates of Rome and Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns, the scots language made my head hurt but a cracking poem none the less
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thank you
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Thought it might interesting to see how long it takes to read 100 books( At my current rate it'll be a loooong time). I hope setting a goal will help inspire me to fall in love with reading again. I'm going to include fiction and non-fiction in the list, book length will be irelevant, it must be completed(obviously). I'm starting with the book I'm currently reading which is Emperor At the Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden.
1. Emperor The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
2. Modern Football is Rubbish by Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt
3. Fool Moon(book 2 of the dresden Files) by Jim butcher
4. Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly by Jeff Stelling
5. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
6. Killer's Payoff by Ed McBain
7. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
8. Secret Sanction by Brian Haig
9. Rumpole and the Age of Miracles by John Mortimer
10.An Englishman Abroad:My Autobiography by Bobby Robson
11.Fat by Rob Grant
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Statred reading Foever Odd by Dean Koontz
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Here's my list
Spirit Dance- A Certain Ratio
In a Room- The House of Love
Dancing Days- Led Zeppelin
Sueisfine- My Bloody Valentine
In Your House- The Cure
Holiday- Madonna
Sophisticated Boom Boom- The Shangri Las
The Sign- Foo Fighters
Pots and Pans- Les Savy Fav
Moss Garden- David Bowie
Not bad
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I am 42
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I try and keep an open mind and will give anything a listen, but my favourite bands are:
The Smiths/Morrissey
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Stiff Little Fingers
The Cure
Echo and the Bunnymen
David Bowie
More modern stuff I quite like at the moment are things like
Blood Red Shoes
Future of the Left
Gallows
Belle and Sebastian
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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist arrived this morning from the Book Depository in the U.K(thanks Kylie for putting me on to this site).
Not much reading going on at the moment,Bad Ear
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Started Sandstorm by James Rollins, book 1 of his Sigma Force series. I chose this book because of a bad review of book 6, that I read on here. Bad reviews inspire me as much as good ones. I have this need to find out for myself!
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Finished another Fables graphic novel, Wolves in which Bigby Wolf(the big bad wolf in human form) marries Snow White! Bill Willingham has excelled himself again. The only problem with this book was that it included an original script although interesting it was a bit like walking through treacle. 8/10
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I wont learn my lesson I just cant help myself
I've really enjoyed the books I've read this year
Paul's Quest for 100 books
in Past Book Logs
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Finished Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Splendid read 9/10