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  1. I absolutely loved it; very much in the vein of 84 Charing Cross Road. So far this year, it has been my most favorite book. Funny, gentle, sad, lovely. It takes place during a time in history of which I was not familiar, so very informative as well.
  2. What a great idea! Writing down my reading goals will really help me get my mojo back. At the beginning of 2009, I challenged myself to read 52 books during the year. I wanted to do one per week. I am falling a little behind. So far, these are the ones read: 1. The Private Patient by PD James 2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer 3. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 4. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale 5. When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson 6. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff 7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 8. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 9. Blood River by Tim Butcher 10. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 11. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 12. Cesar’s Way by Cesar Millan 13. The Ghost of Munich by Georges Bernamou 14. A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory 15. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 16. Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale 17. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 18. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 19. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse 20. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 21. The White Tiger by Avarind Adiga 22. Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry 23. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie 24. Reading Lotita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 25. Dexter Dreaming Darkly by Jeff Lindsay 26. The Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver 27. The Culture Clash by Jean Donaldson 28. The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver 29. The Doomsday Key by James Rollins 30. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 31. The Help by Kathryn Stockett 32. Don't Know Much About American History by Kenneth C. Davis 33. The Devil's Stone by Marie Reindorp 34. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 35. How Dogs Learn by Mary R. Burch & Jon S. Bailey 36. Wild Steps of Heaven by Victor Villasenor 37. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger 38. Fatal Last Words by Quintin Jardine 39. What is the What by Dave Eggers 40. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 41. Firmin by Sam Savage 42. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver 43. The Coroner by M. R. Hall 44. The Disappeared by M. R. Hall 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52.
  3. Chesil Beach is certainly a beautiful part of England. It is on my To Visit List. The best McEwan novel for me has been Atonement - not his usual dark material. I absolutely love your Marx's quote. I have 6 adoptees What kind of series do you prefer to read? Any recommends?
  4. Uriah Heep from David Copperfield - nasty little creature
  5. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D
  6. Chesilbeach, the above is a list of the "doorstoppers" that I have read and that I can think of hand. I often get on a theme kick (i.e. India kick or Africa kick etc.) I loved Half of a Yellow Sun as I was in the mood for it especially after listening to an interview of Adichie. The Poisonwood Bible was recommended to me by an art director of a New Mexico Museum, but I really did not pay too much attention to it as I thought it might be too religious for me. Silly me. Several months later (during an Africa kick), I picked it up and WOW! I absolutely loved it and could not put it down. It is written from several points of view which I thought might be too disruptive, but the way Kingsolver wrote it, this technique really works. I highly recommend it. Are you an Ian McEwan fan? Above all, he is my most favourite writer. I am speaking stylistically. He absolutely writes the most beautiful prose. His subjects, however, are so, so dark I sometimes have trouble getting through his books. Oh well, can't have it all.
  7. Wrist Weights I have Read A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (ps. 1488) Labyrinth by Kate Moss (ps. 528) By Rosamund Pilcher: The Shell Seekers (ps. 582) Winter Solstice (ps. 504) September (ps. 613) Coming Home (ps. 977) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (ps. 624) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (ps. 576) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (ps. 560) The Secret History by Donna Tartt (ps. 578) The Shinning by Stephen King (ps. 528) Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (ps. 582) The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (ps. 544) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (ps. 576) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (ps. 560) The Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver (ps. 656) The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver (ps.608) Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (ps. 560) Wrist Weights to be Read Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (ps. 947) The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz (ps. 1360)
  8. Most disturbing for me has been A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It was very good but an emotionally exhausting book to get through. But for the Grace of God go I.
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