pontalba Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 (edited) JANUARY Cat Playing Cupid by Shriley Rousseau Murphy 5/5 Joe Grey is always adorable. Birchwood by John Banville 4/5 Irish Gothic, second half disappointing, prose gorgeous of course. FEBRUARY The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein 2.5/5 [somewhat dated, but a sweet love story and a cat. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 4.5/5 would have been 5/5, but for the [to me] somewhat stilted beginning MARCH The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins 3/5 The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte 5/5 The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz 2.5/5 APRIL The Stranger by Albert Camus 4/5 East, West by Salman Rushdie 4/5 In The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster 3.5/5 Started Out in the Evening by Brian Morton 5/5 MAY The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale 4/5 Come to Me by Amy Bloom 4/5 Star Trek [movie tie-in] by Alan Dean Foster JUNE dry month, somehow, no books were finished in June. JULY The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer 5/5 The Gurensey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 4/5 The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill 4/5 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household 5/5 Persuasion by Jane Austen 3.5/5 The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler 5/5 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 5/5 AUGUST A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter 3.5/5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 5/5 Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin 3/5 Up Till Now by William Shatner with David Fisher 3/5 The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston 3/5 SEPTEMBER Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 5/5 [reread] Dragonfly in Amber by DG Voyager by DG Drums of Autumn by DG OCTOBER An Echo in the Bone By Diana Gabaldon 4/5 Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rousseau Murphy 2/5 NOVEMBER Call for the Dead by John Le Carr�bsp; 4/5 Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum 4/5 DECEMBER The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 5/5 Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke 5/5 Edited April 5, 2011 by pontalba addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 I'm currently rereading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, I read it years ago, and have continued with the series. I was fortunate enough to win 24 copies of Outlander, mass market printed up especially for publicity for the new one coming out 9/22, An Echo in the Bone. It was a giveaway on her website and all the copies were to be given away to friends and family, whoever would want to start the series. Yeah, they are all gone, went like hotcakes! Can't wait for it to come out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Wow, nice win, Pontalba! I'm glad you're keeping track of your reading here now. I value your opinions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 Thanks Kylie, I feel the same about your choices. I thought I'd started this thread ages ago, but couldn't find it! So I guess I didn't! It's been a weird reading year anyhow, dry then reading spurts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted September 17, 2009 Author Share Posted September 17, 2009 I'm rereading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon in anticipation of the new one coming out later this month. I've left it a bit late though, only just starting the 4th, Drums of Autumn. I read on her website that she's going to compile another Outlandish Companion for the rest of the books, and YES!, there will be one more after this new one. At least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 I, finally, thoroughly enjoyed An Echo in the Bone by Gabaldon. For the middle 2-300 pages it sagged terribly IMO, concentrating too much on everyone besides my main interest, Jamie and Claire. But the last few hundred pages clicked right along and more than made up for the sag in the middle. The cliff hanger at the end left me both gasping and laughing. I'm tackling 2666 by Roberto Bolano now, and after a false start, am now restarting and enjoying it. /fingers crossed/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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