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Pontalba's 2009 Reading List


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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

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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! :)

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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.

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  • 3 weeks later...

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. :D

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  • 2 months later...

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/

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