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JJZAZZY's 2011 Book List


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Ok, My first book list since joining.

This is my list from 2011 so far:

(RR) means re-read

 

January

Warriors compilation

Trinity - Leon Uris

To the Ends of the Earth - W Golding

Sweetness in the Belly - Camila Gibb

Star Trek Enterprise - Kobiashi Maru

February

World without end (RR)-Ken Follett

Exile - Leon Uris

Lord John series - Diana Gabaldon

March

Me talk pretty one day - David Sedaris

Nightrunner Series (Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness, Traitor's Moon, 2 more to go) Lynn Flewelling

Insignificant others - Stephen McCauley

When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris

The Metropolis Case - Matthew Gallaway

 

Next up:

New York - E. Rutherfurd

Instance at the Finger post - Pears (thanks for the recomendation...)

The remaining Nightrunner books - Flewelling

Tales of the City - Maupin

The Last Jew - Noah Gordon

At swim two boys - Jaime o'Neill

Dragon Keeper / Dragon Haven - Robin Hobb

Redemption - Leon Uris

and watching the Middlemarch tv miniseries

Non fiction:

Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond

Outliers - Gladwell

Scorecasting - Moskowitz

 

I wonder how many I will have done in the next 3 months?

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I'm impressed by how organised you are with your planning - I never know what I'm going to read next unless it's a book for the Reading Circle or the reading challenges I take part in. I like your idea of marking re-reads, I might steal that from you!:)

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  • 3 months later...

A Second Quarter Review

 

April

Nightrunner Series (last two book of the series: Darkness Returns, White Road) Lynn Flewelling http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/8417-nightrunner-series-lynn-flewelling/page__p__256926__fromsearch__1#entry256926

Scorecasting – Moskowitz Non fiction

New York - Rutherfurd http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/8416-new-york-rutherfurd/page__p__256923__fromsearch__1#entry256923

The Last Jew – Noah Gordon

At swim 2 boys (didn’t finish, confusing)

Tales of the City - Maupin http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/8418-tales-of-the-city-armistead-maupin/page__p__256927__fromsearch__1#entry256927

Dragon Heaven / Dragon keeper – Robin Hobb

 

May

Arrows of the Queen trilogy - Mercedes Lackey

Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond Non fiction

Pandora's Seed -S Wells Non fiction

Transportation of Place (photologue) - A Robbins

Skystone Series - Jack Whyte (liked book 1, got bored 3/4 of the way thru book 2, decied not to finished the series)

 

June

Helen Forester omnibus (Twopence to cross the Mersey, By the waters of Liverpool, Lime Street at two, Liverpool miss) - Helen Forrester http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/8645-blackout-all-clear-connie-willis/page__p__262500__fromsearch__1#entry262500

Black out, All Clear - Connie Willis http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/8645-blackout-all-clear-connie-willis/page__p__262500__fromsearch__1#entry262500

Vera Wright Trilogy - Elizabeth Jolley (didn’t finish, confusing timeline)

Cuppa Tea and An Asprin - Helen Forrester

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Maurice - EM Forster

We had it so Good - Linda Grant

 

Oh, and I am also watching Games of Thrones online (but I have already read the books)

 

Next up:

Dance with Dragons - Martin

Instance at the Fingerpost - (honest, its waiting at the library with my name on it!)

Princes of Ireland / Dublin Saga – Rutherfurd

Doomsday Book – Willis

Redemption - Leon Uris

and watching the Middlemarch tv miniseries

 

Any recommendations on modern life in the UK? Such as university life, city life (especially outside of London)

Or any good stories set in Wales?

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