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abecedarian
27th November 2006, 14:23
January:
1. The Fish Can Sing-Halldor Laxness 5/5
2. Reef-Romesh Guinesekera 2/5
3. The Traveller-John Twelve Hawks 2/5
4. Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe5/5
5. Suffer the Little Children-Mary Rafftery 3/5
6. Ireland-Frank Delaney 5/5
7. Whale Rider-Whiti Ihemaera 5/5
8. The Butcher's Wife- Li Ang 2/5
9. Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter-Mario Vargas Llosa 2/5
10.Undead and Unwed-Mary Janice Davidson 2/5
11. Creative License-Danny Gregory 5/5
12. The Rice Mother-Rani Manecka 5/5

February:
13. The Women At the Pump-Knut Hamsun 3/5
14. The Fat Man From La Paz-ed. Rosario Santos1/5
15. Anansi Boys-Neil Gaiman 5/5
16. The Wandering Unicorn-Manuel M. Lainez 2/5
17. The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction 3/5
18. Voices Made Night -Mia Couto 2/5
19. Dan Eldon: Art of Life- Jennifer New5/5
20. Breath, Eyes, Memory-Edwidge Danticat 4/5

March:
21. Shalimar the Clown- Salman Rushdie3/5
22. Broken Verses-Kamila Shamsie5/5
23. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro 3/5
24. Dirt Music-Tim Winton 4/5
25. The Pearl-John Steinbeck 4/5
26. Reading Lolita in Tehran-Azar Nafisi5/5
27. Barabbas-Par Lagerkvist 4/5
28. Cheap Ways to Tie the Knot-Cara Davis 2/5

April:
29. The Committments-Roddy Doyle3/5
30. The Snapper-Roddy Doyle 5/5
31. The Van-Roddy Doyle 5/5
32. A Bed of Red Flowers-Nelofer Pazira 4/5
33. Tears of the Giraffe-Alexander McCall Smith 3/5
34. Morality for Beautiful Girls-A.M. Smith 3/5
35. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus-Charles C. Mann 4/5
36. Troll- Johanna Sinisalo 3/5
37. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon5/5
38. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea-Yukio Mishima 5/5
39. Korea Unmasked-Won-bok RHIE 3/5
40. The Reader- Bernhard Schlink 4/5

May:
41. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell-Susanna Clark 3/5
42. Transgressions-Sarah Dunant 4/5
43. Menopause for Dummies- Marcia Jones 3/5
44. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Childhood-Fatima Mernissi 3/5
45. Memory in Death-JD Robb 3/5
46. The Step Diet-James O. Hill 3/5
47. Relics-Mary Anna Evans 2/5
48. Cry the Beloved Country-Alan Paton 5/5
49. In the Time of the Butterflies-Julia Alvarez 5/5
50. Lolita-Vladimir Nabakov 5/5

June:
51 Sunset Song-Lewis Grassic Gibbon5/5
52. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana-Umberto Eco 4/5
53. Where We Once Belonged-Sia Figiel 1/5
54.One of Ours-Willa Cather 4/5
55. The Long Night of White Chickens-Francisco Goldman1/5
56. Love and Garbage-Ivan Klima 5/5

JUly:
57. Heavy Water and Other Stories-Martin Amis 4/5
58. Perfume-Patrick Suskind 4/5
59. A Sister of Sheherazade-Assia Djeber 3/5
60. Daughter of Fortune- Isabel Allende 5/5
61. The Return of the Water Spirit-Pepetela 1/5
62. The Last Will & Testament of Senhor la Sillva Aruanjo -Germano Almeida 1/5
63. Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel 5/5
64. Time Gifts-Zoran Zivkovic 4/5
65. The Compromise- Sergei Dovlatov 3/5
66. Oracle Night-Paul Auster5/5

August:
67. The Stars, The Earth, The River-Le Minh Hhue 2/5
68. Twelve Sharp- Janet Evanovitch 4/5
69. Leaving a Trace-Alexandra Johnson 3/5

September:
70. Stories From Blue Latitudes-ed. Elizabeth Nunez 3/5
71. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories-Horacio Quiroa 4/5
72. The Sea-Crossed Fisherman-Yashar Kemal 2/5
73. Bound Feet and Western Dress-Pang Mei Natasha Chang 4/5
74. This Day" Diaries From American Women-Joni B. Cole 4/5
75. From a Crooked Rib-Nurrudin Farah 4/5
76. Lines On the Water-David Adams Richards 4/5
77. Views From the Bridge of Europe 3/5
78. The Club Dumas-Arturo Perez Revertea 4/5
79. In the Hollow of His Hand- Doris and Larry Puckett 3/5
80. Annie John- Jamaica Kincaid 3/5
81. Dark Demon-Christine Feehan 3/5
82. Bleeding Heart-Susan Wittig Albert 3/5

October:
83. Hurramabad-Andrei Volos 3/5
84. Janini-Sharkat Osman 2/5
85. The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life-Alexandra Johnson 4/5
86. The 99 Cent Breakfast-Patricia Glinton Meicholas 3/5
87. Miramar-Naguib Mahfouz 2/5
88. Definately Dead-Charlaine Harris 3/5
89. The Book of Puka-Puka- Robert Dean Frisbie 3/5
90. Zlata's Diary-Zlata Filopovic
91. The Sex Lives of Cannibles: Adrift in the Equatorial Sea-J.Maarten Troost 4/5
92. The Winter Queen-Boris Akunin 4/5
93. The Floor Sample-Julia Cameron 3/5
94. The Stone of Laughter-Hoda Barakat 1/5
95. Danse Macabre-Laurell K. Hamilton 2/5

pontalba
27th November 2006, 19:05
Um, abc...your rating system...???
Huh?

I'll tell you what though, I certainly admire the sheer volume of books you manage to get through! Amazing concentration. :clapping:

I am too easily distracted. :readingtwo:

abecedarian
27th November 2006, 20:43
Um, abc...your rating system...???
Huh?

I'll tell you what though, I certainly admire the sheer volume of books you manage to get through! Amazing concentration. :clapping:

I am too easily distracted. :readingtwo:

um..that rating system..the colors didn't transfer from TFS...and I when I tried to edit, I was not allowed to take out the rating system...didn't have time to mess with it anyway! Too many family issues this morning..

pontalba
27th November 2006, 20:46
OK, dawn breaks on the eastern front. :mrgreen:

abecedarian
28th November 2006, 13:50
November:
96. Natural Novel-Georgi Gospodinov 3/5
97. The Wedding of Zein-Tayeb Salih 2/5
98. Travels With Charley-John Steinbeck 5/5
99. The Bondmaid-Catherine Lim 3/5
100. Widdershins-Charles deLint 5/5
101. Marcel- Erwin Mortier 3/5
102. Comfort Woman-Maria Rosa Henson 4/5
103. The First Circle-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4/5
104. Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos-Outhine Bounyavong 2/5
105. In the Shadow of the Ark-Anne Provoost 5/5
106. The Relic-Eca De Quieroz 3/5
107. The Book Thief-Markus Zusak 4/5
108. Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunisia
-Monia Hejaij 1/5
109. Incipient Feminists: Women Writers in the Sloval National Revival-
Norma Rudinsky 1/5
110. Blue Highways-William Least Heat Moon 5/5
111. Two Hill Diggers-Geralda Kahoroasiva 3/5



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