Talisman Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) January When Broken Glass Floats - Growing up under the Khmer Rouge: Chanrithy Him (Cambodia) Devil, Devil: GW Kent (Solomon Islands) The Auschwitz Violin: Maria Angels Anglada (Poland) Cry Havoc: Simon Mann (Equatorial Guinea) Love Anger Madness: Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Haiti) February Last Train from LIguria: Christine Dwyer Hickey (Italy) The Sounds of a Wild Snail Eating: Elizabeth Tova Bailey (US) Mosquito - Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka) Rosie's War - Rosemary Say (France) Delirium - Lauren Oliver (US) March Hypothermia - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland) Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare (Albania) Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver (US) Drums on the Night Air - Veronica Cecil (Congo) My Autobiography - Charles Chaplin (England) What the Day Owes the Night - Yasmina Khadra (Algeria) In the Midst of Life - Jennifer Worth (England) Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace (Zimbabwe) April The Land of Later On: Anthony Weller (United States) Purge: Sofi Oksanen (Estonia) Running the Rift: Naomi Benaron (Rwanda) The Greenhouse: Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Iceland) May Revenge of the Tide - Elizabeth Haynes (England) Ali and Ramazan - Perihan Magden (Turkey) Never Mind (Melrose Novels 1) - Edward St Aubyn (England) Partitions - Amit Majmundar (Pakistan) Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier (Portugal) June Witness the Night - Kishwar Desai (India) The Panoptican - Jenni Fagan (Scotland) The Consequences of Love - Sulaiman Addonia (Saudi Arabia) Signs of Life - Anna Raverat (England) The Door - Magda Szabo (Hungary) Me Before You - Jojo Moyes (England) Heart Shaped Bruise - Tanya Byrne (England) Outrage - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland) Divergent - Veronica Roth (US) Isles of Scilly Guidebook (Friendly Guides) - Neil Reid (England) July Insurgent - Veronica Roth (US) Inside Job - Charles Ferguson (US) Perfect People - Peter James (UK) The Appointment - Herta Muller (Romania) Fatal Tango - Wolfram Fleischhauer (Germany/Argentina) August Boy Racer - Mark Cavendish (Isle of Man) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (Sweden) Stones For My Father - Trilby Kent (South Africa) The Secret Olympian: The Inside Story of the Olympics - Anon Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (Mexico) September Delirium - Laura Restrep (Colombia) A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Christopher Aslan (Uzbekistan) October Fracture - Megan Miranda (US) The Conductor - Sarah Quigley (Russia) The Hills is Lonely - Lillian Beckwith (Scotland) The Vanishing Act: Matte Jacobsen (Denmark) November Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World: Jean Sasson (Saudi Arabia) The Snow Child - Aowyn Ivey (US) The Summer Book - Tove Janssen (Finland) Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt - Jean Naggar (Egypt) Somewhere Home - Nara Awar Jarrar (Lebanon) December The Cypress Tree - Kamin Mohammadi (Iran) Taliban: Rashid Ahmed (Afghanistan) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (Ukraine) Here Lies Bridget - Paige Harbison (US) Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life - Sari Nusseibeh (Palestine) Edited December 28, 2012 by Talisman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Your books look interesting but all very serious June. Do you ever want to read for fun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 Of course VF - for me all reading is fun ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted July 1, 2012 Author Share Posted July 1, 2012 (edited) Halfway through the year already and so far I have read 36 books, which for me is not bad, the 37th will hopefully be finished later on today. 6 books have been non fiction, with the remaining 30 fiction from a total of 24 different countries. Edited July 1, 2012 by Talisman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted November 3, 2012 Author Share Posted November 3, 2012 I am currently around 50 percent through my 53rd book of the year, so working on the average for the year of one book every 5-6 days should be able to get through another 8 or 9 before the year is out, which should take me to around 61 or 62 books. This is at least a 100 percent increase on last year, so not bad at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 That's mostly down to the Kindle, isn't it? It's interesting how many people have found they read more once they've got a Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 That last book about Bin Laden June..how was it? Did you put a review anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted November 3, 2012 Author Share Posted November 3, 2012 I haven't finished it yet, but will try and post one when I do ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted December 28, 2012 Author Share Posted December 28, 2012 At what is almost the end of 2012, I have chalked up a total of 63 books, which for me is not bad at all. All but one of these (a travel guide to the Isles of Scilly) have been in Kindle form as opposed to paper books, with 16 non fiction books (about one quarter) - mostly various forms of biographies and/or travelogues, and 47 fiction. I have read books from (or set in) a a total of 42 countries so am making good progress with the Around the World Reading Challenge, and next year hope to read a few more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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