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2009 Books
The Goal:
To do read 100 proper books this year - i.e. not graphic novels or throw-away romances.
( January-March 2009 )
To the Lighthouse, Viriginia Woolf - Woolf does post-modernism better than the boys. Justly classic.
The Secret Speech, Tom Rob Smith - I very much liked Smith's first novel, Child 44, but with his second, he's entirely lost the plot. Perhaps thinking he let his former MGB officer hero off too lightly at the end of the latter, Smith attempt to address the problems of collective guilt, atonement and redemption in post-Stalinist Soviet Union. In the process, he piles improbability upon improbability until the struggle to reach the final page itself feels like torture.
Basilica, R.A. Scotti - Finally.
White Tiger Aravind Adiga - Fabulous.
Yellow Blue Tibia
Dead in Dallas, Charleane Harris
Taming the Seahorse, Robert B. Parker
Lord. I do read.
Um, Unseen Academicals, Sir Pterry.
To do read 100 proper books this year - i.e. not graphic novels or throw-away romances.
( January-March 2009 )
To the Lighthouse, Viriginia Woolf - Woolf does post-modernism better than the boys. Justly classic.
The Secret Speech, Tom Rob Smith - I very much liked Smith's first novel, Child 44, but with his second, he's entirely lost the plot. Perhaps thinking he let his former MGB officer hero off too lightly at the end of the latter, Smith attempt to address the problems of collective guilt, atonement and redemption in post-Stalinist Soviet Union. In the process, he piles improbability upon improbability until the struggle to reach the final page itself feels like torture.
Basilica, R.A. Scotti - Finally.
White Tiger Aravind Adiga - Fabulous.
Yellow Blue Tibia
Dead in Dallas, Charleane Harris
Taming the Seahorse, Robert B. Parker
Lord. I do read.
Um, Unseen Academicals, Sir Pterry.