Before I forget

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Books I have read 2009

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yeats
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nigh-time - Mark Haddon
Tearing down the wall of sound-the rise and fall of Phil Spector - Mick Brown
When Giants walked the Earth-A biography of Led Zeppelin - Mick Wall
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept - Paulo Coelho
Back From the Brink-Autobiography - Paul McGrath
Divisidero - Michael Ondaatje

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High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Kingdom Of Fear - Hunter S Thompson (I read half the book)

Currently reading The book of Lost Things by John Connelly.

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Finished The Book of Lost Things - hated it.

Onto The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy now - loving it

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Read 'The House at Riverton' by Kate Morton over the weekend. I really enjoyed it, an easy read and page turner.
The guide to the galaxy continues...

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Finished 'The Reader' by Bernard Schlink.
I enjoyed the first 2/3 found the last 1/3 a drag. I didnt like it much at all.

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I read the Damned United, and it was brilliant! I really loved his style of writing. It makes me want to delve further into the likes of Brian Cloughs Biography.

Now I'm halfway through A Thousand Splendid Suns, it's a good read so far. Next on my list is The Kite Runner.

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Finished A thousand Splendid Suns - I loved it, although it is harrowing.

Reading memoirs of a geisha now.

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Finished Memoirs of a Geisha, I liked it in parts it makes me want to read more about Japan and Geisha but I didnt enjoy or care much about the characters so it lost me and dragged a lot.

Now I'm reading the Kite Runner, feels like an old friend in comparison

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Finished the kite runner - it is a brilliant book.

Now reading The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tobin and Sorting out Billy by Jo Brand.

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Finished The Toibin book, I really liked it and would recommend it.

Now reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Sorting Out Billy.

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Finished GWTDT - I didnt enjoy it, not my thing at all and I fell for the hype I have to say (I have The Girl who Played with Fire here to read!)
but, for now I'm onto Shutter Island which came highly recommended by my sister. I intended to read it before it leaves the cinemas but I doubt I'll manage that.

Sorting out Billy will probably be shelved for a while

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Finished Shutter Island, a chilling mystery. Looking forward to watching the movie.

Next up is Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

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Finished Jacobs room a while ago, an interesting read, I might go back to it again some time.

I've just read No and Me by Delphin De Vigan, it's a good book, really good idea and it ticks along nicely but it could have been better, I didn't feel the characters were fleshed out enough.

Currently reading Mrs. Dalloway and The History of Love.

(I also read half a book about women and the history of psychology which i've forgotten the name of )
Edit - Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi - I will go back to that when I'm finished reading Woolfe

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I read some of the girl who played with fire but it's utter sh1t so I moved on to Wuthering Heights! A good book but not one I'd rave over.
Next up was a crime thriller - not a genre I read but it was very good, entertaining and well written.
Now i'm reading 1984!

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Recently read - Solar by Ian McEwan, 1984 by George Orwell, Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger and Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor.
Also a portion of John the Revelator by Peter Murphy, must return to that.