What are you reading? August 2011
 

August 2011, the month of my 40th birthday.... Fantastic

Just finished:

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Just started:

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Just finished:

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Reading:

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Listening To:

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Just Finished:
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Review: Moderately disappointing.

Starting:
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finished: The Hunger Games

started: Catching fire

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Working On:

A Storm Of Swords
The Cypress House

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Reading:

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I don't think he writes very well, but seems like a fast read so I'll likely stick it out. Feels like a YA novel to me, though I haven't seen it notated as such.

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Finished Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs

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Started Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

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Finished:
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Reading:
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Finished:

Leonard Mlodinow's <b>The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives</b>

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John le Carré's <b>Our Kind of Traitor</b>

The first le Carré book I was able to finish (I found <b>A Most Wanted Man</b> easy to put down). Still open to checking out more of his work.

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P. G. Wodehouse's <b>The Crime Wave at Blandings</b>

My first Wodehouse story. I can see the appeal. Deeply hilarious.


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David Mitchell's <b>Black Swan Green</b>

This was my second David Mitchell book, and will ensure I continue to seek out his work.


Now reading:

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Michael Chabon's <b>Maps and Legends</b> <i>(2008)</i>

Great collection of essays revolving around genre books, with a few welcome digressions. I know want to seek out <i>American Flagg!</i> and a dozen other books.

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Re-read while I catch up with the movies.

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The Road to Berlin: Stalin`s War with Germany
John Erickson
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Just finished:

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Memoir about the closing of a men's clothing store. Really really great book and a bargain at 99 cents for the Kindle.

Now reading:

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One of my favorite books. Michael Ruhlman could pick any subject and make a great book about it.

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I picked up several books so I'll be doing alot of reading the next couple of months.

Just finished this.
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Starting this tonight or tomorrow.
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This is next on the list.
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not sure what will be after.

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About 75 pages into this:

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Not sure what I think about it yet.

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How was this? This is actually on my list of books I want to check out based on Michael Chabon's mentioning it in Maps & Legends. From reading the description I wasn't completely sure if I would enjoy it.

Adding these to my wishlist.

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Finished Michael Chabon's Maps & Legends <i>(2008)</i>.

Now reading:

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Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's <b>Good Omens</b> <i>(1990)</i>

I picked this up with excitement and it wasn't until I started reading it that I realized it was well over twenty years old. I'm deeply ashamed that I had not heard of it until now.

It's also the first mass-market paperback I have bought in well over a decade. I'm not a big fan of the format.

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I enjoyed it quite a bit actually. A friend loaned it to me, and said it can be trudging if you translate all the latin that is in it. I decided not to worry too much about and thought it was a great read. It causes me to think about how our world is in comparison to things that go on in the book. Very cyclical.

Finished:
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Currently:
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