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

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Review: Moderately disappointing.

Starting:

finished: The Hunger Games

started: Catching fire

Working On:

A Storm Of Swords
The Cypress House

Reading:



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.

Finished Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs




Started Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

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Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives


John le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor

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


P. G. Wodehouse's The Crime Wave at Blandings

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



David Mitchell's Black Swan Green

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


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Michael Chabon's Maps and Legends (2008)

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

Re-read while I catch up with the movies.

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

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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.

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

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

Just finished this.


Starting this tonight or tomorrow.


This is next on the list.


not sure what will be after.

About 75 pages into this:



Not sure what I think about it yet.

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.

Finished Michael Chabon's Maps & Legends (2008).

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Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (1990)

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.

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.

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