Completely and utterly different to the spring reading scheme. Well, no, not really. Made up of many of the leftovers, plus some library fiction.
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Ender’s Game
My summer of love
Provincial daughter
Confessions of a failed grown-up
The weight of silence
Anna Kareninova (in Slovak), part 1
The Memory keeper’s daughter
Germania
Under the Dome Loved this. Will want to reread it again soon. I especially like the little shout-out to Jack Reacher – I like in-jokes in books much more than in films.
Crime and Punishment
Wicked !
Bleak House
A History of modern Britain
This Charming man
The Playground mafia
Brave new world
Closing time
The Brooklyn follies
Alice in jeopardy
The Elegance of the hedgehog
The Edwardians
Adverbs
The Book of nothing
Lorna Doone
A Brief history of time
A History of Britain
The Corrections
The Pickwick Papers
Jack Maggs
No Country for old men
A Passion for DNA
Playing for Pizza
The Oxford Popular history of Britain
Les Miserables, vols 1 and 2
The Historian
A Tale of two cities
Scruples Two
London – the novel
Good Soldier Svejk
20 thousand leagues under the sea
The time machine
Journey to the centre of the earth
I do have some other books on reservation from the library but as this list is being compiled, I haven’t borrowed them yet, so they don’t count. There are rules to keep, even if I make them up as I go along…
Am currently reading Under the Dome and enjoying it immensely.
Posted by Melanie on 30/06/2010 at 8:27 pm
My word! How may summers did you have in mind?
Posted by librariann on 30/06/2010 at 8:37 pm
Yeah, a little ambitious… But I’ve read one really thick one already, and I’m reading a second really big one. And I’m not knitting nearly as much any more. And you know how long my journey to work is…
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