Read 20 books in 2009

Completed reading on 28.09.09.

8.3/10 – Heart-rending, engrossing novel. There were an abundance of passages that are worthy of quoting. Commendable characterisation, and I appreciated being taken through the shades of grey. On the flip side, the story came with many platitudes and a certain aspect of the ending was disappointing.

Completed reading on 17.08.09.
7.5/10 – Very informative and comprehensive but poor layout and a little all over the place at times.

Completed reading on 20.05.09.

6.8/10

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.
The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson.
Island by Alistair McLeod.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
100 Selected Stories by O Henry.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx.
The Great Escape by Kati Marton.
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

Completed reading on 11.05.09.

8/10

Completed reading on 21.01.09.

8.3/10

Alas, the years in which I’d devour up to a hundred books or more are long gone. Now, I find that successfully reading twenty new books in a year is quite an achievement, for me.

It’s already mid-May; we’re rapidly approaching the second-half of 2009 and I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve only managed to read two books so far.