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89. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley.

I can’t believe I didn’t reach the goal! I thought it would be super easy, actually, and I’d reach it by July or something. In my defense, I was travelling a lot this year, and I moved to a place with not that many books in languages I can read… akh, who am I kidding? Too much internet! Not enough books! Urgh! Oh well, I’ve already finished 3 books this year, anyhow. I’m ahead of the goal so far! Maybe I should increase it to 150 books in 2007?? Just kidding!

84. & 85. Brev från utlandet and Brev från samhället by Eric Ericsson. This guy wrote a bunch of letters, and people answered him. Pretty funny.
86. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
87. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami.
88. MASH by Richard Hooker.

81. While I Was Gone by Sue Miller. I thought this book was fairly riveting, which is a rare time when I agree with a comment that’s printed on the front of the book. It’s about a middle-aged woman coming to terms with her marriage and a tradgedy that happened when she was younger. I though it dealt pretty well with older women’s sexuality (okay, she was only like 50 or something, she wasn’t elderly, but still!), something that doesn’t get talked about very much. & with fidelity in marriage.
82. The Outsider by Albert Camus. I didn’t think it “marked my life indelibly” which the front cover claimed it would do. It was pretty … eh. It’s about a guy who kills somebody, and then is sentenced to death, basically because he doesn’t go along with society’s ideas about how a person should be- sad when their mother dies, regretful when they kill somebody, and having faith in God. I think the idea is interesting, but… I just never really identified with the character, so I couldn’t care what happened to him.
83. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. This was kinda funny… I don’t know. I don’t think I got the deeper meaning, so I didn’t really get the point.
17 to go, and 20 days to do it in…