Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
37 & 38
1 day ago
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Both enjoyable.
How to read at least 30 books in 2009
It made me
happy 
"I'm still reading for this year, but I've completed the 30 I set out to read"
How I did it: Read ebooks, borrowed library books, and finished a few books I had kicking around at home. I wanted to read a lot more than I did last year (which wasn't too bad a number of books, really), and I have a lot of lists of books to read, so the choice was always great. And I love my local library, it is a very up-to-date and enjoyable system, not like back in the UK.
Lessons & tips: Read lots, read varied genres, read in unusual places. Just, read.
Resources: Books and the computer were my main resources for this goal.
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Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
36
2 weeks ago
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
26, 27, 28
1 month ago
26. Jiří Žáček – Rhymes for a Cat (Short poems by a Czech author. Very good ones, very funny and nice to read. 100%)
27. Jiří Žáček – Trifles (Again short poems by a Czech poet. Again very kind, ironic, funny and true… Maybe I shouldn’t count such a short books, but I just want to mention them and I’m sure I will make more than 30 this year, so I think it’s OK. 100%)
28. Jean Giono – A man who plant the trees (Beautiful and wonderful book… For the first time I heard it as a told story in my secondary school when our teacher bring it for us. Then I bought the book and read it. Some years later again. And now I got it for my birthday from my friend. And I couldn’t resist and read it again. I love that story! 100% for sure!)
21, 22, 23, 24, 25
1 month ago
21. Stephen King – Carrie (I don’t like this author very much, but I read this book because we decided so with other people in a book club. I didn’t enjoy the book very much and I was happy when the reading was done. Anyway, there are definitely even worse books. 60%)
22. Robert van Gulik – Necklace and Calabash (I have never heard about this author and book, but I take a part in a book swap where detective stories were swapped. So I bought this book for my swap partner because it looked interesting and I was so curious that I read the book before sending. It was quite good. 80%)
23. F. M. Dostojevsky – Tender (I’m not sure if the translation is good. It was a novella by this classic author and it was very good, I would say. 80%)
24. F. M. Dostojevsky – Landlady (Again a novella and again not sure with the translation, I’m sorry. And this one was even better than the previous one. 90%)
25. F. M. Dostojevsky – Young Hero (Again not sure… The shortest story from the four I have now, and so far the weakest one. But maybe I just wasn’t concentrated too much. 80%)
18, 19, 20
1 month ago
18. Ian McEwan – Atonement (I read this book before I watched the movie and it was excelent. I enjoyed it all the time – and I read it quite long time because I travelled a lot that time and had not so much time for reading. After taht I watched the movie which was great as well. 95%)
19. Frederick Forsyth – The Dogs of War (Anther book by my favourite author and excellent as every other. The great story and what’s more I learned a bit about Africa, colonies etc. 90%)
20. Ira Levin – A Kiss Before Dying (Very good book, which I read during one day. Yes, it was really so suspenseful! :-) 90%)
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
35
1 month ago
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. A winner, I look forward to watching the film.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
34
1 month ago
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I enjoyed it very much.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
33
1 month ago
Today I finished One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Very good it was, too.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
31 & 32
1 month ago
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess & The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Both good.
Rachael wants to get more goals ticked off, sooner!
30
2 months ago
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. A good book, bit too steeped in religion for me, but still entertaining (although some of the things in the book made me squirm).
This is my 30th book for the year, but I am interested to see how many books I can read in a year. After all, I still have almost 4 months left, and I’m already away with my next one :)
