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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Really good book, different style from what I’m used to, but the chapters were pretty short, and I just had to keep reading!
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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37 & 38
2 weeks ago
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Both enjoyable.
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%)
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1 month ago
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. A winner, I look forward to watching the film.
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2 months ago
Today I finished One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Very good it was, too.
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31 & 32
2 months ago
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess & The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Both good.
