Here are the books I’ve read so far

1. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
3. Jane Austen Book Club
4. Towelhead

Right now I’m reading White Oleander. I also have Saturday and Passage to India in my stack to read. 6 years ago

It’s 2006 now! 6 years ago

Made it to 31 for 2005. Hopefully I’ll finish even more this year. Right now, I’m only up to 9. 7 years ago

well, 2005 is very over. i didn’t make it… only ready about 1/2 of these. doh. 7 years ago

24. Britishness and cultural studies
25. Eristics

well done =) 7 years ago

Didnt happen…other stuff did though. 7 years ago

2005 is over and I didn’t read 25 books…

18. JK Rowling – “Harry Potter and the half blood prince”
19. Aldous Huxley – “Un mundo feliz”

6 left, that’s too bad… 7 years ago

Today I read the second Lemony Snicket book, “The Reptile Room” I love reading but this goal was harder to accomplish than I thought it would be. Hopefully I’ll have more time to read in ‘06! 7 years ago

Fences and Windows by

Naomi Klein 7 years ago

22. Escape Velocity Mark Dery
23. McLuhan’s texts 7 years ago

1) Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
2) On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3) Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
4) Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
5) Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
6) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
7) Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
8 – 11) Books 4 through 7 of a Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
12) Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
13) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
14) Blankets by Craig Thompson
15) Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
16) Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card
17) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
18) No War – Naomi Klein and others
19) Asthmatica – Jon Paul Fiorentino
20) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
21) Macbeth – Shakespeare
22) A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
23) Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
24) Everything Bad is Good for You – Steven Johnson
25) Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk

Originally, I planned to read 50 books in 2005, but as I only set the goal halfway through the year, I don’t think 25 is that bad.

I’m going for 50 in 2006. 7 years ago

20. The Horse and His Boy
21. Prince Caspian
22. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
23. The Silver Chair
24. The Last Battle

All these books are from the Chronicles of Narnia. I’d only read “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” before (when I was a kid). I’m not sure which book was my favorite, maybe “Lion, Witch, Wardrobe” or “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” My least favorite was the Last Battle. 7 years ago

Chloe by Freya North.

I give it three stars. 7 years ago

I read the first two books, “The Magician’s Nephew” and “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” this week. I wanted to get at least that far before I go see the movie tomorrow!! 7 years ago

21. Pearly Gates of Cyberspace – an interesting research about the history of space in the context of cyberspace 7 years ago

Lets see, what have I actually read this year…
At All Costs – David Weber
The Stars at War (Crusade and In Death Ground) – David Weber, Steve White
The Stars at War II (The Shiva Option and Insurrection) – David Weber, Steve White
Queen of Angels – Greg Bear
Blood Music – Greg Bear
Tangents – Greg Bear
Queen of Angels – Greg Bear
Darwin’s Radio – Greg Bear
Vitals – Greg Bear
Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates – Steven Erikson
Memories of Ice – Steven Erikson
House of Chains – Steven Erikson
Midnight Tides – Steven Erikson
The Confusion – Neal Stephenson
The System of the World – Neal Stephenson
Schild’s Ladder – Greg Egan
Jennifer Goverment – Max Barry
The Positronic Man – Issac Asimov
Earth is Room Enough – Isaac Asimov
Coalescent – Steven Baxter
Shiva 3000 – Jan Lars Jensen
Ring World – Larry Niven

Barring those that I’ve forgotten (though I may have read some of these in 2004, I can’t recall exact dates), the above should be the novels that I read during 2005. I can’t for the life of me recall what I read in terms of non-fiction, so I won’t even bother trying to list them… 7 years ago

Fast Food Nation, and Reefer Madness both by Eric Schlosser. 7 years ago

I didn’t think that I would manage my goal of 25 books this year, especially as I only started to read books once I had settled into some sort of routine in Loughborough, but about two minutes ago I finished book number 25. 7 years ago

Broke Through Britain:- One man’s Penniless Odyssey by Peter Mortimer.

I’d been looking forward to reading this book for a while after seeing it mentioned on a frugal living mailing list, so when I noticed it on a fellow bookcrossers “To be read” pile, I just had to ask if I could read it.

I like reading about different places, so to read a travel book with a twist was great. I loved reading about how people reacted to Mortimer turning up on their doorsteps with no money and asking for water, food, or shelter for the night. To read about pubs and villages where I have visted was a great bonus. 7 years ago

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Wow! 3 days to read a book. I guess that’s a big thumbs up. The style of writing was so easy to read, then I just had to keep going at the end of a chapter. 7 years ago

Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki

After reading Memoirs of a Geisha and realising that it wasn’t a biography, I was pleased to hear that the real story of events of the geisha in the book was available.

This book wasn’t as much of a story as the “MoaG”, but was much more factual and gave anecdotes of Mineko’s life which was refreshing to hear. I always find it interesting to hear a different view on life. Good book again! 7 years ago

I’ve read 30 books so far, and still reading. 7 years ago

16. “La Meta” – Eliyahu Goldratt (I read it for university, but still counts)
17. “Siddharta” – Herman Hesse 7 years ago

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.

“A story which mixes tenderness, terror, suspense and dark comedy. It is told by Olympia Binewski, a bald albino hunchback dwarf and members of the American carnival family. Al and Lil, proprietors of Binewski’s Fabulon, hit upon the idea of breeding their own freak show.”

What a strange book. very odd, but a good read.

It usually takes me a week to read a book of this size, but this one took me 3 weeks. Definitely worth it as long as you aren’t easily offended. 7 years ago

by John Grisham

This book was ok, typical John Grisham stuff. I hadn’t read anything by him in a long time (several years). It was a pretty fast read.

I originally had the “Read 50 books in 2005” goal but seeing as there are only 2 months left of ‘05, that wasn’t going to happen. I didn’t realize that it was possible to change goals without having to delete entries. Yay! 7 years ago

while reading this book I started wondering whether I wasn’t visited by any vampire because sometimes I get strange, paintful feeling of lack of breath and something pushing on me while I’m sleeping.. 7 years ago

Baggage by Emily Barr

What a great book! I found it unputdownable from the start. Great characters and an ever-moving plot. 7 years ago

The State of Poetry by Roger McGough

A nice small poetry book. I think I might look out for some other poetry books my Roger McGough in the future as this one was a good taster. 7 years ago

by Bill Bryson

This is the second book by Bill Bryson that I have read (the first was “In a Sunburned Country”), and have enjoyed both of them. Shortly after moving to New Hampshire from England, the author discovered that he lived very close to a section of the Appalacian trail. So he decides to go ahead and hike the entire 2,000 mile trail the following year. “A Walk in the Woods” is about his hike. Bryson’s writing style is fun to read and the story has many hilarious moments. 7 years ago

inspiring, awakening book, as every book of de Mello.

the truth is to be found in solitude, silence and consciousness.
look for the right perspective – look at the stars and the universe, and then you can go to sleep with peace. 7 years ago