Towards 100 Books : 75 !

Two months before the year ends, and my book count stands at 75 with these additions.

1) Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl
2) Memoirs Are Made of These Swan Adamson
3) Malaysian Politicians Say the Darnest Things comp. by Amir Muhammad
4) My Name Is Red Orhan Pamuk

The goal of 100 books this year suddenly seems not achievable. I blame Togo!

Towards 100 Books : 71 !

I've upped my book count with another four tomes, thanks to reading with dog. Yippie.

1) King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard
2) The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler
3) A Nyonya in Texas Lee Su Kim
4) Lost For Words Lorelei Mathias

p/s - oho. Special Topics in Calamity Physics is still in progress.

Towards 100 Books : 67 !

I am STILL wonderfully lost in Marisha Pesshl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics, so much so this August read book list is a miserable three books. That's less than half my monthly average!

1) The Mystery Of The Screaming Clock Robert Arthur
2) The Sky is Crazy Yvonne Lee
3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie

And yes, go get Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it's a very good read.

Towards 100 Books : 64 !

July has ended and my 100-book count creeps to 64 with these two recent reads:

1) Marley & Me John Grogan
2) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K.Rowling

I so want to re-read all seven Harry Potters in one sitting. Hurry up and come out, you nice box set, you.

Towards 100 Books : 62 !

I've upped my previous book count to 62 with these recent reads.

1) A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
2) Forest of the Pygmies Isabel Allende
3) Testing Kate Whitney Gaskell
4) In the Country of Men Hisham Matar
5) Confessions of an Air Hostess Marisa Mackle

That's two good reads, one young adult read, and two light LBD reads. Can you guess which is which from the titles?

Towards 100 Books : 57 !

I've upped my previous book count to 57 with these recent reads.

1) Decent Exposure Phillipa Ashley
2) The File on H Ismail Kadare
3) High Fidelity Nick Hornby
4) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
5) The Outsider Albert Camus

Five books in half-a-month? Of course I cheated.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Outsider are very good books, both focusing on a strong alternative-personality character as the central story, and are both a very short 100-ish pages each only.

Decent Exposure is a Little Black Dress floozy read, and a very bad one too! Very roll-your-eyes lame. Don't waste your time reading this.

High Fidelity is a male version chic-lit (what do you call it? dick-lit?). It's a good fun laugh-out-loud read on the inner-monologue of a neurotic song-obsessed relationship-impaired guy. Was that sentence over analysing? The book is too. Highly recommended.

The File on H is a thoughful read. Read some excepts here and here.

Towards 100 Books : 52 !

I've added four books to my previous book count, bringing the number of books read this year to a total of 52. That's the halfway mark crossed, on the journey to 100 books. Hurrah!

1) Disgrace J.M.Coetzee
2) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
3) The Color Purple Alice Walker
4) More Work for the Undertaker Margery Allingham