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Thread #134878 Message #3115275
Posted By: Bat Goddess
16-Mar-11 - 07:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lets count the books we read in 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Lets count the books we read in 2011
I've been keeping a book list since November 1, 1972, so my reading year is from Nov. 1 to Oct. 31.
My big push this year is to read books that have been hanging around unread for far too long. Right now I'm reading "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel (other books keep piling on top of the stack...for about 30 years!) and "Only Yesterday" by Frederick Lewis Allen written in 1931 about the just over 1920s (and finding the description of the super patriots just after the First World War to be very similar to political trends today).
A month or so ago I read "Alive!" about the Andes crash survivors.
I also did something I've almost never done -- gave up on a book after about 60 pages. Iris Murdoch's "The Book and the Brotherhood". I just could not get into it.