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10.09.05 (4:35 am)   [edit]

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The blog at tblog.com will be not updated anymore.
 
My summer reads so far
08.29.05 (10:34 am)   [edit]

This is a list of the books I read through my summer holidays.


1."Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Grandin (very good)
2.While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (good)


3."The Virgin`s Lover" by Philippa Gregory (very good)


4."The Namesake' by Jhumpa Lahiri (very good)


5."The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (excellent)


6.The Piano Teacher by Jelfriede Jelinek (didn`t like it)


7.A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham (good)


8.The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (very good)


9."The Book of Proper Names" by Amelie Nothomb (good)


10.The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (good)


11."Any Human Heart" by William Boyd


12."Not On The Label" by Felicity Lawrence


13."The Third Secret" by Steve Barry


14."The Star of The Sea" by Joseph O`Connor


14 books for two months.Not so bad....


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Books for holidays
07.17.05 (9:38 am)   [edit]

I`m taking the following books with me to read during the holidays:


The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini (excellent)
Harry Potter#6
The Virgin`s Lover by Philippa Gregory (very good)
Lucia Lucia by Adriana Trigiani (not my cup of tea,didn`t read it)
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (good)
The Pianist by Jelfride Jelinek (didn`t like it)
A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham (good)
Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
 
A book of mine was caught!
07.02.05 (11:20 am)   [edit]
I have been a bookcrosser for two years but today I got my first catch! A book which I released during a trip to Austria,was journalled! This has never happened to me before,the feeling is wonderful!
Here is the journal entry:
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/900013" title="http://bookcrossing.com/journal/900013" target="_blank"http://bookcrossing.com/journ...
 
List of Books read in 2005
06.20.05 (4:05 am)   [edit]

As the journal entry with this list went too far in the archives, I decided to copy it here for easier update.


"Blue Suburbia" by Laurie Lico Albanese(good)


"Ladies` Detective Agency NO.1" by Alexander M.Smith(good light reading) "My Brother, for example" by Uwe Timm(very good)


 "A Gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnelly (good).


"The Curious Incident with A Dog at Night-Time" by Mark Haddon (very good!)


"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend (good)  "Simon Rattle-The Making of A Conductor"(non-fiction,ve ry interesting for musicians) 


"The Time Traveller`s Wife"by Audrey Niffenegger (excellent!) 


 "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker (very good) "84 Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff (good)


"Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson (good)


 "Notes On A Scandal" by Zoe Heller (very good)


"Fruit of the Lemon" by Andrea Levi (not bad)  


"Dance Dance Dance" by Haruki Murakami (excellent!) 


 "The Light of The Day" by Graham Swift (average)


 "Zelda`s Cut" by Philippa Gregory (excellent)  "Perfectly Correct" by Philippa Gregory (very good) 


 "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon Mcgregor (very good) "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman (very good!)  


"All the Finest Girls" by Alexandra Sexton (average)


"Fallen Angels" by Tracey Chevalier (very good)


"Mission London" by Alek Popov


"The Storyteller`s Daughter" by Saira Shah 


 "Around the World in 80 days" by Michael Palin


"English Correspondence" by Janet Davey


 "The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler 


 "The "Good-luck" Shop" by Goran Petrovich


"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami(wonderful)


 Bill Bryson`s African Diary


"Lighthousekeeping" by Jeanette Winterson (good)


"Not a Word from Gurb" by Eduardos Mendessa (good)


  I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (good)  


"The Pilot`s Wife" by Anita Shreve (good) 


 "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski


 "The Heirs"(Kikundji) by Yukio Mishima  


"Italian Education" by Tim Parks 


 "Happenstance" by Carol Shields 


 "The Pianist`s Daughter" by Timothy Findli


"The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields 


 "Spilling Clarence" by Anne Ursu (good)


"Losing Julia" by Johnattan Hull (good) 


 "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris (very good)


 "Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Grandin (very good)


While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (good)


"The Virgin`s Lover" by Philippa Gregory (very good)


"The Namesake' by Jhumpa Lahiri (very good)


"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (excellent)


The Piano Teacher by Jelfriede Jelinek (didn`t like it)


A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham (good)


The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (very good)


"The Book of Proper Names" by Amelie Nothomb (good)


The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (good)


"Any Human Heart" by William Boyd


"Not On The Label" by Felicity Lawrence


"The Third Secret" by Steve Barry


"The Star of The Sea" by Joseph O` Connor (good)


"Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir" by Abbas Milani


"Cry The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton (very good)


"Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs (average)


"Where or When" by Anita Shreve


"Sezon za lov na divi kuchki" ot Rodger Dojh


"The Distinguished Guest" by Sue Miller


62 books read in 2005 so far (updated 09/17)
 
Getting into reading "shape"
04.28.05 (2:44 pm)   [edit]
After a "lazy" reading period, I devoured "The Amateur Marriage" in two days and "Sputnik Sweetheart" by Murakami in one day. I`m quite pleased with myself:-)).

"Sputnik Sweetheart" was a wonderful book. I fell in love with it,as with the other Murakami`s novels.
 
Well, I`m not in a reading mood...obviously...
04.18.05 (11:32 am)   [edit]
I have noticed this before that I go through periods of intense reading which alternate with periods of relative lack of wish/or will to read.Seems I cannot do anything
about it...So because of going through similar period,I have read only one book these weeks. Hmmm....not good for my reading records but...

Still,I managed to finish "The Storyteller`s Daughter" by Saira Shah and am reading with great interest "Families and how to survive them" by Robin Skynner/John Cleese,an excellent book on family psychology.

I also borrowed today from the library "The Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton.
From my TBR pile the most urgent one is"The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler which I have promised to another bookcrosser.
 
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
04.06.05 (2:42 pm)   [edit]
I just finished "Falling Angels" by Chevalier and it was quite a good read.I have read so far "Girl with a pearl earing" and "The Lady and the Unicorn" and my opinion of the quialities of Chevalier`s writing was confirmed with this novel,too.The story is quite different from the mentioned ones; it is not about art,and the story is moved later in time- at the opening of 20th century. Two families,two girlfriends,two maids,a grave-digger and his son,the governor of the cemetery,and a women`s suffragette- the story moves through the lips of each character, creating a kind of multi-dimensional perspective.

Kitty Coleman is unhappy. Her marriage has becoming dull and boring,and she could never relate properly to her daughter,Maude. At first,she finds an amusement in developing an illicit relationship with Mr Jackson,the cemetery`s governor but she has to abort the child conceived in this relationship and then drops again into despair and depression. She finds a new meaning of her life when she meets Caroline Black,the women`s sufraggette who fights for women rights. From then on her life has a new center and again her daughter and her husband are left aside.Maude carries on her own,spending most of the time with her friend,Lavinia- a spoiled and cunning girl who adores gossip and show-off.

The situation in Coleman`s house is obviously running out of control and something must happen. The culmination comes with the suffragettes` parade.Maude and Lavinia go to see the parade with Maude`s mother but instead of accompanying them and Lavinia`s little sister,Ivy May,Kitty Coleman abandons them on their own and leads the parade on a horse.She gets kicked by Caroline`s horse in the chest,Maude and Lavinia lose Ivy May and everything gets worse and worse.

Quite well written,a very interesting way to convey the story from different points of view (this is a favorite method for Chevalier,and she uses it quite well),and to give each character an unique voice.It was interesting to follow the girls` friendship,the rivalry between the two families,the weakness of Richard Coleman in regard to his wife,the conflict between Kitty and her mother in law. A good portrait of a time of changing morals and values and how it can ruin two families.
 
Perfectly Correct by Phillipa Gregory
03.08.05 (5:59 am)   [edit]
Dr.Louise Case leads a perfectly correct life by her standarts. She has a new cottage,a long-term commitment-free relationship with a colleague,and a feminist friend.One day a van with a strange woman enters her orchard. Rose Miles is an eighty years old lady,an intruder and an unexpected witness of Louise`s life. Although she may seem nasty and arrogant at first sight,she plays the good fairy for Louise,gently pushing and mixing in her own way events and comic misunderstandings,to help Louise change her life and come out from the circle of the past nine years.

Reading this book was a delight. Quite different from other Gregory`s books,"an English farce",as critics put it,it was funny and can`t-put-it-down. I enjoyed the tense and uneasy love triangle between Toby,Miriam and Louise,especially the way it dissolved at the final.:-))I could imagine many of the scenes like in a movie; it could be perfect for a movie,actually. Just figure out Toby,stepped on a chair,dressed in an absurd stolen gown,ready to do anything Rose wants ,only to extract one more piece of information from her! That was a laugh,really! LOL!

As always,Gregory`s wonderful gift for brilliant psychological insight,along with sense of humor and understanding of human relationships,make this novel a delightful read.
 
Zelda` s Cut finished
03.07.05 (1:46 pm)   [edit]
Now reading "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali and "Perfectly Correct" by Philippa Gregory. Reading "Brick Lane" goes slow but steady:-)); "Perfectly Correct" is funny, a genre not too familar to me- critics name it "English farce",and it sounds like one...it is good and quite different from other Gregory`s books.

Books to read in next days:

"Emotionally Weird" by Kate Atkinson
"The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler
"All The Finest Girls" by Alexandra Sexton
 
Zelda`s Cut by Philippa Gregory
03.04.05 (1:16 pm)   [edit]
I started reading it today.
I shall try to read also "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali.
 
Got two books
02.28.05 (5:27 am)   [edit]
Received two books in the mail:
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
"The Pleasing Hour" by Lili King

"The Amateur Marriage" is the last (so far) novel by Tyler,and I like Tyler very much.I was waiting to lay my hands on her last novel for some time.

I`m reading now "The Light of The Day" by Graham Swift. It is good.
 
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
02.28.05 (2:39 am)   [edit]
I am hardly able to comment this book.I can only say it was awfully good. I shall not give any more hints about the story; enough there are from the synopsis in the previous entry.Murakami just drags you into his world.I felt like virtually participating in the mystery of the story,smelling the rooms,touching various objects.The boundary line between reality and fantasy is blurred here.The inward world comes out and the outer world becomes a looking glass for the unconscience.Wonderfully written mystery, full of love,fear,hope and despair.Murakami`s books work like a drug for me:-)):after I read one,I want to read more,to be involved once again in this magic,strange world.His power as a storyteller is impressing.Reading his novels is like getting on some extreme Disneyland entertainment- you never know what it is going to be like until you are in motion.
 
I received four books today!
02.23.05 (6:30 am)   [edit]
Today is a kind of a book day for me; I got four books from the mail:

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (This book was sent to me by a Russian bookcrosser; it is in Russian)
Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin
The Pilot`s Wife by Anita Shreve
and
Somebodies and Nobodies by Robert W.Fuller (non-fiction about the ranks in today`s society)
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I`m reading now "Dance Dance Dance" by Murakami. It is quite intriguing.
 
"Notes On A Scandal" finished
02.22.05 (5:26 am)   [edit]
First of all,let me say I liked and enjoyed this book a lot.I`m not surprised at all that it was shortlisted for Booker Prize.The story and the characters are drawn with true mastery.The characters and events are developed with psychological depth which make the novel much more than an ordinary read.

I saw the following line in Amazon`s reviews,and cannot agree more with it:
"A lonely schoolteacher reveals more than she intends when she records the story of her best friend’s affair with a pupil in this sly, insightful novel".

The story sounds simple.Barbara Covett- a teacher and a spinster,tells us the story of her friend Sheba and her love affair with a pupil at the college. Safely protected in her dried decent life,in her impeccable reputation,Barbara offers us,as she thinks,a truthful,unbiassed account.
At first,Barbara seems like being in the back,on the second line; she is only a voice,a narrator,a documentalist who is taking notes to preserve the events and help the process.She pretends to be a loving and comforting friend-the only one left. But as the story develops,Barbara moves more and more to the centre and we see that she is far more complex and controversial person.Unhappy spinster, Barbara lives with the feeling of personal failure and unsatisfaction.Little solace she finds in being a senior and respected teacher at St. George`s College. Given up the hopes for men to come into her life,she tends to form intense and demanding friendships with women in which she likes to dominate.

To make a friendship with Sheba becomes not an easy task.Barbara feels that Sheba is elusive; she guards herself from dependency and doesn`t allow Barbara to rule.I think the Sheba`s cautious attitude makes Barbara even more ambitious to "conquer" her. I would say that Barbara`s friendship with women bear a certain homosexual character;not in action but in motivation. She wants to conquer women because no man has ever wanted to conquer her;she wants a friend to be totally dependant on her and she gets bitterly jealous about the friendship of Sheba and Sue,for example. Barbara is also jealous about the love affair between Sheba and the 15-years old Steven.All this reveals her as a bitter,dark person who is ready to thread on people`s lives in order to get some guilty,miserable satisfaction in seeing them fall,in seeing their lives falling apart.When the scandal finally bursts out,Barbara sees certain advantages for her. Sheba is rejected by Barbara`s two enemies and rivals: Richard (Sheba`s husband) and Steven. In fact,she is rejected by everyone.Now Barbara rules.Now she is in charge.But it is a bitter and shameful victory.

Few words about Sheba. I symphatised more with her although she was not so pleasant all the time.She ruined her family for the sake of a doubious short-lived pleasure.She acted stupidly many times. She didn`t know how to change her life,how to bring more joy in it and took wrongly the persuasions of Steven as a new beginning.I think Zoe Heller has done and excellent job depicting the various stages in the affair with the teenager.At first,Steven is attracted by her,as it often may happen when a boy is a hormonal mess and unexperienced in love.He wants sex,he thinks it would be super cool to be with such an attractive,experienced,ma ture woman.Then his passion subsides,he finds Sheba too demanding,too possessive.He wants her but at the same time he is repulsed by the very fact of her submission to his needs.Gradually,he senses her weakness; he feels endangered by her. There is a huge difference between the motives for this relationship: for Steven,Sheba is just the beginning of a sexual and love life. For her,however,he is perhaps the last love affair. So it was pretty normal that after some time he turned to other girls and forsake her.

Once more,I enjoyed the book and devoured it in a very short time.A recommended and refined read.
 
Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller
02.21.05 (2:37 pm)   [edit]
Received this today from a fellow-bookcrosser.Started reading immediately.Very interesting,psychological ly insightful.
 
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
02.13.05 (3:12 pm)   [edit]
I borrowed this book from the library.Some time ago I tried to read "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" by the same author but somehow couldn`t get into but this one grabbed immediately my attention.

The book opens with three separate (at first sight) criminal cases:

Case#1: Rosemary is a tired mother of four daughters and another baby is growing inside her womb.She seems to enjoy only the youngest of her children,Olivia. While Rosemary is thinking about her life and how she got trapped in marriage and producing more and more children,Olivia has been kidnapped during the afternoon nap.

Case#2: Theo Wyre enters his office and finds something terrible has happened.Shortly before his arrival a man came looking for him.He seemed to have walked out but suddenly returned with a knife and wounded an employee.Theo`s daughter,Laura,runs after the criminal to catch him. The knife cuts through her neck artery and stops her life forever.

Case#3: Michelle could have studied in a college.She could have had more brilliant future.But now she is a terrified 18-years old mother of a screaming baby.They live in a place with no other living soul.She is constantly running out of time.She wants to do everything perfect and feels like she is doing nothing.She imagines sometimes how she would slit the head of her husband in two halves with the wooden axe,and her sufferings would finish.One afternoon she just does it....Now she has all the time in the world...

Jackson Broddie is a private detective. He deals with other people`s cases.He has to be cool and not get involved personally.But he doesn`t feel like assuming the position of judging people; he wants to help them.He will have to deal with all three cases and discover things which will change his life and mind.

Update 02/22

I finished it a couple of days ago.Interesting story about people with broken lives.
 
Received Books
02.11.05 (5:46 am)   [edit]
This week I received in the mail the following books:

"Simon Rattle- The Making of a Conductor"- non-fiction book about the famous English conductor,now chief conductor of Berlin Philharmonic;highly interesting for me as I`m classical musician and an orchestral player.
Helene Hanff - "84 Charing Cross Road" (finished)
Alice Walker- "The Color Purple" (finished)
Jeffrey Eugenides-"The Virgin Suicides")started reading)
David Sedaris-"Me Talk Pretty One Day" (started reading)

And I took from the library "Case Histories" (finished)and "Emotionally Weird" by Kate Atkinson.
Finished "The Time Traveller`s Wife".Absolutely suberb book,wonderfully written.
 
Two books received today
01.24.05 (12:43 am)   [edit]
I received two books from bookrings/rays today:
The Time Traveller`s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes
The first is quite popular among Bookcrossers and I was curious for some time about it. Now it finally came to my hands.The second is a companion to Mayes` first book about Italy, "Under the Tuscan Sun". It was a delightful reading, especially for me, provoking sweet memories of my numerous visits to this wonderful country.


I`ve almost finished "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman which is indeed an unordinary book. I`m also reading another library book, "Journey to the Stone Country" by Alex Miller. The story is situated in Australia. Annabelle is betrayed by her husband with whom she has had a long-lasting and loving relationship. She decides to leave for a while to visit an old friend and take her time to figure out how is she going to live from now on. It is a typical "returning to the roots" woman`s story.She meets a man there who helps her to reconnect with her past and re-eastablish the magic and primordial relation with her native land. I`m not sure if I`m going to finish this one. Nothing really interesting happens in the novel. But it`s not a bad read, though.
 
Bought a book today
01.19.05 (11:06 am)   [edit]
Today I bought the Bulgarian translation of "The Curious Incident with A Dog at Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. Read few pages. Looks intriguing!

Update 01/22

Read the whole book in one hour.Very good,very human and moving!
 
84, Charing Cross Road
01.15.05 (3:18 pm)   [edit]
Yesterday I saw the old movie "84,Charing Cross Road", with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft. I liked it(suprisingly)very much. I think it is difficult to make a script from a novel based on correspondence but the slow rythm of the movie corresponded with my mood yesterday evening, so I was left with good thoughts about it. I haven`t read the book yet; I liked the presence of books in the movie-you could almost smell them! It is also a story of an unusual relationship between the extravagant American writer and the employee of Marks and Co. bookshop. It was touching and nice. I would like to read the book,too.

And about my readings,I received "True Notebooks" bu Mark Salzman yesterday,and started reading immediately. Very interesing.
 
Books I read so far
01.14.05 (1:59 am)   [edit]
I liked the idea of keeping track of my books, so I`m going to do it also through this year.

This month I read:

"Blue Suburbia" by Laurie Lico Albanese(good)
"Ladies` Detective Agency NO.1" by Alexander M.Smith(good light reading)
"My Brother, for example" by Uwe Timm(very good)
"A Gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnelly (good).
"The Curious Incident with A Dog at Night-Time" by Mark Haddon (very good!)
"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend (good)
"Simon Rattle-The Making of A Conductor"(non-fiction,ve ry interesting for musicians)
"The Time Traveller`s Wife"by Audrey Niffenegger (excellent!)
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker (very good)
"84 Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff (good)
"Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson (good)
"Notes On A Scandal" by Zoe Heller (very good)
"Fruit of the Lemon" by Andrea Levi (not bad)
"Dance Dance Dance" by Haruki Murakami (excellent!)
"The Light of The Day" by Graham Swift (average)
"Zelda`s Cut" by Philippa Gregory (excellent)
"Perfectly Correct" by Philippa Gregory (very good)
"If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon Mcgregor (very good)
"True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman (very good!)
"All the Finest Girls" by Alexandra Sexton (average)
"Fallen Angels" by Tracey Chevalier (very good)
"Mission London" by Alek Popov
"The Storyteller`s Daughter" by Saira Shah
"Around the World in 80 days" by Michael Palin
"English Correspondence" by Janet Davey
"The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler
"The "Good-luck" Shop" by Goran Petrovich
"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami(wonderful)
Bill Bryson`s African Diary
"Lighthousekeeping" by Jeanette Winterson (good)
"Not a Word from Gurb" by Eduardos Mendessa (good)
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (good)
"The Pilot`s Wife" by Anita Shreve (good)
"Post Office" by Charles Bukowski
"The Heirs"(Kikundji) by Yukio Mishima
"Italian Education" by Tim Parks

36 books read in 2005 so far
(updated 05/23)
 
"Ladies` Detective Agency"- first book finished in 2005
01.07.05 (9:07 am)   [edit]

The first book I read and finished this year is "Ladies` Detective Agency No.1" by Alexander Smith. It was a quick and pleasant read; a bit too superficial and simple but there is a charm in it, definitely.


Now I started reading "Am Beispiel meines Bruders" by Uwe Timm ("For example, my brother", I read it in Bulg.translation). This is a story about writer`s brother who served as a soldier in SS brigade during the Second World War and died from his wounds when he was 19. Uwe Timm tries to understand why Carl became a soldier, how did he view the war, the Russians, the killings. This is also a memory about his parents and about himself as the younger one.


I also continue to read "Blue Suburbia" and "A Gathering Light".
 
Books I started the New Year with
01.03.05 (11:45 am)   [edit]
Currently reading:

"Blue Suburbia" by Laurie Lico Albanese (touching and beautiful,written in white verses)
"Dance,Dance,Dance" by Haruki Murakami
"A Gathering Light" by Jeniffer Donnelly (very interesting!)
 
Before the New Year
12.29.04 (12:22 pm)   [edit]
Well, 2005 is getting very close,and I feel an urge to make a brief summary of my readings in 2004.

I think 2004 was a good reading year for me.I haven`t kept records of the number of read books before,so I can`t compare but still 57 books sounds very good to me- this is a bit more than a book every week!

I read a lot through Bookcrossing- I dare say,the most part of my readings were from bookrings or rays, or books sent to me by other bookcrossers. I got introduced to some new writers, as Alice Sebold, Alessandro Baricco,Ursula Hegi, Amy Tan, Bernhard Schlink,Haruki Murakami.

Some of the best books I read in 2004 were:

1. "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk (maybe the best book of 2004 for me)
2. "Invention of Solitude" by Paul Auster
3. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
4. "The Go Between" by L.P.Hartley
5. "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
6. "Silk" by Alessandro Baricco
7. "Italian Neighbours" by Tim Parks
8. "The Girl Who Played Go" by Shan Sa
9. "Knowledge of The Angels" by Jill Paton Welsch
10."Under The Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes
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My reading goals for 2005 include:

---Reading at least 60 books.
---Making more wild releases
---Reading in time the books promised to other bookcrossers
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Priority books I wish to read in 2005 (taken from my wish list):

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hussein
"Time Traveller`s Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger (done)
"Italian Education" by Tim Parks
"The Last Samurai" by Helene DeWitt
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Books from my TBR pile I like very much to read in 2005:

"The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" by Peter Carey
"Brick Lane" by Monica Ali
"Perfectly Correct" and "Zelda`s Cut" by Philippa Gregory
"What Do You Really Want for Your Children" By Wayne Dyer
"Dance,Dance,Dance" by Haruki Murakami
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE WHO READS THIS ENTRY!