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Book Talk » An Open Invitation to Join the Thirteenth Set It Yourself Reading Challenge (SIY#13) July to September 2010 » ¶ Progress report #1
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Finished two TBRs so far: * Blue Like Jazz - Don Miller Kind of like The Catcher in the Rye meets Pilgrim's Progress, if that isn't a combination contradictory enough to tear a whole in the space-time continuum. *…
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 18. White Noise - Don De Lillo
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
I enjoyed this book much more than I expected I would. It's now available through the 1001 library and I can highly recommend it. More details here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6019521
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #11 - finished!
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
Just in the nick of time: White Noise by Don De Lillo, my last 1001 book, at 11:30pm on the night of 30th June :) Thanks to Ibis3 for the update :)
Book Talk » An Open Invitation to Join the Thirteenth Set It Yourself Reading Challenge (SIY#13) July to September 2010 » ¶ Returning again, and here are my SIY 13 goals
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
1) Reduce Mount TBR by 8 books. 2) Read 2 books on Drama. 3) Read 5 books on the 1001 list. Thank you very much to Nu-Knees for the flawless organisation, and to Ibis3 for the hours of time & effort :)
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #10 - nearly done!
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Finished the claustrophobic "We" by Eugene Zamyatin, and heading down the home stretch with "White Noise" by Don De Lillo. Thanks once again, Ibis3!
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #9 - Andrea Levy's "Small Island"
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Details here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7345386 Nearly there for the challenge... two more 1001 books in 13 days. Fingers crossed! Thanks once again to Ibis3 :)
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 15. The Sea - John Banville
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Elegiac & poetic, I'm not sure why I didn't enjoy this as much as I expected to. I just found it a little bit self-indulgent on the narrator's part, and I couldn't quite involve myself into the story as much as I would h…
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #8 - John Banville's The Sea
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
The holidays must have started in earnest, judging by my current reading rate. Elegiac and poetic, I'm not really sure why I didn't enjoy this book as much as I was expecting to. Next up: Small Island - Andrea Levy…
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 14. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Wow. This is about as cheerful as reading Thomas Hardy. Reading all these stories of survival makes me more thankful about my life :)
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #7 - Paul Auster's Timbuktu
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
With the summer break finally hitting (albeit winter for me, spending it in Oz), I really have time to crank up the reading. Devoured Timbuktu in all but one sitting today. The review is here http://www.bookcrossing.…
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 13. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Well, after having read the book, I'm still surprised it got onto the 1001 list. The doggy perspective was interesting, but it seemed to me there were some really convenient factors in the plot that made the narrative po…
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #6: Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth"
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Oh wow. This is about as mirthful as a Thomas Hardy. Reportedly Ms Wharton's first literary success, it doesn't have the subtle inflections of "The Age of Innocence" - one of my favourite reads - but though it might feel…
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #5: High School Confidential by Jeremy Iversen
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Here's my non-fiction read (albeit a controversial one under this category): * High School Confidential by Jeremy Iversen And for some reason, my fourth 1001 book got skipped, so for the record, I also read * Fa…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » 1001-library books to Oz » RE: 1001-library books to Oz
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago
Simson-Shilitoe - of course! Are you a member of the 1001-library, though? I can't see your name on the list. If I've missed something, let me know. If not, and you'd like to join the library, you can find details on…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » 1001-library books to Oz
Miss-Owl 13 yrs ago | 3 replies
I'll be in Australia for two months. Would any Aussie 1001-library members like to read any of the following? If so, I'll bring them back with me and send them from Sydney. If anyone else would like to read them, I'm …
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 12. Fateless - Imre Kertesz
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago
It doesn't seem to matter how many books on the Holocaust I read- I still find them riveting and un-put-down-able. Fateless is one of these- a step-by-step reconstruction, from first principles, of the rationality and ir…
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #4 - Fateless by Imre Kertesz
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago
It doesn't seem to matter how many books on the Holocaust I read - I still find them riveting and un-put-down-able. Fateless is one of these - a step-by-step reconstruction, from first principles, of the rationality and …
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #3 - Schooling by Heather McGowan
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago
I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed this read, mainly due to its 1920s-reminiscent James Joycean-Virginia-Woolf stream-of- consciousness style. (Which, incidentally, if you take as evidence the sentence I just wrote, appear…
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 11. Schooling - Heather McGowan
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago
I haven't read a book like this for ages, & imho thoroughly deserves to be on the 1001-list. It draws upon an interesting stream-of-consciousness style that reminds me of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & the twenties, along…
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 10. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
Just had thirty pages to finish from this book I started a shockingly long time ago. This book deserved a bit more than the scant time & attention I was able to give to it each night before I fell asleep during a rath…
Book Talk » SIY #12, The Set It Yourself Reading Challenge continues, April to June 2010 » ¶ Progress report #2 - Erewhon
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
... by Samuel Butler. This book deserves a bit more than the scant time & attention I was able to give to it. A multi-pronged satire on morality, technology, Darwinian science, religion, education and polite society t…
Book Talk » Read 10 1001 Books to read before you die books this year (2010 thread) » Miss-Owl's 9. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Miss-Owl 14 yrs ago
An absolutely delightful read. I thought some plot devices a bit clunky but this is a very minor criticism of a book that celebrates, art, beauty and life. It has a lot to say about the plastic society we live in today.

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