February 2012
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 22
Day 22 – The book that made you fall in love with reading I honestly can’t remember a time that I didn’t love reading. My grandmother taught me to read at two and a half, and in my childhood, I read anything I could get my hands on. But maybe I should talk about the book that propelled me from strictly fiction and mostly kids novels to the definitively adult world, and that is Jeffrey...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 19, 20 & 21
Day 19 – Favourite book turned into a movie I actually saw the movie of Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer before I read the book, and I have to say, the movie was better. It cut out a lot of unneeded waffling, keeping only the best bits of the film, and the art direction was absolutely stunning. Elijah Wood was extraordinary as a shy young man who comes to Eastern Europe to find...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 17 & 18
Day 17 – Favourite quote from your favourite book I’m going to go off my list of ‘favourite book by favourite author’ list here - it makes things a little easier… The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry: “The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.” Persuasion by Jane Austen: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am...
January 2012
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 15 & 16
These were actually the hardest two days so far, simply because I’d never thought of either of these as subjects for recommendation… Day 15 – Book that should be on high school/college required reading list This is actually a tricky one, because I can’t remember off the top of my head what I read back in high school that was actually high school appropriate. I guess I’d...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 14
Day 14 – Favourite book of your favourite writer Well, since I gave a shortlist of my favourite writers yesterday, I’ll now give my favourite book from each of them!
Jedediah Berry - The Manual of Detection (his only book so far - go out and read it NOW!)
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Gail Carriger - Soulless
Douglas Adams - So Long & Thanks for All the Fish
Christopher Paolini- Eragon
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 13
Day 13 – Your favourite writer This is a tricky one. I read so widely that I rarely read more than one thing by any given author, unless whatever I read was outstanding. So here’s my shortlist (in no particular order):
Jedediah Berry
Jane Austen
Gail Carriger
Douglas Adams
Christopher Paolini
Jeffrey Eugenides
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 11 & 12
Day 11 – A book you hated For school, in Year 11, we had to read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Maybe it was the fact that it was a new school, or that my teacher looked like a goat (no, really, ask Alex!) and was an absolute pedant about imagery and symbolism, or even that I believe in equality in all things and this was really, like Catcher in the Rye (another book I loathe),...
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“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the...”
– Gail Carriger
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 8, 9 & 10
Playing catch up now, work and life have gotten in the way! Day 08 – Most overrated book Palo Alto by James Franco takes the prize for the recently read. I was really excited about reading a collection of intertwining short stories by him, thinking it would be in a similar style to Salinger’s stories of the Glass family, but I just ended up being disappointed. It’s like Franco wanted...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 7
Day 07 – Most underrated book Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger has to get my vote on this one. Most people have only read his Catcher in the Rye (Unpopular opinion: I hated it), but this is an infintely more complex volume, comprised of nine short stories. Some of the stories continue with the story of the Glass family, introduced in Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters and concluded in Franny &...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 6
Day 06 – A book that makes you sad PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren This book contains so many different secrets - uplifting, horrifying, hilarious and tragic. One of these secrets hits far too close to home for me (I lost both my parents just after my 18th birthday). It’s a picture of a beach, with the caption, “I still can’t believe...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 4 & 5
I was busy all of yesterday, then got to work and it was a mad rush, so here’s days 4 and 5 together!
Day 4 - A guilty pleasure book Belle de Jour - Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl by Belle de Jour and Candy Girl - A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody. Both of these books are relatively similar in content so it’s hard to split them. I find the whole sex industry...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 3
Day 03 – Your favourite series I’ve already mentioned most of them, but here goes:
The Parasol Protectorate (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless) by Gail Carriger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The Inheritance trilogy by Christopher Paolini (not read the last one yet)
Jeeves by P.G....
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So, guess who's getting up at 5:30am on the day...
Red is working on a construction site at the moment and he’s being picked up at 6:10, which means he’s set his alarm (Mad Men theme, super-loud) for 5:30. I don’t have work until 3pm and I can’t get back to sleep after being woken up by an alarm. Le sigh. Tomorrow will be a long day, and by the time I get home, he will already be in bed.
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 2
Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times
I have read Persuasion by Jane Austen every year since I was 16
I try to read War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy at least every two years
I keep re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams because they remind me of my dad (he read them to me the first time)
Kitchen...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 1
Day 1 - Best book you read last year. As always, I can’t play favourites with books. However, there were a few stand-out examples of writing last year.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre Made famous with the younger generation by the motion picture that screened everywhere else in the world last year (and opens this week in Australia), this is a novel to be reckoned with. Set during...
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30 Day Book Challenge
Inspired by @abritishperson (my NaNoWriMo buddy), I’ve decided to do the 30 day book challenge! Day 01 – Best book you read last year Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times Day 03 – Your favourite series Day 04 – A guilty pleasure book Day 05 – A book that makes you happy Day 06 – A book that makes you sad Day 07 – Most underrated book Day 08 – Most overrated book Day 09 – A book...
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Already-Read Reading List
Things I would like to re-read if I ever get the time/own them/unpack my boxes of books (in no particular order):
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events 1-13 by Lemony Snicket
The Parasol Protectorate 1-4 by Gail Carriger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1-5 by Douglas Adams
Emily 1-3 by L.M. Montgomery
The...
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I go out, planning to find some more pieces to revamp my wardrobe (one of my resolutions) and what happens? I buy two basic t-shirts (black and white), then head to the bookstore and proceed to spend $100 at lightening speed (they were all on the shelves right beside the door) on The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.
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“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
– J. K. Rowling (via haaaaaveyoumetjehs)
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Petal: Is she coming in today?
Supervisor: I don't really care, I have better things to do.
Petal: (to me) Does he have a thing for her?
Me: No...?
Supervisor: No, she's too little and too into church for me. I mean, who can compete with Jesus' abs?
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