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#43 [12 Oct 2008|02:26pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | bored ]
[ music | I'm the Highway ]

It's no longer fun... I'm currently doing research so I have to read boring books.

The Myths of Relity - Simon Danser

Only 7 more to go and I wish they were at least entertaining books.

I've decided to treat myself to 30 minutes before I go to bed to MY READING TIME.

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8 More... [09 Oct 2008|09:07am]

y3llowl3montr33
42. A Common Wealth: Museums and Learning in the United Kingdom - Report by the Natural Heritage
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[09 Oct 2008|03:06pm]

ria_awesome
[ mood | amused ]
[ music | 'The Gentry Cove' - Dirty Pretty Things ]


New:

27. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
28. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
29. Gut Symmetries - Jeannette Winterson

Winerson is AMAZING, by the way. If you've never read any, do. DO.
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82% Complete... [04 Oct 2008|05:57pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | accomplished ]
[ music | Show Me How To Live ]

1-40 )

41. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS -J.K. Rowling

Currently reading:
42. A Common Wealth: Museums and Learning in the United Kingdom - Report by the Natural Heritage
43. Eldest - Christopher P hehhe...

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80% [28 Sep 2008|08:39pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | accomplished ]

40. Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

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previously ~wetfeathers; start date: April 15th (or something like that) [26 Sep 2008|12:38pm]

reva
1. You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile Edited by Alicia Partnoy
2. How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
3. Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender
4-10. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
11. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. (or Alice B. Sheldon)
12. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
13. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
16. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
14. Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart
15. Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood

Currently reading!
16. Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium by Robin Morgan (editor)
17. Tin House: Fantastic Women by various authors
18. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
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[21 Sep 2008|03:56pm]

moonlove
71. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
72. Gladiatrix: The True Story of History’s Unknown Woman Warrior – Amy Zoll
73. Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish – Morgan Llywelyn (re-read)

I'm not sure what to read now though.
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[17 Sep 2008|11:29am]

glowbug
Start Date : 1st Jan 2008

one to fifteen )
16. 'Starter for Ten' by David Nicholls.
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[16 Sep 2008|08:46pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | pissed off ]

39. Candle in the Wind - TH White

Done!

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As excited as a boy on prom night! [11 Sep 2008|07:08pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | chipper ]

38. The Last Guardian - Jeff Grubb

12 more to go and already reading #39 Candle in the Wind TH White.

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[06 Sep 2008|02:22am]

glowbug
Start Date : 1st Jan 2008

one to ten )

11. 'The Nanny Diaries' by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
12. 'Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging' by Louise Rennison.
13. 'It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers' by Louise Rennison.
14. 'Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas' by Louise Rennison.
15. 'Dancing In My Nuddy-Pants' by Louise Rennison.
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[06 Sep 2008|11:13am]

ria_awesome
[ mood | anxious ]
[ music | 'Time for Heroes' - The Libertines ]

1. Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy
2. Vroom by the Sea - Peter Moore
3. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
4. No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
5. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
6. All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
7. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
8. Troilus and Cressida - Willy S.
9. The Myth of Deliverance - Northrop Frye
10. Radical Tragedy - Jonathan Dollimore
11. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy - G. Wilson Knight
12. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
13. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
14. The Christian Renaissance - G. Wilson Knight
15. On Dreams - Sigmund Freud
16. Civilisation and its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
17. Ecrits - Jacques Lacan
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History - Agnes Heller
20. Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature - John F. Danby 

New:

21. Allegory of Love - C.S. Lewis
22. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
(Enjoyed this one, rather surprisingly. I don't go to the sci-fi well too often, but this one made me very glad that I did. Pure enjoyment).
23. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
24. Beloved - Toni Morrison (This was absolutely marvelous, by the way. A definite must-read for anyone who hasn't. It'll break your heart, but that only makes it all the more wonderful, really).
25. Sexing the Cherry - Jeannette Winterson (This was just brilliant. I absolutely loved this. Hilarious, as well).
26. Shakespeare and the Romance Tradition - E.C. Pettet

Just started William Gibson's Neuromancer. We'll see how it goes :)


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74% [05 Sep 2008|04:42pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | bouncy ]

37. The Ill-made Knight - T.H. White

I can't believe it I might actually get to #50!!! It's so exciting!

Currently reading Candle in the Wind - T.H. White & The Last Guardian by Jeff something or other...

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18/50 (36%) [29 Aug 2008|11:09am]

hotfuss
6 books in one month I'm doing all right.

1-10 )

11. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
12. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
13. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
14. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
15. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
16. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladmir Nabokov
17. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
18. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Currently Reading:
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Irvine Welsh
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Villete by Charlotte Bronte
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14 more [29 Aug 2008|07:57am]

y3llowl3montr33
36. Of Blood and Honor - Chris Metzen
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35!! [26 Aug 2008|05:37pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | tired ]

1-30 )
31. Survival Kit for Overseas Living - L Robert Kohls
32. The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White
33. Day of the Dragon - Richard A Knaak
34. The Queen of Air and Darkness - T.H. White
35. Lord of the Clans - Christie Golden


Currently Reading:
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Of Blood and Honor - Don't remember who wrote it. Chris ...
The Ill-made Knight - T.H. White

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[26 Aug 2008|03:06pm]

luckecharms
Book List 2008

Start Date: January 1st, 2008
End Date: December 31st, 2008

Goal: 50 Books <--- this may be increased... lmao

1-40 )
39. Breaking Dawn -- Stephenie Meyer
40. Dragon Wytch -- Yasmine Galenorn

Currently Reading :
Fallen -- Erin McCarthy
The Host -- Stephanie Meyer

Books Read 40/50 (80%)
# of pages Read: 14351
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[24 Aug 2008|04:32pm]

moonlove
Books #1-62 )

63. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
64. Star Wars: Dark Force Rising - Timothy Zahn
65. Star Wars: The Last Command - Timothy Zahn
66. Cry Wolf - Patricia Briggs
67. The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, The Investigation, The Debate - Shirley Harrison
68. The Hob's Bargain - Patricia Briggs
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Wow it seems like only yesterday I was on book 1 [22 Aug 2008|05:23pm]

y3llowl3montr33
[ mood | sick ]

1-30 )

31. Survival Kit for Overseas Living - L Robert Kohls
32. The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White
33. Day of the Dragon - Richard A Knaak
34. The Queen of Air and Darkness - T.H. White

Currently Reading:
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Lord of the Clans - Christie Golden
The Ill-made Knight - T.H. White

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[19 Aug 2008|12:58am]

glowbug
Start Date : 1st Jan 2008

one to ten )

11. 'The Nanny Diaries' by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
12. 'Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging' by Louise Rennison.
13. 'It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers' by Louise Rennison.
14. 'Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas' by Louise Rennison.
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