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Re: Books in 2009
Flowering Wilderness by John Galsworthy
Eh...I enjoyed the book but I'm not sure it's one of those things that I would ever really recommend to someone else. Probably because I will forget that I've even read it within a year.
After I read it, I discovered that it is "sort of" part of the Forsyte Saga - something I've seen the screen adaptation of. I heard the name Forsyte a few times in the book and wondered but figured it just might be a common British surname. So upon further thinking about it, perhaps I didn't enjoy the book as much because it was only one novel in a loosely connected series of 9 volumes. Perhaps I just need to start at the beginning!
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11/18/2009, 5:01 pm
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The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Great book and a pretty fast read. The narrator is a dog. The dog's master is an aspiring race car driver. I thought the dog character was really really well done and I loved the dog.
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11/19/2009, 1:32 am
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The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
It is a twisted tale of philosophy that really makes one think about our own existence. Who are we? I highly recommend it along with his other book Sophie's World another philosophical book on the history of philosophy.
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12/7/2009, 11:13 pm
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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
Odd little book. The whole thing is one description after another of different foods this boy eats - from his mother, at school, candy from the shop, etc. It follows him from a young age to about 20 or so. It's apparently an autobiography of the man's life - he is a food writer.
Once again, I find myself wondering if I'm the world's youngest prude. This review puts it well:
"Unexpectedly this book contains more descriptions of a teenagers sexual encounters than you might imagine, but in line with all his other books Toast is a really good read with something for everyone."
I guess I was supposed to feel a connection between food and love/lust. Eh, just didn't get it.
The best part of the audio book was the guy who read it - it's all about food in the 60s in England with odd names. And I loved the accent. Other than that...not on my recommended reading list!
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12/29/2009, 7:42 pm
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