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Justin's 2012 Reading List

Keep track of what you read in 2012. One thread per member, please.
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu March 1st, 2012, 2:56 pm

1. Snowdrops - by A. D. Miller (contemporary fiction) - 4.5/5
2. The Paris Wife - by Paula McLain - 4/5
3. The Imperfectionists - by Tom Rachman (1950s-2000s Rome) - 4/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Fri June 1st, 2012, 11:29 am

4. Pure - Andrew Miller (18thC Paris) - 2.5/5
5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (19thC contemporary) - 2.5/5
6. Athalie - Jean Racine (Biblical-themed drama, 17thC play) - 4/5 (re-read)
7. Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley (Arthurian) - 4/5 (re-read)
8. Half of the Human Race - Anthony Quinn (early 20th C HF) - 4/5

I feel sure I've forgotten something.....
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu July 5th, 2012, 12:42 pm

9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky - 4.5/5 (contemporary)
10. Golden Fox - Wilbur Smith (1970s South Africa) - 3.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu August 23rd, 2012, 1:39 pm

11. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger (contemporary) - 3.5/5
12. The Ground is Burning - Samuel Black (16th century Italy) - 3.5/5
13. Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes (contemporary thriller) - 3.5/5
14. Lady of Hay - Barbara Erskine - 2.5/5
15. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton (not HF, classic metaphysical thriller or something) - 2.5/5
16. Mistress of the Sea - Jenny Barden (Elizabethan times naval adventure) - still reading
17. The Greatest Knight - Elizabeth Chadwick - 4/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue October 23rd, 2012, 1:10 pm

18. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - 4.5/5
19. Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos - 4/5
20. A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury - Edith Pargeter - 4/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue December 11th, 2012, 2:11 pm

21. A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore - 4/5
22. A Time to Die - Wilbur Smith - 3/5
23. When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro - 2/5
24. Theodora - Stella Duffy - 3.5/5
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