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Justin's reading list 2013

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Justin's reading list 2013

Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue January 22nd, 2013, 10:57 am

1. Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy - 4.5/5
2. Doctor Death by Jonathan Kellerman (not HF) - 3/5
3. The Maid by Kimberly Cutter - 4.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Sun February 3rd, 2013, 4:55 pm

4. The Italian Woman by Jean Plaidy - 3.5/5
5. Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy - 4/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Wed March 6th, 2013, 12:14 am

6. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd - 4.5/5
7. The King's Diamond by Will Whitaker - 3.5/5
8. Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - 3.5/5
9. Henry of Guise; or The States of Blois by G.P.R. James - 2/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu March 21st, 2013, 9:26 am

10. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - 4/5
11. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler - 4/5
12. Pope Joan by Emmanuel Royidis, translated and adapted by Lawrence Durrell - 2/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Wed April 3rd, 2013, 4:03 pm

13. Family Favourites by Alfred Duggan - 4/5
14. The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann - DNF (far too dry)
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue April 23rd, 2013, 3:42 pm

15. The Bone Thief by V.M. Whitworth - 3.5/5
16. The Tube by Oliver Green - 4/5 (a little book on the London Underground; I just took a course by the author on the history of the railways in London)
17. The Vanishing Act of Esme Fox by Maggie O'Farrell (contemporary fiction) - 4.5/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Sun April 28th, 2013, 5:05 pm

18. Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman (NF) - 2/5
19. The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera (Mauritius 1825) - DNF
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Mon June 10th, 2013, 1:57 pm

20. The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak - 3/5
21. Where Angels Fear to Tread - by E.M. Forster - 3/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Sat July 6th, 2013, 7:49 am

22. Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough - 4/5
23. No Night Is Too Long by Barbara Vine (contemporary) - 3.5/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Fri July 19th, 2013, 8:15 am

24. Jezebel by Eleanor de Jong - 2.5/5
25. Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White - 4/5
26. Girl Reading by Katie Ward - 3.5/5
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