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Tamara's Book Corner.
This is a list of the books I've read so far. :) Reading my 25th book atm, will be halfway there when it's finished. I think I might have to change my goal from 50 to 75 books if I keep reading so much. :P# Anonymous - The Book With No Name // 383 pages.
# Stephen King - The Mist // 230 pages.
# Karin Slaughter - A Faint Cold Fear // 499 pages.
# Cecily von Ziegesar - Because I'm Worth It // 239 pages.
# Elmore Leonard - Be Cool // 292 pages.
# Stephen King - Just After Sunset // 398 pages.
# R. Kranenborg - Satanism // 139 pages.
# Alex Barclay - The Caller // 424 pages.
# Charlaine Harris - From Dead To Worse // 359 pages.
# John William Polidori - The Vampyre // 63 pages.
# Minette Walters - Chickenfeed // 121 pages.
# Liza Marklund - Nobels Testament // 445 pages.
# Bob Mendes - Een Dag Van Schaamte // 316 pages.
# Clive Barker - Mister B. Gone // 252 pages.
# Roué Hupsel - Zwarte Magie: Door Demonen Bezeten // 301 pages.
# William Shakespeare - De Mooiste Van Shakespeare (The Best Sonnets) // 215 pages.
# Chris Kusneski - Sign Of The Cross // 416 pages.
# Plum Sykes - Bergdorf Blondes // 300 pages.
# Joy Fielding - Charley's Web // 405 pages.
# C.J. Kieviet - De Zoon Van Dik Trom // 132 pages. Ebook.
# G. Kielder - Meesterstukken Van Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn // 82 pages. Ebook.
# Andrew Matthews - Shadow Of The Wolf // 170 pages.
# F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button // 31 pages. Ebook.
# Cory Doctorow - I, Robot // 47 pages. Ebook.
Read 143 pages so far today - 225/351. Going to finish it tomorrow or tonight if I can't sleep. This book is really hard to put down. :)
go tamara...but you dont join my group...:(
Thanks! :) What is you group then Caitlan?
25. Dear Cain by Ignacio García-Valiño // 351 pages.
Thriller Debut of the Spanish psychologist about a very young psychopath. Carlos and Carol have two children, Diana and the 12-year-old Nico. An intelligent boy, but he seems to have no feelings, not even for his family and he has a cruel mind. One day Nico's parents found their dog bled to dead on their bed.
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Just finished it, read 269 pages today! :D
Don't know if I'll start in a new book tomorrow, because I have to study. Already neglected to do that for weeks and I don't know if it's even of any use to start now, because my tests are next week. =P
Read only pages yesterday because I really need to study till Wednesday. Don't think I'll be reading anything today. Feel exhausted and am also going to the cinema tonight. :) I hope I'll have some time to read this weekend, but studying has to go first, no matter how much I hate it. :PFinally found 2 Janet Evanovich books at my library yesterday! <3
i was the one who threatened to stalk you...remember???
I remember you saying something about me not joining your group, so I asked which group is yours, but you never told me. ;) Can't remember anything about stalking though. :P
Just read 15 pages, but I'm just too tired to keep reading.
So, now I don't have to study anymore, it's time to read again, finally! :D Finished Night Watch.Read about 11 pages in Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane on my way to school. Also read 18 pages in Day Watch so far, will read more tonight. :)
26. Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko // 363 pages.
Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us are the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. A thousand-year treaty has maintained the balance of power, and the two sides coexist in an uneasy truce. But an ancient prophecy decrees that one supreme "Other" will rise up and tip the balance, plunging the world into a catastrophic war between the Dark and the Light. When a young boy with extraordinary powers emerges, fulfilling the first half of the prophecy, will the forces of the Light be able to keep the Dark from corrupting the boy and destroying the world?
27. Follow Me! by Mark Tinney // 34 pages. Ebook.Mark Tinney explores the impressions of his first season as a tour manager in 1976, in an industry where surprise, excitement and challenge are constant companions. If you are thinking about a career as a tour manager or just interested in life “on the road” in the tourist world, then this book is for you.
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I'm currently studying tourism and reading this once again showed me why. Unfortunately I can never work as a tour guide, even though that was the reason I chose this study. Still a fun book to read, too bad it was so short.
Just read Follow Me! by Mark Tinney, a short ebook. :)Right now I'm on page 52/351 of Day Watch. Still loving the series.
Still reading Day Watch. Read a few pages today while waiting in the hospital and will read some more later today. :)
28. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving // 29 pages. Ebook.
The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite specter of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard. The story was immediately matched by a thrice marvelous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey. He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire. All these tales, told in that drowsy undertone with which men talk in the dark, the countenances of the listeners only now and then receiving a casual gleam from the glare of a pipe, sank deep in the mind of Ichabod.
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29. 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. // 12 pages. Ebook.
2BR02B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the pulp digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1/1962. The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from Wm Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination.
Read 112 pages in Day Watch today. Now at 237/351, so I'll probably finish it sometime this week. Going to start in third book of the series after this one, the fourth book isn't available in the library yet though, unfortunately.
30. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko // 351 pages.
The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, The Day Watch begins where The Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. The Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, told in part by a young witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from children’s nightmares as a counselor at a girls’ summer camp. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged.
2114840 Currently reading Oesters Of Merguez by Omar B. Just a short book, after this I'm going to start in Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
31. Oesters Of Merguez by Omar B. // 136.With a father who was sergeant in the Moroccan army Omar has an adventurous, but not an easy childhood. When the person to whom he looks up to disappear from his life, the 19-year-old Omar is in a deep crisis. He emigrates to Belgium to get on with hisd life. Initially everything runs smoothly, but then he starts a secret double life. He must avoid his secret coming out. It would mean an unacceptable outrage in the Moroccan community where he belongs and for his family in his home country.
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In this book there are some events that contain gay sex and also a little bit of self-injury. Just so you know. ;)
32. No One Writes To The Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez // 79 pages.
The novel, written between 1956-1957 and first published in 1961, is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, who still hopes to receive the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier. The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in a small village under martial law. The action opens with the colonel preparing to go to the funeral of a town musician whose death is notable because he was the first to die from natural causes in many years. The novel is set during the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia, when martial law and censorship prevail.
33. Eeuwig Zwijgen by Guy Didelez // 111 pages.Fifteen year old Jane is in a psychiatric institution, by her own choice. She’s not ready to talk to anyone though.. Nobody knows what's really going on. Janne would prefer to remain silent forever ...
Suddenly there is a boy sitting at my table. And while there are so many other free tables. He looks right at me.. He is not handsome, but he has something. Is it perhaps because of his dark, mysterious eyes?
It immediately clicked between Sam and Jane. Sam’s gentle jokes and small surprises make Janne happy. But it also confused her. Would he be the one person she could talk to?
34. Zoete Wraak by Guy Didelez + Joke de Vloed // 156 pages.Hester's new at school and looks different, they call her gothic. This is not appreciated by some classmates. If the new trainee seems to like her, one of her classmates wants revenge. Along with two others they decide to kill Hester's only friend.. Hester has also had a tough time trying to process the death of her mother and fears that she will find her father dead. This causes her to react strangely to some things, which doesn't help her at all.
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This was a very well written book for teenagers. It really shows how much harm you can do when you bully others, how much impact it can have on their lives.
35. Twilight Watch/Dusk Watch by Sergei Lukyaneko // 317 pages.
Three years have passed since the events of The Day Watch. His wife and daughter spending the summer on a dacha not far from Moscow where Anton is working when his boss Gesser reveals he has received an anonymous note. An Other has exposed the truth about their kind to a human, and now intends to convert that human into an Other.
The note has been sent to Zebulon and to the Inquisition’s offices in Berne – a place whose address only the highest level of mages and sorcerers know. Now cooperating, the Night Watch and the Day Watch, along with an Investigator from the Inquisition, seek to unmask the culprit. Anton will represent the Night Watch, while the Day Watch is sending High Vampire Kostya Saushkin, once Anton’s teenage neighbour.
Installed in the apartment complex to which the letter writer has been traced, Anton begins to investigate the residents one by one. Reviewing the dossiers of the building’s inhabitants, Anton comes across a familiar – albeit much younger – face. Could Gesser be trying initiate his son as an Other?
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I still remember how hard it was for me to finish the first book in this series. When I was told it would get better I kept reading. Both the second and third book are indeed better in my opinion, even though it took me some time to really get into it both times. I still find the story fun and interesting, but somehow it's just not as good as I expected it to be. If my library ever gets the last book I'll read it, but I won't buy it to find out what happens next.
36. Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison // 285 pages.
Helene Zaharis’s politician husband keeps her on a tight leash and cancels her credit cards as a way of controlling her. Lorna Rafferty is up to her eyeballs in debt and can’t stop her addiction to eBay. Sandra Vanderslice, battling agoraphobia, pays her shoe bills by working as a phone-sex operator. And Jocelyn Bowen is a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house.)
On Tuesday nights, these women meet to trade shoes and, in the process, form friendships that will help them each triumph over their problems---from secret pasts to blackmail, bankruptcy, and dating.
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This was fun to read, but certainly not one of my favorites. What I liked most is how different types of people get together through one thing they all love, which results in new beautiful friendships.
37. The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney // 270 pages.A wonderful and terrifying series by a new writer about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins..
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When I started in this book yesterday it all seemed a bit familiar. After finishing it today I'm 90% sure I've read it before when I was much younger. Still liked it though. :)
Great to see how the boy tries to make up for his own mistakes instead of asking for help right away.
Delaney's writing style also made me want to keep reading, I'm looking forward to reading more of his works.
Read quite a lot today. :)- 245 pages in The Spook's Apprentice // 270/270 pages.
- 64 pages in The Stand // 64/520 pages.
Total: 309 pages.
38. Pig Island by Mo Hayder // 352 pages.
Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. On the trial of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs’ skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups’ isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil—and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold.
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4/5 *
This was an amazing book! The story is really interesting and also written very well, exciting until the end. Especially love the characters in this one.
Started in Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King on Tuesday and I've read quite a lot already. Tuesday: 86 pages - 86/497 pages.
Wednesday: 262 pages - 348/497 pages.
Will probably finish it tomorrow, or rather today cause it's already Thursday now. :)
39. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King // 497 pages.
"Hearts in Atlantis" comprises of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War: In "Low Men in Yellow Coats", 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam", two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling", Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
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3.5 *
The first part of the book was the most fun to read, at least I think so. I really enjoyed reading about Ted and the low men. The rest was written very well too, but somehow the stories just didn't seem as interesting to me as the first.
Overall I guess I'll give it a 3.5 stars. As I said the writing was good, but apart from the first story I didn't find it exciting.
40. Verschroeide ossobuco by Margherita Pasquini // 193 pages.Margherita, Mad Margy Coconut, Ulrike de Beauvoir and the priestess of Armageddon as she also wants to be called does not trouble her aversion to the creation of mankind. She does not tend to love people. But of course she still loses herself in some passions. Ultimately, Margy Coconut, the so sympathetic academica cross between a gangstergirl, becomes nothing more than a mass murderess, a cruel woman. She laughs at everything that is sacred and profane.
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2.5/3 *
I quite liked the story, all the chaos. It was a bit hard to read though unfortunately, because of the words she uses. I guess it's just the way she writes. There are quite a few lines in other languages in this book. The English ones I understand, but my German + Italian + French is practically non existent. It's a bit annoying when these lines just randomly pop up on a lot of pages, because most of the time I have absolutely no clue what it means.
Book 41: The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett // 200 pages.
The main character is an incompetent and cynical wizard named Rincewind. He involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist, Twoflower. Forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, they begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey is controlled by the Gods playing a board game.
They visit Wyrmberg, an upside-down mountain which is home to dragons that only exist in the imagination. They nearly go over the waterfall on the edge of the Disc, only to be rescued and taken to the country of Krull, a city perched on the very edge of the Discworld. The Krullians wish to discover the gender of Great A'Tuin, the giant turtle which carries the Discworld through space, so they have built a space capsule to launch over the edge. They intend on sacrificing Rincewind and Twoflower to get Fate to smile on the voyage. Instead, Rincewind and Twoflower hijack the capsule in an attempt to escape and are launched off the Disc themselves.
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3.5 *
This is the first book I've read by Terry Pratchett and it is quite good! The story is interesting and written well. Took me a few pages to really get into the story at first. I had to read a few parts twice though because the sentences were a bit too long for my liking, took me a bit longer to really understand it what I had just read. But I didn't mind that at all. Will probably read some more book by him later this year. :)
This book is on the following lists I'm working on:
- BBC's The Big Read - Top 100 books.
- 501 Must Read Books.
I started in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen this evening. Currently at page 20. :)Also read about 180 pages earlier today in The Color of Magic.
Book 42: Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen // 350 pages.
In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.
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3.5/4 out of 5 *
When I started this book, I knew I was going to read something that isn't something I would normally love. I must admit it took me quite awhile to really get into the story, but once I did I was surprised that I actually did find it a pleasant read. Even though it's not one of my favorite books because I'm simply someone who loves thriller/horror stories, I can understand that this is a classic.
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This book is on the following lists I'm working on:
- BBC's The Big Read - Top 100 books. 2/100.
- 1001 Books. 2/1001.
Book 43: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich // 300 pages.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's got a lot on her mind. How does cigarette smuggler Eddie DeChooch, a fugitive so geriatric that even the hot-to-trot Grandma Mazur won't go out with him a third time, keep giving her the slip? How did a woman who died of a heart attack end up in DeChooch's garden shed with five bullet holes in her chest? Who stole a rump roast from Dougie and Mooner, the two lovable potheads who have decided to be crime fighters in Spandex bodysuits? Can Stephanie's perfect sister Valerie make it as a lesbian single mother without driving her family crazy? And--oh yeah--what should Stephanie do about that damn wedding dress on hold at Tina's Bridal Shoppe, waiting for her to decide whether vice cop Joe Morelli's really the one for her?
To complicate matters further, Stephanie's made a reluctant deal with the devil: if she can't bring in DeChooch by herself, her sexy but dangerous cohort Ranger is willing to help--for a price that a girl who's not-exactly-engaged is uncertain whether she should pay. But when Dougie and Mooner disappear, Grandma is kidnapped, and a crazy widow starts taking pot shots, no one who hides her .38 in a cookie jar is going to turn down a little friendly assistance.
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4 out of 5 *
Because my library sucks they don't have all the books in this series. So I randomly picked a book to start with, since I can't read them all anyway. I head so many good things about the Stephanie Plum books and I must say I absolutely loved this book! Evanovich her writing style is good. Combined with how well she describes the characters and the way she combines humor, crime and mystery makes it an awesome read. :) I'm starting in To The Nines tomorrow and I'll read any other books my library does have.
wow!! That's a lot of books. You read a lot faster than I do. You're doing great.
I normally don't read so much either, but I'm sitting at home almost all the time. So I have a lot of time to read, not that I mind. ;)
Book 44: Memories Of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez // 108 pages.
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.
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3 out of 5 *
Just a short book I read today. Nothing too interesting, just a quick, fun read. :) I read No One Writes To The Colonel a while ago, but that one was quite boring to be honest. Glad this one was a bit better.
Book 45: To The Nines by Janet Evanovich // 255 pages.
Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she's pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way...and she always gets her man. In To The Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who's also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an immigrant who becomes an illegal alien by violating his Visa and extending his stay in the United States. When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word "hunter..."
In a race against time that takes her from the Jersey Turnpike to the Vegas strip, Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life.
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3.5/4 out of 5 stars
Even though I still liked this book, I think it's not one of the best books in this series. There was a bit more violence and murder this time, while there was less humor. Not that that is bad, but I'd probably love it more if there was more humor in this one.
Book 46: Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane by William Peter Blatty // 208 pages.From fantasticfiction.co.uk
A grotesque old mansion that once belonged to a silent horror movie star, and now was home to shrieking terror. A group of weirdly assorted human beings enslaved by a force they could neither comprehend nor resist. And the smiling, kindly, all-knowing man who was their master. You will never know the ultimate meaning of evil until you read--Twinkle, Twinkle 'Killer' Kane
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3.5 out of 5 stars
Even though it took me quite a while to get through the first part of this book, I enjoyed reading it and found it fascinating.
Book 47: The Ancient Irish Goddes Of War by WM Hennessey."The Morrígan is usually interpreted as a "war goddess": W.M. Hennessey's "The Ancient Irish Goddess of War," written in 1870, was influential in establishing this interpretation.
The Morrígan ("terror" or "phantom queen") or Mórrígan ("great queen") (aka Morrígu, Morríghan, Mor-Ríoghain) is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have once been a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.
She is usually seen as a terrifying figure. She is associated with war and death on the battlefield, sometime appearing in the form of a carrion crow, premonitions of doom, and with cattle. She is often considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with cattle also suggests a role connected with fertility and the land.
She is often interpreted as a triple goddess, although membership of the triad varies: the most common combination is the Morrígan, the Badb and Macha, but sometimes includes Nemain, Fea, Anann and others." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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2.5/3 out of 5 stars
I remember reading a story about the Morrígan a few years ago, which I found quite fun to read. That was more of a fairy tale I think. So when I saw this I was curious to read about the explanations of what the Morrígan really is. Unfortunately is was a bit too hard too read for me, sometimes it felt like I was reading through a random clutter of words.
Book 48: Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain.
"Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject.
In the book, Clemens clearly states his opinion that Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author of the canon, and lends tentative support to the Baconians. The book opens with a scene from his early adulthood, where he was trained to be a steamboat pilot by an elder who often argued with him over the controversy." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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3.5/4 out of 5 stars
I didn't know what to expect when I started reading this, but I found it really interesting. And I must say I'm inclined to agree with him after reading all the arguments. It just sounds logical.
Book 49: ... Early Life Of The Pennsylvania Germans by A. Monroe Aurand."This gives some historical background on the early Pennsylvania Germans, including details of their religious composition." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)
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3.5 out of 5 stars
A quite short, but fun book. Was interesting to read how everyone got their family names. Was disappointed that there was so little about their relegion mentioned.
Book 50: A short, children's version of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, retold by Anne Ward. I only read this because my library decided to give me the children's version instead of the normal one. I'll read the full book sometime next month I think, because it seems to be an interesting story. :)
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Also happy that I've read 50 books already! :D Going for 75 books now, but am secretly hoping to reach 100. ;)
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I've read 24 books so far this year.
Currently reading Dear Cain by Ignacio García-Valiño, on page 82/351.