Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #23 was The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. This was an interesting book. It gave some history of Afghanistan that I wasn’t really aware of, and a good perspective that fits in with our current times. Book count: 23 Pages in book: 336 Page count: 9,658 Words in book: 106,895 Word count:2,772,221 1,000,000 words surpassed — 2/2/06 2,000,000 words surpassed — 2/14/06
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Book #22 was A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby. Not a bad book, I guess I enjoyed it. This is one of those books I put on my list because it got a lot of buzz. It was a little depressing, and there wasn’t a whole lot of resolution. And only one (maybe 2) character(s) was especially likeable. Book count: 22 Pages in book:
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Book #76 was We Need To Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver. I really wasn’t expecting much when I picked up this book for $4 at the book fair. Man, was I wrong. This book was extremely captivating. At first, I was concerned that the narrator’s language was way too flowery and extravagant, but once you got to know her a little, you realized that
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Book #47 was Back Roads, by Tawni O’Dell. It was a pretty good book, but quite tragic. The whole story is tinged with a sense of foreboding. Book count: 47/50 — 94% Pages in book: 338 Page count: 16,738 15,000 page goal reached 6/14/05! I was going to hold off on choosing another book to read, because for some reason I had it in my
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