Books I've read so far this year...
Aug. 13th, 2007 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nekosenseiWow...it's been almost a whole week since I've finished another book. Some of my head troubles had made reading a bit challenging. Okay...on the short review.
1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen.
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
12. Fray by Joss Whedon
13. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
14. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
17. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
18. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
19. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
20. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
21. The Doll's House, Dream Country, and Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
22. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini -- I have to say that I really liked this one. In fact, towards the end, it had me crying in places. I got so into it last night, that I stayed up until one in the morning to finish it. This book centers around a man who grew up in Kabul. It describes a rift that developed between him and a childhood friend, a Hazara. After the Russians invade Afghanistan, the narrator and his father go into exile to Pakistan and later America leaving many friends and relatives behind. All in all, it's a very moving story. I recently discovered that they are filming a movie based on the novel, which is going to be released in Novemeber of this year. If it's any good, I'm going to have to check it out...
1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen.
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
12. Fray by Joss Whedon
13. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
14. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
17. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
18. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
19. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
20. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
21. The Doll's House, Dream Country, and Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
22. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini -- I have to say that I really liked this one. In fact, towards the end, it had me crying in places. I got so into it last night, that I stayed up until one in the morning to finish it. This book centers around a man who grew up in Kabul. It describes a rift that developed between him and a childhood friend, a Hazara. After the Russians invade Afghanistan, the narrator and his father go into exile to Pakistan and later America leaving many friends and relatives behind. All in all, it's a very moving story. I recently discovered that they are filming a movie based on the novel, which is going to be released in Novemeber of this year. If it's any good, I'm going to have to check it out...
