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Having just finished my 50 book challenge with 10 weeks to spare, I am now up for a bigger challenge. I have just received a large pile of great new books for Saint Nicholas so I'm all set and ready to go! I will start my 75 books a year challenge today, December 11 2008. I will have to pick up the pace a bit from the last challenge though! If I extrapolate my reading speed from the last challenge I read about 64 books a year.   Message edited by its author, Dec 22, 2008, 1:38pm. 1. De bètacanon van Fokke & Sukke by Reid, Geleijnse and Van Tol This one feels like cheating since it actually doesn't have that many words. It's a book with cartoons about 50 canonical items from science. But since I probably won't make 75 books a year unless I count books like these, I thought to list it anyway :-) Message edited by its author, Dec 15, 2008, 3:06pm. I've decided to set myself another challenge: reading 25,000 pages in one year. I will not put this counter in every message, but you can find it in this post and at the top of this thread. I chose the same start date as my 75 book challenge: 11 december 2008. Message edited by its author, Dec 22, 2008, 1:39pm. And another down: 3. Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell. I liked this one better than The Winter King, book 1 in the Arthurian series. That book felt like one big intro for book 2, which I liked very much. On to book 3! Message edited by its author, Dec 28, 2008, 8:54am. 4. Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell which completes the Warlord Chronicles trilogy. Message edited by its author, Dec 27, 2008, 8:21am. 6. Sinds de stichting van de stad by Livius Here I took the chicken way out and read a translation rather than the original. Although I do know Latin, I'm not fluent enough to read an entire book at a reasonable pace :-) Message edited by its author, Jan 1, 2009, 8:09am. 7. Emperor: Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden Wow, what a wonderful read this was! This is the first book I've ever read by Iggulden and I'm off to the book store to buy the rest of the series :-) Message edited by its author, Dec 31, 2008, 8:03am. 8. The lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir I enjoyed this book, although at one point I was getting a bit bored with Elizabeth once more resolving to remain unmarried (even when she was just a kid). I know that it's an important aspect of Elizabeth's life but I don't need to be hit over the head with it :-) Message edited by its author, Jan 2, 2009, 10:02am. 9. Eleonora van Aquitanie 1122 - 1204 by Guus Pikkemaat I picked this book up because I found out last week that I'm a descendant of Eleanore of Aquitaine. She has been one of my favorite historical persons for some time, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to find out she was one of my ancestors! Even though I already own several books about her, I decided to buy this book as it is in Dutch so my mom can borrow it as well (she reads English but not tomes like this one!). The book was pretty informative. It didn't bring me any new information but that would have been asking much since I've already read so much about Eleanore. What I didn't like was the fact that the book is without footnotes so you've got no idea which information is based on which source. There is a list of sources, but without footnotes there's no way to check the information that is presented as facts. One of the things I'm particularly interested in is the genealogical relationship between Eleanor and her first husband Louis VII. According to the book, her great-grandmother Audearde was an aunt of Louis VII's mother. However, I have not found this fact mentioned anywhere in historical sources or literature about the genealogy of Eleanore. Towards the end, this book felt more like an assignment than something you do for fun. The style was bombastic to begin with but I found that I got more and more fed up with it. Also, at times it felt more like a biography of Henry II than of Eleonore of Aquitaine. I would advise anyone to read Alison Weir's biography Eleonor of Aquitaine instead. Message edited by its author, Jan 6, 2009, 8:53am. 10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen One of my all-time favorites! I decided to re-read this while waiting for the Rome books. Every time I read it, I keep hoping that Elizabeth and Darcy will end up together and amazingly, they always do :-) 11. Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden This was the second book in the Emperor series. I enjoyed it, though perhaps not as much as book #1. I thought the pace of this book was a bit slower and a larger part of the book seemed to be about fighting. I would have liked a bit more focus on the politics, but I have great hopes that I'm going to see more of that in #3. Message edited by its author, Jan 14, 2009, 11:03am. 12. The field of swords by Conn Iggulden I feel the same about this third book in the Emperor series as I did about the second book. It was a nice read but I missed the personal angle of book 1. On to the fourth book! 13. The gods of war by Conn Iggulden I liked this fourth book in the Emperor series better than the last two. Like book one, it wasn't just about fighting but also about personal relationships. Cleopatra really came off the page. 14. Publieke Werken by Thomas Rosenboom A great example of Dutch literature. I really enjoyed the way the stories about the people were interwoven. 15. The sum of all men by David Farland I have started reading the Runelords series for the second time, this is book 1. It's been a couple of years since I've read the first four books but now I've now bought books 5+6 as well. It's interesting that I picked up several details that forebode what is yet to come that I totally missed when I read it the first time. 17. Wizardborn by David Farland I'm now taking a short break from this series as I am getting a bit bored with brain-eating little girls getting sick :-) 18. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Warning: spoiler alert! I had seen the wonderful BBC miniseries and decided to read the original book. There were several differences. In some cases I liked the miniseries better: there seemed to be less complaining and Margaret did not seem so high and mighty as in the book. In other respects, I preferred the book. There were some parts in the miniseries that just didn't make any sense. The way Mr. Bell signed over all his effects to her and left for South-America was one. In the book it turns out he died and had named her his heiress. That makes much more sense, but I guess the script writers didn't feel the story needed yet another death. An other curious part of the miniseries is how John and Margaret meet up at a train station. That didn't make any sense to me at all. In the book, they meet in London on business. All in all, I love both versions and am would recommend both. Message edited by its author, Feb 17, 2009, 1:07pm. 19. The summer of the Danes by Ellis Peters. Because I have the flu, I'm turning to some lighter reading for a while. This book in the Cadfael series was enjoyable as always. Message edited by its author, Feb 19, 2009, 5:46am. #52 Thanks, me too :-) 20. Sunrise in the West by Edith Pargeter This is by the same author as the Cadfael series, but under her own name instead of a pseudonym. I liked this book, which is the first in a 4-book series about the princes of Gwynedd (Wales). I already knew several of the main 'players' from Sharon Kay Penman's Welsh series that starts with my all-time favorite book Here be Dragons. It's interesting to read another version of this tale. Message edited by its author, Feb 22, 2009, 5:08pm. #54: I have the Heaven Tree but haven't gotten around to reading it. I've just finished the second book in the Brothers of Gwynedd series and I have to say that I really prefer Sharon Kay Penman's story. Her characters feel more real and likable to me, the Pargeter version is a bit more distant and businesslike. 21. The dragon at noonday by Edith Pargeter. #56 Yes, I'm curious to hear how you like the series. 22. The hounds at sunset by Edith Pargeter. This third book in the Brothers of Gwynedd series was very nice. A large part is about one of my all time favorite love stories of the marriage between Llewelyn prince of Wales and Eleonor de Montfort, a story that is also told in Sharon Kay Penman's The Reckoning. With this book, I also cleared the 10,000 mark for my 25,000 pages challenge! If I keep reading like this, I'll probably finish that challenge before the Summer! 23. Afterglow and Nightfall by Edith Pargeter Spoiler alert: This concludes the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet. I think this last book was my least favorite since almost all the characters I enjoyed died. I guess I should have expected as much with such a title! @FAMeulstee Yes it is, I really recommend it. I hope you can find it in a library, these new books can be hard to find in the Netherlands. I've just finished the second book and it was great too. The third book has also been published but isn't out in paperback so I won't get to that one for a while. 25. Lords of the bow by Conn Iggulden 26. Een tafel vol vlinders by Tim Krabbé This book is a gift that you get if you buy a book in the Dutch 'book week'. This is a yearly event. Every year, a famous Dutch author is invited to write the book. They are usually short (90 p. this year) and a great way to read different authors. I liked this book very much, the characters were very relatable. 28. Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell Another fascinating book by Bernard Cornwell. I thought it was a bit too similar to the Grail Quest series, mainly because the main character was another archer with all that comes with that. But the story was fast-paced and very exciting. Highly recommended! Unlike the other books in this thread, I don't actually own this one but borrowed it from a friend. If I run across this book for a good price, I'll buy it since I like re-reading books. Because my library only includes books I own, I'll note my reading details here so I can copy it in the future: read 7-10 April 2009, 4 stars. Message edited by its author, Apr 10, 2009, 6:27am. 29. Oorlogswinter by Jan Terlouw While I was staying at my mother's, I re-read this childhood favorite of mine. It's about a fifteen-year-old boy who gets involved in the resistance during World War II. The book has lately been turned into a movie, which I have yet to see. 30. The ancestor's tale by Richard Dawkins This book has taken me quite some time to read. I started it in February but kept reading other, lighter books on the side. It was a fascinating story which lots of interesting details. The format is based on the Canterbury tales. We go back in time back to the origins of life. On our journey, we are met by our distant cousins who 'join' the family tree. I have to admit my interest dropped somewhat as the cousins got more distant. I guess I'm just not that interested in flatworms and fungi as I am in nice furry creatures :-) Being a genealogist, I never would have thought that there could be someone too distantly related to be of interest to me, but there they were! What I liked is that this book challenges the way you look at the world. It is not an easy read. Even though my English vocabulary is pretty large (especially for a non-native speaker), there were plenty of words in there I didn't know: mainly names of creatures big and small. I was able to understand the words from context though, so didn't have to go for a dictionary which I always hate. Also, some of the concepts are very abstract and can be hard to grasp. I found that I liked that, it's nice to read a book that doesn't take its readers for granted but actually challenges them. All in all, a great read that just got a bit too slow in the end for my taste. This book got me past the halfway point for my 25,000 book challenge for 2009! Since it's only April, I should comfortably make it this year! Message edited by its author, Apr 13, 2009, 3:07pm. 31. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir This book is about Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day-queen of England. It tells the story of her youth until her death at 16 from a first-person perspective. Several people tell the story, which can make it a bit confusing if you're like me and often forget to read the name of the chapter. But it works in sucking you into the story. You can see her heading down the road of destruction. I liked the book very much as a mix between historical fact and fiction. Many details are historically accurate, and the author has used the first person perspective effectively to fill in the details about people's characters. 32. Zeeland in de vroege Middeleeuwen by Tiny Polderman I started this book last Saturday when I was staying at my mom's. I hadn't finished it by the time I left so I borrowed it and finished it tonight. The title translates to 'Zeeland in the Early Middle Ages' and tells the history of the Dutch province of Zeeland in between 500 and 1000. It tells about Zeeland's early occupation, christianization, viking raids, defensive earthworks, etc. It was a nice compact book that told me everything I wanted to know. 33. Stad in de storm by Thea Beckman Another childhood favorite of mine that I bought at a book market last year. I used to borrow this book all the time from the library. It's historical fiction and is set during the French occupation of the Dutch town of Utrecht in 1672-1674. In this period, the republic of the Netherlands was besieged from three sides: Germany, England and France all worked together to defeat the Netherlands. What's interesting is that I have moved to the area described in the book since I read it last. It's fascinating to read about how the Dutch water frontier helped protect the core of the Dutch republic: the province of Holland. The book also highlights the other side of the story, how the rest of the country was sacrificed to keep the merchants safe. A large part of the country was inundated to keep the French and German troops out. All in all a great book about a very important period in our history. I've been busy so I haven't updated this thread in a while. I did have some time for reading though, so here's what I've read the past four weeks: 34. Teigetje en de stamboom by Walt Disney This is a book for very small children that I bought at the 'free market' on Queen's day. I just couldn't resist a Disney book about genealogy (the title translates to: Tigger and the family tree) :-) 35. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell 36. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell These are the first two books in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I bought the series last year and read them then, but loved them so much that I'm already re-reading them. The story tells an interesting tale about a Saxon who's raised by Danes and fights on both sides in different parts of his life. It's said against the Viking invasion of Saxon England in the 9th century. Since reading this series last year, I've been able to trace my ancestors back until Alfred the Great, one of the main characters in the series. Message edited by its author, May 16, 2009, 9:09am. 37. The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell 38. Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell These are the third and fourth book in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. Thoroughly enjoyable with interesting characters. I hope he'll get around to writing a fifth book soon, as I'm curious what will happen with Aethelflaed and Uthred. This 38th book puts me past the halfway mark of my challenge, one month before the middle of the year :-) Message edited by its author, May 31, 2009, 5:10am. #80 @alcottacre Thanks! 39. Bones of the hills by Conn Iggulden This was an extremely high-paced read. A lot of action, without getting boring, although I would not have minded a slower pace now and then to get into the characters more. Amazing to read about how far the Mongol empire reached and it was very interesting to see the interaction with cultures that are more familiar to me like Arab and Russian/Christian. Update: this is book 3 in the Conqueror series. Message edited by its author, Jun 13, 2009, 3:22pm. 83. Verlaten verleden: een nieuw leven in Amerika na 1945 by Joop Lamboo et al. I bought this book only this afternoon. The title translates to: "Past left behind: a new life in America after 1945". When I bought it, I thought it was a book with stories about Dutch emigrants who left for the US after WWII. When I started reading it, I soon realized it was about a very specific group of emigrants: war victims. The book contains personal stories of Jews and people from the Dutch East Indies. Both arrived in the Netherlands (either returned from the death camps in Eastern Europe or from the Japanese internment camps in the Indies) as displaced persons. Many decided to emigrate. I was recently involved in a project about the independence of Indonesia for my work. I didn't know much about it when I started. This book filled in several of the blanks for me. I started reading one of the stories and before I knew it, I had finished it. It is a great piece of oral history by the people who lived through so much. 41. Pride and prejudice and zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith This was a very silly read. Pride and prejudice is one of my all time favorite books. When I first read about the zombies edition, I thought I would never read it. It felt like sacrilege. However, after reading several positive reviews in the Austen blogosphere, I decided to buy the book and read it. I'm glad I did. The zombies are woven very cleverly into the story, filling in blanks that the original had. For instance, the original leaves open the question of just what these girls were doing all the time, not being very accomplished and not having a governess. Pride and prejudice and zombies had the answer: they were training to be zombie slayers! All in all, a very enjoyable book that I can recommend to any Austen fan with a sense of humor! #88 Cauterize Do let me know how you like it! 42. When Christ and his saints slept by Sharon Kay Penman. I found out I was a descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine earlier this year and couldn't resist re-reading this favorite book of mine. One of the central stories is the love story of Eleanor and Henry II. I'm a descendant of her through her first marriage with king Louis of France. 43. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Loooong overdue. I have wanted to read this book for a while, but somehow never got around to buy it. I do have two DVDs of the movie and loved the story very much. When I was shopping at Amazon.co.uk the other week, I noticed they had a copy for less than 2 pounds! With the current exchange rate, that was just too good to pass up. I loved the book even better than I thought. I hadn't expected it to be so personal, to have so much detail about the thoughts and feelings of Jane. A well-deserved five stars from me! 43. Jaarboek Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie 2008: Genealogie en de Canon deel II by Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie This is the annual yearbook of the Dutch Central Bureau for Genealogy. This year was the second half of the 'Canon' series: a series of articles written about the 50 canonical events that have been selected to represent the history of the Netherlands. This canon includes items like Rembrandt and the multicultural society. This yearbook covered the period 1750 until present. My favorite article was about Indies Dutchmen. I recently worked as a technical project manager for a project called 'Farewell to the Indies' by the National Archives. In this project, we provide online access to almost 200,000 pages of original documents relating to the independence of Indonesia in the 1940s. Not having much background knowledge about the subject, I kept confusing the names of the different groups of people. This yearbook has one article that explains the differences between the groups. For example: somebody with a Dutch father and a 'native' mother is considered European although in appearance he might be more Asian. Very interesting read, I wish I had read this before I started the project. For people interested in Farewell to the Indies, the website can be found at Afscheid van Indië. We're working on an English version which will come online in the next couple of weeks. Message edited by its author, Jun 27, 2009, 4:04pm. 45. The Coffee Trader by David Liss I did not like this book as much as I thought. Although I liked the setting very much (Portuguese Jews in the heart of commerce in Amsterdam in the 17th century), I just didn't really get into the book. This was probably because I didn't really care what would happen to any of the characters. All of them seemed petty, deceitful, incomprehensible or just not very likeable. I saw in Boekenwijs' 75 books thread that he had the same problem. 46. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Spoiler alert! Yet another book about the Tudors. But with a twist. This book is told from the first person perspective, by three different women (Jane Rochford, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard). The widely different characters of the books make it an interesting read. Having read a lot of Tudor books, I knew the story already. I thought it was interesting how plausible and logical Philippa Gregory made the events appear when seen from the perspective of three women involved. I do think Lady Rochford was portrayed a bit too normal and sweet though. She must have been either a b**** or insane, or both. But I guess her actions must have seemed sensible to herself, and this being 'her' story I guess it's not too strange that her part in the events seemed a bit more normal than I would have liked. I loved the naive and shallow character of Katherine and the sensible character of Anne of Cleves. This book is one of the few I've read that makes Anne of Cleves seem like a real and interesting person instead of a caricature, the smelly woman from Germany. I've read explanations of how sauerkraut can have that effect on women. Even if that were so, Henry VIII is hardly one to talk with his festering leg!! But if you can't get it up, blame it on the wife, right? That part of the story was very plausible as well: the anxiety of Henry desperately wanting an heir, the way the women handled his impotence, the way he tried to recover some of his lost youth by chasing after a young girl. The story made Henry seem human; both mad and tragic at the same time. Highly recommended. 47. Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir I did not enjoy this book as much as I thought. I generally like reading biographies. But somehow, I just did not find myself interested in Katherine. What doesn't help is that she barely figures in the first 50 or so pages of the book. What is written about her, is almost all speculative. The book is filled with maybes, perhapses and possiblies. A lot of the information that is know comes from financial accounts, which leads to an abundance of monetary values, all with their value in today's money, throughout the text. Then the lead finally married John of Gaunt. I was actually looking forward to this bit, hoping the amount of information about her would increase so I would finally get some sense of the woman she was. But one of the first sentences after the marriage informs the reader that Katherine doesn't appear much in the records after the marriage. The book tells far more about John of Gaunt then his 'scandalous mistress'. I think it was an error to write this book as a biography instead of a historical novel. There are plenty of glimpses of an interesting story but the bare facts are minimal. Message edited by its author, Jul 22, 2009, 7:36am. I haven't updated the thread in a while but I have been reading! 48. Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman This was a re-read since I didn't want to take any chances on reading another book I didn't care about :-) Loved it as always. The third and final book of this trilogy will be out in paperback later this month. Looking forward to it! 49. Piep: een kleine biologie der letteren by Midas Dekkers A cute little book about animals featuring in literature. Very humoristic. If a book features an animal, it's either in a minor role, or it's a children's book. Why aren't there more adult books with animals as main characters when there's so much more variety in the animal kingdom then there is among humans? 50. The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. This was a familiar story (about Bloody Mary) but told from a very interesting angle: her fool. The fool's character is fictional but very well rounded with an interesting background being a secret Jew. Highly original Tudor historical novel. 51. Emma by Jane Austen The only Jane Austen novel I hadn't read yet, though I have seen several movie adaptations. My least favorite, but still fun to read. This set of books means I've passed two landmarks this year: 50 books and 20,000 pages! I went to the largest book market in Europe yesterday, the Deventer book market, and bought another 22 books, so I have plenty to read for the near future. And I'll be going to yet another book market on Saturday. I feel spoiled! 52. Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters This was the last book I was missing from the Cadfael series. I found it in a booth at the Deventer market for just 3 euros. A very entertaining read as always. 54. Devil's brood by Sharon Kay Penman This is the final book in the trilogy about Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. I loved it! At times I got very frustrated with Henry II. How can somebody be that brilliant and blind at the same time? That I felt so strongly speaks volumes about Ms. Penman's writing skills. A well-deserved five stars from me! Back from my holiday, during which I've done lots of reading! It was indeed wonderful! 55. Smoke in the wind by Peter Tremayne A nice medieval whodunnit. 3 stars. 56. Orgeuil et préjugés by Jane Austen A French translation of Pride and Prejudice, my favorite book. I bought and read the French version to brush up my high school French. Reading a book in French was easier than I thought, probably because the story was already so familiar. 5 stars, as always. 57. The jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones One of the books I won winning a historical novel contest on Reading the Past. A book about A'isha, the second wife of the prophet Muhammed, told in a first-person perspective. I found it very interesting to read about such a foreign time and culture. 4 stars. 58. A time of singing by Elizabeth Chadwick I picked this one up in a bookstore on the recommendation of my favorite author, Sharon Kay Penman. The book was about Ida de Tosney, mistress to Henry II, king of England. I thought it was very nice, but all a bit too neat. People just seemed to take what was happening to them for granted. I think Sharon Kay Penman makes her characters more believable. But I did enjoy the book very much and will be sure to read more by the same author. 4 stars. 59. The widow's war by Mary Mackey Another book I won in the historical fiction contest. The book is set in the 1850s, when Kansas was voting to become either a slave or a free state. The main character start of living in Brazil, which I felt only distracted from the interesting part of the plot. All in all, I liked it but don't think I'll read it again. 3 stars. 60. De kwestie Jobse by Lo van Driel 'The Jobse case'. This book is very close to my own research. I'm working on a population reconstruction of the tiny town (20 houses) of Sint Anna ter Muiden in Zeeland, the Netherlands. Jan Jobse was a school teacher there from 1851 until 1858. This booklet describes how a researcher comes across documents about Jan Jobse. The book is based on actual documents, with some fictional details added to describe the researcher. It turns out Jobse molested several of his female students, some as young as 6 years old. Jobse's story takes a dramatic turn when he's finally caught and fired. Instead of going to jail, he escapes by emigrating to the US. Several years later, he is found teaching again in Milwaukee, WI. He's a respected member of the community there. I got this book from the writer, who I'm helping to find out more about what happened to Jobse in Milwaukee. We already know several people from his old neighborhood settled in the same area, so it seems almost impossible that he outran his reputation. Hopefully, we will be able to find some personal documents or papers that shed more light on this very dramatic story. 5 stars. 61. The Virgin's tale by Sherri Smith This story is about a Vestal Virgin in Roman times. Unfortunately, the life of a Vestal virgin is very boring; they have no life besides feeding the hearth (Vesta) and cleaning the statue of Minerva. Boring lives lead to boring books. A sort of 'deus ex machina' ending doesn't help either. Not a book I would recommend. 2 stars. 62. The ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn A re-read of one of my favorite books, part 1 of the Exiles series. It's a fantasy book but it has a wonderful detailed political thread as well. The characters are fascinating and well-rounded, the pace is high and the setting interesting. 5 stars. 63. The Mageborn Traitor by Melanie Rawn Part 2 of the Exiles series, which makes me wish every time Melanie Rawn would finally get around writing the final part of the trilogy, Captal's tower. I and the other fans have been waiting to continue reading for 12 years now, but for several reasons including her health, Melanie Rawn still hasn't written it yet. Very frustrating because this is such a great series. 5 stars. 64. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Another favorite, set in the time when Gothic architecture was invented. In England in the 12th century, a church is being built in Kingsbridge. The book is full of great characters and wonderful details about architecture. 5 stars. I also blasted through the 25,000 pages mark :-) 65. Sans famille by Hector Malot I bought this book in France to brush up my French. It was harder than reading the French version of Pride and Prejudice, because I didn't know the story as well. Also, the language used was more complex. I still managed better than I thought and really enjoyed the book. 4 stars. 66. Centurion by Simon Scarrow The first book I've read by this author and not a disappointment. The setting is similar to Conn Iggulden's Emperor series (Roman) but somehow I wasn't drawn to the characters of Centurion like I was to Emperor's. The fights were described in great detail, perhaps more than I needed. But still it was good enough that I would recommend it to other people and will pick up more books by Scarrow. I'll round it up to 4 stars. 67. Zwangerschap voor dummies by Joanne Stone
The Dutch version of 'Pregnancy for dummies'. I read this two months ago, when I just found out I was pregnant. But because I wasn't telling anyone, I didn't list it yet :-) I'm now 15 weeks pregnant!! 68. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan A re-re-re-etc.-read. I just bought number 12 in this series, the Wheel of Time. Like I have done since I discovered the series when there were only 6 parts out yet, I'm going to re-read the entire series before starting on the new book! The Wheel of Time is my favorite fantasy series because of the great detail and believability of the story and the characters. It does get a bit slow in the middle of the series but the sheer epic scale of the story makes this inevitable, I think. 69. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan Part 2 of the Wheel of Time 70. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan Part 3 of the Wheel of Time 71. The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick One of the many books I got for Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas). Featuring Eleanor of Aquitaine in a minor role, I just couldn't resist reading this book right away. I looooved it! Like the author said in the note, William Marshall's life was eventful enough for several people but he packed it all into one life. I already knew many of the more famous stories from other books but loved to read them as one coherent story. Five stars. Message edited by its author, Dec 13, 2009, 8:39am. Debug test: your member name is: |
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