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Finally and sadly just finished The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth ,which is one romp of a bawdy, philosophical, historical, political, farce of novel. Its nearly 900 pages so set for another few days I suspect. This is the third substantial book read in the past few weeks. The others being The Historian and The Great Transformation so slowed down a bit in March. Just Finished Zarafa by Michael Allin a short history of how the first Giraffe since Roman times travelled to Paris in the 1820's and why. Intending to move onto Time and Again by Jack Finney
The 26 books read so far since the 1st January 2007
12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
99 ways to tell a story : exercises in styleby Matt Madden
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
A Walk In The Woods : Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Fireworks by Angela Carter
Gladys reunited : a personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
The Professor and the Madman : a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley
Zarafa by Michael Allin
26/50 = 52% of the challenge so far
The 26 books read so far since the 1st January 2007
12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
99 ways to tell a story : exercises in styleby Matt Madden
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
A Walk In The Woods : Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Fireworks by Angela Carter
Gladys reunited : a personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
The Professor and the Madman : a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley
Zarafa by Michael Allin
26/50 = 52% of the challenge so far
