New Year's Resolutions

Having had a 100% success rate with last year's, I'm on a roll.

One of this year's is to read a book a week. I'm aware that I haven't
been reading much in the last 6 months, and it's something I want to
rectify.

So I need a list of 52 books that I haven't read. Well, I need about
45, really, since I've a few ready to go here, and I'll need to time
to get the new ones ordered and delivered. I want to get them all at
the beginning, and if I race through them all early I'll give myself a
early-finishing award.

So, I throw myself on your suggestions (no goblins or spaceships,
please).

 

Ben Blaney emerged from their own little world to say

John Sergeant's autobiography "Give me ten seconds". He had a much more
varied career than I expected. Well written and often very funny.

 

Fiction:

'Beloved' - Toni Morrison
'The Sheep Look Up' - John Brunner

Non-Fiction:

'The Diversity of Life' - E O Wilson
'The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time' - Jonathan
Weiner

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In

Stephen Fry - Moab is my washpot.
Howard Marks - Mr Nice
Clive James - Falling towards England.


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Fiction:

The Sun (Monday 3 Jan 05 issue) - various contributors
It's a toughie, but I'll persevere

 

Command of the Ocean by NAM Rodger.

 

[snip]

Topsy & Tim - New Shoes

 

Tales from a small island - Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson is the only author who has ever made me laugh out loud
when reading a book.

 

I'd recommend that too, I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would,

 

Non fiction:
How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern
Delusions
Francis Wheen

Fiction:
Pompeii
Robert Harris

 

ITYM Notes from a Small Island. It was ok but largely spoiled for me
by Bryson's insistence on banging on about his political agenda
(heritage preservation).

Notes from a Big Country is a far superior Bryson book IMHO which
genuinely amused me.

 

Thanks wessie. I'll enjoy that, I would think.

 

<added to amazon basket>

Thanks Elly.

 

Ding. Plus "A Short History of Everything" or whatever it's called.

 

No.

 

Read it. Not great.

Read it. Think he's a cock.

Read it. Liked it.

 

Did you get hold of copies of "In Dubious Battle" and "Log from the Sea
of Cortez" (both Steinbeck)? If you didn't, get to it.

 

<amazoned>

Looks pos. Thanks.

 

<carted>

Not my usual reading matter, so intriguing. Thanks.