14. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes (I would've loved this as a teenager. Now, not so much.)
15. Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold - Michael Benanav ♥ (Loved it! Interesting read about the culture and lifestyle of people living in the Sahara desert, and interesting facts about the salt mines deep in the middle of the desert.)
16. Desert Flower - Waris Dirie (+) (A memoir of a girl growing up in Africa, who was taken as a young child to be a slave, eventually escaping captivity. Great read.)
17. Cool Water - Diane Warren (+) (Short stories, fairly enjoyable.)
18. Waiting for Joe - Sandra Birdsell (+) (Hmm... the kind of book that makes you think about what would happen if you faced your biggest fears- a couple facing bankruptcy, living in a motor home.. somehow they rise up from their difficulties and carry on.)
19. Room - Emma Donoghue (+) (Interesting plot- the experience of a woman who was kidnapped and held captive for 7 years, as told from the perspective of her young son- manages to be innocent and hopeful, and not at all creepy.)
20. Ender's Shadow (audiobook) - Orson Scott Card (+) (Loved this book as a follow up to Ender's Game, too bad his other 2 books in the trilogy completely ruined his writing for me.)
21. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (+) (I guess I liked it? Understated story that I suppose ultimately struck me as moving, though I really don't care for his writing style.)
22. The Best Laid Plans - Terry Fallis (+) (One of the best reads this year- if you can believe that of a political novel set on Capitol Hill in Ottawa! The authour has a dry wit that saves it from drudgery, and the premise is equally tongue in cheek- a politician with integrity.)
23. The Matter with Morris - David Bergen (Man going through mid-life crisis. Once I looked at the picture of the authour on the back flap, the rest of the book creeped me out, with his protagonist lusting over a much-younger woman.)
24. The Bone Cage - Angie Abdou (Interesting look into life as an Olympic athlete, though to me read a bit like a lurid romance novel.)
25. Annabel - Kathleen Winter (+) (Great read! A modern day east coast folk tale.)
26. Light Lifting - Alexander MacLeod (-) (abandoned)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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