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#21 – Right Ho, Jeeves!
Right Ho, Jeeves! P.G. Wodehouse Fiction Read from 5/23 – 5/26 My grade: 9 Not exactly like The Inimitable Jeeves. This one had one plot, rather than several discrete misadventures.
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#20 – Very Good, Jeeves!
Very Good, Jeeves! P.G. Wodehouse Fiction Read from 5/18 – 5/22 My grade: 9 Exactly the same as The Inimitable Jeeves, which nonetheless got an 8. Mysterious!
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#5 – A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast By Ernest Hemingway Memoir Read from 1/31 – 2/6 My grade: 9 I only had two notions about A Moveable Feast before I read it. First, it was featured in the world’s saddest movie, City of Angels. Second, I hear it referenced a lot as food porn, full of descriptions of sumptuous [...]
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#39 – Freakonomics
Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Non-Fiction Read 10/29/05 – 11/1/05 My Grade: 9 Birthday present! I loved all the ec and research stuff. Basically, it was perfect except it was congratulatory for the whole intro, and then sporadically throughout. Of course, the actual content was great. I particularly liked the abortion bit – I [...]
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#37 – Wake Up, Sir!
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames Fiction Read 10/23/05 – 10/25/05 My Grade: 9 I loved this so much. It was – like the back says seven times – hilarious. It’s about a 30 year old writer/total lunatic. He has (or does he?) a butler named Jeeves, the best part of the book. The protagonist goes [...]
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling Children’s (Ha!) / Fantasy Read from 8/19/05 – 9/1/05 My Grade: 9 I liked this one a bit more than #5. I, like Harry, was glad to finally get some goddamned backstory. And to see the Malfoy gun finally go off – what was that, five books [...]
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#24 – The Winter Queen
The Winter Queen Boris Akunin Mystery Read from 8/5/05 – 8/9/05 My Grade: 9 This is the first in a series of Russian detective novels set in the 1870s. Quite funny, perfect main character, so I’m looking forward to more translations. The mystery in this one is the suicide of a student that turns into [...]
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#16 – Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein Sci-fi Read from 6/13/05 – 6/16/05 My Grade: 9 A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and hilarity ensues. Mike teaches his new friends all sorts of Martian powers, the consequences of sharing a glass of water, the rightness of orgies, and the delights of cannibalism. [...]
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#14 – When We Were Orphans
When We Were Orphans By Kazuo Ishiguro Fiction Read from 6/3/05 – 6/6/05 My Grade: 9 Story of an English detective whose search for his kidnapped parents is told through flashbacks mixed with his childhood memories. This was pretty spectacular. Ishiguro is a great writer, though he wasn’t what I expected. After Murakami, I was [...]
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#11 – Dance Dance Dance
Dance Dance Dance By Haruki Murakami Fiction Read from 5/9/05 – 5/15/05 My Grade: 9 I bought this when it was recommended in one of the magazines – The Atlantic or The Believer maybe. It was great. Halfway through I thought it was perfect. Now I’m slightly conflicted, but the conflict is between “that was [...]
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