Our goal is to read 1 book a
week and, every so often, write a short review of each book and post it to our
blog. So, here is our current list of have-reads. We’ll update
every so often. Oh, and instead of writing reviews, we’ll just rate
them from 1-10, 10 being must read and 1 meaning, turn on the tube.
In no particular order
Alex:
The Beach - alex garland – 8.0
The Game - neil strauss - 4.0
Vanishing Act - jodi picault – 2.0
New moon - stephanie meyer – 1.0
twilight - stephanie meyer – 1.0
Eat, Pray Love – -2
The Good Rat – Jimmy Breslin
– 9.2
Losing Gemma –Katy Gardener - 3
Memoirs of a Geisha – 7.0
Dancing girls: a collection
of short stories – Margaret Atwood – 6.8 (depressing but good writing)
Girl With a Pearl
Earring – Tracy Chevalier 5.1 (kinda boring)
Mr. Nice – howard marks - 7.3
Still life with woodpecker – tom
robbins – 8.5
First they killed my father –
8
reading; anna karenina
Andrew:
Life of Pi - Yann Martel –
8.4
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell - 7.6
When Elephants Weep – 8.5
The Beach - Alex Garland – 5.1 – but fun
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie – 4.2 (but very well written and literary)
The Testament – Grisham - 2
A Time To kill – Grisham - 3
The Game - Neil Strauss – 4 unless u want to learn to pick up women (then read
the first half only)
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling 8.2
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett - 6.5 (children’s book but
nice read)
Special Topics in Calamnity
Physics – I think I’ll review this. Well written and clever but way too
pompous – ill give it a 6, out of spite, to start
Sailing Around the Room - Billy Collins 9.0 - poetry
Around the World in 80 Days –
Jules Verne 6.5 (fun, read it in 5 hours)
Portrait of an Artist as a
Young man - Joyce 8.3 (interesting
insight into catholic schooling)
Mr Nice – howard marks – 5
for writing 8.5 for story (true story about weed trafficker)
Brother Number 1: Political
Biography of Pol Pot – David Chambers – 6.2 (but informative)
A wild sheep chase – murakami
– 8.2
still life with woodpecker –
tom robbins – 8.5
Burmese days – Orwell – 8.6
(great book. his first novel)
the phantom tollbooth – norton
juster - 3.5 (A kids book i read once. for the age was great)
A wrinkle in time – Madeleine
L’Engle – 7.6
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punishment
