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Reading and books.

If you’re wondering about the name 52 books, it stems from a book-a-week reading challenge I set myself. The challenge is over, but I'm still reading, and will continue to blog about the books I read and my reading experiences, and other stuff connected with books and reading.


I rate the books (if I feel like it), giving them stars ranging from zero to 5.

The 5 star rating system


Comments and recommendations are welcome

Books I have already read (sporadically updated):
Cover gallery

Note: Some of the entries are linked to the months the reviews appeared in, because I made several entries for each book. I have marked those reviews with an asterix (*). If you want to read the whole review from beginning to end, you must scroll down and read from the bottom up (but you probably already knew that ;-)
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Lists of recommended books

Books for bibliophiles
Good eating, good reading (foodie books, non-fiction)
Good reading about good eating
Enjoyable love stories and romances
Children’s books I have fond memories of, part I of II

Fiction reviews:

The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (read by Jeremy Irons)
*Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
LM Montgomery’s Anne books
Auntie Mame – Patrick Dennis
Bet Me - Jennifer Crusie
Bimbos of the Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb
Burglars can’t be choosers, The burglar in the closet - Lawrence Block
*Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Cat Who Played Brahms - Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat who Tailed a Thief - Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cereal Murders - Diane Mott Davidson
Circus of the Damned – Laurell K Hamilton
*Chocolat - Joanne Harris
*Closed at Dusk - Monica Dickens
*Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Convenient Marriage - Georgette Heyer
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Corinthian - Georgette Heyer
Cousin Kate - Georgette Heyer
Cover her face - P.D. James
*Crazy for You - Jennifer Crusie
*The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - start of review
*- end of review
*His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman - start of review
- end of review
Dauntry's Dilemma - Monique Ellis
Dead Heat – Linda Barnes
*The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Face Down Upon an Herbal - Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Flanders Panel - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Frederica - Georgette Heyer
From Doon With Death - Ruth Rendell
*The Godmother - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
The Guy Next Door - Meggin Cabot
*A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
*The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
*Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
Head Over Heels - Susan Andersen
Holes - Louis Sachar
*How to Become Ridiculously Well Read in One Evening - E.O. Parrott
*Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
*Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
*The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
Legally Blonde - Amanda Brown
Letters to Alice, on first reading Jane Austen - Fay Weldon
*The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
A Man of Many Talents - Deborah Simmons
The Man on the Balcony - Sjöwall & Wahlöö
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
The Merciful Women - Federico Andahazi
Morality for Beautiful Girls (McCall Smith) & The Cat Who Blew the Whistle (Braun)
*Murder Mysteries – Neil Gaiman
Naked in Death - J.D. Robb
*The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
*The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepúlveda
*Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot - start of review
*- end of review
One Pair of Hands - Monica Dickens
Pastures Nouveaux - Wendy Holden
The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - start of review
- final review
Pure Dead Magic, Pure Dead Wicked - Debi Gliori
The Quiet Gentleman - Georgette Heyer
*The Resurrection Club - Christopher Wallace
*The Saga of Grettir the Strong
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
See Jane Score – Rachel Gibson
Simply Irresistible - Kristine Grayson
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
*Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
*The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison - start of review
- end of review
*Synir Duftsins - Arnaldur Indriðason
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
They do it with mirrors - Agatha Christie
Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle
*Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula - Christopher Frayling
Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Zombies of the Gene Pool - Sharyn McCrumb

Non-fiction reviews:


84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, by Helene Hanff
At home with books - Estelle Ellis & Caroline Seebohm
The Book of Tea
*Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world - Mark Kurlansky - start of review
* - final review
A Cook’s Tour - Anthony Bourdain
Down Under - Bill Bryson
Driving over Lemons - Christ Stewart
Ex Libris: Confessions of a common reader - Anne Fadiman
*The Gentle Tamers - Dee Brown
*Encounters With Animals – Gerald Durrell
Four Hundred Years of Fashion
*Himself and Other Animals: Portrait of Gerald Durrell - David Hughes
*The Hollywood Musical - Jane Feuer
*Icelandic Food & Cookery - Nanna Rognvaldardottir
*Indian Folk-tales and Legends
*Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Mouse or Rat? –Umberto Eco
The Mullet: Hairstyle of the gods, - Mark Larson & Barney Hoskyns
Persepolis: The story of a childhood - Marjane Satrapi
*The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
The Real James Herriot - Jim Wight
Romanticism (The Critical Idiom series),
*Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
*Seed Leaf Flower Fruit – Maryjo Koch
*Sex and the City - Candace Bushnell
*Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers - Mary Roach - start of review
* - end of review
*Story: Substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting - Robert McKee - start of review
* - end of review
Summer at Little Lava: a season at the edge of the world – Charles Fergus
A Thousand Days in Venice - Marlena De Blasi
*A Tourist in Africa - Evelyn Waugh - start of review
* - end of review
*Tourists with Typewriters – Critical reflections on contemporary travel writing - Patrick Holland & Graham Huggan
Used & Rare; Slightly Chipped (book collecting) - Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
*What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew - Daniel Pool
*The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words - Paul Hellweg - start of review
- final review
*The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
*The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Icelanders - Richard Sale

Literary musings:

1. My changing tastes in literature
2. Biography vs. History
3. Serialization of literature (a rant) 4. Second-hand bookshops, part I
5. Second-hand bookshops, part II
6. Second-hand bookshops, part III
7. Some people have no respect for books
8. Bad cover art
9. More bad cover art
10. Cover blurbs
11. More on cover blurbs
12. Speaking of romance...
13. Regency romance
14. Literary snobbery
15. Book titles, part I
16. Book titles, part II: recycled titles
17. The poisoned book rant
18. Book titles, part III: why titles turn out bad
19. Perennial books, my top 5
20. Books I bought while on holiday
21. More literary snobbery
22. Book log and reading journal
23. Reading report
24. My love-affair with Gerald Durrell’s books
25. Funny (altered) romance book covers
26. Solving the stinky book problem

Outside links, miscellania and entertaining tidbits (from March 23rd 2005 onwards):

Nice to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live in it…
Would you look down on someone if they had no books in their home?