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finished 08.30.08
I loved this book. At first. And I liked the idea of it. Burma/Myanmar, American tourists kidnapped, an all-knowing spirit narrating. But somewhere along the way I just lost it. I finished, of course, but somehow lost interest.
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December 31st, 2004 · 3 Comments
This year I set my hands on 50 books and finished 31 of them. Here’s a complete list.
- Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
- Great Expectations: Novelization by Deborah Chiel finished 12.16.04
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck finished 12.05.04
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie finished 11.30.04
- Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry finished 11.27.04
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald finished 11.27.04
- Minipops : Famous People Drawn Really Small by Craig Robinson
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith finished 11.05.04
- Never a City So Real : A Walk in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz finished 10.15.04
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by the writers of The Daily Show & Jon Stewart
- The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathon Lethem finished 10.02.04
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez finished 08.29.04
- An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott finished 08.24.04
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson finished 08.08.04
- The Risk Pool by Richard Russo finished 07.29.04
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss finished 07.21.04
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin finished 07.18.04
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton finished 07.11.04
- A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain finished 07.06.04
- Middlesex : A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides finished 06.18.04
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby finished 05.27.04
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson finished 05.19.04
- New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary: With a Concise Grammar and Given Names in Hawaiian by Mary Kawena Pukui & Samuel H. Elbert
- Discover Kaua’i: The Garden Isle by Stu Dawrs
- A Pocket Guide to Hawaii’s Birds by H. Douglas Pratt finished 05.05.04
- A Pocket Guide to Hawaii’s Underwater Paradise by John P. Hoover finished 05.05.04
- Hawaii Blossoms by Dorothy Hargreaves & Hargreaves finished 05.03.04
- Atonement : A Novel by Ian McEwan finished 04.24.04
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken finished 04.20.04
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan finished 04.08.04
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris finished 03.15.04
- Honky by Dalton Conley finished 02.03.04
- 97 Orchard Street, New York : Stories of Immigrant Life by Linda Granfield (Author) and Arlene Alda (Photographer) finished 01.26.04
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown finished 01.24.04
- Greenwich Village: A Guide to America’s Legendary Left Bank by Judith Stonehil finished 01.19.04
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom finished 01.11.04
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