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Julie and Julia by Julie Powell.
How to cook your way through a whole cook book in one year. Less recipes, more about finding your way when you're lost in your late twenties, how to stop hating your life. Enjoyed it very much but have no desire to cook butter laden Julia Child recipes.
The Barmaid's Brain by Jay Ingram.
Stories from the edges of science. Fun, thought provoking and led to many "did you know" between me and my husband (and yes, half the time he did, the little rat).
Now: The Historianby Elizabeth Kostova.
Couldn't wait until our holiday... Convinced myself that I probably don't want to lug 800 pages along anyway (at least not as a single book) and therefore it would be legit to buy (the library copy I was trying ot for size was just a little too dingy) and read it now. Vampires here I come!

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Originally uploaded by Bokmalen.

This was the year when I started with the good intentions of keeping track of my reading. Well, fat chance. Some of the books I read during the first 3 months are in this pile, but notes about them? Not quite happening. Well, the highlights were Gaskell and Austin, as well as the Gaiman book. In the midfield the Hustvedt novel which was good, but not AS good as it has been hyped to be, and the Murakami novel which once again failed to live up to the promise of his Norwegian Woods (which I though fantastic- I guess it is always going to be downhill from those dizzying heights?). All others were good, except The Master (uah, what a bore!) and The Tiger's Child. I remember reading novels by Hayden about 15 years ago, thought they were great. This one, not so much and it is mainly the style I hate. Perhaps I should re-read the others and see what I think now? Or perhaps better leave them alone.