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This is the third list of books I’ve been reading. (One and two). I’m not sure what made me start doing this. Even writing a couple of sometimes sarcastic comments about each book can be hard work. It’s worth doing though, I reckon. To be accurate, the first two of these should have really been included in the last batch, but I forgot about them so they’re here instead. Anyway, without any further ado, here is the list:
Something that occurred to me when I wrote my previous list of books I’d been reading is that I’d only got through 13 books in the whole year. I did a quick mental calculation on how many more years I might expect to live, and thus how many more books I might read EVER! It wasn’t many.
With that in mind the obvious course of action would be to select each and every precious book wisely. But no, because as before these are mostly books I found lying around the house rather than ones I chose. On the other hand, I did decide to write the list more frequently from now on, not least because I might drop dead at any moment and leave the world wondering what garbage I’d been filling my head with in my final days. So, without any further ado, on to the list:
I’m pleased to be able to say that this year I managed to get back to reading more fiction. None of it, unless by accident, was actually fiction from this year – it just so happens that I read it this year. I’m no more interested in the latest book than I am in the latest blockbuster movie, which if it’s any good will still be good when it’s on TV. Mostly, these books weren’t read out of choice, but because I happened to find them lying around the house, and in any case this is only the stuff I can remember. Nonetheless, without any further ado, I present my review of fiction for 2008:
