Monday, July 16, 2007

yet more books!

Seeing as I'm now living in HK and buying and borrowing good books rather than reading anything left in a backpackers’ book swap my scoring system wasn't differentiating books so... I've restarted the list and reset the scale (does that make me a little sad?!?)

River Town, Two Year on the Yangtze;- Peter Hessler (6/10) 69
The Hotel on the Roof of the World (5 years in Tibet);- alec Le Sueur (7/10) 76
Everyman;- Philip Roth (7/10) 68
The Poisonwood Bible;- Barbara Kingsolver (7/10) 77
A Long Way Down;- Nick Hornby (6/10) 68
We Need to Talk About Kevin;- Lionel Shriver (8/10) 82
A Scanner Darkly;- Philip K Dick (6/10) 69
Never Let me Go;- Kazuo Ishiguro (8/10) 81
A Child Called It;- Dave Pelzer (6/10) 64
Wicked:- Gregory Maguire (7/10) 73
Life of Pi;- Yann Martel (7/10) 74
Cat's Eyes;- Margaret Atwood (7/10) 68
Dracula;- Bram Soker (8/10) 87
The Wasp Factory;- Iain Banks (6/10) 59
Weight;- Jeanette Winterson (6/10) 60
Smacked;- Melinda Ferguson (6/10) 58
Birthday Stories;- Haruki Murakami (7/10) 75
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian;- Marina Lewycka (6/10) 65
A Russian Journal;- John Steinbeck (7/10) 78
How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You;- Leil Lowndes (2/10) 20
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks;- Polly Evans (6/10) 61
The Crow Road;- Iain Banks (7/10) 73
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas;- Hunter S Thompson (6/10) 68
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea;- Jules Verne (7/10) 72
Lanzarote;- Michel Houelebec (4/10) 41
Shallows:- Tim Winton (6/10) 61
Notes on a scandal;- Zoe Heller (5/10) 55
The Collector:- John Fowles (9/10) 86
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;- Mark Twain (7/10) 69
Adventures of Tom Sawyer;- Mark Twain (6/10) 66
East of Eden;- John Steinbeck (9/10) 87
Dirt Music;- Tim Winton (7/10) 71
Our Man in Havana;- Graham Greene (6/10) 65
The Pearl;- John Steinbeck (6/10) 60
Delta of Venus;- Anais Nin (7/10) 67
In Cold Blood;- Trueman Capote (7/10) 68
The Food of Love; - Anthony Capella (6/10) 57
Captain Corelli's Mandolin;- Louis de Bernieres (7/10) 72
The Innocent;- Ian McEwan (6/10) 50
The Lovely Bones;- Alice Sebold (6/10) 55
The Kite Runner;- Khaled Hosseini (8/10) 78
Man and Wife;- Tony Parsons (4/10) 48