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1QuestingA
Jan. 6, 2013, 11:49 am

Last year I read 23 of a proposed 30. This year, I once again aim to read 30 of the books that I have owned pre-2012. Hope to empty a box!!

1. The Savage Garden by Mark Mills

2Yells
Jan. 6, 2013, 1:16 pm

I started that one twice and never got far. It looks so good so I kept coming back to it. What did you think?

3rocketjk
Jan. 7, 2013, 1:12 pm

Happy reading in 2013. I'll be following along.

4QuestingA
Jan. 9, 2013, 6:55 pm

Hi bucketyell and rocketjk. Thanks for saying HI.

bucketyell, I enjoyed The Savage Garden from the beginning. It may have helped that I was on a 5 hour train trip when I started it (and had time and motivation to read), but I think I'd've enjoyed it anyway. A few years ago I read another of Mark Mill's books - The Whaleboat House. This was similar in style, though set in America. I really liked it too.

2. The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson

Most of this I read last year, but as I finished it this year it gets counted here. Very good, like all of the other books I've read from Geoffrey Robertson.

5QuestingA
Jan. 24, 2013, 2:56 pm

3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Mark Eggers

I can't remember where I picked this up from, second hand, but it was definitely pre-2013. The language and writing style were clever and engaging. A sad situation.

6QuestingA
Feb. 15, 2013, 1:12 pm

4. Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer

Not my favourite Georgett Heyer book, but still enjoyable. I did like the descriptions of Regency life and historical characters.

7QuestingA
Mrz. 23, 2013, 2:22 pm

5. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire

An amazing, horrible story.

8littlegreycloud
Mrz. 23, 2013, 4:13 pm

I can imagine. We went to see the play "Hate Radio" by Milo Rau on the same subject a couple of years ago -- strongly recommended.

9QuestingA
Mrz. 24, 2013, 2:09 pm

Hi littlegreycloud. I hadn't heard of 'hate radio' so googled it. While reading the book I kept wondering what the radio broadcasts had sounded like. How had they packaged the message. Interesting that they were able to re-create some of it.

10littlegreycloud
Mrz. 26, 2013, 8:38 am

Definitely go see it if you have a chance.

11QuestingA
Apr. 6, 2013, 1:12 pm

6. Historical Detectives edited by Mike Ashley

I've been reading this for about a year. It's good to be finished, but now I'll have to find something else to read with my Sunday morning coffee.

12QuestingA
Apr. 29, 2013, 6:51 pm

7. She's the one by Cathy Kelly

I won this in a raffle at a local fair. Not my kind of book.

13QuestingA
Mai 6, 2013, 8:26 am

8. The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

This book was great.

14QuestingA
Jun. 30, 2013, 9:24 am

9. No Logo by Naomi Klein

I picked this up second hand a couple of years ago. I'm glad I read it.

15QuestingA
Aug. 19, 2013, 2:38 pm

10. The Civil Wars of England by John Kenyon

I've owned this book for years. May even have already read it once. Now it is out of a box and on my book shelf!

16QuestingA
Okt. 7, 2013, 7:51 am

11. Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
12. Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer
13. Because the Night by James Ellroy
14. My Life as Emperor by Su Tong
15. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

17QuestingA
Okt. 15, 2013, 3:23 pm

16. She by H. Rider Haggard

This was left behind by a departing housemate many year ago. Enjoyable.

18QuestingA
Okt. 27, 2013, 7:49 am

17. I am a cat by Soseki Natsume

This book belongs to my sister but I've been meaning to read it for ages. Lovely and enjoyable. I liked the quirky narration and observations on the individual characters and the society they lived in.

19QuestingA
Nov. 10, 2013, 9:02 am

18. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

I've owned this book for decades and am really pleased I've read it at last.

20littlegreycloud
Nov. 13, 2013, 2:08 pm

>18 QuestingA:: I'm immediately feeling less guilty about having owned it since 2004 and not yet it read. Its day will come! :)

21QuestingA
Nov. 21, 2013, 5:54 pm

Hi littlegreycloud. I think I picked Mary Barton up in about 1993! And I suspect it's not the oldest book in the boxes.

I hope you enjoy it when you read it. I thought it was good.

22littlegreycloud
Bearbeitet: Nov. 28, 2013, 4:28 pm

:) I'm glad I'm not alone... I definitely have books dating back at least a couple of decades, too.

23QuestingA
Dez. 21, 2013, 6:39 am

19. Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson

This was a re-read of a children's book I've owned, again, for decades. It's now out of the box and given away. Cleverly conceived and written.

24QuestingA
Dez. 28, 2013, 9:10 am

20. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Another re-read of a children's book.

25imyril
Dez. 28, 2013, 1:30 pm

20> Mrs Frisby was a huge favourite of mine! Although I remember that the treatment of it and The Black Cauldron by Disney (?) teaching me the lesson young that it doesn't do to get excited when Hollywood gets involved ;)