December 2010
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day 11
A book I hated:
No comment.
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day 10
Favourite ‘classic’ book:
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night. (Is this a classic? It is from my perspective…)
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day 9
A book I thought I wouldn’t like but ended up loving:
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (in translation).
Bayard’s Cosette (1862 edition).
the thunder of their tread
Then fast the horsemen followed, where the gorges deep and black Resounded to the thunder of their tread, And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back From cliffs and crags that beetled overhead. And upward, ever upward, the wild horses held their way, Where mountain ash and kurrajong grew wide; And the old man muttered fiercely, “We may bid the mob good day, No...
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day 8
Most overrated book:
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.
day 7
Most underrated book:
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World.
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day 6
A book that makes me feel sad:
Albert Camus, The Outsider.
