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I've finished the 20 more books for the 101 Books in 1,001 Days Challenge hosted by Twiga at Journey to the End of the TBR Pile:41. It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong42. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos43. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos44. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris45.

Title: Half of a Yellow Sun Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Date Finished: Sept 18, 2008 #54 Pages: 541 Rating: 4.25/5 I have been wanting to read this book for a long time--ever since Adichie was announced as the winner of the Orange Prize last year--so I jumped on the opportunity it read it with an online discussion group this month.

Context: Finished this off on my bed as a migraine kicked in. REVIEW It’s going to be a while before I read another “classic American novel.” One of the few things that I was thankful for while reading this was that it was half the length of Underworld by DeLillo. Apart from that, there wasn’t much else that impressed me.

Context: Read this during breaks while studying at the Wycliffe UK centre. REVIEW Haven’t read the Tempest by Shakespeare but apparently, this is based on it. Don’t really understand why you’d bother to rewrite Shakespeare. I mean, you can hardly improve on him can you.

I’m currently reading The Well-Fed Self-Publisher by Peter Bowerman. An excellent read, using one big case study (his own experiences) of how he’s turned the self-publishing of a couple niche non-fiction books into a full-time living.

Context: Finished off in the garden while housesitting for some friends. REVIEW Forget Jane Eyre. Yes, I said forget her. There is such a huge chasm of difference between these books that you’d hardly think they were by the same author. I speak not of plot. No science fiction or detective thriller is Villette.

17,872 people (ack!) downloading the first edition of the 1001 books spreadsheet convinced me that when this year’s revised edition of the book came out, Arukiyomi just had to respond. Get your copy of the new VERSION 2 spreadsheet for 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

by Mark Twain As usual when I read a classic of this caliber, there is not a single innovative thing I can say. It's all been dissected and studied more closely than I will ever attempt on these pages. I will say this, however: If you have not yet read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, you truly are missing out.

Context: started this on a walk in the country in Portugal with my family. REVIEW Never heard of this and would never have done if it wasn’t for the 1001 list. It’s books like this that justify lists like these.

So many people have written a review of this book already that I think it would be a little redundant of me to do another plot summary (yawn). Suffice it to say that the plot really revolves around three characters: Briony Tallis, who’s thirteen in the summer of 1935, her sister Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the charlady’s son, who conducts an illicit romance with her.