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The Road – Cormac McCarthy – Dystopia – Eclectic Reader Challenge 2013
I first read Cormac McCarthy years ago. I read Blood Meridian and really enjoyed it. It was gritty, violent, nihilistic and it really appealed to me. It is a little shameful that it has taken more than...
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Eclectic Reading Challenge – Made into a Movie – Election – Tom Perotta
I loved the movie of this book. That is why I chose it for The Eclectic Reader Challenge. So I had expectations. Perhaps that was the problem. In my head, Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon and a...
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Eclectic Reader Challenge – Memoir – It’s Only A Movie – Mark Kermode.
There were a couple of reasons for picking up this book. First of all, it fulfilled the memoir category for the Eclectic Reader Challenge but, as the last couple of books I have read have been a bit...
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Venus in Furs – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Translated Literature – Eclectic...
I wanted to read something a bit different for translated literature for the Eclectic Reader Challenge and this had been on my to read list for a while. I’ve read De Sade before (although a long time...
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GLBT – Eclectic Reader Challenge 2013 – Rent Boy – Gary Indiana
I read Resentment by Gary Indiana when I finished my MPhil in 2001. I really enjoyed it and I vowed to read more of his stuff. So here I am, 12 years later, finally getting round to it by reading Rent...
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Eclectic Reader Challenge – Humour – I Can Make You Hate – Charlie Brooker
I’m quite an angry person. I don’t mean that I go out and start fights or anything like that but intellectually, it is definitely my default position. The news, the abundance of stupid people on the...
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Eclectic Reader Challenge – New Adult – The Perks of Being a Wallflower –...
I bought this book when the movie came out with the intention of reading the book and then seeing the movie. In the end, I did neither. It has been on my to-read list since then. So it seemed perfect...
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Eclectic Reader Challenge – Romantic Suspense – Awaken – Katie Kacvinsky
This genre caused me problems the first time round and this time I decided to leave it until the end as I just couldn’t decide what to read for it. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I am not a...
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Eclectic Reader Challenge – Published in 2013 – The Painted Girls – Cathy...
I wasn’t really sure what to read for this category as, in terms of genre, it could be anything really. The last book I read for this category was Levels of Life by Julian Barnes so I knew I didn’t...
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My Reading Year
It’s been a good year for reading. I’ve read almost twice as many books as last year (60 compared to 31). I’m not entirely sure why this is but I know I have not felt as enthusiastic about reading for...
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