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TBR Book Challenge- 2008 Edition…

So…here I am, taking on my very first online, book challenge…After checking a number of the available ones, out there, I finally settled on this one -mainly in the hope that it will help me manage my book addiction & tackle the resulting, ever-expanding number of unread titles on my bookshelves (see relevant entry below) 😆 I won’t be joining the Yahoo group available for this purpose, so my two lists (main & alternate) for this year’s edition will have to be posted here: Main Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Sleep with Me Lolita The Devil & Miss Prym The Tenderness of Wolves Twilight The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox The Interpretation of Murder The Lollipop Shoes Extra Virgin Nights of Rain & Stars The Long Way Round Alternate The Observations Minus 9 to 1 Plan B A Girl’s Guide to Vampires Death by Chocolate Twenty Times a Lady A Short History of Nearly Everything Ps. I Love You In the Dark of Night Full Dark House Love in the …

Books! Gorgeous books…

I think I’ve developed a serious addiction to…books! I’d never really thought about it and had refused to pay any attention to the uncontrollable urge that came over me, every time I passed Waterstones or approached an FNAC these last 6 years. I didn’t even worry about the fact that I’d go on city trips (to Paris, Amsterdam, London, Edinburgh) and come back dragging a stone-heavy luggage, half-filled with books (not city guides mind you) -instead of perfume, clothes, accessories or the usual souvenirs & local specialties you’d expect a normal person to buy. And through it all, the books kept accumulating and my collection of shelves and storage units grew proportionately. Moving back from Brussels I knew I’d had a good 6 boxes of books sent ahead, not to mention another couple dozen titles, still unread, back home. That, somehow, didn’t stop me from heading straight to the airport Press Point and making yet another little purchase 🙄 . Shortly after settling back home, I realized the city had a brand new, huge, international …

On my bookshelf…

I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now. The idea came to me during my last trip back home, when I eventually managed to finish that dreaded “Historian” novel I’d been dragging around for the last couple of months (!!). It’s true, I’ve since read another 600 page book & am currently half way through a third one but…whatever. This is not the time to get into my procrastination issues 😆 So, instead of dwelling on the amount of time that has passed, I’ll just jump straight in & record my thoughts about my 2 latest reads. “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova Apparently a debut novel, this first made its way to the bookstore shelves around the summer of 2005. I, however, only got hold of it around the end of 2006. Which was just as well since, somehow, wintertime seemed much more appropriate for this modern twist of the Dracula legend. I briefly forgot all about my motto (“Expect the worse…”) and happily dove into the book as soon as I …