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Going with the flow and posting my reading list from 2007. These are the ones I can remember, there may be others but if so I've forgotten.

In no particular order :

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Pulp : A Novel - Charles Bukowski
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Dying Animal - Philip Roth
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I'm not sure that this is finished, but I followed where the story lead, and who am I to argue with that?
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Taking my cue from Virgil, I thought I would list the books I read with my book club, Prose and Cons, for 2007, and the average of how the group rated them. We rate them 1 to 10, 10 being the best. We do not follow Oprah's choices but sometimes she chooses ours. LOL I rated almost everything between a 7 and 8. I have a terrible time giving a book a bad rating unless it is really REALLY bad.

March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks 9.0
Winter Dance: The Fine Madness of Running the ...

Auni sat in her chair in the second to last row, far to the corner. Looking out the window, she had her chin resting on her fisted hand. Some red cardinals sat on the chain link fence, and she desired that she could be able to go fly away with them. Leaving all her troubles behind. Suddenly a rolled up paper was thrown at her and her mind was raced back to reality.

“Auni, what is the capital of Andorra?” Mr. Baker asked.

“What? Oh, Andorra la Vella. Right?”
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Here's a list of my reads (other than poetry) for the year. It's quite humble compared to some who can read an unbleivable amount. I enjoyed most of them. The Irving and the Capote were probably the duds from the list. I also did not read much history (only perused, and so I didn't list it) or any biographies at all. One should always include a history or biography in an annual read. I usually do. But alas not this year. Don Quixote did take up a bit of time. But it was well worth it. ...