Skyrider
From Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
Joined Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Home page www.mazumdar.org
Recent Book Activity
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Shadow of the Wind
Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline
Out
Heart-Shaped Box
The Girl of His Dreams
Nefertiti (Rai Rahotep 1)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Fire Study (Book 3 in The Study Trilogy) (MIRA)
The Bird Room
The End of Mr Y
The Children of Men
Poison Study (Book 1 in The Study Trilogy) (MIRA)
Survivor
Magic Study (Book 2 in The Study Trilogy)
The Other Hand
Poppy Shakespeare
God's Spy
The Seven Days of Peter Crumb
Flashman (The Flashman Papers)
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new member referrals | 0 | 3 |
forum posts | 0 | 22 |
Extended Profile
Currently reading:
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
Currently listening:
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Current book[rings|rays]:
A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
run by
SheWhoReads
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
run by
Fellraven
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson
run by
Catwoman
Da Vinci Code, the by Dan Brown run by fannynatalie
Die for Love by Elizabeth Peters run by shaunesay
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
run by me — PM me to join!
Favourite Book Journal by various BookCrossers
French Revolutions by Tim Moore
run by me —
PM me to join!
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
run by
citrus
Muddle Earth by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
run by
lady-anglophile
Toast by Nigel Slater
run by
redhouse
When the Phone Rang by various BookCrossers run by Maurean
Wind Up Bird Chronicle, the by Haruki Murakami
run by me — PM me to join!
The Winshaw Legacy by Jonathan Coe
run by
mdhistorian
[Crossed-out rings|rays are still going on — and are possibly still joinable — but have moved beyond the orbit of SkyRider Towers.]
Whenever I visit someone's house, I always look over their bookshelves to gague the sort of people they are. I'm now really hoping that nobody does this to me, since the these are the books that I reckoned I wouldn't be likely to want to read again. In some ways, I suppose they're almost an antithesis of me.
But it's not quite that simple. There are lots of books — light adventure stories, whodunnits, fantasies — that can be great to read but are genuinely "single use".
So don't try to look at me. Look at the books instead...!
I've given in to peer pressure and set up a wish list. Given that my "to read" pile is already immense though, the wish list isn't large....
Well, I've seen this happening on so many other people's profiles that I thought I'd give it a shot myself. I normally read 40ish books a year, so this'll direct a substantial part of my annual reading. Anyway, books read so far in 2005 include (but aren't limited to):
Stop press: Alphabet completed on 29-Dec-2005, so I just made it!
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
Currently listening:
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Current book[rings|rays]:
Da Vinci Code, the by Dan Brown run by fannynatalie
Die for Love by Elizabeth Peters run by shaunesay
When the Phone Rang by various BookCrossers run by Maurean
[Crossed-out rings|rays are still going on — and are possibly still joinable — but have moved beyond the orbit of SkyRider Towers.]
Whenever I visit someone's house, I always look over their bookshelves to gague the sort of people they are. I'm now really hoping that nobody does this to me, since the these are the books that I reckoned I wouldn't be likely to want to read again. In some ways, I suppose they're almost an antithesis of me.
But it's not quite that simple. There are lots of books — light adventure stories, whodunnits, fantasies — that can be great to read but are genuinely "single use".
So don't try to look at me. Look at the books instead...!
I've given in to peer pressure and set up a wish list. Given that my "to read" pile is already immense though, the wish list isn't large....
Through the Alphabet in a Year
Well, I've seen this happening on so many other people's profiles that I thought I'd give it a shot myself. I normally read 40ish books a year, so this'll direct a substantial part of my annual reading. Anyway, books read so far in 2005 include (but aren't limited to):
- Albom, Mitch: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Brown, Dan: Angels and Demons
- Coren, Victoria and Skelton, Charlie: Once More With Feeling
- Deere, Jack: Surprised by the Power of the Spirit
- Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex
- Feynman, Richard P.: Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman
- Gaiman, Neil: American Gods
- Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male
- Iles, Francis: Before the Fact
- Jensen, Liz: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
- Kingsolver, Barbara: Prodigal Summer
- Lloyd-Jones, Martyn: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
- Margolis, Jonathan: Michael Palin
- Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time-Traveller's Wife
- Ortberg, John: If You Want To Walk On Water You've Got To Get Out Of The Boat
- Preston, Richard: The Demon in the Freezer
- Queneau, Raymond: Exercises in Style
- Reynolds, Alistair: Redemption Ark
- Steel, Mark: It's Not a Runner Bean
- Truss, Lynne: Making the Cat Laugh
- Updike, John: The Witches of Eastwick
- Vidal, Gore: A Search for the King
- Warren, Rick: The Purpose Driven Life
- Xingjian, Gao: Soul Maountain
- Yancey, Philip: Reaching For the Invisible God
- Zelazny, Roger: Lord of Light
Stop press: Alphabet completed on 29-Dec-2005, so I just made it!