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Gulliver Schlop's Pal

Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 451 Location: Next to the Rainbow Pillow
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:22 pm Post subject: Books of 2014 |
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Hi.
I saw DJ's post about the films he saw in 2014 and figured I should make one about the books I read. Luckily Goodreads shows a lot of statistics so I didn't need mini-nibs' help.
All told I read 58 books in 2014 for a total of 17,722 pages. Pretty impressive, good to know.
I gave 9 books a perfect 5 stars, 29 books 4 stars, 15 books 3 stars, and 5 books 2 stars. The longest book I read was The Innovators at 528 pages. I read 44 audiobooks, 14 books in the Mom Book Club, and 3 books in the Lee Book Club.
My 5 favorite books were:
5) The Rosie Project. Don is the coolest protagonist and now I am reading the sequel. Also I tweeted the author.
4) How We Got To Now. I was able to regale Lee with all sorts of interesting facts about whales and glass and stuff. It would have been higher but the narrator was bad.
3) The Art of Asking. 3 words - take the donut.
2) Yes Please. Amy Poehler rocks.
1) Black Swan Green. Amazing. _________________ Answer: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages"
Question: Who is Gulliver? |
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DJ Outback Bean

Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 286 Location: Rainbow Pillow
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:17 pm Post subject: Hrmmm |
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That's pretty interesting Gulliver, I guess.
Although you don't have a graph I notice. I made a nice graph of my movies. Too bad.
Also I don't think audiobooks really count as reading, do they? If I close my eyes during a movie does that mean I 'read' the movie? Therefore you really only read 14 books last year. _________________ Zupancakes |
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Duddles Dinky Bean

Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 264 Location: Rainbow Pillow, Pajama Pants
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:19 pm Post subject: Donut shop |
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Hullo.
Two donuts for me please.
And a cruller for Petri.
Hoo hoo! _________________ Where's Petri? |
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Petri Bow Down Before This Bean

Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 114 Location: Rainbow Pillow
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:20 pm Post subject: Oh dear! |
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Uh oh - Duddles is under a strict no donut diet. We are very worried about his cotton sugar levels. He has less cotton now so any time he eats a little sugar he gets way way way too active.
Maybe we can change the 'take the donut' message to something more appropriate like 'take the arugula'? _________________ Duddles' deeds be done. |
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Nibs Schlopstakovich Superstar

Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 769 Location: In the Bear Cave (made of covers)
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:26 pm Post subject: 2014 Book Report |
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While researching what books we read in 2015, we came across this report about 2014 that was in email. Even though it's a year late, seems like I should put this in the forums for posterity:
2014 LIST OF BOOKS LEE READ
The Broken Spears (Aztec)
The Stars My Destination
The Last Stand
The Art of Asking
2014 LIST OF BOOKS LEE DIDNT FINISH READING (%read)
Gone Girl (50%)
Oil (40%)
Ender's Game (15%)
The Power of Myth (25%)
Lost in Shangri-La (60%)
Mr Penumbra's 24 hr Bookstore (50%)
The Girl in the Road (5%)
Black Swan Green (60%)
In Search of the Old Ones (Anasazi) (35%)
Self Compassion (50%) |
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Nibs Schlopstakovich Superstar

Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 769 Location: In the Bear Cave (made of covers)
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:30 pm Post subject: Let the record show! |
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Actually I'm pretty sure that during this year Lee also read:
The Wild Truth- Carinne McCandless
So let's up the total to 5! |
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