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I will now share with you, dear reader, everything I’ve read over the last 4 years, since my records began. I keep a small notebook in my bedside drawer, which I note the following list in and from where I have just copied it. 2002 and 2003’s haul combined is still less than 2001. However I’ve made significant inroads in 2004, though

2000

• House Atreides – Brian Herbert and Kevin J.Anderson Finished 16 JUL 2000
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling Finished 18 JUL 2000
• My Date With Satan – Stacey Something Finished 7 AUG 2000
• Smiling in Slow Motion – Derek Jarman Finished 30 AUG 2000
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling Finished 5 SEP 2000
• The Night Listener – Armistead Maupin Finished 19 SEP 2000
• Asleep – Banana Yoshimoto Finished 2 OCT 2000
• Foundation – Isaac Asimov 23 – 25 OCT 2000
• Playing the Moldovans at Tennis – Tony Hawks Finished 9 NOV 2000
• The Pornographer’s Poem – Michael Turner Finished 15 NOV 2000

2001

• Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman Finished 1 JAN 2001
• And The Earth Did Not Swallow Him – Tomas Rivera Finished 1 JAN 2001
• Wide Open – Nicola Barker Finished 17 JAN 2001
• Camberwell Beauty – Jenny Éclair Finished 20 JAN 2001
• Exile – Blake Nelson 7 – 11 MAR 2001
• The Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar 11 – 13 MAR 2001
• Big Trouble – Dave Barry 13 – 15 MAR 2001
• Ruby and the Stone Age Diet – Martin Millar 16 – 19 MAR 2001
• Four Blondes – Candace Bushnell Finished 26 MAR 2001
• Lust – Geoff Ryman 26 – 29 MAR 2001
• Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut 29 MAR – 2 APR 2001
• The Sweet Smell of Psychosis – Will Self 2 – 3 APR 2001
• C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too – John Diamond 9 – 12 APR
• Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut 13 – 19 APR 2001
• Great Apes – Will Self 23 APR – 3 MAY 2001
• Misadventures – Sylvia Smith 3 – 4 MAY 2001
• Cock and Bull – Will Self 4 – 8 MAY 2001
• Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut 16 – 19 MAY 2001
• The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut 19 – 21 MAY 2001
• Grey Area – Will Self 21 – 31 MAY 2001
• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut 8 – 18 JUN 2001
• God Bless You Dr Kevorkian – Kurt Vonnegut 18 JUN 2001
• House Harkonnen – Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson 2 – 11 JUL 2001
• Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert 12 – 19 JUL 2001
• Children of Dune – Frank Herbert 20 JUL – 4 AUG 2001
• Bilton – Andrew Martin Finished 22 AUG 2001
• Tea – Stacey d’Erasmo 23 – 27 AUG 2001
• Down Under – Bill Bryson 27 AUG – 16 SEP 2001
• Kissing In Manhattan – David Schickler 17 SEP – 1 OCT 2001
• The Brutal Language of Love – Alicia Erian 1 – 5 OCT
• The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde 5 – 14 OCT 2001
• Naïve. Super – Erland Loe 14 – 24 OCT 2001
• The Magician’s Nephew – CS Lewis 30 – 31 OCT 2001
• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 1 – 6 NOV 2001
• The Horse and His Boy CS Lewis 6 – 26 NOV 2001
• Prince Caspian – CS Lewis 26 NOV – 9 DEC 2001
• The Voyage of the Dawntreader – CS Lewis 9 DEC 2001 – 4 JAN 2002

2002

• Are You Dave Gorman? – Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace 4 – 24 JAN 2002
• The Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkein 20 FEB – 8 MAR 2002
• Cats Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut Finished 21 May 2002
• Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut 23 – 24 MAY 2002
• 1984 – George Orwell 24 MAY – 3 JUN 2002
• One Foot In The Stars – Matthew Manning 23 – 28 JUL 2002
• Pastures Nouveaux – Wendy Holden Mid JUL – 15 AUG 2002
• Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall – Spike Milligan 16 – 28 AUG 2002
• Rommel? Gunner Who? – Spike Milligan 26 AUG – 14 SEP 2002
• The Alternative Asimovs – Isaac Asimov 17 – 19 SEP 2002
• The Looney – Spike Milligan 17 SEP – 25 NOV 2002
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 25 NOV – 18 DEC 2002

2003

• The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton 25 DEC 2002 – 24 JAN 2003
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick 24 – 26 JAN 2003
• Earth Abides – George R. Stewart 26 JAN – 4 FEB 2003
• Behold The Man – Michael Moorcock 10 – 11 APR 2003
• Babel-17 – Samuel R. Delany Finished 14 MAY 2003
• Ubik – Philip K. Dick 15 MAY – 3 JUN 2003
• Sex and the City – Candace Bushnell 3 – 7 JUN 2003
• I’m Grieving As Fast As I Can – Linda Feinberg 20 – 22 JUL 2003
• Seven Choices – Elizabeth Harper Neeld PhD 22 JUL – 5 AUG 2003
• Mansfield Park – Jane Austen 16 AUG – 25 SEP 2003
• Politics – Adam Thirlwell 25 – 30 SEP 2003
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 23 – 24 DEC 2003

2004

• A Year At The Movies – Kevin Murphy 25 DEC 2003 – 3 JAN 2004
• The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran 3 – 5 JAN 2004
• On A Pale Horse – Piers Anthony 12 – 20 FEB 2004
• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 28 FEB – 4 MAR 2004
• The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin 7 – 16 MAR 2004
• The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim 16 – 29 MAR 2004
• Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett 14 – 16 MAY 2004
• Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor 18 APR – 20 MAY 2004
• Spares – Michael Marshall Smith 24 – 30 MAY 2004
• Ilium – Dan Simmons 30 MAY – 16 JUN 2004
• The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin 17 – 19 JUN 2004
• The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton 20 JUN – 5 JUL 2004
• The Europeans – Henry James 5 JUL 2004 -

Bookcrossing.com

My other venture of the day, after starting this Literary Blog – My Bookshelf at Bookcrossing.com. Basically, people can register books on this site and set them free out there in the world, leave them places to be found with a note of their registration number in them. Or you can donate them to charity shops or swap them with other interested parties. Once found the person (hopefully) comes to the site and registers their find. There’s a woman in Felixstowe who’s “caught” 102 books and registered 457! Might have to befriend her.
I’d really like to get into this, and document my adventures as I go along. Might even have to recruit a certain boyfriend of mine to get involved too!

Affecting and Effecting An Introduction

You may be wondering what has possessed me to start a literary journal. Well after a long spell of not being able to get seriously into reading, a certain someone lovely and special in my life has reawakened my love of literature and got me reading again.
I want somewhere to document what I’m reading, what I’m writing, quotes, other people’s poetry and my adventures in literature. And I want to link it to my website!
So here it is. Literary Geek – because there’s a little spot of literature in us all.

The Modern Literary Geek

This journal is part of the Literary Geek website, which is proudly presented by Turquoise Floyd’s World.
More to follow.