Liser's A-Z Challenge: Jan 19, 2007

A-Z Challenge

I am doing the A-Z challenge this year and wanted somewhere to keep track of my books, so here I am.
I have also included a score out of 5. I have been lucky so far, lots of 4's and 5's.
5=Excellent 4=Very Good 3=Alright 2=Not so Good 1=Don't Bother

A - A Complicated Kindness - Mirium Toews Completed Jan. 16 5/5

B - Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Completed Jan. 19 4/5

C - Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America - Steve Almond Completed Jan. 24 5/5

D - Drop City - T.C. Boyle Completed Feb. 13 4/5

E - Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland Completed Feb. 15 4/5

F - The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom Completed Jan. 29 3/5

G - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Completed Jan. 10 5/5

H - Honey Don't - Tim Sandlin Completed May 9 3/5

I - Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palanhiuck Completed March 9 4/5

J - Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins Completed June 27 5/5

K - The Kindness of Strangers - Donald George Completed April 19 3/5

L - Lisey's Story - Stephen King Completed April 21 2/5

M - Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris Completed Jube 29 4/5

O - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Completed March 6 4/5

P - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind Completed Feb. 27 0/5

Q - The Quiet American - Graham Green Completed July x 3/5

R - Republic of Love - Carol Shields Completed May 29 4/5

S - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock- Completed July 24 2/5

V - Volkswagon Blues - Jacques Poulin Completed May 29 4/5

X - X20: A Novel of "Not" Smoking - Richard Beard Completed August 20 4/5

Z - The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead - Max Brookes Completed July 1 3/5

The Plan

N - Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

T - Tourist Season - Carl Hiaasen

U - Until I Find You - John Irving

W - Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Y - You Can't Get There From Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World - Gayle Forman

Friday, January 19, 2007

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Completed Jan. 19 4/5

What can I say? It's Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He was a fave of mine back in jr high and high school, and I read everything of his back then. It's been a few years and I've forgotten most of them, so I thought I'd start rereading them. This was as funny as I remembered from the first time around. I especially enjoy the drawings. :) The copy I read is so old the cover fell off about 10 pages in.

First sentence: This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
Last sentence: Here is what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!" ETC.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.