My Weekly Book

OK, 2006 officially starts here…

I’ve been wanting rather badly to get that backlog of 2005 books read recorded in this journal and out of the way. The reason being that I rather foolishly decided back at the beginning of January to take part in the LiveJournal 50 Book Challenge.

The aim is, simply, to read 50 books during the course of the year. That’s roughly a book a week so it is quite an undertaking. I hadn’t been reading all that much in 2005, for lots of complicated and unlikely-to-be-repeated reasons. And this seemed the perfect way to put a rocket under 2006.

I had planned to kick off with Everest South West Face by Chris Bonington after picking up a second-hand copy in the delightful Cook Book café and bookshop in St Just (no website that I can find, sadly, but you could visit http://www.landsendarea.co.uk/index.asp). However reading, like life, is often what happens while you are making other plans.

Therefore having decided to count re-reads I did not argue with the copy of The da Vinci Code that fell off the shelf and into my hand. The time just seemed to be right, that’s all. A separate entry on that will follow.

Anyway. Some statistics:

* One book out of 50 read

* Which represents 2 per cent of the challenge

* To be followed by Everest South West Face by Chris Bonington, Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin and the non-fictional Success in Politics: a comparative study by Neil McNaughton. This is, not to put too fine a point on it, a textbook for politics students but is very interesting in the way it deconstructs the institutions of the British state and the differences in philosophy between political parties. You can thank my new-found engagement with political campaigning for this and, if you want to know more about that, please go and check out The Botheration Log.

Right. Up a mountain I go.

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