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Summer 2015 Reading Progress
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Tempus' Summer Reading 2015
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First Line:
Eamonn Dillon of Sinn Fein was the first to die, and he died because he planned to stop for a pint at the Celtic Bar before heading up the Falls Road to a meeting in Andersontown.
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10/08/2015 - Read The Confessor and The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time
17/08/2015 - Read Doctor Sleep and Unlucky 13
24/08/2015 - Read The Hunger Games and Camel Club
Side Books
Allegiant;
The Time Machine.
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The opening sentences:
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead.
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Nice opening sentence! Really intriguing!!
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It's quite dramatic too. The dog is dead! DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!?
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New Books
Saving Danny by Cathy Glass
Bionic Agent by Malcolm Rose
The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
The October List by Jeffrey Deaver
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Butterfly Club by Jacqueline Wilson
Hunter Killer by Chris Ryan
In Real Life by Joey Graceffa
Need to revise summer reading plan.
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Next book: The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (131 pages). Estimated Finish Date: 12 August '15.
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Opening sentence:
The stranger came early in February one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
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Now Reading
The Butterfly Club by Jacqueline Wilson. 372 pages. Expected finish: 14 August.
Opening sentences:
There are three of us. Phil and Maddie and me. We all have fair hair cut in fringes. I once tried to cut mine myself. Whoops! We have blue eyes, and Dad says we have button noses. He sometimes pretends to pinch them but it doesn't hurt.
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Now Reading: Hunter Killer by Chris Ryan. 424 pages.
Opening sentences:
They drove a Mercedes.
Nothing flash: a 30-year-old W123 that had once served as a minicab and which still had marks on the roof where the sign had been. Nobody was likely to stop and search an old Merc, carefully driven through the pouring rain.
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Struggling with Hunter Killer. If I can get to page 50 and still struggle to read the book, I will not read any more.
Next Book to Read:
The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer.
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Now Reading:
314 by A.R.Wise.
Opening sentences:
"It's going to happen in three minutes.
Will also begin The Book of Lies very soon.
READING PROGRESS :
10 AUG: The Marching Season
11 AUG: The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time
11 AUG: Saving Danny
13 AUG: The Invisible Man
14 AUG: The Butterfly Club
18 AUG: The October List
6/8 books. 12 days to go.
Personal Target: 12 books.
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Opening lines:
When Calvin Harper was five, his four-foot-eleven-inch mom ripped the pillow from his bed at three a.m. and told him that dust mites were feeding off his skin. "We need to wash it. Now!" On that night, his mom seemed to change into someone else, as if she were possessed by some ghost or devil … or demon.
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Bought 14 new books today. Likely going to start a Dickens book tomorrow!
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Next to Read: Raptor by Paul Zindel.
Opening sentences:
Professor Norak stopped dead in his tracks. This must be a joke, he thought. A few of his palaeontology students were playing a joke. Very funny.
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4 stars. Excellent description, but the story seemed ridiculous, I cared very little for the characters, but the combination of Native Americans and Dinosaurs was decent.
Currently Reading: A Maiden's Grave by Jeffrey Deaver.
Deaver is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors.
Opening sentences:
'Eight gray birds, sitting in the dark.
Cold wind blows, it isn't kind.'
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10 AUG: The Marching Season
11 AUG: The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time
11 AUG: Saving Danny
13 AUG: The Invisible Man
14 AUG: The Butterfly Club
18 AUG: The October List
21 AUG: The Book of Lies
25 AUG: Jordan Stryker: Bionic Agent
28 AUG: Raptor
9/8 books. 3 days to go.
Personal Target: 10 books.
August Reading Target (based on Summer Reading Progress): 12 books!
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5 stars. Excellent twists, imagery and characters.
Plan: This week: finish The Shining (does not count). Then start The Marching Season.
Books to read: (add 5 more)
1. The Marching Season by Daniel Silva
2. The Confessor by Daniel Silva
3. The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
4. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
5. Unlucky 13 by James Patterson
6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
7. The Camel Club by Daniel Silva
8. Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Extra:
Re-read (from the beginning) The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Start War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy