Shadow of the Giant
by Orson Scott Card
Started: July 17, 2011
Finished: July 20, 2011
This wasn't bad by any means but the political talk in this book got a bit boring after a while. That being said, I'm still looking forward to seeing what happened to Bean and his kids. 363 pages. Grade: B-
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Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay
by Kenneth Walton
Started: July 18, 2011
Finished: July 21, 2011
A reasonably interesting autobiography of Walton, who was involved in a big art fraud scandal on eBay a few years ago. 296 pages. Grade: B+
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Factotum
by Charles Bukowski
Started: July 20, 2011
Finished: July 22, 2011
This might be Chinaski at his least likeable but it's still one helluva book. 205 pages. Grade: A+
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Total # of books read in 2011: 89
Total # of pages read in 2011: 25,800
