#40. The Secret Cityby Hugh Walpole Every reference to Hugh Walpole mentions that he was a well known and successful novelist in the first half of the twentieth century, but he’s forgotten and obscure these days. This book is copyrighted 1919 - and again I picked it up for 50 cents at a book sale - and might be first edition, I’m not sure. So obscure that while you can get it free online from Project Gutenberg, I can’t even find a picture of the book online. It deals with Russia and a couple of chapters in it’s still right before the Revolution. Really good so far. Well. Wow. Inevitable, and yet, still shocking ending to this story. Wonderful perspective - the outsider’s inside view, so to speak. The narrator is English and there are many reminders of that, but this is pretty damn close to reading Russian literature. 1/15/10 - 1/18/10

#40. The Secret City
by Hugh Walpole

Every reference to Hugh Walpole mentions that he was a well known and successful novelist in the first half of the twentieth century, but he’s forgotten and obscure these days.

This book is copyrighted 1919 - and again I picked it up for 50 cents at a book sale - and might be first edition, I’m not sure. So obscure that while you can get it free online from Project Gutenberg, I can’t even find a picture of the book online. It deals with Russia and a couple of chapters in it’s still right before the Revolution. Really good so far.

Well. Wow. Inevitable, and yet, still shocking ending to this story. Wonderful perspective - the outsider’s inside view, so to speak. The narrator is English and there are many reminders of that, but this is pretty damn close to reading Russian literature.

1/15/10 - 1/18/10

#40. The Secret Cityby Hugh Walpole Every reference to Hugh Walpole mentions that he was a well known and successful novelist in the first half of the twentieth century, but he’s forgotten and obscure these days. This book is copyrighted 1919 - and again I picked it up for 50 cents at a book sale - and might be first edition, I’m not sure. So obscure that while you can get it free online from Project Gutenberg, I can’t even find a picture of the book online. It deals with Russia and a couple of chapters in it’s still right before the Revolution. Really good so far. Well. Wow. Inevitable, and yet, still shocking ending to this story. Wonderful perspective - the outsider’s inside view, so to speak. The narrator is English and there are many reminders of that, but this is pretty damn close to reading Russian literature. 1/15/10 - 1/18/10

#40. The Secret City
by Hugh Walpole

Every reference to Hugh Walpole mentions that he was a well known and successful novelist in the first half of the twentieth century, but he’s forgotten and obscure these days.

This book is copyrighted 1919 - and again I picked it up for 50 cents at a book sale - and might be first edition, I’m not sure. So obscure that while you can get it free online from Project Gutenberg, I can’t even find a picture of the book online. It deals with Russia and a couple of chapters in it’s still right before the Revolution. Really good so far.

Well. Wow. Inevitable, and yet, still shocking ending to this story. Wonderful perspective - the outsider’s inside view, so to speak. The narrator is English and there are many reminders of that, but this is pretty damn close to reading Russian literature.

1/15/10 - 1/18/10

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I am a voracious reader. An obsessive reader. An addicted reader. I read almost anything I can get my hands on. I own over a thousand books. I need more. I re-read everything I own when I run out of new books. I buy books. I do not borrow them from a library. I keep them. Forever.

In the spirit of the "Photograph A Day" projects I am going to chronicle everything I read for an entire year, starting in September, 2009.

All of the book images are the exact edition I have/read. Most of them are linked to Amazon.com but some are any image I can find because I own a lot of out of print books. Some I will rate or summarize or describe in depth . Some I won't because I'm too busy with the current book I'm reading. The top left picture will always be the book I'm reading *right now*. The date will sometimes be the approximate date I read the book and sometimes it will be exact. Hey, I'm busy.

There is no rhyme or reason to what I read and when I read it, although I am very, very partial to science fiction, biographies/autobiographies, history, historical fiction and classics.

Bascially:
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes" - Erasmus


Oh. I'm also a freelance writer, but I try not to let that get in the way of reading.

~ Maria Christensen

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