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Title:The Sharing Knife series; Beguilement, Legacy, Passage, and Horizon
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Book Number/Goal: 29-32 of 100 books in a year

Review: I'm not reviewing these because I'm too pissed off at the author. If you don't know why, check out

naraht's excellent links posts.

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Title: The Twelve Caesars (De Vita Caesarum)
Author: Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquilius), translated by Robert Graves, intro by Michael Grant
Number of Pages: 321
Genre: non-fiction, history
Book Number/Goal: 26 of 100 to be read in a year
Rating: 4/5

Title: The Annals of Imperial Rome (Ab excessu divi Augusti)
Author: Tacitus (Publius [or Gaius] Cornelius Tacitus), translated and intro by Michael Grant.
Number of Pages: 415
Genre: non-fiction, history
Book Number/Goal: 27 of 100 to be read in a year
Rating: 3/5

Title: 69 A.D.
Author: Gwyn Morgan
Number of Pages: 313
Genre: non-fiction, history
Book Number/Goal: 28 of 100 to be read in a year
Rating: 3/5

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Title: Rome and Italy (Ab Urbe Condita VI-X)
Author: Livy (Titus Livius), translated by Betty Radice with an Introduction by R. M. Olgivie
Number of Pages: 356
Genre: non-fiction, history
Book Number/Goal: 25 of 100 to be read in a year
My rating: 2/5

Review: First off, the title is weird because Penguin Classics, in their wisdom, slapped titles onto books untitled by Livy. His entire history of Rome was called Ab Urbe Condita which translates to "from the city having been founded." He originally wrote 142 books, but only thirty-five survive, along with summaries of some of the missing books. The volume I'm reviewing is made up of Books Six through Ten.

( Are things bad enough to hammer in a nail? )

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Title: The Jugurthine War (Bellum Iugurthinum)/The Conspiracy of Catiline (Bellum Catilinae)
Author: Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)/ Translated and with an Introduction by S. A. Hanford
Number of Pages: (optional) 233
Genre: non-fiction, history
Book Number/Goal: 24 of 100 to be read in a year
My rating: 3/5

Review: I started reading history back in grade school because I'd read a couple of historical novels and wanted to know what really happened. These days, I still read it for that reason, but also because I find it fascinating in and of itself. Oh, and I often read it for research purposes, usually connected with the never ending Blood Histories vampire saga.

( an absurdly long review of a very short book )

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telesilla
Goal: 100 books read between September '08 -- September '09
Definition of "book": 200 pages or more, graphic novels do not count, re-reads are okay
Books read so far: 23

A little about my goal and my reading habits: I'm carrying this over from Pajiba's Cannonball Read. I faded after an impressive start because, while I love competition, this was too much for me and I felt pressured. I read pretty much anything that comes to hand, but I concentrate on historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy.

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