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Book number three of the year is a collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett first published in 1990. The plot is, broadly, a parody of the Omen series of apocalyptic movies blended with a light-hearted mockery of of New-Age spiritualism and end-times prophecies in general. The story centers on the life of one Adam Young, a perfectly ordinary boy from Tadford who just happens to be the spawn of Satan.
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Book two of the year is the P. G. Wodehouse classic, “My Man Jeeves.” This was a collection of short stories originally published between 1916 and 1919, and there are free e-book and HTML versions of the book available from both Project Gutenberg and from Amazon’s Kindle Store.
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I’m going to be shamelessly stealing an idea from my wife. She keeps track of the books she reads every year and writes up reviews, part of what she calls the “Read Some More Damned Books Initiative.” I’m a voracious reader myself, so I figure I might as well join in the fun and see just how much I actually do read.
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