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Here be summaries and minor spoilers for the below books.

( 3. Changing planes, by Ursula LeGuin )

( 4, 5 & 6. Uglies/Pretties/Specials, by Scott Westerfeld )

( 7. I am legend, by Richard Matheson )

I am finally, finally able to start unpacking my books. I haven't had my books properly near me since about April (either we were in seperate houses, or they were in boxes, waiting for shelves), and I hadn't realised just how much I missed having them around.

I haven't actually been reading much at all, because of many factors, but mostly the internet with its endless flist refreshing. I don't want to be that person anymore. Or rather, I want to be more of the kid I used to be: who when the year six teacher gave us all a sheet to note down the books we'd read during silent reading, had to go over onto the back of the page. To that end, I am doing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge, having started Sunday 11 November, because that's as good a time as any, and was when I started unpacking my books.

The challenge is exactly what it sounds like: read a book a week, for a year. Although 52 books in 52 weeks sounds a tad more surmountable... While there are no rules with it, I feel a little like re-reading a book is a less-than-honourable way to start the challenge, but I've done it anyway.

I found this book in the cheap bins in the Angus and Robertson at the train station, a total impulse buy. It's a gorgeous, subtly subversive Young Adult novel, although you could possibly debate how subversive a book can be when it's been shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia...

( 52/1: Secret Scribbled Notebooks, by Joanne Horniman )