31. Read 150 books for pleasure. Here is the list to keep track
(I know I'm over the deadline, but still keeping track. Hit 100 for the deadline)
Total:
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100 / 150 (66.7%) |
This year:
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13 / 59 (22.0%) |
Even more catching up to do this year -only 269 days to read the last 59 books...at this rate I may have to add all those children's books I've been reading to V!
| Date | Book | Link or comments |
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| March 23/08 | Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | |
| April 29, 2008 | Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion | |
| June 1, 2008 | Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| August 7, 2008 | Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy | |
| August 12, 2008 | Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor | |
| August 26, 2008 | Janet Evanovich, Fearless Fourteen | Not nearly as laugh out loud funny, not enough Grandma, and she still can't write sex. But not nearly as annoying as twelve. Good thing I only borrowed this book. |
| September 20, 2008 | Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage | |
| October 2, 2008 | Ruth Rendell, The Babes in the Wood | Part of a series, will of course have to go look the rest up. |
| October 9, 2008 | Laurie R. King, To Play the Fool | Oh no, another series that I think I can get hooked on! |
| October 14, 2008 | Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly | Another on-going series, but not one that caught my interest. Perhaps due to abundant usage of Italian/Venetian terms that I just didn't feel like researching. Not a book that really captured me, as I kept wondering what the terms were. |
| October 17, 2008 | Harlan Coben, Just One Look | Fantastic read. I don't remember the last time I was so engrossed in a story. While I figured out bits and pieces, it really threw me right up until the last chapter. |
| October 25, 2008 | Anne Tyler, A Patchwork Planet | |
| december 3, 2008 | Elizabeth George, A Place of Hiding | I've heard she's a great writer and the series this book belongs to is fantastic. Let me start by saying for a novel, this was long. Almost 800 pages long, full of descriptions, but still long. Granted there were a lot of characters to hold up, but I'm sure I didn't so much enjoy the characters of this book as I did the historical information it provided. The island characters were well developed and enjoyable, for the most part, but the ones that reoccur seemed to be a bit annoying more than anything. I'll probably give this series another shot, hopefully the next book won't be another 800 pages. |
| December 15, 2008 | Henry Porter, A Spy's Life | Really, really well written. while it suffers from a main character that survives way too many attempts on his life, the characters and the story have stayed with me. I've actually found myself wishing this was a series so I could read more about Harland. |