Okay, so I swore that this year I wouldn't go weeks and weeks and weeks between updates. And clearly I failed, because it's almost been 2 months and I'm just posting my first list. Bad Anne. I've started off slow this year, so only a couple of books to report!

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel BarberyI've been wanting to read this for ( Read more... )

No. 1  The Master and Margarita by Mikhal Bulgakov
A few people have recommended this book to me over the past several years, but I have to say now that I've read it I just don't understand why people recommended it.  I found it very strange and sort of depressing.  Mostly I chalk this book up to a massive waste of time.

No. 2  Eragon by Christopher ( Read more... )

I'm almost there!  I didn't think I would meet this goal, but I'm so happy to know that I will. :)

Book No. 46  The Mysterious Benedict Society  by Trenton Lee Stewart

My husband bought this book for me as a gift.  I had never heard of it and was surprised that it was a NY Times Bestseller.  It took me a while to become interested in the story, even ( Read more... )

Book 21: Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie

Book 22: Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

Sorry no blog...got to get to packing!

# 10  The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Sherman Alexie

This is a series of short stories, but each on is linked to the others by one or more characters.  It's quite lovely in that the characters seem to be outside of time and they speak in riddles that make haunting sense when you think about the history of Native Americans in North ( Read more... )

Hey all!

This is the end of my "fun" reading for the summer. I'm starting my first round of books for class today - although I should still be updating because I'm taking two novel classes - 19th Century American, and 20th Century English.

26. Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles - D.J. WaldieUh, does it count if I started this a year ago ( Read more... )

 Every once in a great while, I’ll read a book and just wonder, ‘where the fuck has this author been this whole time?’  Imagine my surprise when I searched for Bruce Coville and found hundreds of results.  Odder than Ever is one of the most pleasant surprises I’ve encountered in a long while.  I wasn’t expecting much because first, I bought this ( Read more... )

13 . Reservation Blues - Alexie Sherman

I didn't really enjoy this one, it was fine as a book but since I read it a few months ago and can't really remember what it's about that pretty much says that about the books.

14. Lovesong - Nikki Gemmell

I don’t think I gave this book the read it deserves, so I’m about to reread it. I remember reading it ( Read more... )

I have said before that my favorite author is the Japanese surrealist Haruki Murakami, but until recently, I had not ready any of his shorts, just his novels.  I didn’t even realize that Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman was a collection of his short stories when I bought it and I don’t mind telling you, I was just a little disappointed.  I had set my ( Read more... )

Okay, I read Gluttony, a collection of shorts, poems and essays about well, Gluttony.  Hence the title.  I picked it up like a couple of years ago because it was on a clearance rack (actually, it might have actually been at Deal$.) or something and one of the stories was written by Woody Allen so I figured, “Hey, what’s the worst that can happen?”  ( Read more... )