50 Book Livejournal Challenge
I've joined the above mentioned lj community as part of a personal goal to read 50 books (non school required reading) for the year. I will update this post each time I add a new book to the list. I should probably be including some kind of blurb for each book, like a summary or a review, but I think: a) thats what amazon.com is for and b) I believe books are art and I lack the wisdom to judge any form of art. Suffice to say that if it's on the list, I enjoyed the book enough to read it all the way thru. That's about the best review I can offer.
1. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" By Milan Kundera
2. "Short Cuts" By Raymond Carver
3. "On the Road" By Jack Kerouac
4. "Revolution on Canvas Volume One" Edited by Rich Balling
5. "Henderson the Rain King" By Saul Bellow
6. "Henry and June" By Anais Nin
7. "The Taking" By Dean Koontz
8. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" By Mark Haddon
9. "Midnight" By Dean Koontz
10. "the 1000 journals Project" by someguy foreward by Kevin Kelly
11. "Deadly Innocence" by Scott Burnside and Alan Cairns
12. "What My Mother Doesn't Know" by Sonya Sones
13. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion
14. "Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs
15. "American Gothic Tales" Edited by Joyce Carol Oates
16. "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
17. "Reasons to Live" by Amy Hempel
18. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
19. "...Said the Shotgun to the Head" by Saul Williams
20. "She" by Saul Williams
21. "Heavier than Heaven" by Charles R. Cross
22. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
23. "Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation" Edited by Roger Housden
24. "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff
25. "You are Not a Stranger Here" By Adam Haslett
HALFWAY POINT!!!!!!!!
26. "The Husband" by Dean Koontz
27. "The Bride Stripped Bare" By Nikki Gemmell
28. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass" By Lewis Carroll
29. "A Ship Made of Paper" by Scott Spencer
30. "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger
31. "A Death in Belmont" by Sebastian Junger
32. "A Mighty Heart" By Mariane Pearl
33. "Suicide The Forever Decision" by Paul G. Quinnett
34. "What Was She Thinking [Notes on a Scandal]" by Zoe Heller
35. "My Story: Illustrated Edition" by Marilyn Monroe
36. "The Time Traveler's Wife" By Audrey Niffenegger
37. "Spook" by Mary Roach
38. "The Thirteenth Tale" By Diane Setterfield
39. "Sharp Objects" By Gillian Flynn
40. "Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood" by Koren Zailckas
41. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Womans search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert
42. "102 Minutes: The untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers" by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
43. "100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed" by Melissa P.
44. "That Night" by Alice McDermott
45. "The Rules of Attraction" by Bret Easton Ellis
46. "High Infidelity" Edited by John McNally
47. "Soul Survivor" By Dean Koontz
48. "Haunted" by Joyce Carol Oates
49. "Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer" by Moira Anderson Allen
50. "The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success" by Linda Formichelli & Diane Burrell
I HIT THE TARGET!!!!!!!!
51. "Get Paid to Write: The No-nonsense guide to freelance writing" by Thomas A. Williams
52. "Get a Freelance Life: mediabistro.com's insider's guide to freelance writing" by Margit Feury Ragland and Laurel Touby
53. "Final Exits" by Michael Largo
54. "Under the Bridge" by Rebecca Godfrey
55. "Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy" by Lynn Marie Smith
56. "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
57. "Red: The Next Generation of American Writers-Teenage Girls- On What Fires Up Their Lives Today" Edited by Amy Goldwasser
58. "The Bad Place" by Dean Koontz
59. "Tick Tock" by Dean Koontz
60. "The Door to December" by Dean Koontz
61. "The Darkest Evening of the Year" by Dean Koontz
62. "Hideaway" by Dean Koontz
63. "How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time" by Kara Jesella and Marisa Metzler
64. "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson
65. "No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog" by Margaret Mason
66. "Ophelia Speaks" by Sara Shandler
67. "Blind Mirror" by Christopher Pike