2006's Book List, or: How I can neither count, nor keep a goal.
I didn't reach my goal of 60 Books. I didn't even get halfway there (although until I compiled this list, I thought I had). Pretty disappointing, but it was the first time I tried something like this, so perhaps I shouldn't beat myself up too much for not keeping up. To be fair, if I had kept the pace I'd started at, I would have had no problem reaching my goal by the end of the year. But by May, I got seriously distracted, and my reading became far more sporadic. Heck, I started Pride and Predjudice in October, by the looks of my entry announcing it, and I just managed to finish it on New Year's Eve afternoon.
So, The List, for those who are curious. Fun fact! Books 1-21 were read in the first five months of the year. It took me the remaining seven months to read seven more books.
1. - Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
2. - Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
3. - Howards End - E.M. Forster
4. - Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
5. - Emma - Jane Austen
6. - The Elephants of Style - Bill Walsh
7. - The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
8. - Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
9. - The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
10. - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
11. - The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
12. - The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
13. - The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
14. - Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
15. - Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
16. - Candide - Voltaire
17. - American Gods - Neil Gaiman
18. - The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio - Terry Ryan
19. - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
20. - Wicked - Gregory Maguire
21. - Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
22. - The Time Traveler's Wife -
23. - The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
24. - The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin/Nicola Kraus
25. - Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
26. - A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
27. - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
28. - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
I have started my reading for 2007 with Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. I started on the first, and I'm moving incredibly slowly through it. I'm just now at the part where Newland and his mother appeal to the van der Luydens for assistance in getting New York Society to accept Ellen Olenska. So, what - Chapter 5? Geez. I may need to put the book on hold while I read something more in tune with my current state of mind. But what that is, I couldn't tell you anyway.
So, The List, for those who are curious. Fun fact! Books 1-21 were read in the first five months of the year. It took me the remaining seven months to read seven more books.
1. - Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
2. - Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
3. - Howards End - E.M. Forster
4. - Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
5. - Emma - Jane Austen
6. - The Elephants of Style - Bill Walsh
7. - The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
8. - Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
9. - The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
10. - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
11. - The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
12. - The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
13. - The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
14. - Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
15. - Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
16. - Candide - Voltaire
17. - American Gods - Neil Gaiman
18. - The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio - Terry Ryan
19. - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
20. - Wicked - Gregory Maguire
21. - Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
22. - The Time Traveler's Wife -
23. - The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
24. - The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin/Nicola Kraus
25. - Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
26. - A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
27. - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
28. - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
I have started my reading for 2007 with Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. I started on the first, and I'm moving incredibly slowly through it. I'm just now at the part where Newland and his mother appeal to the van der Luydens for assistance in getting New York Society to accept Ellen Olenska. So, what - Chapter 5? Geez. I may need to put the book on hold while I read something more in tune with my current state of mind. But what that is, I couldn't tell you anyway.