Book List 12/2006-12/2007
So this is the list I started a little over a year ago (more for myself than anyone else to see how many books I really read in a year). It spans 13 months because December of '06 was a particularly good reading month.
Turns out even with grad school I didn't do too shabbily. I might try this again for this year, though I'm guessing the count will be much lower as last spring I had the fortunate circumstance of not being enrolled at a university.
Novels:
Farenheit 451 (Bradbury)
Youth (Joseph Conrad)
The Illustrated Man (Bradbury)
The Nun in the Closet
Many Waters (L'Engle)
A Wind in the Door (L'Engle)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (L'Engle). . . not one of her best.
Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Patterson) *Not at all what I thought it was about. Very good book. One of the quotes on my wall from Fresh. year came from here and I didn't even know it.*
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West *yuck*
The Wave (Todd Strasser) Based on a true incident in a high school in the '60's.
Piercing the Darkness (Frank Peretti)
The Poet's Homecoming (George MacDonald)--Slow, but excellent book. Better read for how it's written than for the plot, though that's good too.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
Firebird Trilogy--> Firebird, Fusion Fire, Crown of Fire (Kathy Tyers) *Excellent*
Uglies Trilogy--> Uglies, Pretties, Specials (Scott Westefeld)
So Yesterday (Scott Westerfeld)
Peeps (Scott Westerfeld)--Interesting biological take on vampires.
The Lost Colony: Artemis Fowl Book 5 (Eoin Colfer)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
The Singer (Calvin Miller)
The Song (Calvin Miller)
Monster (Frank Peretti)-- Creepy, but not the kind of creepy that haunts you at night.
House (Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker)--Definitely the kind of creepy that haunts you at night.
Non-Fiction:
With a Whole Heart (Joy Whitney) *short*
With Cords of Love (Jim McCotter) *short*
The Barbarian Way (Erwin McManus)
Mudhouse Sabbath (Lauren F. Winner)
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire *good book that convicted me once again with it's emphasis on prayer*
Girl Meets God (Lauren F. Winner) *Excellent*
Stumbling Towards Faith: My Longing to Heal from the Pain God Allowed (Renee Altson)
Short Stories (is the article "the" necessary in short story titles??):
The Garden Party
The Three-Day Blow (Hemingway)
The Standard of Living (Dorothy Parker)
The Saint
The Other Side of the Hedge (E.M. Forster)
The Jockey (Carson McCullers)
Shorts by Bradbury:
The Fog Horn
The April Witch
The Wilderness
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
The Flying Machine
The Murderer
R is for Rocket
The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
I See You Never
Embroidery
The Big Black and White Game
The Great Wide World Over There
Powerhouse
En La Noche
Sun and Shadow
The Meadow
The Garbage Collector
The Great Fire
The Golden Apples of the Sun
A Sound of Thunder
The End of the Beginning
The Rocket
The Rocket Man
The Long Rain
Here be Tygers
The Exiles
The Strawberry Window
The Dragon *good*
Uncle Einar
Frost and Fire
The Time Machine
The Sound of Summer Running
Shorts from "This is Not Chic Lit":
The Seventy-Two-Ounce Steak Challenge (Dika Lam)
Volunteers are Shining Stars (Curtis Sittenfeld)
Documents of Passion Love (Carolyn Ferrell)
Gabe (Holiday Reinhorn)
An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
Two Days (Aimee Bender)
The Thing Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Turns out even with grad school I didn't do too shabbily. I might try this again for this year, though I'm guessing the count will be much lower as last spring I had the fortunate circumstance of not being enrolled at a university.
Novels:
Farenheit 451 (Bradbury)
Youth (Joseph Conrad)
The Illustrated Man (Bradbury)
The Nun in the Closet
Many Waters (L'Engle)
A Wind in the Door (L'Engle)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (L'Engle). . . not one of her best.
Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Patterson) *Not at all what I thought it was about. Very good book. One of the quotes on my wall from Fresh. year came from here and I didn't even know it.*
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West *yuck*
The Wave (Todd Strasser) Based on a true incident in a high school in the '60's.
Piercing the Darkness (Frank Peretti)
The Poet's Homecoming (George MacDonald)--Slow, but excellent book. Better read for how it's written than for the plot, though that's good too.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
Firebird Trilogy--> Firebird, Fusion Fire, Crown of Fire (Kathy Tyers) *Excellent*
Uglies Trilogy--> Uglies, Pretties, Specials (Scott Westefeld)
So Yesterday (Scott Westerfeld)
Peeps (Scott Westerfeld)--Interesting biological take on vampires.
The Lost Colony: Artemis Fowl Book 5 (Eoin Colfer)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
The Singer (Calvin Miller)
The Song (Calvin Miller)
Monster (Frank Peretti)-- Creepy, but not the kind of creepy that haunts you at night.
House (Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker)--Definitely the kind of creepy that haunts you at night.
Non-Fiction:
With a Whole Heart (Joy Whitney) *short*
With Cords of Love (Jim McCotter) *short*
The Barbarian Way (Erwin McManus)
Mudhouse Sabbath (Lauren F. Winner)
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire *good book that convicted me once again with it's emphasis on prayer*
Girl Meets God (Lauren F. Winner) *Excellent*
Stumbling Towards Faith: My Longing to Heal from the Pain God Allowed (Renee Altson)
Short Stories (is the article "the" necessary in short story titles??):
The Garden Party
The Three-Day Blow (Hemingway)
The Standard of Living (Dorothy Parker)
The Saint
The Other Side of the Hedge (E.M. Forster)
The Jockey (Carson McCullers)
Shorts by Bradbury:
The Fog Horn
The April Witch
The Wilderness
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
The Flying Machine
The Murderer
R is for Rocket
The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
I See You Never
Embroidery
The Big Black and White Game
The Great Wide World Over There
Powerhouse
En La Noche
Sun and Shadow
The Meadow
The Garbage Collector
The Great Fire
The Golden Apples of the Sun
A Sound of Thunder
The End of the Beginning
The Rocket
The Rocket Man
The Long Rain
Here be Tygers
The Exiles
The Strawberry Window
The Dragon *good*
Uncle Einar
Frost and Fire
The Time Machine
The Sound of Summer Running
Shorts from "This is Not Chic Lit":
The Seventy-Two-Ounce Steak Challenge (Dika Lam)
Volunteers are Shining Stars (Curtis Sittenfeld)
Documents of Passion Love (Carolyn Ferrell)
Gabe (Holiday Reinhorn)
An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
Two Days (Aimee Bender)
The Thing Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)