10, 9, 8...
2009, I'm looking forward to you.
To commemorate the year that was, here's the list of books read. Yeah, I know, another post about books. But that's what brought many of us together...
Books read in 2008, in order of finish date below. Some were quick-quick reads, others not so much. Some crap, and some much better. Some for fun, and others for VP-type research/work. Some for the neighborhood book club (most of which I didn't enjoy so much, unfortunately), and a few re-reads. In all, I finished 54 books in 2008. Not counted are the DOZENS of short stories I read, both during the lead-up to VP, while at VP, and since then. And the pile for 2009 is already under way!
Jan:
Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
You Suck (Christopher Moore)
New Moon (Meyer)
Eclipse (Meyer)
Feb:
Water for Elephants (Gruen) (book club pick)
Heart Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
Thirteen Moons (Frazier)
March:
Me & Mr. Darcy
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Willig)
The Masque of the Black Tulip (Willig)
The Deception of the Emerald Ring (Willig)
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (Willig)
A Lick of Frost (Hamilton)
April:
Mozart’s Sister
Florabama Ladies Auxiliary… (book club pick)
May:
Fragile Things (Gaiman)
About Time (Finney) (reread)
Falling Angels (Chevalier) (reread and book club pick)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver)
Sleep, Pale Sister (Harris)
June:
Between, Georgia (book club pick)
Android’s Dream (Scalzi)
Garlic & Sapphires (Reichl)
Garden Spells
July:
Alice in Sunderland
Overclocked (Doctorow)
Jumper (Gould)
Widdershins (de Lint)
Starlight 3 (ed: Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
Jumper: Griffin’s Story (Gould)
Aug:
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Roach)
Fantasy: Best of the Year/2006
It’s All Too Much (Walsh)
The Thing about Life is that Someday You’ll be Dead (Shields)
Sept:
Little Brother (Doctorow)
Old Man’s War (Scalzi)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Willis)
Charlatan
Reflex (Gould)
Difference Engine (Gibson…)
Oct:
The Abstinence Teacher (book club pick)
Ghost Brigades (Scalzi)
Tam Lin (Dean)
Thomas the Rhymer (Kushner)
Nov:
Eat, Pray, Love (Gilbert) (book club pick)
Last Colony (Scalzi)
The Ruins (Smith)
Winds of Marble Arch (Willis) (700 pages!)
The Book of Lost Things (Connolly sp?)
All the Way Home
The Meaning of Wife
Dec:
The Good Thief (Tanti)
These is My Words (Turner) (reread/book club pick)
The Graveyard Book (Gaiman)