Even though I met my goal early, I still want to post the conclusion of my reading list for 2009. Even if it is a bit late. For 2010, I have started posting to Goodreads.com. It is easier to keep track of them that way.

November:

The Dante Club by Matthew Peal (367pgs) - Excellent book. A definite keeper and I would highly recommended it.
Grave ( Read more... )

I need to stop berating myself every time I come on here to post. I always open with some quip about how awful I am for not doing a better job at this whole journal-ing thing.  The truth is I am an awful journaler.  I live in the present and rarely feel the need to catalog it or reflect on it. That may not be the best thing and it may make me a bit ( Read more... )

Wow, I cannot believe it is already the end of January 2009. I feel like all my days as just running together. I want to post this year's projects (I am refusing to call them resolutions, because I feel that is just asking for failure), but I need to run a few errands before Courtney gets her. We are having girl time and going to get out toesies ( Read more... )

November Total: 1 Book (748 pgs)
YTD: 36 books (14743 pgs)

Brisinger by Christopher Paolini (748 pgs)

I really enjoyed this book, but there were a couple of slow places in it.

December Total: 1 book (290 pgs)
GRAND TOTAL FOR 2008: 37 books (15033 pgs)

The Newyorkers by Cathleen Schine (290 pgs)

This book was just "eh."

I think this is a good end to the ( Read more... )

August Totals: 5 books ( 1233 pgs) 
YTD : 25 Books (7942 pgs)

Departures by Lorna J. Cook (242 pgs),
The Easy Way to Quit Smoking by Allen Carr (218 pgs),
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton (128 pgs)
Beast by Donna Jo Napoli (256 pgs)
The Other Woman by Jane Green (389 pgs)

I really enjoyed The Other Woman. I could ( Read more... )

May Totals: 3 books ( 1029 pgs) 
YTD : 16 Books (5205 pgs)

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (282 pgs),
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (360 pgs),
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch (387 pgs).

Never Let me Go is on the list of 1001 books to read before you die, and I don't really understand why. But then Life of Pi was on that list too, and I ( Read more... )

March Totals: 1 book ( 328 pgs) 
YTD : 10 Books (3049 pgs)

Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner (328 pgs)

March was a very unproductive month. The book was a little on the dull side, and I just didn't pick up anything else.

April Totals: 3 book ( 1127 pgs) 
YTD : 13 Books (4176 pgs)

A piece of cake by Cupcake Brown (465 pgs)
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner ( Read more... )

February Totals: 5 books ( 1543 pgs) 
YTD : 9 Books (2721 pgs)

School for Husbands by Wendy Holden (314 pgs)
Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne (406 pgs) 
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (319 pgs)
Twentysomething by Iain Hollingshead (217 pgs)
Blue Plate Special by Frances Norris (287 pgs)

I am a little late in posting this, but better late than never.  I ( Read more... )

So I just updated my book list for 2007, and I did actually meet my goal of 26 books in a year (the final total was 26 books/9926 pgs). I have decided that my goal for this year would be to increase these numbers by ~10%.

Goal - Read 29 Books this year and/or 11,000 pgs.

January Totals: 4 books (1178 pgs)

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and ( Read more... )