Chuck Palahniuk earns the high honor of "Worst Book I Have Ever Made it All the Way Through in the History of Reading" with his 2009 release, PygmyI cannot believe for the life of me that I made it all the way through the book, but a combination of my OCD completism and my stubbornness at investing that amount of time in reading a book just to have ( Read more... )

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Newbery Medal and Honor Books

I just scraped 50 in 2009, but I STILL did not complete my other challenges from 2008. Oh, well, keep tacking them on to this year.

I am just happy that I finished UlyssesAgain I give myself the freedom to not finish books that I do ( Read more... )

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2006 2005 2004I made it to 52 last year, but it was a hollow victory. Starting over fresh, but again, this year I will again do my best to get to 50, but more importantly, I want to read good writing and stuff that I enjoy. Again I give myself the freedom to not finish books that I do not like and books that I cannot get ( Read more... )

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2005

2004Starting over fresh, but again, this year I will do my best to get to 50, but more importantly, I want to read good writing and stuff that I enjoy. I give myself the freedom to not finish books that I do not like and books that I cannot get into, and I urge myself to complete all these half-finished books that lie ( Read more... )