I'm thinking 50 books won't happen this year either, but I heard on the radio today that 1 in 4 people haven't read a SINGLE BOOK in the last year. I'm doing a little better than that.

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1. Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden
2. The Folk Keeper; Franny Billingsley
3. Harry Potter 5; JK Rowling

I quit with the page tracking. I only want to know the books.

4. Everything You Pretend to Know ... But Are Afraid Someone Will Ask; Lynette Padwa

Fun, forgettable bathroom book. Maybe pieces will stick in your head and someday, years from now, ( Read more... )

1. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, 434 pages ( Read more... )

1. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, 434 pages.
2. The Folk Keeper, Franny Billingsley, 162 pages. YA.

Corinna is a Folk Keeper. Her job is to keep the mysterious Folk who live beneath the ground at bay. But Corinna has a secret that even she doesn't fully comprehend, until she agrees to serve as Folk Keeper at Marblehaugh Park, a wealthy family ( Read more... )

Yay, first book post and January isn't done!

1. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, 434 pages.

I'm probably the only woman in America who hasn't read this book by now. I haven't seen the movie, either. I know you're horrified, pygmymetal. That said...I found the book very pretty, and the parts about the day-to-day life of the geisha, fascinating, and the ( Read more... )

And done. Not too horrible ( Read more... )

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The most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2006 according to Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you have read, strikethrough the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star next to the ones you love.

( Clearly I have some reading to do... )

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