2003 Year in Review: sakuraigirl

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2003 Year in Review

Dec 31, 2003 11:11

In 2002, I only finished 23 books. I made a goal for 2003 to double that. I'm thrilled to say that I went over my original goal, hurrah!

Reading Goals For 2004

Finish reading 50+ books by the end of the year (again, yay!).
Finish The Lord Of The Rings goddamnit!!!
Give Will Self and Jack Kerouac another try.
Read another Aubrey/Maturin book or two.
Read more "classics".
Buy less books until I read most of the unread ones I already own (not likely to happen... Camille = No Will Power).

Books I Abandoned This Year

The Sparrow [Mary Doria Russell] <--- will attempt again some day
A Clockwork Orange [Anthony Burgess] <--- will attempt again some day
My Date with Satan [Stacey Richter]
Some Of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning [Daniel Scott]

Note: I purchased or was given 155 books in 2003, EEK!

Books I Read in 2003
(Alphabetical by Author)

Go Ask Alice [Anonymous]
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand [John Birmingham]
Wasteland [Francesca Lia Block]
Kitchen Confidential [Anthony Bourdain]
Every Nine Seconds [Joseph Brockton]
Interzone [William S. Burroughs]
Queer [William S. Burroughs]
The Dwarves of Death [Jonathan Coe]
The Rotters' Club [Jonathan Coe]
Artemis Fowl [Eoin Colfer]
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident [Eoin Colfer]
Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook [William Cook - editor]
The Chocolate War [Robert Cormier]
The Hours [Michael Cunningham]
Switch Bitch [Roald Dahl]
No Longer Human [Osamu Dazai]
One Pill Makes You Smaller [Lisa Dierbeck]
A Treasury of Royal Scandals [Michael Farquhar]
Namedropper [Emma Forrest]
Moab Is My Washpot [Stephen Fry]
American Gods [Neil Gaiman]
Good Omens [Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett]
California Screaming [Doug Guinan]
Girl, Interrupted [Susanna Kaysen]
The Boys of Swithins Hall [Chris Kent]
On the Road [Jack Kerouac]
Common People [Martin Knight]
From Blue to Black [Joel Lane]
A Wrinkle in Time [Madeleine L'Engle]
A Working Stiff's Manifesto [Iain Levison]
Boy Meets Boy [David Levithan]
The Torture Garden [Octave Mirbeau]
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal [Christopher Moore]
Practical Demonkeeping [Christopher Moore]
Dogrun [Arthur Nersesian]
Master and Commander [Patrick O'Brian]
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia & Other Stories [Victor Pelevin]
The Wee Free Men [Terry Pratchett]
Paranoia in the Launderette [Bruce Robinson]
Still She Haunts Me [Katie Roiphe]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [J.K. Rowling] (reread)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [J.K. Rowling] (reread)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [J.K. Rowling] (twice)
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis [Will Self]
Naked Pictures of Famous People [Jon Stewart]
The Adrian Mole Diaries [Sue Townsend]
Adrian Mole: The Lost Years [Sue Townsend]
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years [Sue Townsend]
The Queen and I [Sue Townsend]
The Language of Blood [Jane Jeong Trenka]
Live From Golgotha [Gore Vidal]
Fierce People [Dirk Wittenborn]

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