Readers
Hello reading friends on LJ! I belong to the community bookfails, which can be kind of fun, and just spent some time listing the books I read in 2011. Not nearly as many as I thought! You'll find the list below.
And these are my reading goals for 2012. What are yours?
To finish all the following, which I started in 2010 or 2011 and have yet to finish:
1. Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
2. Hitler's Dancers
3. Wild Swans
4. The Lifelong Activist (this is the Hillary Rettig book, and it's sort of self-help/workbook for activists)
5. The Vegetarian Myth
6. Green is the New Red
7. Animal Rights/Human Rights
8. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese
9. Demonology
I started The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica right at the end of 2011, so in a way it counts but I know I'll finish that before too long!
My goal for this year is 65 books altogether. Maybe I'll get more in there.
Books I read in 2011 behind the cut.
Books in bold were soooo good I would recommend them. Those with strikethroughs -- well, I guess they speak for themselves! I may have read more this year, but this is the one time I didn't actually keep track in a separate location of the book I read.
1. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
2. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
3. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. I can't say I liked it exactly but then again, in a way I did. I keep changing my mind on this one.
4. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
5. The Glass Room by Simon Mawr (italicized titles are ones I would recommend!)
6. Making a Killing: the Political Economy of Animal Rights by Bob Torres (recommended more for the message than for the writing, but it is a readable book)
7. 212 by Alafair Burke
8. Speciesism by Joan Dunayer
9. The Believers by Zoe Heller
10. Dead Connection by Alafair Burke
11. Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke
12. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
13. Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance by Jason Hribal
14. Babies, Bikes and Broads by Cynn Chadwick
15. Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
16. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
17. Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
18. Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
19. Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose
20. The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman
21. The Mermaid's Madness by Jim Hines
22. The Stepsister Scheme by Jim Hines
23. My Sister's Bones by Cathi Hanauer
24. From a Sealed Room by Rachel Kadish
25. The Last Temptation by Val McDermid
26. Cultivating the Mind of Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
27. A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell
28. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust ed. by Jeffrey Shandler
29. Lost by Joy Fielding. Seriously one of the worst pieces of garbage I read last year. Did it in two days - I guess anything seems like good escape after you get dumped, but this was horrendous. So bad you see I still have to make comments on it a year or so after reading it!
But wait, are you kidding me? I didn't read one Holocaust book last year!? I better go check my bookshelf. Surely I missed something! (that's so unlike me. I usually read at least one a year. Oh wait...I just added #28 because I did finish it early in 2011, even though I began it in 2010. Still, technically it's not a Holocaust book, now is it?)
And these are my reading goals for 2012. What are yours?
To finish all the following, which I started in 2010 or 2011 and have yet to finish:
1. Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
2. Hitler's Dancers
3. Wild Swans
4. The Lifelong Activist (this is the Hillary Rettig book, and it's sort of self-help/workbook for activists)
5. The Vegetarian Myth
6. Green is the New Red
7. Animal Rights/Human Rights
8. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese
9. Demonology
I started The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica right at the end of 2011, so in a way it counts but I know I'll finish that before too long!
My goal for this year is 65 books altogether. Maybe I'll get more in there.
Books I read in 2011 behind the cut.
Books in bold were soooo good I would recommend them. Those with strikethroughs -- well, I guess they speak for themselves! I may have read more this year, but this is the one time I didn't actually keep track in a separate location of the book I read.
1. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
2. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
3. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. I can't say I liked it exactly but then again, in a way I did. I keep changing my mind on this one.
4. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
5. The Glass Room by Simon Mawr (italicized titles are ones I would recommend!)
6. Making a Killing: the Political Economy of Animal Rights by Bob Torres (recommended more for the message than for the writing, but it is a readable book)
7. 212 by Alafair Burke
8. Speciesism by Joan Dunayer
9. The Believers by Zoe Heller
10. Dead Connection by Alafair Burke
11. Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke
12. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
13. Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance by Jason Hribal
14. Babies, Bikes and Broads by Cynn Chadwick
15. Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
16. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
17. Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
18. Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
19. Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose
20. The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman
21. The Mermaid's Madness by Jim Hines
22. The Stepsister Scheme by Jim Hines
23. My Sister's Bones by Cathi Hanauer
24. From a Sealed Room by Rachel Kadish
25. The Last Temptation by Val McDermid
26. Cultivating the Mind of Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
27. A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell
28. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust ed. by Jeffrey Shandler
29. Lost by Joy Fielding. Seriously one of the worst pieces of garbage I read last year. Did it in two days - I guess anything seems like good escape after you get dumped, but this was horrendous. So bad you see I still have to make comments on it a year or so after reading it!
But wait, are you kidding me? I didn't read one Holocaust book last year!? I better go check my bookshelf. Surely I missed something! (that's so unlike me. I usually read at least one a year. Oh wait...I just added #28 because I did finish it early in 2011, even though I began it in 2010. Still, technically it's not a Holocaust book, now is it?)