1001 Books
4. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood. 480 pages ( Read more... )

Well,   I didn't quite make 50 last year, but I'm going to try again....
 

4 / 50 words. 8% done!

Book #1 was Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia  by Elizabeth Gilbert

From BN.com:

Oddly but aptly titled, Eat, Pray, Love is an experience to be savored: This spiritual memoir brims with humor, grace, and ( Read more... )

Book 4: Middlesex.
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002.
Genre: Drama, Coming-of-age, Family Saga.
Other Details: 560 pages. Bloomsbury's 21 Great Reads for the 21st Century edition.


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Title The RoadAuthorsCormac McCarthy
Finished

7/07
Subject 2007, fathers and sons, fiction, voyages and travels, survival skills, robinsonades, 21st century, American fiction, dystopia, family, Oprah's Book Club, post-apocalyptic, Pulitzer Prize, relationshipsRating A+Why PickedA good friend told me that her father said this was the "greatest ( Read more... )

30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling (re-read) 9.5/10

I liked it better the first time. May be because I spent too much time waiting and was willing to believe whatever JK tells us. The re-read wasn't as good though because I was critical. Many parts didn't make sense, Harry saying Voldemort's name knowing it is jinxed, Ron opening ( Read more... )

I've been going through some pretty heavy personal shit, so as usual, I'm taking refuge in books.

Book #38 was Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, which I read for Banned Books Week.

From the Publisher:

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's lyrical third novel, begins with an arresting scene -- a man on a roof threatening to jump, a woman standing on the ( Read more... )

Well, due to some unexpected circumstances, I haven't posted in a very long time, and I am also changing my goal. I recently (as in just over a month ago) took a job in Hong Kong, and I'm moving on Thursday. So it's all been very whirlwind and I've been crazy busy. Since I won't have as many books in Hong Kong, I'm going to drop my goal from 100 ( Read more... )

I'm still behind pace for 50 books this year, but this may be one of the best years I've had in recent memory. I think I only hit 25 for the whole year in 2006, so I'll take what I can get.

( Completed books: 1-20 )

24. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova This book was a little hard to get into at first but the more I read, the better it got. The changes in point of view/time were a little confusing, but it worked. This was a long but very enjoyable book. I especially enjoyed the never-ending research being inter-woven with the plot. Now I know the book was long ( Read more... )

34. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

S: Emotional Charlie makes new friends, mistakes, and a discovery.

Thoughts: This was a decent young adult read. I enjoyed the letter style and got attached to Charlie and his friends as the book went on. I loved several of the side characters and would have liked to read more about them. The ( Read more... )