Mostly-2009 Master Book List: 50 Books?
I did this project two years ago, lost track ten months in, and fell short of my goal, so I didn't start last year. I may not last a year -- I may not last a month -- but I'm gonna start again. I'll add the books I finish reading (and review, if I so desire) this year (from birthday to birthday eve) right here.
Format: Date finished: Title, Author (first published in; subject heading; page count) link if I write a review
If I write a review, expect spoilers to be on the other side of the link. If I've read the book before, the entry will be red. (I can tell you right now: most of the titles will be red.)
*****=I loved it
****=I liked it
***=It was okay
**=I won't be reading this again
*=I can't believe I read the whole thing, AKA Train Wreck
2009-01-01: Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin (2000; history, forensics; 276 pages) ***** basic information; not really a review
2009-02-13: Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, Mary Stopes-Roe (2005; history, British, academic, epistolary; 357 pages) *****
2009-03-05: Persuasion, Jane Austen (1818; literature, British; 264 pages) *****
2009-03-10: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (2008; fiction, epistolary, British; 277 pages) *****
2009-03-01: Trials and Tribble-ations, by Diane Carey (1996; science fiction, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novelization; 180 pages) *****
2009-03-25: First Test, Tamora Pierce (1999; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 240 pages) *****
2009-03-26: Page, Tamora Pierce (2000; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 268 pages) *****
2009-04-02: Squire, Tamora Pierce (2001; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 390 pages) *****
2009-04-03: Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce (2002; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 411 pages) *****
2009-04-03: Alanna: the First Adventure, Tamora Pierce (1983; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 216 pages) *****
2009-04-03: In the Hand of the Goddess, Tamora Pierce (1984; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 209 pages) *****
2009-04-04: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Tamora Pierce (1986; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 228 pages) *****
2009-04-04: Lioness Rampant, Tamora Pierce (1988; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 308 pages) *****
Count: 13 books; 3,624 pages so far
Books I intend to read for the first time this year:
Black Like Me
A Handmaid's Tale
Mansfield Park
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Sister's Keeper
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Awakenings
Seeing Voices
Wuthering Heights (if Meyer hates Heathcliff, I'll probably love him)
The Little Prince
Memoirs of a Geisha
Eragon
Picture of Dorian Gray
Ella Minnow Pea
If anyone has any suggestions for stuff I should read next year, please let me know. I'm open to ideas, and I've read Persuasion and Jane Eyre ONE HUNDRED TIMES.
Format: Date finished: Title, Author (first published in; subject heading; page count) link if I write a review
If I write a review, expect spoilers to be on the other side of the link. If I've read the book before, the entry will be red. (I can tell you right now: most of the titles will be red.)
*****=I loved it
****=I liked it
***=It was okay
**=I won't be reading this again
*=I can't believe I read the whole thing, AKA Train Wreck
2009-01-01: Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin (2000; history, forensics; 276 pages) ***** basic information; not really a review
2009-02-13: Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, Mary Stopes-Roe (2005; history, British, academic, epistolary; 357 pages) *****
2009-03-05: Persuasion, Jane Austen (1818; literature, British; 264 pages) *****
2009-03-10: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (2008; fiction, epistolary, British; 277 pages) *****
2009-03-01: Trials and Tribble-ations, by Diane Carey (1996; science fiction, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novelization; 180 pages) *****
2009-03-25: First Test, Tamora Pierce (1999; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 240 pages) *****
2009-03-26: Page, Tamora Pierce (2000; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 268 pages) *****
2009-04-02: Squire, Tamora Pierce (2001; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 390 pages) *****
2009-04-03: Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce (2002; fantasy, Protector of the Small series; 411 pages) *****
2009-04-03: Alanna: the First Adventure, Tamora Pierce (1983; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 216 pages) *****
2009-04-03: In the Hand of the Goddess, Tamora Pierce (1984; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 209 pages) *****
2009-04-04: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Tamora Pierce (1986; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 228 pages) *****
2009-04-04: Lioness Rampant, Tamora Pierce (1988; fantasy, Song of the Lioness series; 308 pages) *****
Count: 13 books; 3,624 pages so far
Books I intend to read for the first time this year:
Black Like Me
A Handmaid's Tale
Mansfield Park
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Sister's Keeper
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Awakenings
Seeing Voices
Wuthering Heights (if Meyer hates Heathcliff, I'll probably love him)
The Little Prince
Memoirs of a Geisha
Eragon
Picture of Dorian Gray
Ella Minnow Pea
If anyone has any suggestions for stuff I should read next year, please let me know. I'm open to ideas, and I've read Persuasion and Jane Eyre ONE HUNDRED TIMES.