jsherry in Bloomington is doing 20 things including…

Read 150 books in 2007

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jsherry has written 9 entries about this goal

And Done! 2 years ago

With another solid month of reading, I’ve eclipsed my goal in rather short order (four months to go and all).

Yay for books!



August (19 Books) 2 years ago

135. Roadwork – Stephen King
136. Studies in Classic American Literature – D. H. Lawrence
137. The Running Man – Stephen King
138. The Dead Zone – Stephen King
139. Eros Ascending – Mike Resnick
140. My War: Killing Time in Iraq – Colby Buzzell
141. Kingdom Come – Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins
142. Throne of Jade – Naomi Novik
143. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
144. Dreams of Steel – Glen Cook
145. Crystal Rain – Tobias Buckell
146. The Golden – Lucius Shepard
147. Dark Journey – Elaine Cunningham
148. Fraud of the Century – Roy Morris, Jr
149. Dark Harvest – Norman Partridge
150. The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate – Ted Chiang
151. The Silver Spike – Glen Cook
152. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
153. The Shining – Stephen King



July (23 books) 2 years ago

112. The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
113. Flaming London – Joe R. Lansdale
114. Midnight Tides – Steven Erikson
115. Wild Seed – Octavia Butler
116. ‘Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
117. True Names – Vernor Vinge
118. The Best American Short Stories 2006 – Ann Patchett (editor)
119. Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
120. Star by Star – Troy Denning
121. The Man of My Dreams – Curtis Sittenfeld
122. Endangered Species – Nevada Barr
123. Cell – Stephen King
124. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J. K. Rowling
125. The Breast – Philip Roth
126. Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies – Alan DeNiro (editor)
127. Wild Cards – George R. R. Martin (editor)
128. Starship: Pirate – Mike Resnick
129. Dispatches from the Edge – Anderson Cooper
130. Falling Man – Don DeLillo
131. Clay’s Ark – Octavia Butler
132. Rage – Stephen King
133. Name All the Animals – Alison Smith
134. The Long Walk – Stephen King



June (15 books) 2 years ago

97. The Uplift War – David Brin
98. The Complete Peanuts: 1963-1964 – Charles M. Schulz
99. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
100. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey – Chuck Palahniuk
101. Softspoken – Lucius Shepard
102. Magic or Madness – Justine Larbalestier
103. Two Trains Running – Lucius Shepard
104. Edge of Victory I: Conquest – Greg Keyes
105. Kushiel’s Dart – Jacqueline Carey
106. Star Wars Legacy: Broken – John Ostrander
107. Prime Codex – Lawrence Shoen (editor)
108. The Dark Half – Stephen King
109. Edge of Victory II: Rebirth – Greg Keyes
110. Singularity Sky – Charles Stross
111. Curse of the Werewolf – Stephen King

I’m getting there!

Pretty sure two months or so will cover it.



May (14 Books) 2 years ago

83. Aztechs – Lucius Shepard
84. A Thousand Deaths – George Alec Effinger
85. Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse – James Luceno
86. Spring Broke – Nathaniel Welch
87. Shadow Games – Glen Cook
88. Starship: Mutiny – Mike Resnick
89. Blowing My Cover – Lindsay Moran
90. In the Garden of Iden – Kage Baker
91. Into a Dark Realm – Raymond E. Feist
92. Balance Point – Kathy Tyers
93. The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
94. The Astonishing X-Men: Torn – Joss Whedon
95. The Last Colony – John Scalzi
96. The Naked God: Flight – Peter F. Hamilton

Almost 2/3 done!



April (21 Books) 2 years ago

62. Agents of Chaos I: Hero’s Trial – James Luceno
63. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town – Cory Doctorow
64. Keeping It Real – Justina Robson
65. The Door Through Space – Marion Zimmer Bradley
66. Mind of My Mind – Octavia Butler
67. The Jennifer Morgue – Charles Stross
68. The White Rose – Glen Cook
69. Magic for Beginners – Kelly Link
70. Kitty Takes a Holiday – Carrie Vaughn
71. Missile Gap – Charles Stross
72. 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die – Stephen Farthing (editor)
73. The Empire of Ice Cream – Jeffrey Ford
74. Ulysses – James Joyce
75. Zeppelins West – Joe R. Lansdale
76. Spellbinder – Melanie Rawn
77. Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead – Alan DeNiro
78. His Majesty’s Dragon – Naomi Novik
79. Louisiana Breakdown – Lucius Shepard
80. The Boar – Joe R. Lansdale
81. Ally – Karen Traviss
82. Survivor – Octavia Butler

More than halfway there in only four months! Excellent!



March (30 Books) 2 years ago

32. 1776 – David McCullough
33. Dark Tide I: Onslaught – Michael Stackpole
34. The Android’s Dream – John Scalzi
35. Dark Tide II: Ruin – Michael Stackpole
36. Bloodchild and Other Stories – Octavia Butler
37. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
38. Goodbye, Columbus – Philip Roth
39. Falling Boy – Alison McGhee
40. Inside Job – Connie Willis
41. My Secret: A PostSecret Book – Frank Warren
42. The Roads Between the Worlds – Michael Moorcock
43. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
44. Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
45. Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
46. Stranger Things Happen – Kelly Link
47. Patternmaster – Octavia Butler
48. The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett
49. Shadows Linger – Glen Cook
50. Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887 – Edward Bellamy
51. Heroes Die – Matthew Stover
52. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy – Orson Scott Card
53. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctorow
54. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
55. Grendel – John Gardner
56. Child of God – Cormac McCarthy
57. The Best American Sports Writing 2006 – Michael Lewis (editor)
58. Harvest of Changelings – Warren Rochelle
59. Eastern Standard Tribe – Cory Doctorow
60. The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant – Jeffrey Ford
61. The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book – Frank Warren



February (16 Books) 2 years ago

16. Vision of the Future – Timothy Zahn
17. Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
18. The Scent of Shadows – Vicki Pettersson
19. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives – Frank Warren
20. Adulthood Rites – Octavia Butler
21. The Rise of Endymion – Dan Simmons
22. Childe Morgan – Katherine Kurtz
23. The Atrocity Archives – Charles Stross
24. Imago – Octavia Butler
25. Survivor’s Quest – Timothy Zahn
26. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous
27. Vector Prime – R. A. Salvatore
28. The Effect of Living Backwards – Heidi Julavits
29. The Extra Mile – Pam Reed
30. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
31. Allegiance – Timothy Zahn



January (15 Books) 2 years ago

1. Moving Pictures – Terry Pratchett
2. Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
3. Spook – Mary Roach
4. The Black Company – Glen Cook
5. Specter of the Past – Timothy Zahn
6. Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi
7. No Plot? No Problem! – Chris Baty
8. The Interrogators – Chris Mackey and Greg Miller
9. The Complete Peanuts: 1961-1962 – Charles M. Schulz
10. Dawn – Octavia Butler
11. Dying of the Light – George R. R. Martin
12. Scepters – L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
13. One of Ours – Willa Cather
14. Chicken With Plums – Marjane Satrapi
15. Firestorm – Nevada Barr



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