read 25 books in 2007

Invention of Hugo Caberet—Half- graphic novel- 650 pg book, takes 5 minutes to read

Caine Mutiny-- my FAVORITE book!
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The Narnia series—GREAT books—not just for kids, as they are also allegories- if you read into them.—HINT: Aslan symbolizes Jesus.

did not work.. :S
BUT ILL TRY AGAIN THIS YEAR :D

I read a bunch but not 25—i will try harder next year to read a few more.

the prob w/ 2007 was i read a lot of parts of books, but didn’t finish many books. so i’m trying a new approach for 2008: reading more fiction. gooey, girly fiction.

1. the shop on blossom street (jan)
2. a thousand splendid suns (jan)
3. the alchemist (feb)
4. the tenth muse (mar)
5. a good yarn (mar)
6. he’s just not that into you (may)
7. simple prosperity (june)
8. the making of a pastry chef (july)
9. thich nhat hanh: essential writtings (july)
10. the golden notebook (july)
11. when you are engulfed in flames (aug)
12. a love woven true (sep)
13. eat, pray, love (sep)
14. trail of crumbs (sep)
15. alive (sep)
16. toss of a lemon (oct)
17. the notebook (oct)
18. the inheritance of loss (nov)
19. dewey (nov)
20. memoirs of a geisha (dec)
21. singing bird (dec)
22. water for elephants (dec)
23. twenty fragments of a ravenous youth (dec)
24. the catcher in the rye (dec/jan)
25.

Didn’t quite get it done but that’s okay. My goal for 2008 is 100 so there I go..

Tales from the Bed – Jenifer Estess

so close but I’m definitely trying again for 2008

Some interesting insights into language use in the very recent past. I always enjoy Geoff Nunberg commntaries; his writing is so clear. The rhythm and structure of his writing is wonderfully clean.

Yay, I read 25 books this year. Technically, I could have read a lot more but I didn’t finish 4 of the books that I am currently in the middle of with just a few pages to go.

Here is the complete list:

1.) Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
2.) Lily Beach – Jennie Fields
3.) Candide – Voltaire
4.) The Tipping Point – Malcom Gladwell
5.) Between Earth & Sky – Karen Osborn
6.) The Tempest – Shakespeare
7.) The History of Money – Jack Weatherford
8.) How to Be a Lady – Candace Simpson-Giles
9.) The 12 Steps to Self-Parenting for Adult Children – Gorman
10.) Dress you Best – The Complete Guide to Finding the Style to Fit your Body – Clinton Kelly & Stacy London
11.) He Comes Next: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Pleasuring a Man – Ian Kerner
12.) Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics – Herbert L. Gravitz & Julie D. Bowden
13.) Struggle for Intimacy (Adult Children of Alcoholics series) – Janet Geringer Woititz
14.) Lifeskills for Adult Children – Janet Woititz & Alan Garner
15.) Secrets of Six Figure Women – Barbara Stanny
16.) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
17.) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
18.) Reading Lolita in Tehran – Anzar Nafisi
19.) A Writer’s San Francisco – Eric Maisel
20.) Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman – Gail Evans
21.) The Godfather – Mario Puzo
22.) Baghdad Burning – Riverbend
23.) Bitter is the New Black – Jen Lancaster
24.) Skinny B*tch – Rory Freedmon & Kim Barsouin
25.) Three audio books that I’ll count as one book: Darwin Conspiracy, Safe Harbor, & Deep Forest

I couldn’t pick a favorite because I feel like I learned something from each one.

It was good to read 15 books, but in the end I didn’t have time for all 25…how bout this year?