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    Suggestions 15 months ago

    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.



    Well 16 months ago

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



    didn't get there 17 months ago

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



    try for 08 18 months ago

    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.



    DrakesMommy is stressed

    2007 is over 18 months ago

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



    21. 18 months ago

    Tales from the Bed – Jenifer Estess



    Fancyness feels disorganized

    only 21 18 months ago

    so close but I’m definitely trying again for 2008



    19. Going Nuclear 18 months ago

    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.



    I'm Done!! 18 months ago

    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.



    Ah well 18 months ago

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



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