Keep track of all the books I read in 2008

Hmmm….not sure when, but I also read these:
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Rules, Cynthia Lord
Between Mom and Jo, Julie Ann Peters (December 08)
Persepolis, Marjane Straplis (December 08)

A dystopic fiction, I found it quite depressing.

28. Barbed Roses by Peter Yeldham
29. In the Cut by Susannah Moore
30. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

I thought it was time I wrapped up 2008. These were the last three novels I read, bringing my total to the round number of 30. In the Cut was a re-read. I loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. The book documents the author’s project to eat locally and grow much of the family’s own food for a year. It was an inspiring read. You can read more about it here.

In looking at the list I keep in the back of my writing notebook, I found that I’d left this one off my 43T log. It was on the shelves at the B&B I stayed at in Santa Fe and I read it for the first time.

Strange little book.

am so glad i did this!!!

my list has 73 books on it, though i’m sure there were a couple I forgot. But they get counterbalanced by ones that did make it on my list that are really very easy fast reads…

hmm… i had no idea about the numer of books I rnaormally ead in year, so i don’t know if this is typical for me or more than usual, but i suspect that there was a ton of procrastinative reading going on… hard to avoid when you work in a library

so i started a new book, but am pretty sure i wont’ be able to finish it before the new year!

what to do? do i count it in 08 or 09?

tell me what you think, 43friends!

7/08 Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
8/08 Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Wisebergen
9/08 The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
10/08 Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
11/08 When in Rome by Penelope Green
12/08 Bookends by Jane Green
13/08 Lucia Lucia by Adriana Trigiani

13 books… lets make it more in 2009!

60. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

61. Pulling Taffy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

62. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

63. American Pastoral by Philip Roth

64. Bottomfeeder: An Ethical Eater’s Global Search for Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe

65. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

66. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Dodge, M.D.

67. After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Doubt I’ll be able to squeeze in any more in the 1.5 days left of the year. I’m finally marking this done! Going to start a new goal for 2009 ASAP.

if you like Westerfeld’s Uglies series, you’ll probably like this, even though the whole premise is quite different…

i like how he writes!

This is such a strange book, only in that it has basically the same plot as Melissa Bank’s first book, The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, but with a little less gravitas.

Banks’ humor kept me reading, but it’s the strangest thing to kind of know what’s going to happen because it was in the first book, slightly altered. Kind of sad if Bank hasn’t had any other notable experiences to draw upon.