Read 206 books in 2006

52. Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir. Erlbaum, Janice
53. Bitter is the New Black. Lancaster, Jen

1. Speciman Days. Cunningham, Michael
2. Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page. Freed, Lynn
3. Number the Stars. Lowry, Lois
4. Summer of Ordinary Ways, The: A Memoir. Helget, Nicole Lea
5. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. Hatzfeld, Jean
6. Black Fly Season. Blunt, Giles
7. Wedding of Cathy and Irving, The. Guisewite, Cathy
8. Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery. Abrahams, Peter
9. Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town. Maharidge, Dale
10. Fat Girl: A True Story. Moore, Judith
11. True to Form. Berg, Elizabeth
12. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Levy, Ariel
13. All But My Life. Klein, Gerda Weissman
14. All This Heavenly Glory. Crane, Elizabeth
15. English Teacher, The. King, Lily
16. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I’ve Learned. Alda, Alan
17. History of Love, The. Krauss, Nicole
18. Greatest Man in Cedar Hole, The. Doyon, Stephanie
19. Opus: 25 Years of His Sunday Best. Breathed, Berkley
20. Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It, The: Over the Edge and Back with My Dad, My Cat, and Me. Roth, Geneen
21. Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Truss, Lynne
22. Summer Crossing. Capote, Truman
23. My Freshman Year:What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student. Nathan, Rebekah
24. Towelhead. Erian, Alicia
25. I’m Not the New Me. McClure, Wendy
26. Conversations with the Fat Girl. Palmer, Liza
27. Home Ground. Freed, Lynn
28. Under the Bridge. Godfrey, Rebecca
29. Elsewhere. Zevin, Gabrielle
30. User I.D.. Shute, Jenefer
31. She Got Up Off the Couch (And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana). Kimmel, Haven
32. Jesus Land. Scheeres, Julia
33. Pearls Before Swine: Nighthogs. Pastis, Stephen
34. Torn Skirt, The. Godfrey, Rebecca
35. Pleasing Hour, The. King, Lily
36. Riding in the Shadows of Saints. Richman, Janaq
37. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story. Klosterman, Chuck
38. The World According to Mimi Smartypants. Smartypants, Mimi
39. Veronica. Gaitskill, Mary
40. Life’s Little Annoyances: True Tales of the People Who Just Can’t Take it Anymore. Urbina, Ian
41. Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo’s Death. Fuhrman, Mark
42. Frog and Toad Are Friends. Lobel, Arnold
43. Frog and Toad Together. Lobel, Arnold
44. Frog and Toad All Year. Lobel, Arnold
45. Days with Frog and Toad. Lobel, Arnold
46. Who Let the Blogs Out?. Stone, Biz
47. Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth. Hubner, John
48. Ghost Orchid, The. Goodman, Carol
49. Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Machine Tools, Alzheimer’s, and Laughter. Fuchs, Elinor
50. Death in Belmont, A. Junger, Sebastian
51. Accidental, The. Smith, Ali

Also read, in translation, for Middle High German.

Some of it is sweet lovey stuff, but a lot of it is pretty religious—Abelard lectures Heloise on rules and how nuns ought to live.

By Gottfried Von Strassburg, translated into English. Read for Middle High German class. Romantic, sometimes unbearably dirty, and tragic.

Again with Prachett and Discworld. Some very funny moments in this one.

By Terry Prachett. Another Discworld book. This one had Rincewind in it. Funny and fun.

By Terry Prachet. A discworld book, and a lot of fun. Recommended, particularly if you are a fan of musical theatre.

(But it’s good even if you’re not.)

Great light reading; very funny.

By Jerry Spinelli.

Absolutely enjoyable. Recommended. Another Spinelli book about a kid who doesn’t really fit in, as different from Maniac Magee and Stargirl (which are themselves unique) as it is good.

One of those books that I’d heard about for years but never quite read.

Now that I have read it, I’m kicking myself for waiting this long. I should have read this when I was eight, so I would have had longer to enjoy it!

Science fiction, with a very human aspect. Excellent read. Recommended.

By Karen Romano Young. Gritty, realistic, fantastic, good.

Recommended.