read at least 100 books in 2006

This goal didn’t happen in 2006, but it will happen this year. 4 years ago

Very funny examination of the question of gender. 5 years ago

Hurray for the ending!

And I mean that in the “hurray for the content of the story’s ending” rather than the “hurray for reaching the ending” way. 5 years ago

Read approximately 1/4 of this. 5 years ago

Nice work 5 years ago

Wild play. 5 years ago

It’s crazy to read stuff written by your professor! 5 years ago

First introduction to Albee. Loved this play! 5 years ago

Plays count, right? I like the pun in the title. 5 years ago

Funny in some parts, but sometimes too light to be taken seriously. 5 years ago

More short stories recommended to me by my professor. I was particularly engaged by how unhappy and, on occasion, difficult Bloom’s characters were yet how likeable they managed to be. She wasn’t sentimental and yet she didn’t punish her characters, either. 5 years ago

This collection includes Brockmeier’s excellent short story “The Ceiling” and I’d suggest it to you on that alone. However, I never connected with the other stories as strongly as I did to that one. 5 years ago

My introduction to Homes. Recommended, especially for those into short stories. A nice collection that intrigued me and made me want to read more. 5 years ago

Ha! I came across these while cleaning out some boxes and felt compelled to re-read several of them. They’re so much worse than I ever realized when I was a teenager, but I figure that 6+ books from this series should at least count as one book on this list. 5 years ago

I read Anne of Green Gables years ago, but until now I’ve never read any further in the series. Not as good as the first one. 5 years ago

Absolutely lovely. 5 years ago

I love nearly every Maeve Binchy book I’ve read, so I was really disappointed to find this one mediocre at best. It was really hard to believe that she actually wrote this fairly flat novel with a lot of repetitive phrase usage, flat characters and more. Oh well. 5 years ago

Great collection of essays on being a reader, lover of books, writer & more. I was particularly fond of (and saw myself echoed in) an essay on Fadiman’s family of instinctive proofreaders, a group of people for whom a typo on a menu is fodder for entertainment. Personally, I have always delighted in a certain small town restaurant featuring 1/4 pound of beef raped in bacon. Cheers to fellow eagle eyes who laugh at such unintentional humor! 5 years ago

It’s about time … A book that’s been on my To Read list for years. Great stuff and my first, albeit delayed, introduction to Plath. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it was just so easy to read and the voice was incredibly strong. Highly recommended. 6 years ago

One of the many children’s classics I’ve wanted to read and finally finished. It made me want to live in a little Swiss village. 6 years ago

This is Didion’s account of the year after the unexpected death of her husband. I still gravitate to books on grief, I suppose, even four years later. I understood so many things that she said, so much of her irrational guilt and the struggle to bring back the dead … to exhume them and to keep pretending that they’re not really gone. It makes me want to go and re-read A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, but I guess that’s no surprise.

The scary thing is how much it frightened me … to think of getting married to Jeremy and how inevitable it is that one of us is going to face this one day. 6 years ago

Though I loved High Fidelity and About a Boy, I thought How to Be Good was a lesser effort by Hornby. Unfortunately, his latest effort, A Long Way Down, continues that trend. Don’t get me wrong, it was a fairly quick and pleasant read and I even laughed aloud a few times, but it felt forced in some areas. It has some redeeming qualities, but just doesn’t have the spark of his earlier works. 6 years ago

1. Silas Marner – I enjoyed it, but it took me awhile to get into it. Out of the 150 or so pages, it took me until well into the last half of the book to be really engrossed in what was going on. 6 years ago