Keep Track of All Books I Read in 2006

2006 is long over, so I believe I will complete this goal… and start a continuation of one, not for a yearly basis, but for all books I have read.

Cheers!

Well I wasn’t so good at this…
I left so many off the list.

I guess I’ll try again in 2007!

Complete list here

I’m going to do it again for 2007. I’ve been keeping track for years in the backs of my journals, but they don’t begin and end with the new year.

I love books. It’s interesting to look back and see where I hit little patches of picking up books that didn’t grab me.

Weird that I haven’t finished anything since Dec. 17th. I had several library books that just didn’t interest me after all.

Sooo I kept track of all the books….I read 26 this year. Not sure what my goal is for 2007 yet but for now I’ll just keep track.

Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera

Ehhh…it was just okay. I guess I was expecting more.

Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
Black Boy by Richard Wright…which I’m not EXACTLY finished with yet, but I know I’ll finish it in the year 2006. If I dont finish it by New Year’s, it still counts here because I’ve read most of it in 2006 already.

I heard about this book on NPR probably a year or two ago. I found the website and linked it on my blog.

Lately I’ve been going there every week, as Frank posts new PostSecret post cards each Sunday. A few years ago he started a project where he handed out blank post cards and asked people to decorate them with their secrets and send them to him. The results are beautiful, touching, wrenching…the whole gamut.

I took a couple of evenings to read the book. This morning I got up at 3 a.m. and made some postcards of my own.

“Naked” by David Sedaris Next
A halarious memoir, if you like memoirs. It actually almost had me convinced I would like to check out a nudist colony.

“These bones are not my child’s” by Toni Cade-Bambara
A very LONG novel about the Altanta murders in the 60s/70s, very good if you like the writing style of Toni Morrison.

“Passion and Purity” by Elisabeth Elliot
Convicting? yes. Ridiculous? yes. A story of passion and purity told by a woman who waited five years for her love and him for her, never having touched each other. Their struggles shown in journal entrys, poetry and letters. Irritating and inspiring.

The Elegant E loaned me this graphic memoir. I really liked it. It’s a complex story and the drawings really add to your understanding of the text.

I’d like to read other things like this.