complete the 50 book challenge

Completed: 1/12/08

I really enjoyed this book. the language was beautiful.

lol i went for a while without reading..The 2nd book ive read was god is dead…didnt think it was all that great really..kind of bad actually

My first book for 2008…to start off a brand new 50 book list.
memoirs of geisha..im only on the 3ed chapter and i cant put it down its soo good.

Ok i’ve been meaning to read the last book of the Harry Potter book series. So…I finally did, just finished two days ago.
My next book is The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I hope its a page turner like the last Potter book.

I know I have the time,
I’m just in Uni, and no job so I have some time to spare, yet…all my free time is spent in front of a tv

While I can’t say they were all marvelous works of fiction, I did have an interesting run of it. The beginning of the year saw me reading emotional fiction, then it turned silly and I became with a certain really amusing author closer to the summer, and the end was mostly a confused mess of all sorts of voices. My favorite over the whole year was definitely Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley.

Key:
+ = Amazing
++ = Good
+ = Okay
- = Never again (aka thrown in the trash)

1. The Nurses, Richard Frede  +
 2. Tales of Burning Love, Louise Erdrich   +
 3. Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver  +
 4. Big If, Mark Costello  -
 5. Like a Hole in the Head, Jen Banbury   -
 6. Last Refuge of Scoundrels, Paul Lussier   -
 7. Some People, Places, and Things that will not appear in my next novel, John Cheever  ++
 8. The Giant's House, Elizabeth McCracken +
 9. The Dogs of Babel, Carolyn Parkhurst  +
10. Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.  ++
11. Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay  ++
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon  ++
13. Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah  ++
14. A World of Difference, Leona Blair   ++
15. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd  +
16. Descent from Xanadu, Richard Hobbins  +
17. 101 Poems that could save your life, edited by Daisy Goodwin  -
18. The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense, Edward Lear  +
19. Vincalis the Agitator, Holly Lisle  +
20. Living with Grief, edited by Kenneth J. Doka  +
21. Peel my Love like an Onion, Ana Castillo  ++
22. "I hope your penis shrivels up" and other helpful advice on life and sex, from Vernon Coleman  ++
23. Hospital: The Hidden Lives of a Medical Center Staff :: Michael Medved  +
24. The Dark Mirror, Juliet Mariller  +
25. Moist, Mark Haskell Smith  +
26. Girl Walks in to a Bar, Strawberry Saroyan  -
27. Well Bred and Dead, Catherine O'Connell  +
28. White as Snow, Tanith Lee  ++
29. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs  -
30. The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, Ariel Gore  +
31. Dzur, Steven Brust  +
32. Pen Pals, Olivia Goldsmith   +
33. Young Wives, Olivia Goldsmith -
34. Switcheroo, Olivia Goldsmith +
35. Blood Run: A Medical Suspense Novel, Leah Ruth Robinson  -
36. Marrying Mom, Olivia Goldsmith  -
37. Bad Boy, Olivia Goldsmith   -
38. Dumping Billy, Olivia Goldsmith   -
39. The Postman, David Brin  +
40. Wickett's Remedy, Myla Goldberg  ++
41. The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich  ++
42. The Medical Racket: How Doctors, HMOs, and Hospitals are Failing the American Patient, Martin L. Gross  ++
43. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Walter Mosley  +
44. Perfect Husbands (& Other Fairy Tales), Regina Barreca  +
45. The Blue Jay's Dance, Louise Erdrich  +
46. The Death Committee, Noah Gordon  -
47. 21 Dog Years, Mike Daisey  +
48. We were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates  -
49. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden  ++
50. The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson  -

i’d almost be done if the last two books i started didn’t turn unbearably boring in the middle. yes mr. brust, that includes one of yours. for shame.

So far I’m only up to 17. I am so going to fail.

Fragile Things (Neil Gaiman)
Y The Last Man Vol. 1 (Brian K.Vaughn)
Lost Girls Vol. 1 (Alan Moore)
Lost Girls Vol. 2 (Alan Moore)
Mr. Muo’s Traveling Couch (Dai Sejie)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Fables: Animal Farm (Bill Willingham)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
Fables: Storybook Live (Bill Willingham)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol. 1 (Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty)
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street (Warren Ellis)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life (Warren Ellis)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol. 2 (Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty)
The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol. 3 (Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol. 4 (Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty)

i signed up for goodreads. now i am going to track my reviews even better than just using notepad. hee.

40% done (and more once i update with my recent library books) !