Goal Completed!
One of my big goals this year was to read 50 books I had never read before. While I did end up re-reading a few books after starting and stoping some real stinkers I did manage to read 50 books. And-I finished a full two weeks and one month ahead of time too!
Below is a list of the books:
1. Fantastic Voyage (Dec 18-Jan 25)
2. Reread Anne of Avonlea (Gave up on Tailchaser Song)
3. Chocolat (Jan 6-7)
4. Practical Magic (Jan 9-15)
5. A Wizard of Earthsea (Jan 16-Feb 27)
6. Where the Heart Is (Feb 16-19)
7. Alas, Babylon (Feb 22-24)
8. Sweet Potato Queen (Feb 27-Mar 6)
9. Invasion (Feb 27-Mar 4)
10. Reread Anne of GG (Gave up on Snow Crash)
11. The Rowan (Mar 6-15)
12. Dumping Billy (Mar 16-31)
13. Cell (Mar 17-23)
14. The Botox Diaries (Mar 31-Apr 14)
15. The War of the Worlds (Apr 17-23)
16. The Children of Men (Apr 26-May 13)
17. Long Way Down (May 3-11)
18. Out of the Silent Planet (May 10-28)
19. Switcharoo (May 12-25)
20. Rebekah (May 13-31)
21. Beaches (May 29-Jun 1)
22. Colour of Blood (Jun 1-9)
23. MASH (Jun 1-25)
24. A Virtuous Woman (Jun 3-11)
25. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Jun 9-23)
26. The Thorne Maze (Jun 12-Jly 4)
27. Catcher in the Rye (Jun 25-Aug 15)
28. Old School (Jun 26-Jly 1)
29. Bloodsucking Fiends (Jly 6-9)
30. The Stepford Wives (Jly 9)
31. NNNNN (Jly 11-18)
32. Foundation (Jly 10-Oct 9)
33. Harry Potter 7 (Jly 21-23)
34. Reread Anne of the Island
35. Anne of Windy Poplars (Aug 15-20)
36. Anne's House of Dreams (Aug 20-27)
37. Anne of Ingleside (Aug 27-Spt 1)
38. The Golden Compass (July)
39. The Martian Chronicles (Spt 1-8)
40. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Spt 7-21)
41. Have Space Suit Will Travel (Spt 10-14)
42. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Spt 20-Oct 25)
43. Childhood's End (Spt 22-Oct 12)
44. Slaughter House Five (Oct 13-22)
45. Campus Sexpot: A Memoir (Oct 18-19)
46. Ringworld (Oct 22-28)
47. Goodbye Tsugumi (Oct 24-25)
48. Terminal Man (Oct 27-Nov 8)
49. Mutation (Oct 28-29)
50. Stranger in a Strange Land (Oct 30-Nov 18)
posted by Rebecca @ 10:50 AM
2 Comments:
Congrats!
Here's what I've been reading:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/flipside3
Any standout favorites in this list or stinker to avoid?
How far did you get in Snow Crash? I took a 3 month break about 75% of the way though, before finishing it up. It started out well, loved the concepts, but it just became messy at the end.
I loved:
Chocolat
(So different from the movie but just as beautiful.)
Alas, Babylon
(What a great end of the world story. I liked the characters and how they handled their new lives after the bomb.)
Sweet Potato Queen
(I laughed. I cried. I wanted tobe friends with each and every character in this story. i would love to join them in the Sweet Potato parade!)
The Children of Men
(OMG! Why did they f#@& with this story? This book was so powerful and not one bit like the aweful movie script that bears the same name.)
Bloodsucking Fiends
(So funny! Who knew that being a vampire could be so hard? He's a fun writer and great story teller.)
Harry Potter 7
(Yay! What a great end to a wonderful story!! Loved it!!!)
Goodbye Tsugumi
(Beautiful story about two young Japanese girls who different as night and day. Nothing got lost in the translation of this fast moving memoir.)
I hated:
A Wizard of Earthsea
(I can not believe this is a beloved "classic". I was pushing just to make it to the next page. How can you make fantasy this boring?)
Catcher in the Rye
(ARRGH! Yet another "classic" that just made me want to chuck it across the room. Why is this book on the top of lists of greatest literature? Why? Why??)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(Page after page after page of what the rocks looked like, how hot it was, how hungry they were, how dark the caves were......And-It never got exciting! Snore.)
The rest were good to okay. I always think of "great" books as those I would read again some day.
As to Snow Crash I read to page 100 and had to give up. I didn't like the story from page 1! It just did nothing for me.
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