In a feeble effort to be more contentious with my reading, and with a complete lack of originality (idea stolen from Meetzemonsta), I thought I'd keep track of my reading for the year...Rereads are asterisks, and my current book'll be in bold...
I usually read multiple books at a time, just so's ya know...
Edit: If I haven't finished all my books, so I will just continue and 'unbold' them as I finish...It's all Vikram Seth's fault...*grin*
2008
January 2008
Exodus by Leon Uris*
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth* (this may take a while, since this is one of the longest novels ever written in English, but it's an old favorite, so...)
A. D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland by Simon Young
Valley of the Dolls by Jacquelin Susann (quite possibly the stupidest book it has ever been my misfortune to encounter...How is this book on the list of all-time best sellers???)
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders*
February 2008
Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui by Karen Kingston*
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov
March 2008
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon*
A Dull Roar: What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006 by Henry Rollins
Unwelcomed Songs by Henry Rollins*
King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catherine Clay
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Eva Peron by John Barnes
April 2008
Stitch & Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller*
Knit & Purl from the Interweave Press, Erica Knight, editor
The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution by Frank O'Connor*
I was going to start the Petersburg book again, but it is really dry reading...I quite like dry history, so if I say this sucker's hard going? It's like the fucking Sahara in August...
And obviously I need to stop with the rereads and start getting some new info into my brain...:(
May 2008
Things I Learned from Knitting...whether I wanted to or not by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat*
Grass by Sherri S. Tepper*
June 2008
Claim Administration: Principles and Practices (what is wrong with me??)*
Sarah Dallas Knitting
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon*
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith*
July 2008
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute*
Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper*
The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World In The Old South by Catherine Clinton
This one seemed like it was going to be Very Interesting, but the author seems to be a mega rabid feminist, and every chapter ends with the same damn thing...Women's position in the family? Subordinate to men! Marriage in the antebellum South? Servitude to males! Female education? Perpetuation of male power structures! ZOMGS! Teh Patriarchyyyyyyy!! I finally lost patience when she tried to put forward the idea that white women on plantations were in a much worse position than those bound in slavery...WTF??? Are you fucking kidding me??? I hate giving up on a book , but I am so out of patience with this woman...
August 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Little House In The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser*
September 2008
Dammit...I didn't keep this updated for a bit, and now I can't remember what I read in September or the beginning of October!!!
October 2008
Alexandra by Carolly Erickson*
The First Five by Henry Rollins*
November 2008
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Beyond the Square: Crochet Motifs by Edie Eckman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon*
December 2008
2009
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