Read in 2009

This post will continually be updated. I want to keep better track of what I read this year so that I know exactly how many books I've read.

1. Dewey:The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron (January 2008)
2. The 19th Wife* by David Ebershoff (finished on Feb 26)
3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Feb 27-March 2)
4. The Northern Clemency* by Philip Hensher (March 4 -28)
5. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (March 28-30)
6. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (March 30-31)
7. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for American's Soul* by Karen Abbott (April 1-22)
8. Loving Frank: A Novel+ by Nancy Horan (April 5-14)
9. Little Bee by Chris Cleave (April 22-25)
10. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver (April 25-27)
11. The History of Love: A Novel*+ by Nicole Krauss (May 4-8)
12. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (May 8)
13. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Dean Greer (May 11-13)
14. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (May 13-19)
15. Cathedral by Raymond Carver (May 19-20)
16. Revolutionary Road+ by Richard Yates (May 21-30)
17. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (June 1-8)
18. In the Woods by Tana French* (June 8-18)
19. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates (June 18-20)
20. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (June 21-24)
21. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (June 25-28)
22. Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss (June 29-July 2)
23. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (July 2-4)
24. The Time Traveler's Wife *+by Audrey Niffenegger (July 4-19) [This is a re-read.]
25. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris (July 6-13)
26. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (July 13-17)
27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (July 19-21)
28. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (July 21-28)
29. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (July 31)
30. Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji (August 5-9)
31. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly obsession in the Amazon* by David Grann (August 9-18)
32. Wanderlust and Lipstick: For Women Traveling to India by Beth Whitman (August 20-22)
33. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo+ by Stieg Larsson (August 23-31)
34. Siddhartha* by Hermann Hesse (Sept 8-10)
35. The Girl who Played with Fire+ by Stieg Larsson (Sept 10-18)
36. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Sept 19-20)
37. Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch (Sept 21-25)
38. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Oct 16)
39. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (Oct 22-Nov 7)
    
40. Her Fearful Symmetry by Andrey Niffenegger (Nov 7-Nov 9)
41. Jamaica Inn* by Daphne du Maurier (Nov 9-11)
    

*Book Club Selection
+I highly recommend this book.

Still thinking...

I finished reading Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger last night.

I’m not exactly sure what to think. I enjoyed the story but was quite shocked by the turn that it took at the end. And the ending…I’m still thinking about that one.

(I guess people normally write reviews of books after they have formed their own opinion. I don’t really consider myself a reviewer though.)

I also just wanted to put it out there. Has anyone else read it?

3 Years ago today...

This is how big of a dork I am.

Currently Reading

I'll probably end up finishing it tonight.

I have 12 books to go to meet my goal of 50.

These are the ones I’m planning on reading.

1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson - currently reading
2. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell - currently reading
3. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier - November Book Club Selection
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen - A friend lent me this one.
6. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
8. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger
9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - I began reading this over the summer.
   
10. 1984 by George Orwell
11. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
12. Whatever the December Book Club Selection is!

My original goal was 30 books for the year which I met in August, so I decided to bump it up to 50. What was I thinking?!

Dinner is served.