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)
    
42. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote (Nov 12-13)
43. Invisible by Paul Auster (Nov 14-17)
44. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Nov 21-24)
45. The Year of Pleasures: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg (Nov 24)

*Book Club Selection
+I highly recommend this book.

Saturday Night

Invisible

For some reason I really want to read this book. I'm gonna have to wait until it's at the library waiting for me though. I dunno. Maybe actually I'll actually break down and buy it once I hold it in my hands and read a few pages.

The Divine Jane: Reflections on Austen from The Morgan Library & Museum on Vimeo.

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.