Well then

This really has been a bit of a failure as a blog. I very much wanted to be keeping a list of everything I read. I had high hopes that a blog would be the perfect format for such a list. Easy-schmeasy. But, no, it didn't work out that way. Maybe this year will be better.

Now, I will try to remember some of what I read, but failed to document, last year. The only problem with checking out books from the library is that there is no record. You can't look back on your bookshelf to remember what you have read. My library record only notes books I accrued fines for; not too helpful. Hmm....

The books I can remember:

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (I loved this book!!)
The Giant's House: A Romance by Elizabeth Mccracken
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Locked Rooms by Laurie King (The most recent Mary Russell novel; a series I quite enjoy)
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
By a Spider's Thread also by Laura Lippman

Among the Children's/Young Adult books I read (or re-read) are:

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (in the original order (^_^) )
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Trixie Belden #01: The Secret of the Mansion and Trixie Belden #2: The Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell (These were my favorite books in fifth and sixth grade! They are much better than Nancy Drew.)
The Dark Hills Divide and Beyond the Valley of the Thorns by Patrick Carman
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry


I am currently reading Stormwitch by Susan Vaught, a Young Adult novel. It is about a 16 year old girl who comes from Haiti to Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1969, bringing with her traditional beliefs about African ancestors and battling storms. I am enjoying it thus far. It also seems to discuss the tension between the nonviolent civil rights movement and the emergence of the black power movement.

I have currently checked out:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (We saw the musical a couple of months ago and it was fantastic!)
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan

Thursday 19, 8:50 am
Some more books remembered.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales by M. T. Anderson