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It's snowing huge flakes right now and it's so pretty. I won't be watching the ball drop or anything tonight and also it seems we won't have running water for the weekend. Just kidding! Running water yay!
So I read some books this year and as usual, I'm going to tell you what they all were.
The ones in italics are books I recommend to anyone.
1. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
2. Under God, Toby Mac & Michael Tait
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
4. Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott
5. Riding the Bus With My Sister, Rachel Simon
6. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
7. Finders Keepers, Mark Bowden
8. And the Bride Wore White, Dannah Gresh
9. The Whitney Chronicles, Judy Baer
10. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
11. Every Boy's Got One, Meg Cabot
12. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Eoin Colfer
13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
14. The Redemption of Sarah Cain, Beverly Lewis
15. The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
16. Paging Aphrodite, Kim Green
17. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
19. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
20. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
21. The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
22. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
23. Why I'm Like This, Cynthia Kaplan
24. I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies), Laurie Notaro
25. Summer in the Land of Skin, Jody Gehrman
26. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
27. The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
28. Emma, Jane Austen
29. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
30. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
31. The Umbrella Man and Other Stories, Roald Dahl
32. Mr. Maybe, Jane Green
33. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
34. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
35. The 10th Kingdom, Kathryn Wesley
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37. Cranberry Queen, Kathleen DeMarco
38. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
39. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
40. Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
41. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
42. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
43. Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
44. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
45. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46. In A Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
47. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
48. Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall
49. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
50. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel
Those are all books I read for the first time, so that list doesn't count my rereads, which are the following.
The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman (a favorite)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (another favorite)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Art of Fiction, John Gardner
The Da Vinci Code, Dan freaking Brown (ugh ugh ugh)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
There you have it. That's what I did all year.
Happy new year. And all that.
So I read some books this year and as usual, I'm going to tell you what they all were.
The ones in italics are books I recommend to anyone.
1. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
2. Under God, Toby Mac & Michael Tait
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
4. Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott
5. Riding the Bus With My Sister, Rachel Simon
6. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
7. Finders Keepers, Mark Bowden
8. And the Bride Wore White, Dannah Gresh
9. The Whitney Chronicles, Judy Baer
10. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
11. Every Boy's Got One, Meg Cabot
12. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Eoin Colfer
13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
14. The Redemption of Sarah Cain, Beverly Lewis
15. The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
16. Paging Aphrodite, Kim Green
17. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
19. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
20. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
21. The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
22. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
23. Why I'm Like This, Cynthia Kaplan
24. I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies), Laurie Notaro
25. Summer in the Land of Skin, Jody Gehrman
26. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
27. The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
28. Emma, Jane Austen
29. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
30. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
31. The Umbrella Man and Other Stories, Roald Dahl
32. Mr. Maybe, Jane Green
33. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
34. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
35. The 10th Kingdom, Kathryn Wesley
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37. Cranberry Queen, Kathleen DeMarco
38. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
39. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
40. Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
41. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
42. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
43. Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
44. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
45. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46. In A Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
47. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
48. Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall
49. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
50. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel
Those are all books I read for the first time, so that list doesn't count my rereads, which are the following.
The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman (a favorite)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (another favorite)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Art of Fiction, John Gardner
The Da Vinci Code, Dan freaking Brown (ugh ugh ugh)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
There you have it. That's what I did all year.
Happy new year. And all that.