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Finally finished. I never would have thought I'd struggle to find an "N" that I wanted to read, but I finally did. (Linda Nagata - The Bohr Maker)

July was a great month - 19 books gets me to 73. I might have an outside chance to beat last year's total of 114.

June update: 10 books completed in June, which brings me to 54 for the year. The goal of 75 should be met easily.

May update: 11 books got knocked off this month (the whole list is in my "2008" shelf) for a total of 44 through May. A couple of business trips with air travel sure helped.

April update: 8 books completed (33 for the year). My whole list is in my book list on the "2008" shelf.

March update: 11 books completed (25 for the year).

Q is for Alissa Quart (Branded - the buying and selling of teenagers)

I've conquered "X" - Alan Xenakis (Why Doesn't My Funny Bone Make Me Laugh?). Okay enough book, but I wouldn't rush out to find it, unless you really, really need to knock off "X".

February update: 9 books completed (14 for the year). That has me on a good pace.

This should be pretty fun to try. I'm going to shoot for last names only, but especially filling in Q and X should be challenging - I didn't find anything too interesting in a quick search of my library's catalog.

A: David Allen (Ready for Anything)
B: Anthony Bourdain (The Nasty Bits)
C: Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
D: Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)
E: Joe Edley (Everything Scrabble)
F: Eric Flint (1632)
G: Ed Gentry (Neversfall)
H: Edward Hallowell (CrazyBusy)
I: Molly Ivins (You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You)
J: Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke)
K: John Kotter (Our Iceberg is Melting)
L: Elizabeth Little (Biting the Wax Tadpole)
M: Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)
N: Linda Nagata (The Bohr Maker)
O: George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London)
P: Alfred Posamentier (The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers)
Q: Alissa Quart (Branded)
R: Justin Richards (Dr. Who: The Resurrection Casket)
S: Rebecca Shafir (The Zen of Listening)
T: Lynne Truss (Talk to the Hand)
U: John Updike (Rabbit, Run)
V: Jules Verne (Journey to the Centre of the Earth)
W: Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes)
X: Alan Xenakis (Why Doesn't My Funny Bone Make Me Laugh?)
Y: Paul Yeager (Literally, the Best Language Book Ever)
Z: Jonathan Zittrain (The Future of the Internet)

I'm going to wrap up about 110-112 books in 2007, but 2008 will afford me less time to read. I'm shooting for 75.

January update: 5 books completed, which puts me slightly behind schedule, but as of Feb. 3, I have 2 more already completed and about 45 minutes to finish a 3rd.