Connie's comments (member since Mar 11, 2009)

Connie's comments from the 150 Books Read in 2009 group.

18) Darkly Dreaming Dexter
19) The Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger)
20) The Caged Virgin (Hirsi Ali)
21) The Swallows of Kabul
22) Ghosts Among Us (Van Praagh)
23) In Our Time (Hemingway)
24) The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantum of Death
25) Their Eyes Were Watching God
26) Fine Just the Way It Is (Annie Proulx)
27) A-Rod

Erin wrote: "How did you like The Reader? It was one of my favorite books from last year."

I liked it a lot. Definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year. I'm interested in looking for more books about that time. I read the "Gurensey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" this year as well, and found that to be a very good book about WWII as well.

15) Summer's Path by Scott Blum
16) The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
17) Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson

Great. Purple Hibiscus and she has another book out Half of a Yellow Sun which I would like to read as well. thanks for the recommendation.

13)A Mercy by Toni Morrison
14)Free Range Chickens by Simon Rich

Nicely done Erin. Some of these were really long books. The Pillars of the Earth & The Hour I First Believed were both long. How did you like Purple Hibiscus and Beloved? I've got Beloved to read. I'm currently reading A Mercy (hopefully will finish today).

Erin, I liked "The Hour I First Believed" but I kind of felt like he saw how long it was and he just rushed the ending. Once you got to the Columbine shootings is got pretty good, but I didn't really like all the stuff about his family history, but he did tie it all in at the end. I really liked his book "This Much I Know is True" that's one of my favorite novels.

Kittiya, I've decided to go back for my Master's in English, so I'm taking the pre-reqs. I only had 3 cr in English so I need at least 12 cr in 200 level or higher. So I'm reading a lot of short stories as well as the novels I read in my spare time.

I did the math - It's on pace for a little over 200 in the year!! Nice job!!

Don't know if I'll hit 150, I'm back taking classes so this will be challenge!! Heregoes.

1) Dewey (The library cat)
2) The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
3) Gurnsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
4) The Sound & the Fury by Faulkner
5) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Wroblewski
6) The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
7) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshid?
9) Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
10) 2666 by Roberto Bolano
11) Testimony by Anita Shreve
12) UR by Stephen King

1) Dewey
2) The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
3)The Gurnsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
4) The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
5) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
6) The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
7) To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper
8) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
9) Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger