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I have challenged myself to read at least 50 books this year. The ones I have already read are:
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns LOVED it..
2. The Jane Austen Book Club A Novel was ok, but not what I was expecting
3. Water for Elephants LOVED Jacob... I'll send you a post card!
4. Play Dirty quick read, guilty pleasure read
5. The Tin Roof Blowdown A Dave Robicheaux Novel was ok...
6. The Cellist of Sarajevo liked it alot, story of 4 strangers and how their lives connected during the seige of Sarajevo in the early 90's.
On my display case (much like Holli's closet floor) TBR:
The Septembers of Shiraz
Angels Fall
The Book Thief
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Whistling In the Dark
Mistress of the Art of Death
Wish You Well
Anna Karenina
Fire and Ice
The Same Sweet Girls
Love Walked In
The Alchemist
Middlesex
The Historian
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Running with Scissors A Memoir
The Book of Air and Shadows
The Book of Lost Things
The City of Falling Angels
Rhett Butler's People
Bones to Ashes
What Happened to Anna K?
My Antonia
The Awakening And Other Stories
A Farewell to Arms
In Cold Blood
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Think I have my work cut out for me!!
oh and I finished
7. Lolita....... was ok.... still wondering how it made it to the list of 1001 books
How was The Historian? It's on my To-Read list but I keep pushing it off. Same thing with The Alchemist. I keep hearing mixed reviews.
Kat, Wish you Well is not your usual David Baldacci stuff. And I loved it! Hope you do too. I have a few of your others on my Wish List and will look forward to hearing about them from you.
You can do it! You've got lots of good titles there. In Cold Blood is amazing. The Awakening is in my Top 5 Favorites of all-time. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is my favorite movie ever so of course I enjoy the book.
You have a great list Kat! Are you doing the 1001 before you die one? I can't wait for you to read the Book Thief..loved it!
Shelby, I am doing the 1001.... I have the excel format spreadsheet on my computer, and also have a list on my phone that I keep with me. My 17 yr old son wants to get the actual book with all of them listed.....he says that we can mark each one we read with a different color... his with red and mine with purple.... At least I have one child that reads something other than car magazines! :)
Oh gosh is it not great when they read! I love it. My daughter Jen is my only reader..she loves all these little teenie books and recently even read Anne Frank! I love love it. That's a pretty good idea with the markers. I want that book too.
I was impressed when he came up with the idea! He said that even when he moves away that one of us will keep the book, and as we read the books listed, that we will call each other so that we can keep it updated.
It may take a few weeks for him to get going again with it though. He graduated high school this past Thursday, and right now he isn't wanting to read too much of anything........lol
He sounds like a very interesting guy, sounds like you've really raised two great men Kat!
And congrats on his graduation. I firmly believe the mom has every right to be congratulated on that day too! ;)
Oh, Kat, what a mature son you have. That young and wanting to keep up and share with with Mom on a 1001 book list. Vunderbar!
Elizabeth, everyone that meets my two boys thinks that he is the oldest. He is 17 and his brother is 20.... and they are like daylight and dark.
Between the two of us, we already own about 30 of the books on the list... We read different ones and try to help the other decide which one to read and if the other will like it or not.
I really enjoyed 'Water for Elephants'. And I just ordered the 'Book Thief' from the library this week!
Kat - it's so wonderful that your son loves to read, too, and you can share that with each other. I know I got my love of reading from my mom, and I'm really grateful to her!
Ok.... so I am about midway through The Awakening... am really loving it, but had to stop.............. I had to go to the eye doctor last week......... now I'm waiting on my glasses to come in!!!!
Congrats on the getting the new glasses. Doesn't it make everything seem so much better when you can actually see! ;-0
Kat, both of these are on my Wish List. With permission to splurge a little at a big bookstore next weekend, I'm hoping they get into the bag!
Yes, Brenda...reading without headaches is a good thing!
Elizabeth, got them both for $4.50 each! easy to splurge like that!
Kat, we have only a small Waldenbooks here. I'll be visiting a full-fledged Barnes and Noble in downtown Seattle. I hope I don't swoon and faint when I enter that store. I'll check out any bargain tables first, but in any case, there will be room in my luggage for some sort of haul, markdowns or not.
LOL....... I swoon and faint everytime I go in a B&N or a BAM!!! Once I regain my senses I wander around for hours!!
11. The Shadow of the Wind 
Loved this book! It had mystery, intrique, humor, love, torture, murder....... everything that makes a book. I loved how the characters unfolded and intertwine with each other.
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The Awakening: And Other Stories (other topics)Rhett Butler's People (other topics)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (other topics)
In Cold Blood (other topics)
Bones to Ashes (other topics)
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