OK, I am starting a bit late in the year, so I'm going to just do a 365-day count rather than try to do this by the end of 2009. I am starting with June 1 and going to June 1, 2010 since I have been reading a lot the last few months and the reason I want to do this is to keep the motivation going. So, not counting crummy books I've started and not finished, here is my list since June 1. Cross fingers for me! 41 more books to go in 9 months.

1 - Bitter is the New Black Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
2 - The Uncommon Reader A Novella
3 - The Graveyard Book
4 - Gone With The Wind (this should count as 5 books, oy - but I do love it)
5 - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid A Memoir
6 - Julie and Julia 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
7 - My Life on a Plate
8 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
9 - The Penny Pinchers Club

10 - Sixpence House Lost in A Town Of Books

11 - Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters

12 - A Supremely Bad Idea Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All

Finally! I liked it but it took forever to read.

13 - HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!

14 - Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

15 - World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War

my review is on my blog: http://desperadopenguin.blogspot.com/200...

16 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

17 - Heat An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

18 - In Tongues of the Dead

OK - I thought this would be a good group to join - and I too will be attempting to read 50 books by next Nov - I'm sure that won't be a problem.... I do love to read. I've put The Concubine's Children on hold as I have a plethera of books from the library, and I own that one. So I have read:

1. A Reliable Wife - Goolrick - Nov 22/09
2. Reading - The girl who played with fire.

19 - Creepy Susie and 13 other tragic tales for troubled children

Look at that - you can add little pictures to your posts. Love it.