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message 1: by Jeremy (new)
Dec 23, 2008 06:59AM

131708 Hi everyone. I am going to aim for 50 books in '09. That would, by far, blow away what I have read in any one of my adult years.


message 2: by Donna (new)
Dec 23, 2008 07:41AM

1334924 You can do it Jeremy!!! As long as you stay away from a lot of large books like War & Peace!


message 3: by Jeremy (new)
Dec 23, 2008 07:42AM

131708 haha. At least I will be able to count that for '09.


message 4: by Donna (new)
Dec 23, 2008 08:09AM

1334924 That is true! Good luck then


message 5: by Jeremy (new)
Jan 20, 2009 11:01AM

131708 Finally! The seal has been broken. Now I hope to pick up some speed.

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


message 6: by Jeremy (last edited Jan 23, 2009 06:41AM) (new)
Jan 23, 2009 06:41AM

131708 2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.


message 9: by Kristen (new)
Feb 12, 2009 10:44AM

1116185 So what did you think of War and Peace?


message 10: by Jeremy (new)
Feb 17, 2009 07:03AM

131708 I liked it quite a bit. For the most part I didn't feel that it read slow (even thought it took me forever!) but at the beginning of the 2nd epilogue I started to lose my patience. I'm looking forward to reading another Tolstoy in which he stays away from the war side of things.


message 12: by Kristen (last edited Feb 17, 2009 08:56AM) (new)
Feb 17, 2009 08:44AM

1116185 I'm about half way through Ana Kerenina, and I think I can honestly say that I preferred War and Peace


message 13: by Jeremy (new)
Feb 17, 2009 08:52AM

131708 No!!!! I hope that I feel differently! :) Although, War and Peace was great, so it wouldn't even have to be AS good for it to be a good read.


message 14: by Kristen (new)
Feb 17, 2009 08:57AM

1116185 It seems so far to be about cheating on your spouses and farming...


message 15: by Jeremy (new)
Feb 17, 2009 12:04PM

131708 Does that ever seem like a popular topic for literature in that era!


message 18: by Donna (new)
Feb 26, 2009 12:17PM

1334924 I think I should add my school books into my list because i am not getting any liesure reading done!!


message 19: by Jeremy (new)
Feb 26, 2009 12:22PM

131708 Of course you should! They are books and you read them!


message 24: by Jeremy (last edited Apr 01, 2009 08:16AM) (new)
Apr 01, 2009 07:10AM

131708 13. Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats. Edited by M.L. Rosenthal.


message 25: by Jeremy (new)
Jul 07, 2009 07:21AM

131708 My goal might have been derailed by summer activity, but we'll see....

14. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore.
16. The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson.
17. New Spring by Robert Jordan.
18. The Poet by Michael Connelly.
19. The Shack by William P. Young.


message 27: by Jeremy (new)
Aug 18, 2009 05:20AM

131708 22. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
23. 1984 by George Orwell.
24. The Inner Sanctum by Stephen W. Frey.
25. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.
26. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien.

Just over halfway there! I need to kick into a higher gear to make it, though.


message 30: by Jeremy (new)
Sep 24, 2009 10:46AM

131708 31. Across the Endless River by Thaddeus Carhart.

First reads!!


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