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Justine's 2009 Book Challenge
My goal for 2009 is to read 204 books and/or 100,000 pages: 17 books a month/8,333 pages with sub-challenges.
January: 19 books
7,548 pages
February: 17 books
5,654 pages
March: 27 books
8,186 pages
April: 38 books
12,034 pages
May: 22 books
6,038 pages
June: 10 books
3,862 pages
July: 11 books
4,468 pages
August: 11 books
2,743 pages
AUTHOR CHALLENGEA - Jane Austen
B - Charlotte Bronte
C - Meg Cabot
D - Sarah Dessen
E - Eugenides Jeffrey
F - F. Scott Fitzgerald
G - Neil Gaiman
H - Charlaine Harris
I
J - A.J. Jacobs
K - Sophie Kinsella
L - Jen Lancaster
M - Haruki Murakami
N - Audrey Niffenegger
O
P - Jodi Picoult
Q
R - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
S - Dodie Smith
T - Craig Thompson
U
V - Kurt Vonnegut
W - Jennifer Weiner
X
Y
Z - Markus Zusak
TITLE CHALLENGEA - Anansi Boys
B - 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
C - Coraline
D - A Dirty Job A Novel
E - Emma
F - Fool
G - The Graveyard Book
H - The Hour I First Believed A Novel
I - I'm Sorry You Feel That Way The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, andFriend to Man and Dog
J - Jessica Z.
K
L - Lean Mean Thirteen
M - Madness A Bipolar Life
N - Night
O - One for the Money
P - Perfect Match A Novel
Q
R
S - Seven Up
T - Two for the Dough
U
V - Vanishing Acts A Novel
W - Watchmen
X
Y
Z
January 11. Definitely Dead
324 pages
January 2
2. All Together Dead
322 pages
3. From Dead to Worse
359 pages
Got hooked on this series on my trip home. I watched the whole series on HBO in one day and decided to check out the books.
January 64. Middlesex
529 pages
I'd been meaning to read this for so long and it was nothing like I expected. I thought it would focus more on Cal(liope) and less on the history of the family.
January 95. American Gods
588 pages
I've been eating up all the Neili Gaiman I can get my hands on for the past few months. I haven't been able to get these characters out of my head for weeks now.
January 127. The Book Thief
550 pages
I am not jumping on the amazingness bandwagon for this book. It was good, but I don't think it lived up to the hype.
8. Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer375 pages
January 13
I find it strange that I hate Stephanie Klein and not Jen Lancaster. They have similarly annoying writing styles, but I guess I let Jen slide because she? Is hiLARious.
11. Madness A Bipolar Life284 pages
I loved loved loved her first memoir, Wasted. Madness just left me feeling a little crazy - which would have been okay (it happens when I read books like this) but I finished it during my lunch break and had to go back to work for two hours.
12. The Hour I First Believed A Novel734 pages
13. Just Listen
371 pages
January 20
Oh Wally Lamb. You throw so much crazy history and different stories into your novels and make me swear to never read you again. This was no 'I Know This Much is True', but I'll let it slide.
Just Listen was cute and this boy is probably my new literary crush.
14. A Wild Sheep Chase353 pages
I read half this book and then set it down for eight months. Not Murakami's finest, but whatever. I was able to pick it up easily and finish the story with no problem.
15. 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 Office400 pages
January 25
And then I became slightly obsessed with Jen Lancaster because I can't keep re-reading Laurie Notaro.
17. Coraline162 pages
Had to read it before the movie comes out. After an almost fight with Amazon I was able to pick this book up and not set it down for three hours until I was finished (there was also a Heroes marathon going on).
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