Reading List Update
A few of the books on my list, and of course my trusty Kindle!
Happy Almost-Truly-but-in-practicality-it’s already-Summer!! I just this morning finished listening to Neil Gaiman read me his novel, Ocean at the End of the Lane. It’s not my usual kind of book, but I enjoyed it and I like that his voice sometimes sounded like Alan Rickman. (
Since we are nearly halfway through the year, I thought I’d do an update post to let you know how the reading list is going. In case you missed it, you can find the original list from January here. You can also find this list, add the books to your own shelves, and see my ratings at my shelf on Goodreads.
As of today! Read, re-read or listened to on audible from original list:
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1) by Sophie Kinsella
The Five Destinies of Carlos Moreno by George Weinstein
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth
Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary by Jill Smokler
Voyager (Outlander, #3) by Diana Gabaldon
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Rise of the Machines–Human Authors in a Digital World by Kristen Lamb
Still to read from original list:
179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers by Peter Selgin
Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1) by Jamie McGuire
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
On Writing by Stephen King
Pieces of the Heart by Karen White
Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making by John Fox
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Strange Brew by Mary Kay Andrews
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory
The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
The Reading Group: A Novel by Elizabeth Noble
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
Writing from Life by Susan Wittig Albert
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Read, despite that it did not appear on original list:
Drums of Autumn (Outlander #4) by Diana Gabaldon
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green [absolutely beautiful book]
Added to list:
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
and others…
So. I have some catching up, and maybe even some list-adjusting, to do. To some extent, I blame Diana Gabaldon, since the Outlander series gets me so absorbed it’s hard to stop listening, and those books are 30+ hours each. In general, I have at least three or four books going at a time: a paperback or two, something on the Kindle, and an audiobook for the car. I tend to jump in and out of the non-fiction/writing craft books, and then come back to them, so several of those have been started but not finished. There are many busy days in which the audiobook is the only reading I get (thank goodness for Audible!).
I’m tinkering with both women’s fiction and a mystery/thriller series right now, the latter of which is pushing me out of my usual genres. I may have to make room on the list for more detective-type novels as the year progresses. How’s your reading year going? Any favorites or life-changers since January? What are you taking to the beach this summer?
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I’m M.J. (Manda) Pullen, an author and mom in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I blog about writing, publishing, motherhood, health, psychology and whatever else strikes me in the moment.
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