Carrie’s Comments (group member since Jul 09, 2010)

Carrie’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

Well, good luck! And good luck with your PhD thesis!

Thanks!! It'll definitely be a busy year! I'm really excited to finally read all of these though - they've all been sitting on my bookshelf for some time now beckoning me! I'm probably going to have to do one of these every year for the next 5 or 10 years to finish up all the books I own! haha Anyway, thanks for the encouragment - are you doing a 50 book challenge this year as well?

Ok, that's it for now! Wish me luck!

I've already picked out my first 25 from books that I own that I haven't read yet (in an attempt to also save money this year!) I'm also in a book club, and we meet approximately every two weeks, so I figure that will give me about another 25 books to read in 2011!

So, my list of 25 that I already own include...

Memoirs (I love them!)
Rocket Boys Because my dad comes from the town that the author grew up in and knows everyone in the story.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time

Under the Tuscan Sun (done)

The Glass Castle (done)

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (done)

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (done)

In a Sunburned Country (done)

Into the Wild (done)

Popular Fiction:

The Help (done)

The Blind Assassin (currently reading)

The Poisonwood Bible

The Lovely Bones

The Secret Life of Bees (done)

Flowers for Algernon (done)

Classics:

The Great Gatsby (done)

Jane Eyre (mostly finished, I'll get around to it one day...)

My Antonia

Animal Farm

A Tale of Two Cities

One Stephen King novel (my year wouldn't be complete without him!) and the new Sookie Stackhouse book coming out!

The Gunslinger - I've been wanting to start the Dark Tower series for a long time, figured, might as well, since I'm doing a challenge anyhow!



Dead Reckoning (done)

And some books that don't really need a category, but that have been sitting on my shelf for a long time, and I want to just read them, once and for all:

Chef: A Novel (done)

Good in Bed (done)

Big City Eyes

Atonement

Also, I'll have to add my book club books as we go along...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (done)

Miral: A Novel (done)


Fahrenheit 451 (done)

One Day (done)

Middlesex (done)

Bossypants (done)

A Virtuous Woman (done)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (done)

Into the Wild (done)

Girl with the Pearl Earring, The (done)

Pirate Spirit: The Adventures of Anne Bonney (done)

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I (currently reading)

Lolita (done)

What Alice Forgot (done)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (done)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (done)

A few books to add to my list of to-reads in 2011. I plan on reading the rest of the Walking Dead series as soon as I get it from the library...so...

The Walking Dead Book Four (done)

and

The Walking Dead Book Five (done)

And I also plan on finishing Maya Angelou's autobiography...

The Heart of a Woman (done)


2/6/11 - I'm also adding this book to my to-read list this year...I know I won't be able to resist it!

Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later (done)

2/28/11 - I'm also adding this book, because I won in on goodreads!
A Shower of Roses

3/1/11 Another win to add to the shelf :)
On Black Sisters Street

3/3/11 Adding...
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3/13/11 A few more to add...
Vessel

Bull Canyon, A Boatbuilder, a writer and other Wildlife

Keep a Little Secret

If You Were Here

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa

The Orchard (done)

Buffalo Lockjaw (done)

Name: Carrie
Where do you live: Lockport, NY
Age (Optional): 25
What are you studying/What are you working as: I have a degree from Niagara University in Communications and I'm currently working at the Niagara County Board of Elections
What makes you happy: My husband, family, friends, my cat, reading (obviously), sunshine, blue gatorade, a good concert, picnics...the list could go on and on and on...
What are you listening to now/have listened to last: I'm just burning James Morrison's Undiscovered onto my itunes list right now!
An interesting fact about you: I publicly fell down a flight of steps today in the rain and got soaking wet and quite a large welt and gash on my shin. It was pretty funny and I kinda wish someone had videotaped it, I could be on America's Funniest Home videos and win some money!
Favourite place to be: on vacation, anywhere. I looove traveling.
Favorite lyric: "dance your cares away, CLAP CLAP, worries for the another day, let the music play..." just kidding. I don't know, I like a large variety of music!
Favourite book: The Harry Potter series is probably my most loved
Favourite movie: Dirty Dancing!! It's been my go-to movie since I was about 7 years old

RECOMMEND TO THE GROUP
1. A film: Avatar, in my opinion, was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. If you're up in the air about whether to rent it or not, do it!
2. A book: Persepolis. We just read it for our book club and all loved it!
3. A song: "You and Me" by the Dave Matthews Band
4: A band: Kings of Leon