Melissa's six books

[Melissa]

This is a great challenge... I actually have so many books out from the library at one time that the books I actually own are pretty much window-dressing. Count me in!

Here's my tentative list of my first six books:

1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. Mimus
3. The Patron Saint of Liars
4. Into Thin Air
5. Perdido Street Station
6. The Years of Rice and Salt

[Melissa]

Wow, I sucked at this challenge! Out of the 65ish books I've read so far this year, only four of them were books that I owned, and none of them were on this list. (Heavy library use in action, I guess, and the fact that I moved in June and spent a few months reading down my massive stash of borrowed books.) I plan to apply myself to this list with renewed vigor this summer, though.

In a side note, I no longer own Into Thin Air as I donated it to my school library. So I'm replacing that book with White Teeth, which I just finished.

[Melissa]

OK, this was just embarrassing. I honestly didn't read a single book on my original list, and cheated to squeeze in an alternate title only because it was a book club pick. NOT COOL! I'm restarting this challenge for 2009 with pretty much the same list of books, because, really, they all are books that I know I'll like, if not love, and I ALREADY OWN THEM. For Pete's sake, how hard can this be?

So, between January and June 2009, I will read:

1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. Mimus
3. The Patron Saint of Liars
4. Graceling
5. Perdido Street Station
6. The Years of Rice and Salt

[Huma]

Good Luck! Hope you are more successful this time.

Talking of school libraries, I miss mine so much! Thousands of books to read and we could borrow only 2 each week. I'll always dream about the books that were present in the library and about which I'll never even know about.

[Terri]

I am currently reading Conspiracy in Death by JD Robb which was on last years list for me.LOL

[Melissa]

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm a school librarian, so I live daily with the great temptation of my growing collection. There are always a million books that I want to borrow.

[Terri]

I hear THAT! LOL