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Alphabet Challenge (author's last name)I'm going to read both a fiction and nonfiction book for each letter.
A:Writing With Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose -- 1983-2005, Margaret Atwood (READ 6/4-7/3/08)
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (READ 9/28-10/2/08)
B: People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks (READ 4/21-4/22/08)
Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars, Ray Bradbury (READ 8/24-29/08)
C: Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown, Michael Cunningham (READ 5/31-6/4/08)
The Cloud Atlas, Liam Callanan (READ 7/20-8/01/08)
D: Dingo, Charles de Lint (READ 7/18/08)
E: The Black Tattoo, Sam Enthoven (READ 11/19-24/08)
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, Duane Elgin (READ 12/15-19/08)
F: Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin (READ 2/13-2/15/08)
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, Finis Farr (READ 11/3-4/08)
G: The Assault on Reason, Al Gore (READ 3/12-3/21/08)
Elidor, Alan Garner (READ 5/17/08)
H: The Girl with No Shadow, Joanne Harris (READ 4/29-5/5/08)
Losing My Faculties, Brendan Halpin (READ 7/29/08)
I: High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student, Jeremy Iverson (READ 9/20-22/08)
J: Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the School that Beat the Odds, Joanne Jacobs (READ 2/24-2/27/08)
K: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Chuck Klosterman (READ 1/18-1/19/08)
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd (READ 9/25-27/08)
L: Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey (READ 4/23/08)
ReMake, ReUse, ReStyle: Easy Ways to Transform Everyday Basics into Inspired Design, Sonia Lucano (READ 7/26/08)
M: The Host, Stephenie Meyer (READ 5/18-5/22/08)
Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, Susan McCorkindale (READ 12/11-12/08)
N:
O:
P: Lady of the Snakes, Rachel Pastan (READ 2/21-2/22/08)
Stranger than Fiction, Chuck Palahniuk (READ 5/29-5/31/08)
Q:
R: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (READ 7/19-25/08)
S: Lost and Found, Jacqueline Sheehan (READ 4/9-4/11/08)
The Sandman Papers, edited by Joe Sanders (READ 7/29-8/22/08)
T: The Arrival, Shaun Tan (READ 9/28/08)
U:
V: Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut (READ 5/22-5/23/08)
W: Midnighters: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfeld (READ 5/31-6/1/08)
The Bradbury Chronicles, Sam Weller (READ 7/11-7/13-08)
X:
Y:
Z: The Book Thief, Marcus Zusek (READ 8/24-31/08)
In addition to the 4 challenges listed above, I plan on reading a total of 200 books for 2008. I'll post them here and where they fit in the above challenges as well.January:
1. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Diana Gabaldon
started: 1/2/08
finished: 1/4/08
512 pages
2. Lord John and the Hand of Devils, Diana Gabaldon
started: 1/5/08
finished: 1/6/08
368 pages
3. The Tea Rose: A Novel, Jennifer Donnelly
started: 1/6/08
finished: 1/9/08
592 pages
4. The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
started: 1/10/08
finished: 1/17/08
383 pages
5. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Chuck Klosterman
started: 1/18/08
finished: 1/19/08
272 pages
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
started: 1/20/08
finished: 1/23/08
384 pages
7. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
started: 1/24/08
finished: 1/24/08
308 pages
8. Mistral's Kiss, Laurell K. Hamilton
started: 1/25/08
finished: 1/25/08
224 pages
9. You Suck: A Love Story, Christopher Moore
started: 1/25/08
finished: 1/27/08
336 pages
10. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
started: 1/27/08
finished: 1/30/08
292 pages
January total: 10 books, 3671 pages
February11. Dead as a Doornail, Charlaine Harris
started: 1/31/08
finished: 2/2/08
310 pages
12. All Together Dead, Charlaine Harris
started: 2/2/08
finished: 2/3/08
323 pages
13. Many Bloody Returns: Tales of Birthdays with Bite, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner
started: 2/3/08
finished: 2/5/08
355 pages
14. Thunderstruck, Erik Larsen
started: 2/6/08
finished: 2/16/08
480 pages
15. Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin
started: 2/13/08
finished: 2/15/08
420 pages
16. The Tent, Margaret Atwood
started: 2/16/08
finished: 2/17/08
155 pages
17. Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
started: 2/17/08
finished: 2/18/08
308 pages
18. Neuromancer, William Gibson
started: 2/19/08
finished: 2/21/08
276 pages
19. Lady of the Snakes, Rachel Pastan
started: 2/21/08
finished: 2/22/08
308 pages
20. The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit, Jill Conner Brown
started: 2/23/08
finished: 2/24/08
291 pages
21. Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds, Joanne Jacobs
started: 2/24/08
finished: 2/27/08
228 pages
22. March, Geraldine Brooks
started: 2/28/08
finished: 2/29/08
280 pages
February totals: 12 books, 3734 pages
2008 totals: 22 books, 7405 pages
March:23. The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte
started: 3/1/08
finished: 3/3/08
362 pages
24. Incantation, Alice Hoffman
started: 3/3/08
finished: 3/4/08
192 pages
25. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
started: 3/5/08
finished: 3/8/08
342 pages
26. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
started: 3/9/08
finished: 3/12/08
378 pages
27. The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
started: 3/12/08
finished: 3/21/08
296 pages
28. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
started: 3/12/08
finished: 3/14/08
207 pages
29. The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
started: 3/12/08
finished: 3/18/08
299 pages
30. Dancing Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
started: 3/18/08
finished:3/18/08
237 pages
31. Theatre Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
started: 3/19/08
finished: 3/21/08
281 pages
32. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeannette Winterson
started: 3/22/08
finished:3/23/08
176 pages
33. Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
started: 3/23/08
finished: 3/23/08
281 pages
34. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie
started: 3/21/08
finished: 3/22/08
230 pages
35. Love Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
started: 3/24/08
finished: 3/24/08
274 pages
36. The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen
started: 3/25/08
finished: 3/26/08
208 pages
37. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell
started: 3/26/08
finished: 3/26/08
256 pages
38. Feed, M.T. Anderson
started: 3/27/08
finished: 3/27/08
240 pages
39. A Lick of Frost, Laurell K. Hamilton
started: 3/27/08
finished: 3/27/08
224 pages
40. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
started: 3/28/08
finished: 3/30/08
400 pages
41. The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
started: 3/28/08
finished: 3/28/08
533 pages
42. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
started: 3/30/08
finished: 3/31/08
297 pages
March total: 20 books, 5713 pages
yearly total: 42 books, 13118 pages
Hey Audrey,I like the alphabet thing. I told someone else the same thing. You will get a chance to try out different authors and different books. I think that it is a winner!!!!
Alphabet Challenge -- Book Titlesfiction and nonfiction for each letter
A: The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold (READ 4/8-4/14/08)
Airstream Living, Bruce Littlefield and Simon Brown (READ 4/18/08)
B:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (READ 4/6-4/7/08)
The Barefoot Home: Dressed-down Design for Casual Living, Marc Vassallo (READ 4/25/08)
C: The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte (READ 3/1-3/3/08)
The Children's Blizzard, David Laskin (READ 10/19-22/08)
D: Dragon's Eye, James A. Hetley (READ 4/1-4/2/08)
The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen (READ 3/25-3/26/08)
E: Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman (READ 4/8/08)
F: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott (READ 5/11-5/14/08)
First Home with Style, Better Homes & Gardens (READ 8/10/08)
G: Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon (READ 4/4-4/6/08)
Green Homes: New Ideas for Sustainable Living, Sergi Costa Duran (READ 4/23/08)
H: History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World , H. Paul Jeffers (READ 4/7-4/26/08)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami (READ 6/13-6/23/08)
I: The Inheritance, Louisa May Alcott (READ 4/15/08)
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (READ 3/12-3/14/08)
J: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, And Me, Elizabeth; E.L. Konisburg (READ 9/28/08)
K: Kit Homes Modern, Ima Ebong (READ 4/18/08)
L: Long Way Back, Brendan Halpin (READ 4/2-4/3/08)
Loft Design: Solutions for Creating a Livable Space, Katherine Stone (READ 4/14-4/16/08)
M: Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker (READ 4/17-4/20/08)
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, Rebekah Nathan (READ 5/6-5/8/08)
N: New Loft Living, Elizabeth Wilhide (READ 4/18/08)
Neuromancer, William Gibson (READ 2/19-2/21/08)
O: One Space Living, Cynthia Inions (READ 4/16-4/17/08)
Once Upon a Time in the North, Phillip Pullman (READ 7/19/08)
P: Promises to Keep, Charles de Lint (READ 4/8-4/9/08)
Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities, Alexandra Robbins (READ 5/8-5/11/08)
Q: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, Rosalind Wiseman (READ 4/24-5/8/08)
R: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (READ 4/3-4/4/08)
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Rachel Simon (READ 4/27-4/29/08)
S: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams (READ 4/17/08)
The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough, Sarah Nettleton (READ 4/25-4/27/08)
T: The Tent, Margaret Atwood (READ 2/16-2/17/08)
Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy), Heather B. Armstrong (READ 11/24-26/08)
U: Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer (READ 3/28-3/30/08)
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella, Alan Bennett (READ 5/23/08)
V: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell (READ 3/26/08)
Vintage Style, Cath Kidston (READ 8/9/08)
W: Who's Afraid of Beowulf? Tom Holt (READ 4/15-4/17/08)
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Daniel H. Pink (READ 7/29-8/02/08)
X:
Y: The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg (READ 4/20-4/21/08)
A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler, Frances Mayes (READ 5/23-5/28/08)
Z:
April:43. Dragon's Eye, James A. Hetley
started: 3/31/08
finished: 4/2/08
368 pages
44. Long Way Back, Brendan Halpin
started: 4/2/08
finished: 4/03/08
206 pages
45. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
started: 4/03/08
finished: 4/04/08
184 pages
46. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
started: 4/04/08
finished: 4/06/08
208 pages
47. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
started: 4/06/08
finished: 4/7/08
352 pages
48. History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World , H. Paul Jeffers
started: 4/7/08
finished: 4/26/08
336 pages
49. The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold
started: 4/8/08
finished: 4/14/08
304 pages
50. Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
started: 4/8/08
finished: 4/8/08
144 pages
51. Promises to Keep, Charles de Lint
started: 4/8/08
finished: 4/9/08
175 pages
52. Lost and Found, Jacqueline Sheehan
started: 4/9/08
finished: 4/11/08
278 pages
53. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters, Chip Kidd
started: 4/11/08
finished: 4/12/08
288 pages
54. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
started: 4/12/08
finished: 4/14/08
242 pages
55. The Inheritance, Louisa May Alcott
started: 4/15/08
finished: 4/15/08
188 pages
56. Who's Afraid of Beowulf? Tom Holt
started: 4/15/08
finished:4/17/08
206 pages
57. Loft Design: Solutions for Creating a Livable Space, Katherine Stone
started: 4/14/08
finished: 4/16/08
157 pages
58. One Space Living, Cynthia Inions
started: 4/16/08
finished: 4/17/08
137 pages
59. New Loft Living: Arranging Your Space, Elizabeth Wilhide
started: 4/18/08
finished: 4/18/08
160 pages
60. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams
started: 4/17/08
finished: 4/17/08
214 pages
61. Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker
started: 4/17/08
finished: 4/20/08
248 pages
62. Airstream Living, Bruce Littlefield and Simon Brown
started: 4/18/08
finished: 4/18/08
157 pages
63. Kit Homes Modern, Ima Ebong
started: 4/18/08
finished: 4/18/08
160 pages
64. The Year of Pleasures, Elizabeth Berg
started: 4/20/08
finished: 4/21/08
206 pages
65. People of the Book: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks
started: 4/21/08
finished: 4/22/08
416 pages
66. Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey
started: 4/23/08
finished: 4/23/08
229 pages
67. Green Homes: New Ideas for Sustainable Living, Sergi Costa Duran
started: 4/23/08
finished: 4/23/08
191 pages
68. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
started: 4/24/08
finished: 4/24/08
96 pages
69. The Dead Father's Club, Matt Haig
started: 4/24/08
finished: 4/26/08
328 pages
70. The Barefoot Home: Dressed-down Design for Casual Living, Marc Vassallo
started: 4/25/08
finished: 4/25/08
218 pages
71. The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough, Sarah Nettleton
started: 4/26/08
finished: 4/27/08
256 pages
72. Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Rachel Simon
started: 4/26/08
finished: 4/29/08
296 pages
April totals: 30 books, 6948 pages
2008 totals: 72 books, 20066 pages
May:73. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, Rosalind Wiseman
started: 4/24/08
finished: 5/8/08
336 pages
74. The Girl With No Shadow, Joanne Harris
started: 4/29/08
finished: 5/5/08
444 pages
75. McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, edited by Michael Chabon
started: 4/29/08
finished: 5/17/08
478 pages
76. My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, Rebekah Nathan
started: 5/6/08
finished: 5/8/08
186 pages
77. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities, Alexandra Robbins
started: 5/8/08
finished: 5/11/08
372 pages
78. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
started: 5/11/08
finished: 5/14/08
96 pages
79. Elidor, Alan Garner
started: 5/17/08
finished: 5/17/08
173 pages
80. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
started: 5/18/08
finished: 5/21/08
619 pages
81. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
started: 5/22/08
finished: 5/23/08
232 pages
82. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella, Alan Bennett
started: 5/23/08
finished: 5/23/08
128 pages
83. A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler, Frances Mayes
started: 5/23/08
finished: 5/28/08
417 pages
84. Stranger than Fiction: True Stories, Chuck Palahniuk
started: 5/29/08
finished: 5/31/08
256 pages
85. The Outlandish Companion, Diana Gabaldon
started: 5/29/08
finished: 5/31/08
577 pages
May totals: 13 books, 4314 pages
2008 totals: 85 books, 24380 pages
June:86. Land's End, Michael Cunningham
started: 5/31/08
finished: 6/4/08
173 pages
87. Midnighters: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfeld
started: 5/31/08
finished: 6/1/08
297 pages
88. Midnighters: Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld
started: 6/1/08
finished: 6/2/08
330 pages
89. Fodor's Washington, D.C. 2006 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
started: 5/21/08
finished: 6/1/08
352 pages
90. Midnighters: Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld
started: 6/2/03
finished: 6/4/08
378 pages
91. Farewell Summer, Ray Bradbury
started: 6/4/08
finished: 6/6/08
222 pages
92. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
started: 6/7/08
finished: 6/12/08
371 pages
93. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
started: 6/13/08
finished: 6/23/08
400 pages
94. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
started: 6/23/08
finished: 6/25/08
403 pages
95. Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
started: 6/25/08
finished: 6/27/08
548 pages
96. The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray
started: 6/28/08
finished: 6/30/08
819 pages
June totals: 11 books, 4293 pages
2008 totals: 96 books, 28673 pages
July:97. Writing With Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose -- 1983-2005, Margaret Atwood
started: 6/4/08
finished: 7/3/08
425 pages
98. Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5), Jim Butcher
started: 7/3/08
finished: 7/6/08
378 pages
99. The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt
started: 7/6/08
finished: 7/8/08
257 pages
100. The Third Angel, Alice Hoffman
started: 7/9/08
finished: 7/10/08
288 pages
101. The Bradbury Chronicles, Sam Weller
started: 7/11/08
finished: 7/13/08
384 pages
102. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
started: 7/13/08
finished: 7/14/08
372 pages
103. The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
started: 7/15/08
finished: 7/18/08
320 pages
104. Dingo, Charles de Lint
started: 7/18/08
finished: 7/18/08
213 pages
105. Once Upon a Time in the North, Philip Pullman
started: 7/19/08
finished: 7/19/08
103 pages
106. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
started: 7/19/08
finished: 7/25/08
722 pages
107. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
started: 7/27/08
finished:7/28/08
448 pages
108. Losing My Faculties, Brendan Halpin
started: 7/29/08
finished: 7/29/08
237 pages
109. Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum, Lotta Jansdotter
started: 7/26/08
finished: 7/26/08
120 pages
110. ReMake, ReUse, ReStyle: Easy Ways to Transform Everyday Basics into Inspired Design, Sonia Lucano
started: 7/26/08
finished: 7/26/08
144 pages
July totals: 14 books, 4411 pages
2008 totals: 110 books, 33084 pages
August:111. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Daniel H. Pink
started: 7/26/08
finished: 8/2/08
288 pages
112. The Sandman Papers, edited by Joe Sanders
started: 7/29/08
finished: 8/22/08
196 pages
113. Serve God Save the Planet, J. Matthew Sleeth
started: 7/29/08
finished: 8/19/08
255 pages
114. The Cloud Atlas, Liam Callanan
started: 7/30/08
finished: 8/1/08
360 pages
115. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
started: 8/2/08
finished: 8/5/08
404 pages
116. White Night, Jim Butcher
started: 8/5/08
finished: 8/7/08
404 pages
117. Small Favor, Jim Butcher
started: 8/8/08
finished: 8/11/08
420 pages
118. Small Bungalows, Christian Gladu
started: 8/8/08
finished: 8/8/08
111 pages
119. Vintage Style, Cath Kidston
started: 8/9/08
finished: 8/9/08
144 pages
120. First Home with Style, Better Homes & Gardens
started: 8/10/08
finished: 8/10/08
192 pages
121. Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyer
started: 8/11/08
finished: 8/15/08
754 pages
122. City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
started: 8/13/08
finished: 8/26/08
123. Generation Dead, Daniel Waters
started: 8/16/08
finished: 8/17/08
392 pages
124. In the Woods, Tana French
started: 8/17/08
finished: 8/22/08
429 pages
125. Pottery Barn Home
started: 8/15/08
finished: 8/19/08
368 pages
126. Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life, Dan Price
started: 8/22/08
finished: 8/22/08
170 pages
127. Real Simple: Meals Made Easy, Renee Schettler
started: 8/14/08
finished: 8/22/08
191 pages
128. The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, Benjamin Wallace
started: 8/22/08
finished: 8/24/08
319 pages
129. Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars, Ray Bradbury
started: 8/24/08
finished: 8/29/08
256 pages
130. Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr
started: 8/25/08
finished: 8/26/08
328 pages
131. Deceptively Delicious, Jessica Seinfeld
started: 8/12/08
finished: 8/24/08
224 pages
132. The Book Thief, Marcus Zusek
started: 8/25/08
finished: 8/31/08
552 pages
August totals: 22 books, 6348 pages
2008 totals: 132 books, 39432 pages
September:133. City of Ashes (audio CD), Cassandra Clare
started: 8/24/08
finished: 9/11/08
134. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
started: 9/1/08
finished: 9/5/08
384 pages
135. The Game of Kings, Dorothy Dunnett
started: 9/6/08
finished: 9/11/08
543 pages
136. The Good Neighbors Book One: Kin, Holly Black
started: 9/11/08
finished: 9/11/08
144 pages
137. London Calling, Edward Bloor (BOA)
started: 9/11/08
finished: 9/15/08
138. What-the-Dickens, Gregory Maguire
started: 9/11/08
finished: 9/12/08
295 pages
139. Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me; Martin Millar
started: 9/12/08
finished: 9/13/08
222 pages
140. Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier
started: 9/14/08
finished: 9/16/08
271 pages
141. Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier
started: 9/16/08
finished: 9/18/08
275 pages
142. Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier
started: 9/18/08
finished: 9/20/08
291 pages
143. High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student, Jeremy Iverson
started: 9/20/08
finished: 9/22/08
464 pages
144. The Year of Disappearances (The Society of S, Book 2), Susan Hubbard
started: 9/23/08
finished: 9/25/08
287 pages
145. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
started: 9/25/08
finished: 9/27/08
335 pages
146. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, And Me, Elizabeth; E.L. Konisburg
started: 9/28/08
finished: 9/28/08
128 pages
147. The Arrival, Shaun Tan
started: 9/28/08
finished: 9/28/08
128 pages
September totals: 15 books, 3767 pages
2008 totals: 147 books, 43199 pages
October:148. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
started: 9/28/08
finished: 10/2/08
336 pages
149. Marley and Me, John Grogan
started: 10/2/08
finished: 10/4/08
289 pages
150. The Shakespeare Stealer, Gary Blackwood
started: 10/4/08
finished: 10/5/08
224 pages
151. Dreamhunter, Elizabeth Knox
started: 10/5/08
finished: 10/10/08
384 pages
152. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
started: 10/10/08
finished: 10/12/08
320 pages
153. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, Jeanne Birdsall
started: 10/12/08
finished: 10/14/08
308 pages
154. Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett
started: 10/14/08
finished: 10/17/08
254 pages
155. Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott
started: 10/14/08
finished: 10/26/08
237 pages
156. The Wright 3, Blue Balliett
started: 10/17/08
finished: 10/19/08
318 pages
157. The Children's Blizzard, David Laskin
started: 10/19/08
finished: 10/22/08
303 pages
158. One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
started: 10/22/08
finished: 10/26/08
418 pages
159. This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Dye Gussow
started: 10/27/08
finished: 10/29/08
273 pages
160. On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm, Michael Ableman
started: 10/29/08
finished: 10/29/08
143 pages
161. Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright, Jan Adkins
started: 10/29/08
finished: 10/31/08
301 pages
October totals: 14 books, 4108 pages
2008 totals: 161 books, 47307 pages
November:162. Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
started: 10/31/08
finished: 11/1/08
337 pages
163. The Dead and the Gone, Susan Beth Pfeffer
started: 11/1/08
finished: 11/1/08
321 pages
164. The Magician, Michael Scott
started: 11/1/08
finished: 11/2/08
463 pages
165. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, Finis Farr
started: 11/3/08
finished: 11/4/08
293 pages
166. The Luxe, Anna Godbersen
started: 11/4/08
finished: 11/5/08
506 pages
167. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
started: 11/6/08
finished: 11/8/08
374 pages
168. The Color of Magic (Discworld Book 1), Terry Pratchett
started: 11/9/08
finished: 11/12/08
210 pages
169. What I Was, Meg Rosoff
started: 11/12/08
finished: 11/13/08
258 pages
170. Hocus Pocus, Paul Kieve
started: 11/13/08
finished: 11/15/08
304 pages
171. Frozen Fire, Tim Bowler
started:11/17/08
finished:11/19/08
328 pages
172. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
started:11/15/08
finished:11/17/08
224 pages
173. The Black Tattoo, Sam Enthoven
started: 11/19/08
finished:11/23/08
512 pages
174. Paper Towns, John Green
started: 11/23/08
finished: 11/24/08
305 pages
175. Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy), Heather B. Armstrong
started: 11/24/08
finished: 11/26/08
230 pages
176. Click, Linda Sue Park (+ 9 others)
started: 11/26/08
finished: 11/28/08
217 pages
177. The Calder Game, Blue Balliett
started: 11/28/08
finished: 11/29/08
379 pages
178. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
started: 11/28/08
finished: 11/28/08
183 pages
179. Chalice, Robin McKinley
started: 11/29/08
finished: 11/30/08
263 pages
180. Sharing Your Story: Recording Life's Details with Mini Books, Ali Edwards
started: 11/15/08
finished: 11/29/08
160 pages
181. Your Words, Your Story: Add Meaningful Journaling to Your Layouts, Michele Skinner
started: 11/26/08
finished: 11/29/08
127 pages
November totals: 20 books, 5994 pages
2008 totals: 181 books, 53301 pages
December:182. The Bell at Sealey Head, Patricia McKillip
started: 11/30/08
finished: 12/3/08
277 pages
183. Little (Grrl) Lost, Charles de Lint
started: 12/3/08
finished: 12/5/08
271 pages
184. The Ghost in Love, Jonathan Carroll
started: 12/6/08
finished: 12/8/08
308 pages
185. Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier
started: 12/9/08
finished: 12/11/08
407 pages
186. The World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues, edited by Scott Westerfeld
started: 12/11/08
finished: 12/16/08
210 pages
187. Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, Susan McCorkindale
started: 12/11/08
finished: 12/12/08
349 pages
188. Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, Ken Jennings
started: 12/13/08
finished: 12/15/08
269 pages
189. Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, Duane Elgin
started: 12/15/08
finished:12/19/08
240 pages
190. Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers, Daniel Moulthrop, Ninive Clements Calegari, and Dave Eggers
started: 12/15/08
finished: 12/26/08
355 pages
191. Hero: A Novel, Perry Moore
started: 12/16/08
finished: 12/22/08
428 pages
192. Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
started: 12/23/08
finished: 12/25/08
306 pages
193. Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K.Rowling
started: 12/26/08
finished: 12/26/08
111 pages
194. Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart
started: 12/26/08
finished: 12/28/08
243 pages
195. Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
started: 12/25/08
finished: 12/25/08
264 pages
196. Jamie At Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life, Jamie Oliver
started: 12/23/08
finished: 12/25/08
416 pages
197. The Knitting Answer Book, Margaret Radcliffe
started: 12/19/08
finished: 12/26/08
400 pages
198. Made From Scratch, Jenna Woginrich
started: 12/28/08
finished: 12/28/08
192 pages
December totals: 17 books, 5046 pages
2008 totals: 198 books, 58347 pages
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