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I hope you make it, Shawna. I follow too many authors that put out a book a year that I probably couldn't stick to something like that. That's why I set a target of two TBR books a month for this year. I'm fairly close so far, so I think I can do it.
Dave
I've already been tempted to stray from my list and stop at a bookstore on my way home from work just to "browse". Which means leaving an hour later with $50 in new books. But I resisted. This time.
one done--My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
I'm zooming right through my list. Finished Fame Junkies by Jake Halpern and Open House by Elizabeth Berg. Am currently in the middle of It's So You by Michelle Tea, The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd and Tommyland by Tommy Lee.
I finished The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd last night and Tommyland by Tommy Lee this morning on the elliptical.
Wow, am I straying far, far from my list. I did read Memoirs of a Geisha and Wicked since my last post. Eight down, so many to go. I'd better buckle down and FOCUS!
OK, I give up. Since I know that I won't reach my goal to read this whole list in 2008, I'm stretching it out to finish by the end of 2009. If you can't reach your goal, just change the rules of the game--that's how I roll. I just get too tempted by other books. Kind of like reading everything but what's on a required reading list in school.I am making SOME progress. . . Since my last post I read Bringing Down the House, Not Quite What I was Planning, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Complete Maus. Currently reading Skin City.
I've read 14 of the 48 books in 5 months, so I guess my new goal should be to read 3 from my list every month.
Have finished The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Best Friends by Martha Moody, and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.16 down, 32 to go. Still need to read 3 a month in order to make it through my list by the end of this year.
Here's my staggering pile of to-be-read books (in alphabetical order). This should keep me busy until the end of the year!
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius--Dave Eggers
A Night Without Armor: Poems--Jewel
A Prayer for Owen Meany--John Irving
A Short History of Nearly Everything--Bill Bryson
A Winter Marriage--Kerry Hardie
Adored--Tilly Bagshawe
Best Friends--Martha Moody
Breeder--Ariel Gore
Bringing Down the House--Ben Mezrich
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas--Chuck Klosterman
Conspiracy of Fools--Kurt Eichenwald
Conversations With Tom Petty--Tom Petty
Drums of Autumn--Diana Gabaldon
Duma Key--Stephen King
Fame Junkies--Jake Halpern
Good Faith--Jane Smiley
Guns, Germs, and Steel--Jared Diamond
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star--Jenna Jameson
It's So You--Michelle Tea
Kabul Beauty School--Deborah Rodriguez
Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madonna: An Intimate Biography--J. Randy Taraborelli
Memoirs of a Geisha--Authur Golden
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--John Berendt
My Sister's Kepper--Jodi Picoult
Nickel and Dimed--Barbara Ehrenreich
Not Quite What I Was Planning--Larry Smith
One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Open House--Elizabeth Berg
Paint It Black--Janet Fitch
Skin City--Jack Sheehan
Songs in Ordinary Time--Mary McGarry Morris
The Bean Trees--Barbara Kingsolver
The Blind Assassin--Margaret Atwood
The Bonesetter's Daughter--Amy Tan
The Complete Maus--Art Spiegelman
The Dirt--Tommy Lee
The Golden Compass--Philip Pullman
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid--Bill Bryson
The Mermaid Chair--Sue Monk Kidd
The Road from Coorain--Jill Ker Conway
The Satanic Verses--Salman Rushdie
The Summer that Saved Baseball--Brad Null
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
Tommyland--Tommy Lee
We Were the Mulvaneys--Joyce Carol Oates
Wicked--Gregory Maguire