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message 1: by Joanie (last edited Jan 30, 2010 07:38PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) Just to see how far I get this year! 144 is quite the number to reach for.:)

JANUARY

for the month: 11/12.
for the year: 11/144.

The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy The Audacity to Win The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe Nikolski A Novel by Nicolas Dickner Rabbit Redux by John Updike Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
You Suck A Love Story by Christopher Moore Tis by Frank McCourt A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Canada and Other Matters of Opinion by Rex Murphy Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland


message 2: by Joanie (last edited Mar 03, 2010 09:21PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) FEBRUARY

for the month: 13/12
for the year: 24/144

The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou The Road by Cormac McCarthy Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald Without You A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  by Mark Haddon


message 3: by Joanie (last edited Mar 30, 2010 10:18PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) MARCH

for the month: 13/12
for the year: 37/144

Game Change Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Shakedown How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights by Ezra Levant Paris In Mind by Jennifer Lee Tess of the D'Urbervilles  by Thomas Hardy About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Stardust by Neil Gaiman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Surfacing by Margaret Atwood The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Time Machine by H.G. Wells A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon


message 4: by Joanie (last edited Apr 22, 2010 04:00PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) APRIL

for the month: 3/12
for the year: 40/144

The Age of Persuasion How Marketing Ate Our Culture by Terry O'Reilly Northanger Abbey (Signet Classics) by Jane Austen The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee


message 5: by Joanie (last edited May 17, 2010 03:36PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) MAY

for the month: 6/12
for the year: 46/144

Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Last Empress by Anchee Min The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano I Shall Not Hate A Gaza Doctor's Journey by Izzeldin Abuelaish The Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Louis Riel A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown


message 6: by Joanie (last edited Jul 15, 2010 10:51AM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) JUNE

for the month: 11/12
for the year: 57/144

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot King Leary by Paul Quarrington Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel April in Paris by Michael Wallner Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2) by Alan Bradley
The Story of Stuff How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard WAR by Sebastian Junger The Shack by William P. Young The Boy in the Moon A Father's Search for the Value of His Handicapped Son's Life by Ian Brown Eaarth Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben


message 7: by Joanie (last edited Jul 31, 2010 02:06PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) JULY

for the month: 7/12
for the year: 64/144

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (MTI) (Vintage International) by Jean-Dominique Bauby The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck Night by Elie Wiesel The Postmistress by Sarah Blake


message 8: by Joanie (last edited Aug 10, 2010 03:02PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) AUGUST

for the month: 6/12
for the year: 70/144

American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Lucy by Laurence Gonzales The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman After Dark by Haruki Murakami


message 9: by Joanie (last edited Sep 23, 2010 07:15PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) SEPTEMBER

for the month: 8/12
for the year: 78/144

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami One Day by David Nicholls Catching Fire (Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins Mockingjay (Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins
Insignificant Others A Novel by Stephen McCauley The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande


message 10: by Joanie (last edited Oct 20, 2010 11:55AM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) OCTOBER

for the month: 5/12
for the year: 83/144

The Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Messenger (The Giver, #3) by Lois Lowry Packing for Mars The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach Room A Novel by Emma Donoghue Earth (the book) A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart


message 11: by Joanie (last edited Nov 29, 2010 03:22PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) NOVEMBER

for the month: 11/12
for the year: 94/144

Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) by Gayle Forman The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Brand Gap Revised Edition by Marty Neumeier I Am the Messenger  by Markus Zusak The Best Game You Can Name by Dave Bidini
Dead Aid Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo Original Six True Stories from Hockey's Classic Era by Paul Quarrington They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers by Roméo Dallaire I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee The Game by Ken Dryden


message 12: by Joanie (last edited Dec 24, 2010 02:39PM) (new)

Joanie (joaniemaloney) DECEMBER

for the month: 12/12
for the year: 106/144

Night Work The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1) by Jennifer Donnelly Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition) by Anthony Bourdain Tropic of Hockey My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places by Dave Bidini Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Day I (Almost) Killed Two Gretzkys And Other Hits, Near Misses, and Off-the-Wall Stories About Sports, and Life by James Duthie
Mini Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #6) by Sophie Kinsella Born Standing Up A Comic's Life by Steve Martin This Cake is for the Party Stories by Sarah Selecky The Winter Rose (The Tea Rose, #2) by Jennifer Donnelly Persuasion by Jane Austen The Walking Dead Compendium Vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman


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