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Dec 30, 2008 09:22PM
Carrie will have to get cracking on coming up with a list while on my short vacation. More in 2009 ... happy New Year!
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A: Atwood, Margaret -- The Handmaid's Tale (read)B: Binchy, Maeve -- Evening Class (read)
C: Calvino, Italo -- If on a winter's night a traveler...(read)
D: Dallas, Sandra -- Tallgrass (read)
E: Edwards, Selden -- The Little Book (read)
F: Freitas, Donna -- Sex and the Soul (read)
G: Glass, Julia -- I See You Everywhere OR Gruen, Sara -- Water for Elephants(read)
H: Hensher, Philip -- The Northern Clemency (read)
I: Isay, David -- Listening is an Act of Love (read)
J: July, Miranda -- No One Belongs Here More Than You (read)
K: King, William Davies -- Collections of Nothing
L: Lahiri, Jhumpa -- Unaccustomed Earth (read)
M: Manguel, Alberto -- The Library at Night (replaced)
N: Norris, Kathleen -- Acedia and Me
O: O'Connor, Flannery -- Collected Stories (replaced)
P: Pitkeathley, Jill -- Cassandra and Jane (read)
Q: Quindlen, Anna -- How Reading Changed My Life (read)
R: Robinson, Marilynne -- Home (read)
S: Sittenfeld, Curtis -- American Wife (replaced)
T: Troost, J. Maarten -- Sex Lives of Cannibals (read)
U: Updike, John -- A Month of Sundays (read)
V: Vowell, Sarah -- Take the Cannoli (read)
W: Wood, James -- How Fiction Works (read)
X: Xiaolong, Qui -- A Case of Two Cities
Y: Yoshikawa, Mako -- Once Removed (read)
Z: Zusak, Markus -- The Book Thief (replaced--for now--till I can get a copy from the library)
That's all I've got for now!
I thought Water for Elephants was really fun- I couldn't put it down.
I thought better of editing my original list (except when I finally find my last three books) so that I can actually see my "read" books take shape in a new place. So, this is what I've accomplished this year
A: Atwood, Margaret -- The Handmaid's Tale
B: Binchy, Maeve -- Evening Class
C: Calvino, Italo -- If on a winter's night a traveler
D: Dallas, Sandra -- Tallgrass
E: Edwards, Selden -- The Little Book
F: Freitas, Donna -- Sex and the Soul
G: Gruen, Sara -- Water for Elephants
H: Hensher, Philip -- The Northern Clemency
I: Isay, David -- Listening is an Act of Love
J: July, Miranda -- No One Belongs Here More Than You
K: Keyes, Marian -- This Charming Man
L: Lahiri, Jhumpa -- Unaccustomed Earth
M: Martin, James -- My Lives with the Saints (change from my original "M" but I still plan to read at least one of the others this year)
N:
O: O'Neill, Eugene -- Long Day's Journey into Night (replacement)
P: Pitkeathley, Jill -- Cassandra and Jane
Q: Quindlen, Anna -- How Reading Changed My Life
R: Robinson, Marilynne -- Home
S: Shaffer, Mary Ann -- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (change from what I originally listed under "S")
T: Troost, J. Maarten -- Sex Lives of Cannibals
U: Updike, John -- A Month of Sundays
V: Vowell, Sarah -- Take the Cannoli
W: Wood, James -- How Fiction Works
X: Xiaolong, Qui -- A Case of Two Cities
Y: Yoshikawa, Mako -- Once Removed
Z: Zevin, Gabrielle -- Margarettown
10 down, 16 to go. Hopefully, there are some short ones in there!
Books read this year that didn't make the A-Z cutA: Albee, Edward -- The Lady from Dubuque; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
F: Freitas, Donna --
H: Henderson, Lauren--Jane Austen's Guide to Dating
L: Leon, Donna--The Girl of His Dreams
S: See, Carolyn--There Will Never Be Another You
11 to go. Still searching for that ever elusive X.
9.5 to go...unfortunately, the summer is over so reading time will be affected.
Woo hoo ... 7.5 to go (thanks to replacing Flannery O'Connor's LONG collected stories with a play.)
Down to six, with two of those in progress.
And then there were 5 (4.5) -- can't seem to just finish up that F book.
Down to the final three -- do I have it in me to do this again next year??
24 down, on my 25th, and I have two 6-hour drives ahead of me this week, so I may make it to the final book :)
I still have 5 and 1/3 to go.....C, F, M, N Q, Z
I really hope I can make it. I think I ended up reading over 40 books this year to keep up with book club and this A to Z list.
For Q I was going to read Zazie in the Metro (English translation). Has anyone read it? Was the book still good with the English translation?
