Heather R.'s 50 in 2009

[Heather]

I'm going to join in this year. I read 51 books in 2008 and 50 in 2007, so maybe this year I'll get a few more in there.

I finished my first book of 2009 today, The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

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Book #2: The Little Prince

Believe it or not, I've never actually read this story before. I enjoyed it and thought it taught a good lesson about life.

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#3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard

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#4: Uglies

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#5: The Handmaid's Tale

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#6: Sima's Undergarments for Women

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#7: Pretties

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#8: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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#9: A Wrinkle in Time

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#10: Emma

#11: Kristy's Big Idea

[Mary Todd]

High five for 10!

[Heather]

Thanks!!

#12: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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#13: Claudia And The Phantom Phone Calls

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#14: A Dirty Job

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#15 Love in the Time of Cholera

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#16 Just Listen

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#17 The Book of Lost Things

[Wendy]

Heather I loved The Book of Lost Things so much that I have read it twice. I hope to read more by this author.

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Wendy, I was actually not as into it as I was expecting to be, but I think it was the mood I was in while reading it. I think it will be one of those books that I enjoy much more the second time around.

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#18 A Great and Terrible Beauty

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#19: Rebel Angels

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#20: The Sweet Far Thing

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#21: The Alchemist

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#22: The Host A Novel

[Aprile]

What did you think of The Host?

[Heather]

it started out really slow for me, but about 150-200 pages in it got more interesting. i still kind of had a hard time with it until about the last 200 pages.

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#23: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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#24: Dead Until Dark

#25: Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

i've been way too busy lately & taking so long to read Eat, Pray, Love really threw me off track. i'm going on vacation in a week so hopefully i'll get lots more reading time in then!

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#26: Silence by Christopher Brookhouse

This book was AWFUL. It skipped all around and I thought the storyline was so lame and unsubstantial. I only kept with it because I hate giving up on a book and this was only 150 pages.

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#27: The Da Vinci Code

I've been putting off reading this because I just hate carrying around heavy hardcovers. I was on vacation last week, so I decided it was a good time to read it. I really enjoyed it. And perfect timing- the movie was on TV last night.

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#28: Sharp Objects A Novel

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#29 You Remind Me of Me

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#30: I'm Not Scared

I liked this book; however, it was very similar to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

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#31: At First Sight

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#32: The Historian

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#33: Someone Like You

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#34: The Red Tent

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#35: Saturday

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#36: Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books

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#37 The Little Sleep

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#38: Kafka on the Shore

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#39: Sarah's Key

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#40: Living Dead in Dallas

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#41: The Phantom Tollbooth

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#42: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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#43: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

[Chelsi]

How did you like I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell?...I've read some Tucker Max and was thinking of reading his book...

[Heather]

Chelsi- I thought it was hilarious.. some of it was so ridiculous, it's hard to believe some of the things really happened to him, but I was laughing out loud like crazy. Not a book for everyone, but if you like crude humor and laughing at unfortunate things happening to other people, I'd recommend it.

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#44: Wake Up, Sir!

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#45: The Wednesday Letters