cathy's 2008 books.

[Cathy]

OK. As far as I can tell, it is not 2008 yet. But I have an ever-growing stack of books that are to read, and so I will add them here in the hopes that 2008 will actually call them read. OK? Then, you can hold my feet to the fire. Deal?

What I hope to read: (December 2007, with the realization that this is not a static list):

Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (reread)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Heges
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Practical Magic by Alice hoffman
The Scarlet LEtter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
The Owl and Moon Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson
Tess of the d'Ubervilles by William E. Buckler
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Malinche by Laura Esquivel

K. more in a minute -- gotta reshelve and then unshelve . . .

[Cathy]

More to read:

A Big Storm Knocked it Over by Laurie Colwin
Finn by Jon Clinch (re-begin)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (re-begin)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates
The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
The Alchemist's Daughter by KAtherine McMahon
The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (re-read)
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Miss American Pie by Margaret Sartor
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Interpretation of a Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

ok. daughter wants computer. i will finish this ENDLESS list later, or i will continue it later ...

[Cathy]

ok. maybe some more before sweet sleep . . .
These are young adult books (which I read for the Children's Literature class i will teach next semester...)

Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison
JAcob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Alice series by Phyllis Reynoldls Naylor
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen

And some non-fiction:

The Fat Girl's Guide to Life by Wendy Shanker
Naked by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud
Memoirs of My Nervous Illess by Daniel Paul Schreber
The Woman's Belly Book by Lisa Sarasohn
Newton's Gift by David Berlinski
Goddesses in Older Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Scientific Blunders by Robert Youngson
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by ALison Wier
Spook by Mary Roach
Young Carl Jung by Robert W. Brockway
Medicine Women by Cathy Luchetti
Dreams by Carl Jung
The Imp of the Mind by Lee Baer
An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman
War Against the Weak by Edwin Black
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
He's Just NotThat Into You by Greg Behrendt (another look)
and Jung by Anthony Stevens (which I started reading after I picked it up tonite, maybe it won't last until 2008.
TOmorrow, then.

[Stef]

How many of those books have you read so far?????
I know you have just over two months before the year is over and a person can read a lot of books in that time but I still wanna know how far you are with your list.

[Cathy]

Yeah, just a few of them. I actually forgot this list. This morning I finished a book (Graveyard Book) and didn't know where to go next, so back to favorite author Christopher Moore. But I did read some of them -- Running with Scissors, Rant (I didn't finish it), The Alchemist's Daughter, Almost Moon, Spook. But I did read Anna Karenina. That was wowie.

How about you?