My 2009 Reading Challenge: 30 books or more!1. One True Thing - Anna Quindlen (05 January)
2. Stardust - Neil Gaiman (09 January)
3. Griffin & Sabine - Nick Bantock (11 January)
4. & 5. Sabine's Notebook & The Golden Mean - Nick Bantock (13 January)
6. Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling (20 January)
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald (23 January)
8. Empire Falls - Richard Russo (02 February)
9. Love Story - Erich Segal (re-read; 04 February)
10. The Kindness of Strangers - Katrina Kittle (13 February)
11. Uh-Oh (Some observations from both sides of the refrigerator door) - Robert Fulghum (14 February)
12. Paper John - David Small (18 February)
13. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster (21 February)
14. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith (28 February)
15. Earth Tales - 3 Ecofables for Children (08 March)
16. Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto (14 March)
17. The Minpins - Roald Dahl (17 March)
18. The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller (30 March)
19. Thank you, Teacher (31 March)
20. How to Live through a bad day - Jack Hayford (10 April)
21. Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (26 April)
22. Amazing True Stories - Don Wulffson (05 May)
23. They Refused to Die (True Stories about World War II heroes in the Philippines 1941-1945) – Lt. Col. Fidel L. Ongpauco (30 May)
24. A Year in Provence – Peter Mayle (05 June)
25. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey (12 June)
26. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros (21 June)
27. Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss (27 June)
28. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss (27 June)
29. A Hatful of Seuss (28 June)
30. Six by Seuss (28 June)
31. The Little Pun book - Robert Margolin (28 July)
32. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (30 July)
33. The Pop-Up book of Nightmares - created & written by Gary Greenberg, illustrated by Balvis Rubess, Pop-ups by Matthew Reinhart (04 August)
34. The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith (08 August)
35. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (19 August)
36. Perfume - Patrick Suskind (13 September)
37. The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1993 - edited by Jocelyn A. Bear (26 September)
38. One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems - Contemporary Books (07 October)
39. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (23 October)
40. The New Positioning: The Latest on the World's #1 Business Strategy - Jack Trout & Steve Rivkin (25 October)
41. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (30 October)
42. Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem - Maya Angelou (09 November)
43. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (11 November)
In no particular order -- I'm a frustrated writer, avid blogger, movie buff, bookworm, and couch potato all rolled into one! :)
I do sooo love to read. I remember when i was still a student, whiling away the time during the commute by reading. Back then, I could finish a thick paperback in just one sitting. I could forego sleep just to finish whatever book it was that I was engrossed in. Aaahhh... those were the days. Nowadays, it takes me AGES to finish a book. I'm lucky if I can finish a book in a month! But who can I blame but myself, for the hectic life I lead. *sigh*
Reading relaxes me. That's why I try to read before going to sleep. On my nightstand are a number of books, all half-finished. I also have on hand, loads of women's magazines (Self, Oprah, GH, Cosmo, InStyle, LHJ, Redbook, Shape, etc.), for those times when I just want to leaf through the pages and read the short articles, or look at the pics. Nothing cerebral. :)
On my bookshelves are a wide variety of books. From those books which were required reading in grade school and high school, fiction or non-fiction, inspirational, Psychology books, self-help, suspense, comedy, love stories, literary classics, books on parenting, exercise, food/cooking/baking... ahhh, the love of reading...
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