The 50 Book Challenge

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:26:58 GMT

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h
23. The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption - Clive Foss *h
24. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss !ct
25. Symbolic Interactionism - Joel M. Charon *ri
26. A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham *c
27. All But My Life - Gerda Weissmann Klein !th
28. The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan -h
29. The Age Of Missing Information - Bill McKibben -ri
30. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood !
31. Where We Stand: Class Matters - bell hooks -ri
32. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd !
33. Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz *
34. Blues For Hannah - Tim Farrington *
35. The Desire to Heal - Rafael Campo *r
36. Push - Sapphire !
37. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank *
38. A Son Called Gabriel - Damian McNicholl !
39. Hurt Go Happy - Ginny Rorby !
40. A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons *
41. Try - Dennis Cooper -
42. Lamb - Christopher Moore !c

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 41
Pages to date: 8530

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:09:23 GMT

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h
23. The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption - Clive Foss *h
24. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss !ct
25. Symbolic Interactionism - Joel M. Charon *ri
26. A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham *c
27. All But My Life - Gerda Weissmann Klein !th
28. The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan -h
29. The Age Of Missing Information - Bill McKibben -ri
30. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood !
31. Where We Stand: Class Matters - bell hooks -ri
32. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd !
33. Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz *
34. Blues For Hannah - Tim Farrington *
35. The Desire to Heal - Rafael Campo *r

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 35
Pages to date: 7654
Average pages/book: 219

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:22:42 GMT

My final list:

Started: April 2007
Ended: April 2008

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
3) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
4) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
5) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .:. J.K. Rowling
8) Spirits of the Border: School Spirits .:. Ken Hudnall
9) Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Ft. Bliss, Texas .:. Ken Hudnall
10) Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of El Paso Del Norte .:. Ken Hudnall
11) The Ghost .:. Danielle Steel
12) The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency .:. Joel Martin/William J. Birnes
13) Historic Haunted America .:. Michael Norman/Beth Scott
14) Haunted America .:. Michael Norman/Beth Scott
15) No Greater Love .:. Danielle Steel
16) Messages from Nam .:. Danielle Steel
17) Silent Honor .:. Danielle Steel
18) Haunted Places in America: A Guide to Spooked and Spooky Public Places in the United States .:. Charles A. Coulombe
19) Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders .:. Alicia Gaspar De Alba
20) The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) .:. Rick Riordan
21) Diana: Her True Story .:. Andrew Morton
22) A Royal Duty .:. Paul Burrell
23) The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) .:. Rick Riordan
24) Tempting the Prince .:. Patricia Grasso
25) Dark Whispers .:. Samantha Garver
26) Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas .:. Docla Schultz Williams and Reneta Byrne
27) Artemis Fowl (Book 1) .:. Eoin Colfer
28) Ghost Stories from the American Southwest .:. Richard and Judy Dockery Young
29) Folklore In All of Us, In All We Do .:. Kenneth L. Untiedy/ Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LXIII
30) The Bellini Bride .:. Michelle Reid
31) The Love-Shy Lord .:. Mona Prevel
32) Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident (Book 2) .:. Eoin Colfer
33) Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Book 3) .:. Eoin Colfer
34) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Book 4) .:. Eoin Colfer
35) Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (Book 5) .:. Eoin Colfer
36) The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) .:. Rick Riordan
37) Gone With The Wind .:. Margaret Mitchell
38) The Penwyth Curse .:. Catherine Coulter
39) Lord of the Desert .:. Diana Palmer
40) Their Scandalous Affair .:. Catherine George
41) The Greek Tycoon's Wife .:. Kim Lawrence
42) Pregnant by the Greek Tycoon .:. Kim Lawrence
43) The Royals .:. Kitty Kelley
44) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 1: To Till .:. Chiho Saito
45) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 2: To Plant .:. Chiho Saito
46) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 3: To Sprout .:. Chiho Saito
47) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 4: To Bud .:. Chiho Saito
48) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 5: To Blossom .:. Chiho Saito
49) Shoujo Kakumei Utena: The Adolesence of Utena .:. Chiho Saito
50) Charles & Diana .:. Ralph G. Martin
51) Sailor Moon (Vol 1) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
52) Sailor Moon (Vol 2) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
53) Sailor Moon (Vol 3) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
54) Sailor Moon (Vol 4) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
55) Sailor Moon (Vol 5) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
56) Sailor Moon (Vol 6) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
57) Sailor Moon (Vol 7) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
58) Sailor Moon (Vol 8) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
59) Sailor Moon (Vol 9) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
60) Sailor Moon (Vol 10) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
61) Sailor Moon (Vol 11) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
62) Sailor Moon (Vol 12) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
63) Sailor Moon (Vol 13) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
64) Sailor Moon (Vol 14) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
65) Sailor Moon (Vol 15) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
66) Sailor Moon (Vol 16) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
67) Sailor Moon (Vol 17) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
68) Sailor Moon (Vol 18) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
69) Are You Lonesome Tonight? .:. Lucy De Barbin and Dary Matera
70) Elvis & Me .:. Priscilla Presley
71) Jewels .:. Danielle Steel
72) Twilight .:. Stephenie Meyer
73) New Moon .:. Stephenie Meyer
74) Eclipse .:. Stephenie Meyer
75) The Phantom .:. Susan Kay

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:46:58 GMT

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h
23. The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption - Clive Foss *h
24. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss !ct
25. Symbolic Interactionism - Joel M. Charon *ri
26. A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham *c
27. All But My Life - Gerda Weissmann Klein !th
28. The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan -h
29. The Age Of Missing Information - Bill McKibben -ri
30. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood !
31. Where We Stand: Class Matters - bell hooks -ri
32. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd !

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 32
Pages to date: 6803
Average pages/book: 212

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:52:25 GMT

Started: April 2007

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
3) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
4) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
5) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .:. J.K. Rowling
8) Spirits of the Border: School Spirits .:. Ken Hudnall
9) Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Ft. Bliss, Texas .:. Ken Hudnall
10) Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of El Paso Del Norte .:. Ken Hudnall
11) The Ghost .:. Danielle Steel
12) The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency .:. Joel Martin/William J. Birnes
13) Historic Haunted America .:. Michael Norman/Beth Scott
14) Haunted America .:. Michael Norman/Beth Scott
15) No Greater Love .:. Danielle Steel
16) Messages from Nam .:. Danielle Steel
17) Silent Honor .:. Danielle Steel
18) Haunted Places in America: A Guide to Spooked and Spooky Public Places in the United States .:. Charles A. Coulombe
19) Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders .:. Alicia Gaspar De Alba
20) The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) .:. Rick Riordan
21) Diana: Her True Story .:. Andrew Morton
22) A Royal Duty .:. Paul Burrell
23) The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) .:. Rick Riordan
24) Tempting the Prince .:. Patricia Grasso
25) Dark Whispers .:. Samantha Garver
26) Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas .:. Docla Schultz Williams and Reneta Byrne
27) Artemis Fowl (Book 1) .:. Eoin Colfer
28) Ghost Stories from the American Southwest .:. Richard and Judy Dockery Young
29) Folklore In All of Us, In All We Do .:. Kenneth L. Untiedy/ Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LXIII
30) The Bellini Bride .:. Michelle Reid
31) The Love-Shy Lord .:. Mona Prevel
32) Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident (Book 2) .:. Eoin Colfer
33) Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Book 3) .:. Eoin Colfer
34) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Book 4) .:. Eoin Colfer
35) Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (Book 5) .:. Eoin Colfer
36) The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) .:. Rick Riordan
37) Gone With The Wind .:. Margaret Mitchell
38) The Penwyth Curse .:. Catherine Coulter
39) Lord of the Desert .:. Diana Palmer
40) Their Scandalous Affair .:. Catherine George
41) The Greek Tycoon's Wife .:. Kim Lawrence
42) Pregnant by the Greek Tycoon .:. Kim Lawrence
43) The Royals .:. Kitty Kelley
44) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 1: To Till .:. Chiho Saito
45) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 2: To Plant .:. Chiho Saito
46) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 3: To Sprout .:. Chiho Saito
47) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 4: To Bud .:. Chiho Saito
48) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 5: To Blossom .:. Chiho Saito
49) Shoujo Kakumei Utena: The Adolesence of Utena .:. Chiho Saito
50) Charles & Diana .:. Ralph G. Martin
51) Sailor Moon (Vol 1) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
52) Sailor Moon (Vol 2) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
53) Sailor Moon (Vol 3) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
54) Sailor Moon (Vol 4) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
55) Sailor Moon (Vol 5) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
56) Sailor Moon (Vol 6) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
57) Sailor Moon (Vol 7) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
58) Sailor Moon (Vol 8) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
59) Sailor Moon (Vol 9) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
60) Sailor Moon (Vol 10) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
61) Sailor Moon (Vol 11) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
62) Sailor Moon (Vol 12) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
63) Sailor Moon (Vol 13) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
64) Sailor Moon (Vol 14) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
65) Sailor Moon (Vol 15) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
66) Sailor Moon (Vol 16) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
67) Sailor Moon (Vol 17) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
68) Sailor Moon (Vol 18) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
69) Are You Lonesome Tonight? .:. Lucy De Barbin and Dary Matera
70) Elvis & Me .:. Priscilla Presley
71) Jewels .:. Danielle Steel
72) Twilight .:. Stephenie Meyer
73) New Moon .:. Stephenie Meyer
74) Eclipse .:. Stephenie Meyer

Currently Reading: The Phantom .:. Susan Kay

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:31:26 GMT

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h
23. The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption - Clive Foss *h
24. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss !ct
25. Symbolic Interactionism - Joel M. Charon *ri
26. A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham *c
27. All But My Life - Gerda Weissmann Klein !th
28. The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan -h
29. The Age Of Missing Information - Bill McKibben -ri
30. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood !
31. Where We Stand: Class Matters - bell hooks -ri

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 31
Pages to date: 6501
Average pages/book: 209

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:35:40 GMT

Started: April 2007

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
3) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
4) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
5) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .:. J.K. Rowling (reread)
7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .:. J.K. Rowling
8) Spirits of the Border: School Spirits .:. Ken Hudnall
9) Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Ft. Bliss, Texas .:. Ken Hudnall
10) Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of El Paso Del Norte .:. Ken Hudnall
11) The Ghost .:. Danielle Steel
12) The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency .:. Joel Martin/William J. Birnes
13) Historic Haunted America .:. Michael Norman/Beth Scott
14) Haunted America .:. Michael Norman/Beth Scott
15) No Greater Love .:. Danielle Steel
16) Messages from Nam .:. Danielle Steel
17) Silent Honor .:. Danielle Steel
18) Haunted Places in America: A Guide to Spooked and Spooky Public Places in the United States .:. Charles A. Coulombe
19) Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders .:. Alicia Gaspar De Alba
20) The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) .:. Rick Riordan
21) Diana: Her True Story .:. Andrew Morton
22) A Royal Duty .:. Paul Burrell
23) The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) .:. Rick Riordan
24) Tempting the Prince .:. Patricia Grasso
25) Dark Whispers .:. Samantha Garver
26) Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas .:. Docla Schultz Williams and Reneta Byrne
27) Artemis Fowl (Book 1) .:. Eoin Colfer
28) Ghost Stories from the American Southwest .:. Richard and Judy Dockery Young
29) Folklore In All of Us, In All We Do .:. Kenneth L. Untiedy/ Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LXIII
30) The Bellini Bride .:. Michelle Reid
31) The Love-Shy Lord .:. Mona Prevel
32) Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident (Book 2) .:. Eoin Colfer
33) Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Book 3) .:. Eoin Colfer
34) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Book 4) .:. Eoin Colfer
35) Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (Book 5) .:. Eoin Colfer
36) The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) .:. Rick Riordan
37) Gone With The Wind .:. Margaret Mitchell
38) The Penwyth Curse .:. Catherine Coulter
39) Lord of the Desert .:. Diana Palmer
40) Their Scandalous Affair .:. Catherine George
41) The Greek Tycoon's Wife .:. Kim Lawrence
42) Pregnant by the Greek Tycoon .:. Kim Lawrence
43) The Royals .:. Kitty Kelley
44) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 1: To Till .:. Chiho Saito
45) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 2: To Plant .:. Chiho Saito
46) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 3: To Sprout .:. Chiho Saito
47) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 4: To Bud .:. Chiho Saito
48) Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol 5: To Blossom .:. Chiho Saito
49) Shoujo Kakumei Utena: The Adolesence of Utena .:. Chiho Saito
50) Charles & Diana .:. Ralph G. Martin
51) Sailor Moon (Vol 1) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
52) Sailor Moon (Vol 2) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
53) Sailor Moon (Vol 3) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
54) Sailor Moon (Vol 4) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
55) Sailor Moon (Vol 5) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
56) Sailor Moon (Vol 6) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
57) Sailor Moon (Vol 7) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
58) Sailor Moon (Vol 8) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
59) Sailor Moon (Vol 9) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
60) Sailor Moon (Vol 10) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
61) Sailor Moon (Vol 11) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
62) Sailor Moon (Vol 12) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
63) Sailor Moon (Vol 13) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
64) Sailor Moon (Vol 14) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
65) Sailor Moon (Vol 15) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
66) Sailor Moon (Vol 16) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
67) Sailor Moon (Vol 17) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
68) Sailor Moon (Vol 18) .:. Naoko Takeuchi
69) Are You Lonesome Tonight? .:. Lucy De Barbin and Dary Matera
70) Elvis & Me .:. Priscilla Presley
71) Jewels .:. Danielle Steel
72) Twilight .:. Stephenie Meyer

Currently Reading: New Moon .:. Stephenie Meyer

So far this year...

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:32:26 GMT

Just since January:

1. Memory and Dream- Charles De Lint
2. Widdershins- Charles De Lint
3. Onion Girl- Charles De Lint
4. The Little Country- Charles De Lint
5. Trader- Charles De Lint
6. Forests of the Heart- Charles De Lint
7. The Crucible- Arthur Miller
8. The Golden Compass- Phillip Pullman
9. The Awakening- Kate Chopin

And more to come. As you can see, I'm a big Charles De Lint fan. :)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:44:43 GMT

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h
23. The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption - Clive Foss *h
24. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss !ct
25. Symbolic Interactionism - Joel M. Charon *ri
26. A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham *c
27. All But My Life - Gerda Weissmann Klein !th
28. The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan -h
29. The Age Of Missing Information - Bill McKibben -ri
30. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood !

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 30
Pages to date: 6337
Average pages/book: 232

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:56:27 GMT

Hi! I started the challenge at the beginning of the year, but just joined the community. This is what I've read so far:

1) The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
2) I Am American and So Can You! - Stephen Colbert
3) Where I Was From - Joan Didion
4) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
5) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerad
6) Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

As you can probably tell by most of the books I've read, I'm on a mission to read the classics.
Under the cut Are my ratings/reviews for each.

oo1."The Catcher in the Rye" (1951)
author: J.D. Salinger
finished: Jan. 14 rating: 4/5
comments: I really enjoyed this book, although I personally
found the main character hard to like. I get it, you're an angry teenager.
Shut up and fulfill your responsibilities for a change. But the book itself
is interesting, despite the ending. It ends too abrupt for my liking.
But it's a classic book with such a deep-rooted history that you have to
check it out for yourself.

oo2."I Am America (And So Can You!)" (2007)
author: Stephen Colbert
finished: Jan. 20 rating: 4/5
comments: As far as humorous political commentary goes,
you can't beat this. It's loaded with comedy gems in the footnotes and
margin notes, plus some sticker pages and hilarious illustrations. As
a special treat, the transcript of Colbert's Presidental Address at the
2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner is included at the end,
accompanied by commentary in the margins!

oo3."Where I Was From" (2003)
author: Joan Didion
finished: Jan. 28 rating: 4.5/5
comments: Didion's examination of California's history is
unlike any other; it's not a mundane timeline of facts, but rather a deep
investigation into what makes California what it is and how it's changed,
or hasn't changed, from the time pioneers first settled the land to the
present. She also delves into her own family's history and examines her
roots as a Californian born and raised in Sacramento, making
"Where I Was From" a beautifully woven story not of a place, but of people.

oo4."Fahrenheit 451" (1953)
author: Ray Bradbury
finished: Feb. 5 rating: 4/5
comments: Once you get past the convoluted imagary
this book really pulls you in with a well-developed characters and
relationships and keeps you blazing through its pages with its
thrilling and frightening tale of a future where books are outlawed.

oo5."The Great Gatsby" (1925)
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
finished: Feb. 28 rating: 5/5
comments: I absolutely loved this book. The story is so
well-constructed and the characters are so finely developed that
you're fully immersed into the enthralling world Fitzgerald has
created before you even finish the first chapter.

oo6."Of Mice and Men" (1937)
author: John Steinbeck
finished: March 2 rating: 4.5
comments: A short read, "Mice" chronicles a short
period in the life of two friends. A tale of hopes and
aspirations in the time of monotony and depression that
anyone who's ever yearned for something better can relate to.

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:19:36 GMT

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h
23. The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption - Clive Foss *h
24. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss !ct
25. Symbolic Interactionism - Joel M. Charon *ri
26. A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham *c
27. All But My Life - Gerda Weissmann Klein !th
28. The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan -h

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 28
Pages to date: 6337
Average pages/book: 226

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:38:37 GMT

Hello from Wales

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:37:51 GMT

Hi! I just joined. My usual journal is serenbut I made inotherwordsto keep track of the books I am reading this year. So far I've read:

1. "The American Boy" by Andrew Taylor
2. "The Careful Use of Compliments" by Alexander McCall Smith
3. "Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones

That's three amazing books that I just could not put down. I have two new books waiting for me to read: "Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskall and "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:44:03 GMT

I'm going to start my list of planned readings and come back later and add my commentary about them. I'm hoping this way I'll actually finish all of my required readings and remember what I wanted to start next.

1. Candide by Francois Voltaire r
2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad r
3. Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy r
4. Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk

Start Date: January 16, 2008

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:57:04 GMT

We need to get this community going! The 50 book challenge is worth it, in my opinion.

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 22
Pages to date: 5657
Average pages/book: 257

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction