Monday, January 17, 2011

keeping track of my reading

So I thought I'd keep track of my reading and see how many books I could enjoy in 2010 now that I am no longer in school. (the X by the book means I actually finished it.) Secretly I was trying to read a book a week but some books make it hard. Hears the list; I think this is a good way for me to keep track and come back and finnish some of these books I ended up finding a little bit harder to read.

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - book club pick X
2. Buddha by [The fact that he leaves his wife and child to find enlightenment really pissed me off so I found myself no longer caring about his path to enlightenment.]
3. Don't Worry Make Money by Richard Carlson, Ph.D. [All very common sense ideas, I really do intend to go back and finnish it.]
4. Comrade Rockstar (the life and mystery of Dean Reed) by Reggie Nadelson [As soon as I find this, I will finnish it.]
5. Fight by Sherman Alexee X
6. When the Emperor was Divine by X
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll X
8. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll x
9. To Kill and Mocking Bird by Harper Lee X
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey X
11. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie X
12. A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce [He is hard and I'm just not that motivated.]
13. Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire X
14. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi [Great book, need to find it and finnish it even though I already know how it ends which makes it hard to read.]
15. Alive in the Necropolis by Doug Dorst X
16. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by S. L (book club pick) X
17. Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra X
18. My Tango with Barbara Strozzi by Russell Hoban X
19. Noir a novel by X
20. My Name is Red by [ I can not for the life of me remember why I stopped reading this book because I remember it was interesting. I'll have to find it and pick it up again.]
21. White Teeth by Zadie Smith X
22. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain X
23. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain X
24. Choke by Chuck P X
25. Sense and Sensebilities and Sea Monsters by Jane Austin and X
26. Ghostwritten by David Mitchelle (Book club pick!) X
27. Theresa Raquin by Emile Zola X
28. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield X
29. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese   (book club pick) X
30. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe [This is what I consider a boy book. It was good but really slow the funny part is I only have 30 pages left; just need to find that motivation.]
31. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (book club) X
32. The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Ford (book club) X
33. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (book club) X
34. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris X
35. The Pint Man by Steve Rushin X
36. The Mistress of Spices By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [slow paced but I want to see the movie because it is set in Oakland.]
37. Grab on to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way by Bryan Charles X
38. A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca (Good read just a bit depressing so I had to give it a rest.]
39. The Blue Highway by William Least Heart-Moon [I had this book then read a review that it was as god as On the Road but I am finding it a bit dull.]
40. Smart Couples Finnish Rich by David Bach [Finance books are always so challenging for me and this one requires us to sit down and discuss the future.]
41. The Girl who Set the World on Fire by S L X

Looks like if I could find the books I would be able to finnish them. But it is not a bad lot. Some of these books were truly a pleasure to read.