landevale Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) My goal is to read at least 80 books this year, which works out to about 1.5 per week. I am planning on trying out some new authors, but most of the books I want to read are things that I've been intending to read for a long time. Now that I'm not in school anymore, I hope that I will be able to get to more of them! Currently Reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (wow, four books at once...) Books Read: Fruits Basket volumes 1 & 2 by Natsuki Takaya Edited January 15, 2009 by landevale adding books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landevale Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Short Stories/Poetry Collections Read: also coming soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landevale Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) Planned Reads: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The Alchemist by Paul Coelho Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Sandman by Neil Gaiman American Gods by Neil Gaiman Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Life of Pi by Yann Martel Bartleby by Hermann Melville Saturday by Ian McEwan Atonement by Ian McEwan Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki V for Vendetta by Alan Moore Beloved by Toni Morrison Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi TBD by Joyce Carol Oates Brisingr by Christopher Paolini TBD by Jodi Picoult The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Maus by Art Spiegelman Blankets by Craig Thomson Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel by Stephen Weiner The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and of course, many more will be added later! Edited January 6, 2009 by landevale adding books :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Best of luck! I'm only aiming for 50 this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Best of luck! :ditto:I hope you make it! I'm only aiming for 50 this year I'm just aiming to get my mojo back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Awh bless, I know the feeling! I read about 6 books last year and less than 10 the year before. Trust me, 50 is wishful thinking G'wan Landevale, put us all to shame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landevale Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Awh bless, I know the feeling! I read about 6 books last year and less than 10 the year before. Trust me, 50 is wishful thinking G'wan Landevale, put us all to shame Well, we will soon see who is put to shame--the one with the reasonable though attainable goal of 50 or the one with the unreasonable and probably UNattainable goal of 80. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Haha you're on - the winner gets......... well, nothing I'm afraid, but the pride that comes from a fair victory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Ah good luck to you both! At this rate I'll be lucky i get through one a month! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 So will I, I'm in my last year of college, and English Lit is only half my course. I'm gonna integrate the 8-10 books I'm doing this year I think, into my reading list.... if thats not cheating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Hah! Good idea! Its still reading so I think it counts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landevale Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 That's not cheating at all! That's where most of my reading in the past has come from. 2009 is actually going to be my first entire year outside of school (since i was four and couldn't read anyway), so we'll see how well I do with the whole self-motivation thing.. Good luck to all three of us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I like your list of planned reads! I've read some of those and have others on my wish list or TBR pile. We appear to have very similar tastes in books so I'll be interested to see your thoughts. Best of luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landevale Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 I read the first two volumes of Fruits Basket this week. It's a manga series about a girl named Tohru who comes to live with a few boys with a strange family secret. This is my first time reading manga, and I'm really liking it so far! One of my goals for the year was to expose myself to the world of graphic novels and manga, and based on this first excursion, I'm glad I made this goal for myself! Fruits Basket is definitely written for a younger audience as its morals tend to be spelled out rather explicitly by the characters. It is cute, though, and the characters are loveable (at least to me!). My favorite character so far is Kyo, the quick tempered outcast rival of Yuki. His character is so dynamic and dimensional that I always enjoy when he makes an appearance. I'm heading to the library tomorrow to get the next couple of volumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Good luck with your planned reads. I usually read 2 or more every week so if I stick to a strict course then I will get over a 100 read this year. It's an enormous task, but I've never tried to keep track of all books read in a year, so this is the year for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landevale Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Good luck with your planned reads. I usually read 2 or more every week so if I stick to a strict course then I will get over a 100 read this year. It's an enormous task, but I've never tried to keep track of all books read in a year, so this is the year for me! Oh wow.... good luck, Enthusiast!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Oh wow.... good luck, Enthusiast!! Thanks! Call me Ben. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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