busy91 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) NovemberThis is a running tally of what I have read in 2010. Goal is 100 the goal probably won't happen as I plan to read a bunch of Historical Fiction books this year, and we all know they are like 1,000 pages each. January 1. The Jeruselum Diet - Ted Haggard (audio) 2. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great - Benjamin Merkle 3. Once upon a Summer - Jeannette Oke (audio) 4. Plot & Structure - James Scott Bell 5. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean - May Sinclair 6. The Rats in the Walls - H.P. Lovecraft (considered a short story but it runs about 50 pgs) 7. Password Incorrect - Nick Name 8. Serial - Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch 9. The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft 10. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List - Shelley Mosley February 11. The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling 12. The Omnivore's Delimma - Michael Pollan (audio) 13. Dragonfly in Amber - Diane Gabaldon 14. Nigger: An Autobiography - Dick Gregory 15. Doubt: A Parable - John Patrick Shanley March 16. Notebooks - Tennessee Williams 17. The Master Cleanse - Stanley Burroughs April 18. Roses - Leila Meacham 19. Push - Sapphire 20. Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days - Peter Glickman 21. The Walk - Richard Paul Evans May 22. Under the Dome - Stephen King (audio) 23. When The Soul Mends - Cindy Woodsmall 24. Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton 25. The First Time We Met The Blues - David Williams 26. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton June 27. Life After Death - Deepak Chopra (audio) 28. Know it All - A. J. Jacobs 29. I Am Nujood Age 10 and Divorced - Nujood Ali 30. Island Beneath the Sea - Isabel Allende July 31. Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel 32. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain... - Sharon Begley (audio) 33. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl 34. Stoner - John E. Williams 35. Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough - Lloyd Ultan August 36. Why is God Laughing - Deepak Chopra 37. How To Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnagie (audio) 38. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (audio) 39. If You Want To Write - Brenda Ueland (audio) September 40. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnagie (audio) 41. The Power - Rhonda Byrne (audio) 42. Elizabeth Street - Laurie Fabiano October 43. Call of the Wild - Jack London 44. The Metamorphosis - Frank Kafka 45. Thoughts are Things - Prentice Mulford (audio) 46. Mustaine - Dave Mustaine (audio) 47. Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans 48. Double Your Creative Power - S.L. Stebel 49. The Spontaneous Healing of Belief - Gregg Braden (audio) November 50. The Key: The Missing Secret for Attracting Anything You Want - Joe Vitale (audio) 51. The Hope of Refuge - Cindy Woodsmall 52. Zero Limits - Joe Vitale (audio) 53. Winds of Autumn - Janette Oke (audio) December 54. The Christmas Box Miracle - Richard Paul Evans 55. Manifesting Change - Mike Dooley Edited January 1, 2011 by busy91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) This is a running tally of what I have read in 2009. Goal is 75. January 1. The China Study - Colin & Thomas Cambpell 2. Sugar Blues - William Dufty 3. Daisy Miller - Henry James 4. 1001 Books for Every Mood - Hallie Ephron February 5. The Beach House - Jane Green 6. The Rosary - Gary Jansen 7. A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Anna Quindlen 8. Being Perfect - Anna Quindlen 9. Showboat – Edna Ferber 10. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden – Joanne Greenberg 11. How Starbucks Saved My Life – Michael Gates Gill 12. The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller March 13. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon 14. Agnes Gray – Anne Bronte (audio) 15. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 16. UR - Stephen King 17. Summer - Edith Wharton (audio) 18. Lamb - Christopher Moore 19. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho 20. Silas Marner - George Eliot (audio) 21. Beasts of New York - Jon Evans 22. You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay 23. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (Beatirice Sparks) 24. Biblical Mysteries - Lonely Soul April 25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (audio) 26. Turbulent Souls - Stephen J. Dubner 27. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel - Thomas Monteleone 28. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton (audio) 29. The 80/10/10 Diet - Dr. Douglas Graham May 30. Shades Children - Garth Nix 31. Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance - Ruth Brandon June 32. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz 33. Called Out of Darkness - Anne Rice 34. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell (audio) 35. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice July 36. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin why we use it and how to use it - Francis Lord 37. Believe - Daniel Oran 38. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (audio) 39. Roasting in Hell's Kitchen - Gordon Ramsey 40. The Little Lame Prince - Dinah Mulock Craik 41. Heroic Measures - Jill Ciment August 42. Old New York - Edith Wharton 43. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing - Stephen King 44. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story - Etta James 45. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia - Marya Hornbacher 46. The Third Jesus - Deepak Chopra 47. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch 48. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury 49. Finding Peace - Dr. Charles Stanley September 50. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs 51. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 52. The Sunflower - Richard Paul Evans 53. Duma Key - Stephen King 54. Dead Man's Cell Phone - Sarah Ruhl 55. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 56. What Difference do It Make? - Ron Hall et al. 57. Einstein: His Life and Universe (audio) - Walter Isaacson October 58. When the Heart Cries - Cindy Woodsmall 59. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks 60. Have A Little Faith - Mitch Albom 61. Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 62. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate - Jacqueline Kelly 63. The Christmas List - Richard Paul Evans 64. The Well - Mildred Taylor 65. Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain - Meier & Henderson 66. Crossing Over - Ruth Irene Garrett November 67. When The Morning Comes - Cindy Woodsmall 68. A Treasury of Christmas Miracles - Karen Kingsbury 69. Skipping Christmas - John Grisham 70. The Liturgical Year - Joan Chittister 71. Goodbye Mr. Chips - James Hilton 72. The Thirteenth Tale (audio) - Diane Setterfield December 73. A Victorian Christmas - Catherine Palmer 74. You: Staying Young (audio)- Dr. Roizen & Dr. Oz 75. SuperFreakonomics - S. Levitt, S. Dubner 76. The Golden Ring: A Christmas Story - John Snyder 77. The Next Queen of Heaven - Gregory Maguire 78. Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works (audio) - Andrew Saul 79. Angel Time - Anne Rice Edited December 30, 2009 by busy91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 You can edit it when you get to ten posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 What did you think of Lolita? I found it to be a tough read, but brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 You can edit it when you get to ten posts. I did read that somewhere here, but I'm past 10 post and still can't. But I will once it 'kicks in'. I thought "LOLITA" was just OK. Before I read it I heard mixed reviews but I wanted to judge for myself, but I wasn't thrilled. I would say 2 1/2 out of 5 stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 I just read "UR" by Stephen King. It is only available for the Amazon Kindle. So if you guys haven't heard of it, that is probably why. It is a novella, but hard to tell how many pages it is. It starts out like a long advertisement for the Amazon Kindle, the first few pages seems to head in that direction, but toward the middle of the story it gets really interesting. In true Stephen King fashion, it is creepy and obviously only from the mind of Stephen King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 I just finished "Vernonika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho. I didn't like it, I heard such good things about it, and although I got the 'message', I didn't like the writing, could it have been the translation? I thought Mr. Coelho went off on a tangent more often than he should have and the story lost my interest because by the time I got back to the main plot, I had forgotten what was happeing. 2.5 / 5 for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany725 Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Oooh I loved "The Beach House" by Jane Green.. so fun! What did you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 Oooh I loved "The Beach House" by Jane Green.. so fun! What did you think? I love Jane Green, I really liked "The Beach House", but I really loved "Jemima J", that is my favorite book of hers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Can I just say I think George Eliot is super awesome. This was the first book I've read/listened to by her. I've seen movie adaptations of her stuff, and I loved all of them. This story (Silas Marner) was so amazing. I don't know who I like better, her or Edith Wharton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 I just read this great little book I found out in the domain at feedbooks dot com. It is called Biblical Mysteries written by someone who calls themselves Lonely Soul. Not very long, less than 200 pages, but insightful. I did know a lot of what they were talking about, but there were some gems. Not bad for a freebie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 over 1/3 of the way through! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 14. Agnes Gray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 Really loved this one In my to 10 list for this year. That is not an easy spot to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 Well I have 46 more books to go to make my goal of 75. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted June 30, 2009 Author Share Posted June 30, 2009 Just added my last 4 books, I've been slowing down. Wonder if I'll make my goal of 75? It's worth a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 23. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous That was one of my favourites during teenage years, read it at least 5 times (3 times german, 2 times english). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 34. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell (audio) Did you like it? I really enjoyed it when I read it last year - particularly the chapter about the military exercise, with the one guy who used the old fashioned methods and beat the technology hands down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Good luck with your goal! I was aiming for 50 this year but I've been really slow and I don't know if I'll make it. Hopefully the summer holiday will help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Did you like it? I really enjoyed it when I read it last year - particularly the chapter about the military exercise, with the one guy who used the old fashioned methods and beat the technology hands down! I did really like it, i didn't want to read it, my friend convinced me to, and I was glad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Share Posted July 21, 2009 35 more books to my goal. and 5 months to do it in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 To get to my goal of 75 I have to read 6.6 books a month from now until 31, December. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 To get to my goal of 75 I have to read 6.6 books a month from now until 31, December. You can do it! Buckle down and commit soldier! I hope you are able to reach your goal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted August 7, 2009 Author Share Posted August 7, 2009 You can do it! Buckle down and commit soldier! I hope you are able to reach your goal I will die tryin!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 Gonna have to pick up the pace. I have 31 more books to go this year. That is 6.8 books a month I need to read. I'm at 3 for the month of August only 3.8 more for this month to go! Wish I hadn't slacked in May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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