bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) Below are the books I've read in 2012. My goal this year is to read at least five books a season. ~ Books I've read are rated out of five. ~ Books I re-read are marked (RR) ~ Books I read for the Rory Gilmore Challenge are in pink. My Rating System 1 - Awful! If I didn't have such respect for books, I'd have thrown it at the wall! 2 - Annoying. Wouldn't recommend this. 3 - Average. Didn't sway me one way or another. 4 - Enjoyable. Would definitely recommend it to others. 5 - Excellent! Didn't want to put it down! Books Read in 2012: Winter: The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 4/5 The Help by Kathryn Stockett 5/5 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 4/5 Room by Emma Donoghue 5/5 Spring: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 5/5 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (RR) 5/5 Summer: Nights in Rodanthe by Nicolas Sparks 2/5 True Believer by Nicholas Sparks 4/5 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain 4/5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #1) 5/5 The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #2) 5/5 Fall: Total Books Read: 11 (9 books shy of my goal) Edited December 31, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) Currently Reading: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Synopsis: In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge—against the man who tried to killer her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Courtesy of b&n.com Edited September 18, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) Books Acquired in 2012 (alphabetized by title) Gift ~ * Money ~ $ Gift Card ~ Gc Mom's Used Books ~ Ma Scholastic Bonus Points ~ S A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Gc I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak Gc Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Gc Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Hardcover from the Anne Frank House) $ The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein S The Book Thief by Markus Zusak S Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote S Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins S Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan Gc Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer S Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway S Fleetwood Mac: The Definitive History by Mike Evans Gc The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #2) Gc The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #3) Gc The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell Gc Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin Gc The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins S The Island by Elin Hilderbrand Ma I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella Gc The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Ma Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins S North and South by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #1) Gc The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Gc Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife by Gioia Diliberto Gc Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Gc Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks Gc The Things That Matter by Nate Berkus Gc A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Ma The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Gc Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah * Total Books Acquired : 31 (only paid for 1!) Edited December 31, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (A - B) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink A The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #7) * I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak * American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #2) * Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #1) * Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #5) * Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #6) * Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #3) * Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #4) * Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein * As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner * At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks * Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy B Babycakes by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #4) Baby Proof by Emily Giffin * Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Beloved by Toni Morrison Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman Capote * By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #5) * Edited January 1, 2013 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (C - D) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink C The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer * The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger *(RR) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Game Series #2) * Charlotte's Web by E. B. White * (RR) Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Choice by Nicholas Sparks * Columbine by Dave Cullen * Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire * The Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time by Mark Haddon * D Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende * Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #9) Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #5) * Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #10) Dear John by Nicholas Sparks * Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #6) * The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani * Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv Edited August 15, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (E - G) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink E East of Eden by John Steinbeck * Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook * Eleanot Roosevelt: Volume Two:1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan * Emma by Jane Austen * Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer * F Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury * A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway * Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #3) * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #9) * Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #8) * Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #3) * G Gidget by Fredrick Kohner Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier * The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #3) * The Graduate by Charles Webb The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Great Expectations by Charles Dickens * The Group by Mary McCarthy Edited September 18, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (H - J) (alphabetized by title) Own ~* Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink H The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell * Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (#2) * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (#7) * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (#4) * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K Rowling (#6) * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (#5) * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (#3) * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (#1) * A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story by Dave Eggers Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger * High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins * I I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb * The Island by Elin Hilderbrand * I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres Irish Born Trilogy by Nora Roberts * I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella * J Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë * (RR) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito Edited January 1, 2013 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (K - M) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink K The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini * L The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks Le Divorce by Diane Johnson * Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Light in August by William Faulkner * Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #1) * Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #2) * Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #7) * Little Women by Louisa May Alcott * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov * The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #6) * Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Love Story by Erich Segal Love and War by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #2) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez * The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold *(RR) The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks * M Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Mansfield Park by by Jane Austen * A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton * Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #8) The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards* Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks * Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #7) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides * The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger games series #3) * The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #2) * A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My Friend Leonard by James Frey * My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell Edited August 15, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (N - P) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink N Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult * North and South by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #1) * Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen O Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck * (RR) On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #4) * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens P Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife by Gioia Diliberto * Peyton Place by Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (RR) The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld * Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen * Property by Valerie Martin Pushby Sapphire Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Edited January 1, 2013 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (Q - S) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink Q R Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #7) * Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers * The Reader by Bernhard Schlink * The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble * Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi * Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #8) * A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin S Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks * Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Sammy’s Hill by Kristin Gore * The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett * Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen * A Separate Peace by John Knowles * She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb * Significant Others by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #5) Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers * Songbook by Nick Hornby Sophie's Choice by William Styron The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner * Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #6) Edited August 15, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (T - V) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink T A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #1) * Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #8) * Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough * A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini * The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi * The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith* (RR) The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett U Ulysses by James Joyce The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe V The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell * Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Edited August 15, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) To Be Read (W - Z) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink W Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah * Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë * X Y The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling Z Edited August 15, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bookworm44 Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 (edited) Catching up on some reading. Edited January 2, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Did some book shopping today with the gift cards I received for Christmas. I got: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan North and South by John Jakes The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell The Hand That Fist Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson Fleetwood Mac: The Definitive History by Mike Evans Off to hopefully get some reading done before bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 (edited) Happy reading in 2012! I love how organized your lists are, and the type of font you use and the colours. It looks brilliant Ooh and I love the pics Edited January 22, 2012 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I do too and I love the photo's too. Happy reading in 2012 Erin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 Happy reading in 2012! I love how organized your lists are, and the type of font you use and the colours. It looks brilliant Ooh and I love the pics I do too and I love the photo's too. Happy reading in 2012 Erin Thanks, girls! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Happy reading bookworm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber Synopsis: Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the way. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose empire is fueled by his lust for Sugar; his unhinged, child-like wife Agnes; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox. All this is overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and 'ladies of the night' of all stripes and persuasions. courtesy of amazon.com Rating: 4/5 Thoughts: Thoroughly enjoyable! I loved the journey this book took me on, and it is definitely one I will not soon forget. Highly recommended. Has anyone read other books by Faber that they'd recommend? Edited February 11, 2012 by bookworm44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I haven't Erin but The Crimson Petal and the White sounds really good, its one of those books I kept seeing and never getting around to investing in it. I hope you get some more recommendations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Happy reading bookworm I haven't Erin but The Crimson Petal and the White sounds really good, its one of those books I kept seeing and never getting around to investing in it. I hope you get some more recommendations. Thanks, Weave! If you ever get around to reading it, I'm sure you wont be disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Relaxing Sunday reading The Help. Absolutely loving this book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Has anyone read other books by Faber that they'd recommend? I personally didn't like TCPatW that much, but I've read Under the Skin by him, which I really enjoyed and gave it 5/5. But be warned, it's nothing like TCPatW, it's a sort of a dystopian read, I suppose? Something completely different It was very thought provoking, to be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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