Category Archives: Year End
A Reading Year In Review: 2011
Total Books Read in 2011 Print: 101 — 27,436 pages Audio: 93 — 1,169.25 hours; 49 days (THIS IS SO MANY DAYS) Ebooks: 11 My goal in 2011 was to read 20 ebooks…oops. Maybe in 2012! Fiction: 106 Non-fiction: 99 … Continue reading
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Top Reads Published & Read in 2010, with Exciting! Bonus Features
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger: I knew zilch about either Taylor or Burton before I read Furious Love, and afterward I was completely smitten with both of … Continue reading
Favorite Non-Fiction Reads of 2010
Columbine by Dave Cullen (Audio narrated by Don Leslie): Journalism as its finest. Cullen spent 10 years working on this book, and his dedication to research and his tremendous talent is on full display here. Everything you know about the … Continue reading
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Favorite Fiction Reads of 2010
War Dances by Sherman Alexie: I can’t get enough of Alexie’s work. War Dances is a collection of inter-connected short stories and poems, and while I am not usually a fan of either short stories or poems, I loved (almost) … Continue reading
Favorite Young Adult Novels Read In 2010
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie: This is a tale of a boy between two worlds, conflicted by his desire to crawl out of poverty and fit in at a privileged school while trying to … Continue reading
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2010 Round-Up
Total Books Read in 2010 Print — 153 — 38,107 pages Audio — 99 — 944 hours or 39 days Fiction — 192 — 72 young adult — 120 adult Non-Fiction — 61 Books featuring and/or authored by GLBTQ … Continue reading
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Books Read In 2010
December Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway Pretty Little Liars (#1) by Sara Shepard Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby Flawless (Pretty Little Liars #2) by Sara Shepard … Continue reading
2009 Round Up In a Simple Survey
I saw this meme at Fizzy Thoughts, and she found it at This Book and I Could Be Friends. How many books read in 2009? I read 137 books and listened to 24, a total of 161. How many works … Continue reading
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Books Read 2009
Master List: Books Read 2009 March Doyon, Stephanie The Greatest Man In Cedar Hole Karlan, Dan The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived Green, John Paper Towns Green, John An Abundance of Katherines Green, John Looking For Alaska Satrapi, … Continue reading
