Currently reading:
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Total pages so far this year: 22,676
Total pages in 2008: 20,751 Total books in 2008: 58
Total pages in 2007: 18,049 Total books in 2007: 57
Books I’ve read so far this year:
64. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
63. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
62. The Misenchanted Sword by Lawrence Watt-Evans
61. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
60. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
59. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
58. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
57. Needle by Hal Clement
56. Cycle of Fire by Hal Clement
55. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
54. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
53. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
52. Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
51. Copper Crown by Lane von Herzen
50. Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward
49. Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver
48. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
47. East is East by T.C. Boyle
46. The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
45. James Herriot’s Favorite Dog Stories by James Herriot
44. The Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison
43. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
42. The Swordbearer by Glen Cook
41. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
40. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
39. In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
38. Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
37. Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
36. The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
35. Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
34. The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
33. Q’s Legacy by Helene Hanff
32. A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat
31. I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
30. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
29. The Soloist by Steve Lopez
28. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
27. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
26. The Grey King by Susan Cooper
25. Martin Eden by Jack London
24. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
23. Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
22. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
21. Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
19. The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman
18. Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
17. Survivor by Octavia E. Butler
16. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
15. Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
14. Imago by Octavia E. Butler
13. Jumper by Steven Gould
12. Eldest by Christopher Paolini
11. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
10. Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker
9. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
8. Blindness by José Saramago
7. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
6. Next by Michael Crichton
5. Seed to Harvest by Octavia E. Butler
4. The Cone-Gatherers by Robin Jenkins
3. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
2. The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine
1. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Almost as much as reading them, I love playing with my books! I love to sort them and catalog them and read reviews about them and find new books.
My newest book site is LibraryThing. I have one account to catalog books I’ve read (starting in 2007), and another account to catalog books I own.
My favorite site for getting rid of my old books and swapping them for new books is PaperBackSwap.com. I recently got Ryan hooked on this one too.
For keeping track of my books, there’s good ol’ BookCrossing.
And of course there’s common favorites that I use like Amazon.com and the King County Library System.
Kim, what did you think of The Dark is Rising? Isn’t there a movie based on this book called The Seekers?
By: Karen on October 6, 2007
at 4:32 pm
It was pretty good. It was written for young adults, but it didn’t always feel like it. It wasn’t as good as the Harry Potter books or the His Dark Materials books, and it wasn’t deep or challenging, but it was enjoyable.
By: Kim on October 14, 2007
at 3:29 pm