One Book a Week Club, 2010...

AmethystA · Post by **AmethystA** » January 8th, 2010, 1:50 pm

I'll go ahead and start a new topic for this for this new year. If anyone figures out where 2009 went, can you let me know?

Here's the place to share what you're reading or listening to throughout the year. Feel free to add comments on what you liked about the book or not as you prefer.

Each reads at their own pace, whether it's one book a year, one book a week, two books a week, or a personal goal you're shooting for.

This is a fun place to keep track of your progress and see what you've accomplished at the end of the year. Anything that gets people reading is always a good thing!

AmethystA · Post by **AmethystA** » January 8th, 2010, 2:45 pm

My personal goal for this year is 120 books....3 more than I ended up with last year. I know it's an odd number, but hey, my parogative and something to shoot for.

It's fun to be able to look back on what I've read over the past few years! Here's my reads for Books I completed in 2007, 2008, and
2009

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So far this year I've read:

1. Virgin River by Richard Wheeler
2. The Maze by Catherine Coutler--I enjoyed finding out how Savich and Sherlock got together, but didn't appreciate the liberal use of the "f" word in this book. The bad guy in this one didn't like women who cursed. Therefore cursing was employed to try and trap him.
3. Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith--Loved this book told in letters that Ivy writes to various people in her life.

Working on:
The Listerdale Mystery and 11 Other Stories by Agatha Christie
The Target by Catherine Coutler
Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
Country Wives by Rebecca Shaw
Searching for Tilly by Susan Sallis
Miss Lizzie by Walter Satterthwait

On my to-read list:
The Rose Garden Mystery by Elliott Roosevelt
A Restless Evil by Ann Granger
The Fala Factor by Stuart Kaminsky
Tigerheart by Peter David
Still Life by Louise Penny
Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy--This one will take a while!

Post by **Availle** » January 8th, 2010, 3:57 pm

Cool - lists are great!

I usually have no idea how much I read, but it tends to be a lot... Let's see where this is going, I don't have a particular goal in mind though.
On second thought, I should probably split that list up a little:

Dead tree copies for my own entertainment/edification:
1. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
2. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
3. Japanese Children's Favorite Stories (Collection)
4. The Earth After Us by Jan Zalasiewicz
5. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mc Carthy
6. The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
7. The Crossing by Cormac Mc Carthy
8. What is life? by Ed Regis
9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
10. The quiet girl by Peter Hoeg
11. Cities of the Plain by Cormac Mc Carthy
12. The long dark tea time of the soul by Douglas Adams
13. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
14. A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George
15. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
16. Our Choice - A Plan to solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore
17. god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
18. The trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
19. The Giver by Lois Lowry
20. A Life in Aikido - The Biography of Morihei Ueshiba by Kisshomaru Ueshiba
21. Getting Things Done by David Allen
22. Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin
23. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (took me 4 months

)

Audiobooks FROM LibriVox for my own entertainment/edification on commutes and during housework:
1. Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper (read by thabitat)
2. Simple Sabotage Field Manual (read by Steampunk)
3. The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green (read by Kirsten Ferreri)
4. The Mystery of the Four Fingers by Fred M. White (read by knotyouraveragejo)
5. Fathers of Biology by Charles Mc Rae (group)
6. The Wrong Box by Stevenson/Osbourne (read by Andy Minter)
7. Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson (read by Matthew S. Surprenant)
8. Talents Incorporated by Murray Leinster (read by Mark Nelson)
9. Lady Susan by Jane Austen (group)
10. The Story of Electricity by John Munro (read by Ruth Golding)
11. Anthem by Ayn Rand (read by Chere Theriot)
12. A Guide to Men by Helen Rowland (read by Cori)
13. The Humbugs of the World by P.T. Barnum (group)
14. Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare (drama)
15. Good Sense by Baron Henri D'Holbach (read by Roger Melin)
16. Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers (read by kristin and kayray)
17. Porcelain and Pink by F. Scott Fitzgerald (drama)
18. Tourmalin's Time Cheques by Thomas Anstey Guthrie (group)
19. Othello by William Shakespeare (drama)
20. The Loss of the Titanic by Lawrence Beesley (read by Allyson Hester)
21. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume (read by Sibella Denton)
22. The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins (read by Diana Majlinger)
23. God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin (read by Carl Manchester)
24. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccachio (group)
25. Dracula by Bram Stoker (group, 2nd version)
26. The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (read by icyjumbo and Laura Koskinen)
27. English as She is Wrote (read by TriciaG)
28. Die Judenbuche von Anette von Droste-Huelshoff (read by Rolf Kaiser)
29. Bernice bobs her hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald (read by BellonaTimes)
30. The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (group)
31. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (read by Bruce Pirie)
32. The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell (read by Jane Greensmith)
33. The Treasure by Selma Lagerloef (read by Lars Rolander)
34. Five O'Clock Tea by William Dean Howells (drama)
35. After London or Wild England by Richard Jeffries (read by Ruth Golding)
36. Better Angel by Richard Meeker (read by Greg W.)
37. This Mother in Law of Mine by Anonymous (read by Carolin Kaiser)

Books FOR LibriVox for my own entertainment/edification (and possiby those of others...):
1. Experiments in Plant Hybridisation by Gregor Mendel
2. Die neue Malerei by Franz Marc (DPL'ed this collection of 3 newspaper articles)
3. The Early History of the Airplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright
4. Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long
5. Malerbriefe by Wilhelm Ostwald (duet with Wassermann - read one half/PL'ed the other)
6. Radioactive Substances by Marie Curie
[endless list of 'planned ones' cut]

Hazel Pethig · Post by **Hazel Pethig** » January 8th, 2010, 4:18 pm

Since New Year's I have read books 5-9 of the Southern Vampire series (Sookie Stackhouse). I'm currently reading Jaz Parks #1, a book of recipes and history of curry, and The Book of the Farm.

Hazel

SunshineInMySoul · Post by **SunshineInMySoul** » January 8th, 2010, 7:58 pm

I'm so glad this thread was started. I normally read a bunch of books and then forget half the titles. Now I'll have no excuse not to get them jotted down. I'm going for 1-2 per week.

1. The Golden Ball & other stories by Agatha Christie
2. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (when I started reading this one my brother did a double take and had to ask "Wasn't that one by Agatha Christie?" lol)
3. The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
4. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy (it's the first of the type I've read... and it was slightly better than my expectation)
5. Copper Beeches by Arthur H. Lewis (though I share the love for the "sacred writings" of A.C. Doyle, I still thought this book a bit odd)
6. Emma by Jane Austen
7. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
8. The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read for LV)
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
10. Essays on Political Economy by Frédéric Bastiat (read for LV)
11. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
12. Murder in Baker Street (collection by various authors)
13. The Bostonians by Henry James
14. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
15. For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
16. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
17. Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
18. Vices Are Not Crimes by Lysander Spooner
19. Who Is Ayn Rand? by Nathaniel & Barbara Branden
20. The Holmes-Dracula File by Fred Saberhagen (not too awfully bad!)
21. Heathcliff (Return to Wuthering Heights) by Lin Haire-Sargeant (also, not too bad!)
22. Black Coffee by Agatha Christie & Charles Osborne
23. Ulysses by James Joyce
24. Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield
25. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
26. Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat (read for LV)
27. The Moor by Laurie R. King (bit of a disappointment to a Holmes lover)...
28. A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil
29. The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
30. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
31. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
32. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
33. The Emily series by L.M. Montgomery
34. The Rule of Four by Caldwell and Thomason
35. Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
36. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
37. There is a Tide by Agatha Christie
38. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
39. Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
40. Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
41. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
42. None Dare Call it Conspiracy by Gary Allen
43. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
43. Vol. 9 of Five Foot Shelf of Books (Pliny & Cicero)
44. Vol. 10 of Five Foot Shelf of Books (Wealth of Nations)
45. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
46. The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman (I liked it, like most Goodman)
47. Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
48. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
49. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
50. An Imaginative Woman & Other Stories by Thomas Hardy
51. Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
52. Vol. 11 of Five Foot Shelf of Books (Origin of Species)
53. The Woods by Tana French
54. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
55. The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
56. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradlye
57. Image of Chekhov translated by Robert Payne
58. Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw
59. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. Postmark: Murder collection by Agatha Christie
62. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
63. Spy in the Russian Club by Ronald Kessler
64. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl (not bad!)
65. The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
66. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
67. Fourteen Months in American Bastiles by Francis Key Howard (read for LV)
68. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
69. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
70. The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth
71. Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
72. A Matter of Prejudice and other stories by Kate Chopin
73. Mousetrap and other plays by Agatha Christie
74. The Savage Nation by Michael Savage

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » January 9th, 2010, 1:55 am

I have the bad habit of rereading books I like and not finishing ones that I'm not drawn into.

1 Earlier in the week, started and finished (rereading): The Tree Wakers, by Keith Claire. A strange, almost mystical fantasy set in Kew Gardens.

2 Rereading: The Otherwise Girl by Keith Claire. A very short novel (about 145 pages), more like a long short story in construction. An odd little story about a boy who goes to visit an artist friend and gets caught up in the life of a girl who died some years before.
EDIT: Finished that one, sitting on a bus with tears trickling.

Peter

To Posterity and Beyond! · Post by **Cori** » January 9th, 2010, 5:27 am

I think I'll aim for 52 books again this year ... I finished last year with 65 but that was rather unusual for me, so 52's a good target still.

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1. Silas Marner by George Eliot
2. The Little Tea Book by Arthur Grey
3. The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
4. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
5. The Privateer by Josephine Tey
6. King Rat by James Clavell
7. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
8. The Corrections by Jonathan Frantzen
9. Nothing by Henry Green
10. A Guide to Men by Helen Rowland (recorded here)
11. Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey
12. Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey
13. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
14. Jettatura by Theophile Gautier
15. Mary and the Giant by Philip K. Dick
16. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
17. Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli
18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
19. Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale (recorded here)
20. Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth von Arnim
21. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
22. Paying Guests by E.F. Benson
23. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
24. Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
25. The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
26. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
27. This is the End by Stella Benson
28. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
29. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
30. Oh Murderer Mine by Norbert Davies
31. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
32. Lord of Light by Roger Zelanzy
33. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
34. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
35. The Tangled Threads by Eleanor H. Porter
36. K. by Mary Roberts Rinehart
37. Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
38. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
39. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
40. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
41. Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers by J.K. Rowling (my first ever actually-read-in-French!! book)
42. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (okay, I read it in tandem with this, but still!)
43. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (started about 2 years ago, totally worthwhile)

BellonaTimes · Post by **BellonaTimes** » January 9th, 2010, 10:14 am

I just read The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. It reminded me of early Stephen King and of Ann Beattie, but not as good. She could have left out a couple of chapters....

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » January 10th, 2010, 2:03 am

Book 3: Starting "Exploring the world of lucid dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold.

Another reread. I really must start keeping my dream diary again ... it's the key to experiencing lucid dreams.

EDIT: finished. It's a manual to lucid dreaming; lots of examples of dreams, lots of techniques. I'm working at it.
P

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » January 10th, 2010, 5:32 am

Currently reading/in queue:

Laurie J. Marks. Earth Logic
Isabella Bird. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
David Foster Wallace. Infinite Jest
Tim Willocks. The Religion
Richard Henry Dana Jr. Two Years Before the Mast
George Bernard Shaw. The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Carmen Carter. The Children of Hamlin
Various. Short Mystery Story Collection 007
Jasper Fforde. The Eyre Affair
Jenny Diski. Only Human
Martin Amis. London Fields
Joseph Conrad. Youth, A Narrative
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Story of Avis
J. Robert Lennon. Castle
Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Completed in 2010:

Hanif Kureishi. Something to Tell You
Max Brand. The Seventh Man
Sheridan LeFanu. Uncle Silas
Trudi Canavan. Priestess of the White
Neil Gaiman. Neverwhere
Honoré de Balzac. The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Dorothy L. Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh. Thrones, Dominations
Noah Gordon. Der Medicus
Various. Short Mystery Story Collection 006
Octavus Roy Cohen. Midnight
Henry James. Washington Square
Mary Roberts Rinehart. The Window at the White Cat
Mack Reynolds. Ultima Thule
Anthony Hope. Rupert of Hentzau
Arnold Bennett. The Card
Dorothy L. Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh. A Presumption of Death
Dorothy L. Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh. Thrones, Dominations
Lester del Rey. The Sky Is Falling
Julian Hawthorne, ed. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, vol. 1
Fanny Burney. Evelina
Diane Duane. So You Want to Be a Wizard
Grant Allen. The Woman Who Did
Jacob Abbott. Alexander the Great
George Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody
Thomas W. Hanshew. Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces
Hugh Lofting. The Story of Doctor Doolittle
Charles Dickens et al. A House to Let
E.F. Benson. Queen Lucia
Charlotte M. Yonge. The Little Duke
Edith Wharton. The Glimpses of the Moon
E. Nesbit. The Magic City
Mary E. and Thomas W. Hanshew. The Riddle of the Purple Emperor
Neil Gaiman. American Gods
Michael Mettler. Der Blick aus dem Bild
Thomas Pynchon. V (re-read)
Mary Roberts Rinehart. The Man in Lower Ten
Hugh Laurie. The Gun Seller
Fergus Hume. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Charlaine Harris. Dead Until Dark
Edna Ferber. Buttered Side Down
Wilkie Collins. The Dead Alive
Charlaine Harris. Living Dead in Dallas
Charlaine Harris. Club Dead
Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World
Charlaine Harris. Dead As a Doornail
Charlaine Harris. Definitely Dead
Charlaine Harris. All Together Dead
Charlaine Harris. From Dead to Worse
Charlaine Harris. Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris. Dead in the Family
Gertrude Stein. Tender Buttons
Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
L.A. Abbott. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac
Richelle Mead. Vampire Academy
E.W. Hornung. The Shadow of the Rope
Richelle Mead. Frostbite
Myrtle Reed. Lavender and Old Lace
Neil Gaiman. The Sandman: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Richelle Mead. Shadow Kiss
John Kendrick Bangs. A House-Boat on the Styx
Sax Rohmer. The Insiduous Dr Fu Manchu
James Schmitz. Legacy
J.A. Mukoyogo. Triangle of the Alliance
Richelle Mead. Blood Promise
P.G. Wodehouse. The Coming of Bill
Christopher Paolini. Eragon
Richelle Mead. Spirit Bound
Andrew Kaufman. All My Friends Are Superheroes
Helen Benedict. The Edge of Eden
Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Played with Fire

Hazel Pethig · Post by **Hazel Pethig** » January 10th, 2010, 10:49 am

Are we including books that we've listened to? If we are, I've listened to 2 Artemis Fowl books this year.

--Hazel

Post by **Hokuspokus** » January 10th, 2010, 1:13 pm

No idea how much I read/listen in a year. Lets see if I can keep track of it here.

In progress:
SIE rächt sich von Peter Tremayne
Wheel of Time Vol. 4 by Robert Jordan
Walpurgisnacht von Gustav Meyrink (my Solo, does that count?)

Finished:
1. The Mystery of the Four Fingers by Fred M. White read by knotyouraveragejo
Excellent!

AmethystA · Post by **AmethystA** » January 10th, 2010, 3:26 pm

Yes, read or listened to counts as far as I'm concerned. And of course solos count, too. That's both reading and listening to a book.

Mary

aravis · Post by **aravis** » January 11th, 2010, 9:51 am

So I tend to lose track of what I've read/ listened to. But so far...

Currently reading:
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin (I'm rereading that)
Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling

Currently listening to:
Me&Emma by Elizabeth Flock
Room with a view by E M Forster
The lost symbol by Dan Brown

neckertb · Post by **neckertb** » January 16th, 2010, 1:44 pm

OK, I'll try not to mess up and use the original titles, since I have no idea if the books I read are translated into English or not.

So far in 2010:
Doctored evidence, by Donna Leon - I don't always love her books, but this one was one of the good ones.
Frygtelig lykkelig by Erling Jepsen (translation would be "terribly happy"): a Danish book probably not translated, but terrific book
Currently reading:
L.A. requiem by Robert Crais