Failure

*sighs*

I failed at not checking out any more library books. :(

No more library books!

Okay, in order to focus on some of my personal challenges like 1) reading some of my books over break and 2) reading all the Sookie Stackhouse books over break, I must not check out any more library books. Not permanently, just for awhile. Until I read some of the things I have. So the list I have now should not grow...unless some of my "on hold" books come in. I also culled some books I wasn't super excited about reading now in order to shorten the list.

Wish me luck.

Sookie Stackhouse!

Okay, so I never got into the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. I read the first one and was like "Eh. Okay." and never read any more. But I liked some of her other books. And then I got the first season of True Blood from Best Buy for $15. And I watched it. And it was awesome. So I decided to give Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse another try...

I got the first book from the library and read it in a couple days. But they didn't have the second one! So I bought it from the used bookstore. And then I remembered that our departmental secretary, Alma, loves the series. And I remembered seeing all the books in her office. So I visited her yesterday and she loaned them all (except the very new one) to me!

She sort of issued a challenge for me. She said she was sure that I would have them all read by the end of break. I have that to aspire to! But I'm still trying to get to my reading my own books challenge...if only there weren't so many interesting books at the library!!

How many have you read?

Meme from Facebook. :)

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES.

Bold those books you've read in their entirety.

Italicize the ones you're reading now, or you've started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (started)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible (excerpts)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (read some)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (started)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (started)

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (started)

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante (excerpts)

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

books i've read november 2010

11.1.10

• The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff (YA)

11.2.10

• The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger (GN)
• Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde (YA)
• In Odd We Trust by Dean Koontz & Queenie Chan (GN)

11.4.10

• Love Is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh Anglund (PB)
• Puppetry of the Penis: The Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami by Simon Morley & David Friend (A-NF)
• Love Bites by Ellen Schreiber (YA)

11.5.10

• Skinwalker by Faith Hunter (A)

11.6.10

• Constance and Tiny by Pierre Le Gall & Eric Heliot (PB)
• Constance and the Great Escape by Pierre Le Gall & Eric Heliot (PB)
• Cap'n Smudge by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)
• Catundra by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)
• I Love Guinea Pigs by Dick King-Smith & Anita Jeram (PB)
• The Art of Overeating by Leslie Landis (A-NF)

11.7.10

• Twelfth Grade Kills by Heather Brewer (YA)

11.8.10

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman (YA)
• Ted by Tony DiTerlizzi (PB)
• King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (A-NF)

11.9.10

• Deadline by Chris Crutcher (YA)
• Mindful Knitting: Inviting Contemplative Practice to the Craft by Tara Jon Manning (A-NF)

11.11.10

• The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney (Y)

11.14.10

• The Search for WondLa by Tony Diterlizzi (YA)
• Hold Still by Nina LaCour (YA)
• Boom! by Mark Haddon (Y)

11.15.10

• Love Drugged by James Klise (YA)
• Ghost Huntress: The Reason by Marley Gibson (YA)

11.16.10

• Saturn Apartments #1 by Hisae Iwaoka (M)

11.17.10

• We Are In a Book! by Mo Willems (PB)
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Bleach #32 by Tite Kubo (M)

11.18.10

• Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart (YA)

11.19.10

• The Missing Ink by Karen E. Olson (A)

11.20.10

• Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (A)

11.21.10

• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger (Y)
• Vanished by Kate Brian (YA)

11.22.10

• Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf by Judy Sierra & J. Otto Seibold (PB)

11.24.10

• No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday (A-NF)

11.26.10

• 101 Places Not to See Before You Die by Catherine Price (A-NF)

11.27.10

• Lost for Words by Alice Kuipers (YA)

11.28.10

• The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson (Y)

11.29.10

• Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon by Margaret Hooks (A-NF)

11.10 total: 48

13 young adult fiction; 10 graphic novels; 9 picture books; 7 adult non fiction; 3 adult fiction; 4 youth fiction; 2 manga