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Just one goal this year. I’d like to read a few classics. My definition of classic is pretty loose – I’m just looking for books that have stood the test of time. I perused lists of classics compiled by others and chose 25 that I think sound interesting and that I haven’t yet read. They [...]

I summarized the first half of 2009 here, but I thought a full year tabulation sounded like fun, so here goes:

Books Read – 67
Books Listened – 69
Books Not Finished – 3

Highlights from the second half of 2009 that I haven’t already covered in the New Author Challenge posts include:
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella – I [...]

I’m afraid I give up on discussing each new author I read this year. I made it through number 35, and the rest I’ll cover briefly here before moving on to 2010’s challenges. On the plus side, I did meet my goal of reading fifty new-to-me authors last year.
Summary of authors numbered 36 through 50:

Johanna [...]

I didn’t do such a hot job keeping up with my thoughts on each of these new authors as I read them this year, so I think it’s time to sum up. In this post I’ll cover authors numbered 32 through 35.

32. Libba Bray
I’m not a huge fan of gothic-style novels, but I still enjoyed [...]

My mom recommended that I read The Giver by Lois Lowry and I fell madly in love with this book. I picked it up this morning to read the part about choices and read a few pages. Then I started sobbing. Yeah, I guess it pulls at my heart strings to consider the idea of [...]