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Topic:  Dyrfinna's 2009 Reading 0 / 140 read

Jan 2, 2009, 11:57am (top)Message 1: Dyrfinna

1. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (176)

Jan 5, 2009, 11:45am (top)Message 2: Dyrfinna

2. Such a Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster (400)
3. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman (272)
4. The Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz (304)

Jan 6, 2009, 11:42am (top)Message 3: Dyrfinna

5. A Thousand Hills - Stephen Kinzer (400)

Jan 8, 2009, 11:46am (top)Message 4: Dyrfinna

6. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb (897)

Jan 12, 2009, 12:02pm (top)Message 5: Dyrfinna

7. Spend 'Til the End - Laurence J. Kotlikoff (336)
8. From A to X - John Berger (224)
9. Emotional Awareness - Dalai Lama (288)
10. The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux (352)
11. Easier Than You Think - Richard Carlson (208)
12. A Whole New Mind - Daniel H. Pink (288)

Jan 13, 2009, 11:30am (top)Message 6: Dyrfinna

13. The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant (304)

Jan 15, 2009, 11:45am (top)Message 7: Dyrfinna

14. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux (512)
15. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates (160)

Jan 16, 2009, 4:54pm (top)Message 8: Dyrfinna

16. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (399)

Jan 20, 2009, 11:48am (top)Message 9: Dyrfinna

17. What It Is - Lynda Barry (209)
18. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (192)
19. Ulysses - James Joyce (736)
20. (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents - Nan Mooney (272)

Jan 21, 2009, 2:58pm (top)Message 10: Dyrfinna

21. The Suicide Index - Joan Wickersham (336)
22. Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others - John T. Molloy (240)

Jan 22, 2009, 3:02pm (top)Message 11: Dyrfinna

23. Clown Girl - Monica Drake (336)

Jan 23, 2009, 11:26am (top)Message 12: Dyrfinna

24. The Samaritan's Dilemma - Deborah Stone (304)
25. How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People - Henry Alford (272)

Jan 26, 2009, 12:34pm (top)Message 13: Dyrfinna

26. The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel (384)
27. How to Read Novels Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster (336)
28. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith (235)
29. Rome 1960 - David Maraniss (496)

Jan 26, 2009, 10:45pm (top)Message 14: zanix

Is the 'How to Read' book worthwhile?

Jan 27, 2009, 11:42am (top)Message 15: Dyrfinna

I liked it, but it's full of spoilers just like his previous book. Though in your case, you've probably covered most of those titles... ;-)

Jan 27, 2009, 11:42am (top)Message 16: Dyrfinna

30. Miles From Nowhere - Nami Mun (304)
31. You're Broke Because You Want to Be - Larry Winget (224)

Jan 28, 2009, 11:35am (top)Message 17: Dyrfinna

32. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (288)
33. The Now Habit - Neil Fiore (224)

Jan 29, 2009, 12:20pm (top)Message 18: Dyrfinna

34. Black Flies - Shannon Burke (192)

Jan 30, 2009, 11:41am (top)Message 19: Dyrfinna

35. Blindness - Jose Saramago (304)

Feb 2, 2009, 12:01pm (top)Message 20: Dyrfinna

36. Making It All Work - David Allen (305)
37. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (192)
38. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson (480)
39. Are the Rich Necessary? - Hunter Lewis (282)

Feb 2, 2009, 12:02pm (top)Message 21: Dyrfinna

January stats: 37 books, 11,901 pages

Feb 3, 2009, 11:38am (top)Message 22: Dyrfinna

40. The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death - Charlie Huston (336)
41. The Magical Monarch of Mo - L. Frank Baum (232)

Feb 4, 2009, 12:01pm (top)Message 23: Dyrfinna

42. The Lost Dog - Michelle de Kretser (336)

Feb 5, 2009, 4:56pm (top)Message 24: Dyrfinna

43. Scratch Beginnings - Adam Shepard (240)

Feb 6, 2009, 11:36am (top)Message 25: Dyrfinna

44. Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (368)

Feb 9, 2009, 11:26am (top)Message 26: Dyrfinna

45. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (384)
46. Incognegro - Mat Johnson (136)
47. What are You Optimistic About? - John Brockman (400)
48. Hack - Melissa Plaut (240)
49. Matrimony - Joshua Henkin (304)

Feb 10, 2009, 11:29am (top)Message 27: Dyrfinna

50. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards (432)

Feb 11, 2009, 11:34am (top)Message 28: Dyrfinna

51. The Suicide Collectors - David Oppegaard (304)
52. Up for Renewal - Cathy Alter (336)

Feb 17, 2009, 11:15am (top)Message 29: Dyrfinna

53. Bowling Alone - Robert D. Putnam (544)
54. Pure Pleasure - John Carey (256)
55. Nine Kinds of Naked - Tony Vigorito (416)
56. What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn (256)
57. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith (240)
58. Body of Work - Christine Montross (320)

Feb 18, 2009, 10:53am (top)Message 30: Dyrfinna

59. Creature - Andrew Zuckerman (300)
60. High Wire - Peter Gosselin (272)

Feb 19, 2009, 11:26am (top)Message 31: Dyrfinna

61. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent - James Meek (352)

Feb 20, 2009, 10:56am (top)Message 32: Dyrfinna

62. Republican Like Me - Harmon Leon (281)

Feb 23, 2009, 11:01am (top)Message 33: Dyrfinna

63. The Midlander - Booth Tarkington (493)
64. Lout Rampage - Daniel Clowes (96)
65. Vietnam Zippos - Sherry Buchanan (176)
66. Dies the Fire - S. M. Stirling (592)

Feb 24, 2009, 10:46am (top)Message 34: Dyrfinna

67. Serena - Ron Rash (384)

Feb 26, 2009, 11:11am (top)Message 35: Dyrfinna

68. Disposable People - Kevin Bales (324)

Feb 27, 2009, 10:56am (top)Message 36: Dyrfinna

69. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn (368)

Mar 2, 2009, 11:03am (top)Message 37: Dyrfinna

70. Home - Marilynne Robinson (336)
71. Saturday - Ian McEwan (304)
72. Nothing to Fear - Adam Cohen (384)

Message edited by its author, Mar 2, 2009, 11:03am.

Mar 4, 2009, 11:02am (top)Message 38: Dyrfinna

73. Lark and Termite - Jayne Anne Phillips (272)
74. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness (496)

Mar 4, 2009, 11:05am (top)Message 39: Dyrfinna

February stats: 33 books, 11,120 pages
Yearly total (Jan-Feb): 71 books, 23,021 pages

Mar 5, 2009, 11:19am (top)Message 40: Dyrfinna

75. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (288)
76. An Imperfect Offering - James Orbinksi (448)

Mar 12, 2009, 11:36am (top)Message 41: Dyrfinna

77. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby (230)
78. Pussey! - Daniel Clowes (64)
79. The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust (640)
80. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt - Nick Hornby (200)
81. Watchmen - Alan Moore (416)
82. The Power of the Possible - Auriela McCarthy (240)
83. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson (288)
84. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot (544)

Message edited by its author, May 29, 2009, 12:13pm.

Mar 13, 2009, 11:55am (top)Message 42: Dyrfinna

85. When All Hell Breaks Loose - Cody Lundin (450)
86. Underground America - Peter Orner (379)

Mar 16, 2009, 1:09pm (top)Message 43: Dyrfinna

87. Dear Exile - Hilary Liftin (208)
88. Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream - Kathy Acker (207)
89. Wake - Lisa McMann (224)
90. The Marriage Benefit - Mark O'Connell (224)
91. Men are Not Cost-Effective - June Stephenson (469)

Mar 17, 2009, 11:44am (top)Message 44: Dyrfinna

92. The Flying Troutmans - Miriam Toews (275)

Mar 18, 2009, 5:06pm (top)Message 45: Dyrfinna

Mar 23, 2009, 12:01pm (top)Message 46: Dyrfinna

94. Going to See the Elephant - Rodes Fishburne (304)
95. The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher (608)

Apr 6, 2009, 2:04pm (top)Message 47: Dyrfinna

96. 2666 - Roberto Bolano (912)
97. Life was Never Meant to be a Struggle - Stuart Wilde (64)
98. The Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders (272)
99. Dangerous Laughter - Steven Millhauser (256)
100. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult (423)
101. Infinite Self - Stuart Wilde (227)
102. Silent Power - Stuart Wilde (128)
March total: 30 books, 10,412 pages

Message edited by its author, Apr 6, 2009, 2:08pm.

Apr 6, 2009, 2:05pm (top)Message 48: Dyrfinna

103. The Power of Less - Leo Babauta (170)
104. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (153)
105. Persepolis II - Marjane Satrapi (187)
106. Hands of My Father - Myron Uhlberg (232)
107. Dirty Snow - Georges Simenon (272)
108. Enough Already! - Peter Walsh (286)
109. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (343)

Message edited by its author, Apr 6, 2009, 2:07pm.

Apr 7, 2009, 2:32am (top)Message 49: Dyrfinna

110. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult (448)

Apr 8, 2009, 1:15am (top)Message 50: Dyrfinna

111. Testimony - Anita Shreve (320)

Apr 9, 2009, 1:29am (top)Message 51: zanix

Good to see you're back. So, 2666, hot or not?

Apr 9, 2009, 2:06am (top)Message 52: Dyrfinna

2666 was awesome! I understand the criticism but I was really swept up in it, so much that I carried it on vacation even though I only had 150 pages left.

Apr 9, 2009, 2:09am (top)Message 53: Dyrfinna

112. Fear of Falling - Barbara Ehrenreich (292)

Apr 10, 2009, 12:19pm (top)Message 54: Dyrfinna

113. Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz (384)

Apr 13, 2009, 1:51pm (top)Message 55: Dyrfinna

114. Yes Man - Danny Wallace (388)
115. How the Rich are Destroying the Earth - Herve Kempf (128)
116. The Limits of Power - Andrew Bacevich (224)
117. The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket (352)
118. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (352)

Apr 14, 2009, 10:57am (top)Message 56: Dyrfinna

119. Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith (227)

Apr 14, 2009, 10:34pm (top)Message 57: zanix

I guess I better get on the bandwagon before it leaves town and bump it up a few notches on my "big books" list. Thanks for the stamp of approval.

Apr 15, 2009, 12:04pm (top)Message 58: Dyrfinna

120. Elsewhere, U.S.A. - Dalton Conley (240)

Apr 16, 2009, 12:00pm (top)Message 59: Dyrfinna

121. Peak Everything - Richard Heinberg (224)
122. The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket (368)

Apr 17, 2009, 12:39pm (top)Message 60: Dyrfinna

123. The End - Lemony Snicket (368)
124. American Photobooth - Nakki Goranin (224)

Apr 19, 2009, 11:41pm (top)Message 61: Dyrfinna

125. Envy - Joseph Epstein (144)
126. Anger - Robert A.F. Thurman (168)
127. Sloth - Wendy Wasserstein (144)
128. Greed - Phyllis A. Tickle (120)
129. Gluttony - Francine Prose (144)
130. The Song is You - Arthur Phillips (272)
131. A Great Idea at the Time - Alex Beam (256)
132. The Darkest Place - Daniel Judson (368)
133. A Voice Through a Cloud - Denton Welch (230)
134. The Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide - Carolyn Gerin (144)

Message edited by its author, Apr 19, 2009, 11:54pm.

Apr 22, 2009, 11:53am (top)Message 62: Dyrfinna

135. Get Satisfied - Peter C. Whybrow (177)
136. Stuffed and Starved - Raj Patel (448)
137. Lust - Simon Blackburn (192)

Apr 23, 2009, 1:24pm (top)Message 63: Dyrfinna

138. The Book of Dead Philosophers - Simon Critchley (304)

Apr 27, 2009, 4:29pm (top)Message 64: Dyrfinna

139. Anyway - Kent Keith (128)
140. Sing Them Home - Stephanie Kallos (560)
141. Little Bee - Chris Cleave (288)

Apr 28, 2009, 1:44pm (top)Message 65: Dyrfinna

142. Anathem - Neal Stephenson (960)

Apr 29, 2009, 2:18pm (top)Message 66: Dyrfinna

143. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (384)

May 1, 2009, 4:30pm (top)Message 67: Dyrfinna

144. The Golden Argosy - Cartmell & Grayson (656)
145. The Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (208)
April stats: 40 books, 11,613 pages
Yearly total: 143 books, 45,046 pages

Message edited by its author, May 1, 2009, 4:32pm.

May 3, 2009, 7:40pm (top)Message 68: Dyrfinna

146. Genesis - Bernard Beckett (160)
147. The Spirit of Disobedience - Curtis White (183)
148. Tinkers - Paul Harding (192)
149. How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read in One Evening - E. O. Parrott (188)

May 5, 2009, 11:06am (top)Message 69: Dyrfinna

150. The Vagrants - Yiyun Lee (352)
151. I Don't Believe in Atheists - Chris Hedges (224)
152. The Rose and the Ring and the Magic Fishbone - Thackeray/Dickens (179)

May 6, 2009, 12:09pm (top)Message 70: Dyrfinna

153. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower (256)
154. The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill (160)

May 8, 2009, 12:02pm (top)Message 71: Dyrfinna

155. The Crow Road - Iain Banks (500)
156. More Information Than You Require - John Hodgman (368)
157. The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith (192)
158. American Nerd - Benjamin Nugent (256)

May 12, 2009, 12:25pm (top)Message 72: Dyrfinna

159. Waveland - Frederick Barthelme (240)
160. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut (79)
161. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill (144)
162. The Pornography of Power - Robert Scheer (288)
163. Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington (434)
164. Bone - Jeff Smith (1300)
165. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword - Ruth Benedict (336)
166. Disquiet - Julia Leigh (128)

Message edited by its author, May 13, 2009, 2:43pm.

May 13, 2009, 2:42pm (top)Message 73: Dyrfinna

167. Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (304)
168. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God - Louise Rennison (272)
169. Afterwhiles - James Whitcomb Riley (148)

May 15, 2009, 11:38am (top)Message 74: Dyrfinna

170. The Water's Edge - Daniel Judson (416)
171. Amours de Voyage - Arthur Hugh Clough (37)
172. Citizen Girl - Emma McLaughlin (320)
173. Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas - Louise Rennison (208)

Message edited by its author, May 15, 2009, 11:39am.

May 18, 2009, 1:21am (top)Message 75: Dyrfinna

174. The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry (176)
175. Under the Snow - Kerstin Ekman (224)
176. Beware of God - Shalom Auslander (208)
177. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn (288)

May 21, 2009, 11:48am (top)Message 76: Dyrfinna

178. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants - Louise Rennison (240)
179. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perotta (368)
180. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (238)
181. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion (238)
182. Becoming Enlightened - the Dalai Lama (272)

May 26, 2009, 3:03pm (top)Message 77: Dyrfinna

183. Acedia and Me - Kathleen Norris (352)
184. The Hunter - Julia Leigh (176)
185. The Beach - Alex Garland (448)
186. The Church of 80% Sincerity - David Roche (160)

May 27, 2009, 1:03pm (top)Message 78: Dyrfinna

187. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane (152)
188. Whatever, Mom - Ariel Gore (256)
189. How the Dead Dream - Lydia Millet (256)
190. David Boring - Daniel Clowes (136)
191. Early Bird - Rodney Rothman (256)

May 29, 2009, 12:01pm (top)Message 79: Dyrfinna

192. Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie (176)
193. In My Own Words - The Dalai Lama (224)
194. All the Living - C. E. Morgan (208)

Message edited by its author, May 29, 2009, 12:02pm.

Jun 2, 2009, 5:55pm (top)Message 80: Dyrfinna

195. The Fundamentals of Play - Caitlin Macy (304)
196. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel - Louise Rennison (304)
197. Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov (192)
198. The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith (208)
199. Deep Economy - Bill McKibben (272)

May stats: 56 books, 14,924 pages
Yearly total: 199 books, 59,970 pages

Message edited by its author, Jun 2, 2009, 6:01pm.

Jun 4, 2009, 6:54pm (top)Message 81: zanix

Now how do you expect me to make a come-back if you read the same number of books in May as I do? My next tactic is to read large print editions to catch up with your page count ;)

Jun 5, 2009, 10:54am (top)Message 82: Dyrfinna

Oh, it's more complicated than that, mon ami. I always use the page count that shows up on Amazon.com. :-)

Jun 5, 2009, 10:54am (top)Message 83: Dyrfinna

200. Like You'd Understand, Anyway - Jim Shepard (224)
201. The Man Who Forgot How to Read - Howard Engel (176)
202. The Outlander - Gil Adamson (416)

Jun 5, 2009, 1:51pm (top)Message 84: zanix

So that explains how you pumped an extra 100 pages out of 'Heart of Darkness!' And all this time I thought you were really reading all those introductions and indices ;)

I always try to be page perfect -- I've even been known to drop title pages from my final counts. Alas I am a soul to honest for this world.

Jun 8, 2009, 11:49am (top)Message 85: Dyrfinna

203. Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk (256)
204. The Not So Big House - Sarah Susanka (240)

Jun 8, 2009, 11:57am (top)Message 86: Dyrfinna

Of course I read all the introductions, notes, etc.! I scoff at the implication that I am a page-count inflater! What seems more likely to happen is that I read the book in hardcover, then see that the page count on Amazon is for the paperback, which is usually lower due to denser print. It's depressing.

I'm in a contest with another reader, and we both agreed to use the Amazon page count so as to avoid the temptation to choose an edition based on large font size. ;-)

I did a whole blog post on this topic about 6 months ago: http://botheyes.wordpress.com/2008/11/16...

Jun 8, 2009, 2:46pm (top)Message 87: zanix

Oh believe me, I run into the same difficulties considering how many audio books I listen to. Fortunately I can nab solid numbers from the great "look inside" Amazon feature, praise be to Bezos. The trickiest books are the longest where editions can have page counts that vary by hundreds of pages:

David Copperfield -
Modern Library: 896
Oxford World's Classics: 944
Penguin Popular Classics: 720

I've also picked on some standard page counts that publishers simply adapt font size and line spacing to meet. So in the end I guess the the only thing that truly matters is that we read them :)

Jun 9, 2009, 4:14pm (top)Message 88: Dyrfinna

I think one day we'll all read e-books, and then we can compare kbs. You can tell someone you read an entire mg.

Jun 9, 2009, 4:15pm (top)Message 89: Dyrfinna

205. She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo (80)
206. Should You Leave? - Peter D. Kramer (320)
207. One of Ours - Willa Cather (371)

Message edited by its author, Jun 9, 2009, 4:16pm.

Jun 12, 2009, 11:25am (top)Message 90: Dyrfinna

208. Garbage Land - Elizabeth Royte (336)
209. So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell (144)

Jun 15, 2009, 11:41am (top)Message 91: Dyrfinna

210. The Ghosty Men - Franz Lidz (161)
211. B is for Beer - Tom Robbins (128)
212. A Cold Case - Philip Gourevitch (192)
213. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (384) re-read
214. Nobody Move - Denis Johnson (208)
215. The Secrets of Life - Stuart Wilde (160)

I read The Hunger Games back in January. I had to read it again because we are doing family reading hour and I wanted to share it. We are doing the sequel next week.

Message edited by its author, Jun 18, 2009, 5:01pm.

Jun 18, 2009, 4:42pm (top)Message 92: Dyrfinna

216. Don't Cry - Mary Gaitskill (240)
217. L.I.E. - David Hollander (256)
218. See You in a Hundred Years - Logan Ward (272)
219. The Driftless Area - Tom Drury (224)

Message edited by its author, Jun 18, 2009, 5:05pm.

Jun 23, 2009, 7:54pm (top)Message 93: Dyrfinna

220. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers (160)
221. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff (192)
222. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers - Louise Rennison (336)
223. The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs (416)
224. Demons in the Spring - Joe Meno (300)
225. Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World - Donald Antrim (192)

Jun 25, 2009, 2:53pm (top)Message 94: Dyrfinna

226. American Widow - Alissa Torres (224)
227. A Perfect Mess - Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman (352)
228. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink (224)

Jun 29, 2009, 12:41pm (top)Message 95: Dyrfinna

229. 1066 and All That - W.C. Sellar and RJ Yeatman (172)
230. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (272)
231. Ghost - Alan Lightman (256)
232. The Protector's War - S.M. Stirling (608)

Jul 1, 2009, 11:48am (top)Message 96: Dyrfinna

233. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald (128)
234. Startled By His Furry Shorts - Louise Rennison (304)
235. Decoding the Heavens - Jo Marchant (336)
236. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (232)

June stats: 37 books, 9492 pages
YTD: 236 books, 69,462 pages

Jul 1, 2009, 3:08pm (top)Message 97: zanix

I think somebody is primed to start the '500 Book Challenge' group!

Jul 6, 2009, 12:00pm (top)Message 98: Dyrfinna

You know that's what I'm trying to do this year, right? ...But I don't think I'd try to do it twice!

Anyway, you'd probably be my only competitor, so what do you say? :-)

Jul 6, 2009, 12:03pm (top)Message 99: Dyrfinna

237. A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick (291)
238. Varieties of Disturbance - Lydia Davis (240)
239. Outwitting History - Aaron Lansky (328)
240. Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin (128)
241. The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers (304)
242. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley (384)
243. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman (480)
244. Travel - Yuichi Yokoyama (202)
245. The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber (944)
...and that's what I call a reading marathon.

Jul 10, 2009, 12:00pm (top)Message 100: Dyrfinna

246. Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough and Michael Braungart (208)
247. The Story Sisters - Alice Hoffman (336)
248. The Ice Storm - Rick Moody (288)
249. Odditude - John R. Powers (256)

Yep, I'm reading #250 today!

Jul 10, 2009, 6:52pm (top)Message 101: zanix

I'm afraid you'll have to be satisfied with your status as the biggest reader in town; I'm still shooting for a hard fought 400.

Congrats on hitting the halfway mark!

Jul 13, 2009, 12:53pm (top)Message 102: Dyrfinna

250. Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading - Maureen Corrigan (240)
251. How Not to Die - Jan Garavaglia (288)
252. The Burning Plain - Juan Rulfo (175)
253. Tethered - Amy MacKinnon (272)
254. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (400)
255. The Beats - Paul Buhle & Harvey Pekar (208)

Jul 16, 2009, 12:23pm (top)Message 103: Dyrfinna

256. Beloved - Toni Morrison (275)
257. The Urban Hermit - Sam MacDonald (304)
258. The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson (268)
259. Disappearance Diary - Hideo Azuma (200)

Jul 20, 2009, 12:11pm (top)Message 104: Dyrfinna

260. Many Lives, Many Masters - Brian L. Weiss (221)
261. Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby (200)
262. Population, 485 - Michael Perry (272)

Jul 24, 2009, 11:02am (top)Message 105: Dyrfinna

263. Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell (336)
264. Why is God Laughing? - Deepak Chopra (192)
265. The Father of All Things - Tom Bissell (432)
266. Crimes Against Logic - Jamie Whyte (176)
267. So Big - Edna Ferber (272)

Jul 28, 2009, 6:08pm (top)Message 106: Dyrfinna

268. The City and The City - China Mieville (336)
269. Welcome to Lovecraft - Joe Hill (152)
270. Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block (128)
271. The Blue Guide to Indiana - Michael Martone (120)
272. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan (320)
273. The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (416)
274. Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York - Gail Parent (223)

Message edited by its author, Jul 28, 2009, 6:09pm.

Aug 3, 2009, 11:48am (top)Message 107: Dyrfinna

275. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven - Susan Jane Gilman (320)
276. The Big Skinny - Carol Lay (208)
277. The Messiah of Stockholm - Cynthia Ozick (160)
278. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - Barbara Comyns (146)
279. Rats - Robert Sullivan (256)
280. How I Became a Famous Novelist - Steve Hely (224)

July stats: 44 books, 12,129 pages
YTD: 280 books, 81,591 pages

Aug 3, 2009, 11:49am (top)Message 108: Dyrfinna

281. The Face on Your Plate - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (288)

Aug 7, 2009, 12:15pm (top)Message 109: Dyrfinna

282. Timbuktu - Julia Goschke and Paul Auster (32)
283. You are Being Lied To - Russ Kick, Ed. (350)
284. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (304)
285. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (192)

Aug 9, 2009, 11:43am (top)Message 110: eviltammy

Missed saying "woo hoo" to you :)

Aug 10, 2009, 11:40am (top)Message 111: Dyrfinna

286. The Glister - John Burnside (240)
287. The End of the World As We Know It - Robert Goolrick (227)
288. The Ones You Do - Daniel Woodrell (224)
289. Pride - Michael Eric Dyson (160)

Aug 14, 2009, 11:18am (top)Message 112: Dyrfinna

290. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (336)
291. Freedom's Battle - Gary J. Bass (528)
292. Good-Bye - Yoshihiro Tatsumi (208)
293. Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew B. Crawford (256)
294. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson (512)

Aug 17, 2009, 11:40am (top)Message 113: Dyrfinna

295. Me Cheeta - James Lever (336)
296. Airships - Barry Hannah (288)
297. Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis (480)

Aug 20, 2009, 11:27am (top)Message 114: Dyrfinna

298. The Next 100 Years - George Friedman (272)
299. Blankets - Craig Thompson (592)
300. Why We Hate Us - Dick Meyer (288)
301. How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall (320)
302. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (160)

Aug 24, 2009, 12:05pm (top)Message 115: Dyrfinna

303. Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin (376)
304. That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo (272)
305. Eating People is Wrong - Malcolm Bradbury (298)
306. Hello, Again - Max Estes (160)
307. What Begings With Bird - Noy Holland (167)
308. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn (272)
309. On Fire - Larry Brown (192)
310. The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds

Aug 27, 2009, 11:50am (top)Message 116: Dyrfinna

311. Everything Matters! - Ron Currie, Jr. (320)
312. The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Dermout (296)
313. A Bright and Guilty Place - Richard Rayner (288)

Okay, now I am leaving for my wedding and honeymoon! Back 9/8.

Sep 10, 2009, 1:00pm (top)Message 117: Dyrfinna

314. Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen (320)
315. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin (272)

August stats: 36 books, 10,322 pages
Year to date: 315 books, 91,689 pages

Message edited by its author, Sep 10, 2009, 1:08pm.

Sep 10, 2009, 1:06pm (top)Message 118: Dyrfinna

316. The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey (384)
317. Love and Summer - William Trevor (224)
318. The Magicians - Lev Grossman (416)
319. Not Untrue and Not Unkind - Ed O'Loughlin (288)
320. Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition - Seamus Heaney, trans. (224)
321. Bad Things Happen - Harry Dolan (352)
322. Border Songs - Jim Lynch (304)
323. The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac (176)
324. The Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn (240)

Sep 10, 2009, 1:56pm (top)Message 119: zanix

A belated congratulations are in order (how did I miss that?) so a very big ¡Congratulations! to you and your new husband. You've read more than 300 books this year and planned a wedding? Wow.

Sep 17, 2009, 12:08pm (top)Message 120: Dyrfinna

Why, thank you! Yes, not only did I plan a wedding, but we also both had to relocate. With pets. You can see why I've been reading a bit less lately.

Sep 17, 2009, 12:28pm (top)Message 121: Dyrfinna

325. Yes - Thomas Bernhard (140)
326. Couch - Benjamin Parzybok (256)
327. The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss (320)
328. The Green Bay Tree - Louis Bromfield (352)
329. The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury (256)
330. Possession - Louis Bromfield (504)

Sep 23, 2009, 12:41pm (top)Message 122: Dyrfinna

331. An Illustrated Life - Danny Gregory (272)
332. March - Geraldine Brooks (304)
333. Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield (312)
334. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (226)
335. The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell (992)
336. The Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll (256)

Sep 28, 2009, 4:00pm (top)Message 123: Dyrfinna

337. God Lives in St. Petersburg - Tom Bissell (224)
338. The Law of Similars - Chris Bohjalian (336)
339. Drink Play F#@k - Andrew Gottlieb (240)
340. Laughing Boy - Oliver La Farge (208)
341. Stitches - David Small (336)
342. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy (240)

Oct 1, 2009, 6:51pm (top)Message 124: Dyrfinna

343. The Tricking of Freya - Christina Sunley (352)
344. A Heckuva Job - Calvin Trillin (128)
345. Years of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes (592)
September stats: 30 books, 9454 pages
Year to date: 345 books, 101,143 pages

Oct 5, 2009, 12:32pm (top)Message 125: Dyrfinna

346. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (122)
347. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (448)
348. Crazy for the Storm - Norman Ollestad (288)
349. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger (208)
350. In Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus (108)
351. Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott (275)
352. This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper (352)
353. Seven Days in the Art World - Sarah Thornton (320)
354. Poetry as Insurgent Art - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (90)
355. Silverfish - David Lapham (160)

Oct 8, 2009, 4:30pm (top)Message 126: Dyrfinna

356. Evil at Heart - Chelsea Cain (320)
357. The Waxman Report - Henry Waxman (256)
358. The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo (208)
359. The Known World - Edward P. Jones (432)
360. Low Moon - Jason (216)
361. Witch Baby - Francesca Lia Block (128)
362. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby (416)

Oct 12, 2009, 12:44pm (top)Message 127: Dyrfinna

363. Local - Brian Wood & Ryan Kelly (384)
364. Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli (208)
365. The Store - T. S. Stribling (592)
366. The Freedom Manifesto - Tom Hodgkinson (352)
367. Lamb in His Bosom - Caroline Miller (338)
368. Now in November - Josephine Johnson (288)
369. Fred the Clown - Roger Langridge (192)
370. Idiot America - Charles P. Pierce (304)
371. Honey in the Horn - H. L. Davis (408)

Oct 15, 2009, 11:01am (top)Message 128: Dyrfinna

372. The Late George Apley - John P. Marquand (368)
373. A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore (336)
374. The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (480)
375. The Adventures of Tintin, vol. 1 - Herge

Message edited by its author, Oct 19, 2009, 11:56am.

Oct 19, 2009, 11:55am (top)Message 129: Dyrfinna

376. The New Valley - Josh Weil (352)
377. Fear the Worst - Linwood Barclay (416)
378. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys - Francesca Lia Block (128)
379. The Song of the Cid - Anonymous (288)
380. Howards End - E.M. Forster (256)
381. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber (128)
382. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (320)
383. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith (256)
384. Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead (288)

Oct 22, 2009, 4:20pm (top)Message 130: Dyrfinna

385. Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson (144)
386. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford (256)
387. The Nobody - Jeff Lemire (144)
388. What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman (400)
389. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (464)

Oct 26, 2009, 1:54pm (top)Message 131: Dyrfinna

390. In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow (467)
391. New World Monkeys - Nancy Mauro (304)
392. Dogs and Water - Anders Nilsen (96)
393. The Three Paradoxes - Paul Hornschemeier (80)
394. Curses - Kevin Huizenga (144)
395. The Recognitions - William Gaddis (976)
396. The Elements of Style - Strunk and White (128)
397. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger (416)

I read all of "The Recognitions" in 24 hours!

Message edited by its author, Oct 26, 2009, 1:54pm.

Oct 28, 2009, 8:20pm (top)Message 132: zanix

To read "The Recognitions" in 24 hours, consecutive or otherwise, is a remarkable achievement (and those were 1000 oversized pages of infamously challenging text!) How did you find it?

Nov 2, 2009, 3:57pm (top)Message 133: Dyrfinna

Well, I went to Powell's and looked under G... ;-)

I loved it. I think reading it in one sitting actually helped the flow. The party scenes were antic and there were a number of things that made me laugh out loud. I'm looking forward to reading "JR" when I do the NBA's - maybe in '11. (Thinking of Bookers next year).

PS They were actually 24 consecutive hours (23 hours 20 minutes) - I decided to do only one book for this fall's read-a-thon.

Message edited by its author, Nov 2, 2009, 3:58pm.

Nov 2, 2009, 4:01pm (top)Message 134: Dyrfinna

398. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (304)
399. The Satanic Nurses - J. B. Miller (208)
400. Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold (432)
401. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond (512)
402. Hungry Monkey - Matthew Amster-Burton (256)
403. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw (176)
404. The Adventures of Tintin, vol. 2 - Herge
405. Love is a Many Trousered Thing - Louise Rennison (304)
406. The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius, trans. David R. Slavitt (208)
407. Tricked - Alex Robinson (320)
408. What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell (432)

Message edited by its author, Nov 9, 2009, 4:12pm.

Nov 9, 2009, 4:11pm (top)Message 135: Dyrfinna

409. The Amazing Remarkable M. Leotard - Eddie Campbell (128)
410. Premillennial Maakies - Tony Millionaire (256)
411. Lucky - Gabrielle Bell (112)
412. Important Artifacts from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris - Leanne Shapton (144)
413. The Book of Leviathan - Peter Blegvad (176)
414. Bigfoot: I Not Dead - Graham Roumieu (96)
415. Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem (480)
416. Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith (256)
417. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi (144)
418. Stop in the Name of Pants - Louise Rennison (336)

Nov 9, 2009, 4:16pm (top)Message 136: Dyrfinna

October Stats: 60 books, 17,624 pages
Year to Date: 418 books, 121,855 pages

Nov 16, 2009, 11:49am (top)Message 137: Dyrfinna

419. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury (304) (re-read with kid)
420. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino (304)
421. Chicken With Plums - Marjane Satrapi (96)
422. Sophie's Choice - William Styron (599)
423. Awkward and Definition - Ariel Schrag (144)
424. The Borden Tragedy - Rick Geary (80)
425. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne (656)
426. Feed - M. T. Anderson (299)

Nov 23, 2009, 11:45am (top)Message 138: Dyrfinna

427. The Lost City of Z - David Grann (416)
428. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer (352)
429. Nemesis - Jo Nesbo (480)
430. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith (240)
431. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers (342)
432. The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier (224)
433. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn (349)

Dec 2, 2009, 11:26am (top)Message 139: Dyrfinna

434. Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, vol. 1 - Naoki Urasawa (200)
435. Bright-Sided - Barbara Ehrenreich (256)
436. Jack Wakes Up - Seth Harwood (304)
437. Thirteen Stories - Eudora Welty (252)
438. The Restless Sleep - Stacy Horn (336)
439. The Mabinogion - (320)
440. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli (344)

Dec 2, 2009, 11:27am (top)Message 140: Dyrfinna

November stats: 32 books read, 9321 pages.
Year to date: 438 books read, 128,088 pages.

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