1. Pain Killers (Jan)

2. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division (Jan)

3. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them (Jan)

4. The House of the Dead (Feb)

5. Sudden Death (Mar)

6. Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Mar)

7. Politics in Compassion: The Future of American Politics (Mar)

8. Watchmen (Mar)

9. Loon: A Marine Story (April)

10. Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (April)

11. Abramo's Gift (April)

12. Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer (June)

13. 2 B R O 2 B (June)

14. Dracula (June)

Welcome to our challenge. I was poking around in your library and always love to see another Steinbeck reader!~!~!
I hope you are enjoying LT. Lotz of cool people on here and it can be pretty much whatever you make of it.
Well again, welcome & come bug some of us. We always like visitors.
belva

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15. Cutting for Stone (July)

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16. Pygmy (July)

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17. Stitches: A Memoir by David Small (July)

18. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (July)

19. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society (July)

20. The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (New Directions Paperbook) (July)

21. Justine (July)

22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (August)

23. Shamrock Alley (Aug)

24. Olive Kitteridge (Aug)

25. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Aug)

26. 5° and other poems (Sept)

I just read your review of Empire of Illusion and gave it a thumbs up. Well done! I saw the author on Colbert (I think...sometimes I can't remember if it was the Daily Show or not, but I think the Daily Show tends to have more politics-oriented books) and put it on hold at the library. I'm still waiting for it, but it's reassuring to know that it should be worth the wait!

It's a good book, but like I said in the review, it's scary to think he's probably right. I've read War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning several years ago and was impressed. Hedges is also interviewed in the great PBS documentary, Reporting America at War. He talks about how television has changed how war is reported and viewed by the American public.

27. This is Where I Leave You (Sept)

28. Blood Meridian (Oct)

29. The Jesus Way (Oct)

30. Crazy Love (Nov)

31. T.S. Eliot: The Poems (British and Irish Authors) (Nov)

It looks very doubtful that I'm going to get in 50 by the end of the year. I could read a bunch of graphic novels just to get the numbers, but... I don't have a bunch of graphic novels to read. Oh well, there's always next year.

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32.People of the Book (Nov)

33. Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (Nov)

34. A Man Without a Country (Nov)

35. Sult (Dec)

36. Willingly (Dec)

37. Wolverine: Origin (Dec)

38. Marvels (Dec)

39. Batman: Hush, Vol. 1 (Dec)

Amendment to my previous declaration of failure: my brother has quite an extensive collection of graphic novels that I have borrowed, and it looks like we could get snowed in this weekend. I still have a chance.

40. Batman: Hush, Vol. 2 (Dec)

41. Venom: Dark Origin (Dec)

42. Marvel 1602 (Dec)

43. Sensational Spider-Man, Vol 1: Feral (Dec)