So, how many books have you read so far in 2008?

One. Just finished Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home. Good way to start a year.

One. Just finished A Singular Lady.

I've been lazy reading wise on 010108 and am still working on my first shadow of a giant

I'm reading Beowulf for the first time. If you read the introduction it actually makes sense. This will be really helpful for me to get into the mindset of a warrior hero, since I'm writing a book about a warrior hero who's learning to adjust to the modern world. Other than that, the poetry rocks, check out these bling old words:

"Thane-sorrow"

"Heartlove"

"Dane-spear"

Somehow "thane-sorrow" sounds a whole lot less emo and more meaningful than regular sorrow! I am so pinching some of these Old English words!

I just started and finished War and Peace (the matchbook edition, heee heeeee!!!)

What are matchbooks?

A book of matches, it's a running joke (and a lie) from the "how many books did you read in 2007" thread!

#5 Groo - You should write a book about the wisdom to be gained from reading matchbooks! I'd buy it. :)

Yeah, I could print it on matchbooks!

Yes! You could publish it as a series!

For the longer, unabridged versions, you could print it on match boxes, little ones for some subjects or the bigger ones for more enlightened tomes. (pun intended, so sorry)

One. Just finished The Eyre Affair. Pretty good!

I just finished Shopgirl. Absolutely loved it.

I LOVED The The Eyre Affair and fully intend to read the rest of FForde's books!

dr. neutron, I loved The Eyre Affair a lot. I've read all of the Thursday Next books except the latest (Thursday Next: First Among Sequels) which I got for Christmas. I hope it's as good as the rest.

I've finished my first for the year, Across the Nightingale Floor, which was a gift from my SantaThing. I think I'm going to order the next one from Amazon.

#15 I've read Thursday Next: First Among Sequels and throughly enjoyed it. I actually found it as good as The Eyre Affair which is my favorite of the series.

Still struggling with Shock doctrine. It is very good but VERY disturbing, and it's not the kind of book you read while flipping pancakes.
I'm tempted to start another another book, just for entertainment. Even though I promised myself not to do this again - I've already made 8 rereads and a new one, and it slows me down.

What! It's only the 2nd of January, how can you guys have read something already ahaha. You're an amazing lot. ;-P

I just started on my first book of the year, Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch.

My first book of the year will be The Fellowship of the Ring, but I had company over yesterday, so am nowhere near done!

Re: Thursday Next books. They've been my biggest LT find. I saw so much discussion here at the Dragon about 'em, I decided to give it a try. The wife actually picked The Eyre Affair put of my TBR library pile and read it first. We're both hooked. Thanks for the great recommendations, folks!

I read The Garrett Files by Glen Cook yesterday, and I'm about 1/3 of the way through Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs as of this morning. One of my resolutions for the year was to try to read 200 books in 2008, so I'm trying to keep up a good pace right from the start.

Damnit, I haven't finished a single one yet, and it's already the 2nd! I shall have to rectify this...

I just finished the The Subtle Knife. Now to figure out which book on the TBR pile is next.

I finished Don't Look Back: Inspector Sejer Mystery (on audiobook) on the way into work this morning. I'll start The Lady and the Unicorn on the way home and I'm also reading The Golden Compass.

I'm about halfway throught Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett. It's a good book, but not an easy read. Start the new year with a bang, I figure.

Finished March Violets, read an old library juv fic discard for fun yesterday, but its name escapes me. Also spend a long time reading an outdated map in the dentist's office this morning (and now have Novacaine mouth). Reread some essays from Confessions of a Recovering Slut last night when my tooth woke me up at 4 AM.

PS > 26 If Consciousness Explained does, in fact, fail to explain consciousness, at least it gives what is probably the most clear explanation of Cartesian philosophy that I've ever read. One of my tags for that book is "books that fail to do what they say they will do," or something like that.

Finished Carpe Demon this morning, think I will be diving into one of my SantaThing books next.

Woke up in the morning of 010108 with quite the migraine, so my reading didn't truly start until today. This is coming from someone who didn't party the night before.

#18

I was doing dishes with a quaker friend after our after-meeting potluck (we call it our meeting for eating) and discussing Shock Doctrine. My friend said the same thing as you. I read No Logo a few years ago and was impressed by it, so I guess SD is on the list for the 2008. But first I have to finish War and Peace Not the Matchbook Version. And Nightwatch Not the Sarah Waters Version. Oh, and I Am Legend.

#30 - Thanks for making me smile while thinking about SD. Not an easy feat! And yes, I recommend the book. It's very very good.

hmm.. It's January 3 now, let's see... checking... um, I better check again... OK, zero. But, I've started two books.

I am in the process of reading Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffrey

I've read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

its good, but sometimes the language gets to me and the fact that it goes back and forth between Locke as he is and Locke as a boy.

Last night I finished Atlantis Rising, a paranormal romance I started back in 2007 and now plan to start Stardust because I received the DVD for Christmas and really wanted to read the book first. So, I guess I haven't really read anything (entirely) in 2008 yet. I'm starting the year off slow.

I've now finished 2. Add The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle by Lois Battle to my list. :-) It's a little different than what I usually read, but I enjoyed it.

I finished Small House at Allington last night. What shall I read next?!

(Tigana) and (Song of Arbonne) by ((GGK)) and (Endgame) by ((Kristine Smith))

square brackets, bluerose.

I've finished two mysteries by Joanne Fluke: Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery and Fudge Cup Cake Mystery. Fun and delicious, since she includes lots of recipes between chapters.

square brackets aren't helping me, because the touchstones aren't loading. Ah, well.

January fourth and still not a one! Shame shame shame! I'm too busy reading what everyone else reading!

Rupert Watson's The African baobab is an amazing study of how one (kind of) tree interacts with its neighbours -- animal and vegetable -- and its (inanimate) neighbourhood. A great read if you like non-fiction. I finished it this morning.

Chanur's legacy - end of the chanur series I was reading over christmas. Spacefaring cats, rats and chimps. Well sort of, mostly it's about how other cultures interact but there are some distinctly notable traits in some of the species. Excellant.

Lamb is taking a while to get through, mostly because I'm doing DIY instead of reading.