2007 Reads
2007 YEAR IN REVIEW!!
I can't believe this year is over with already! Of course, it does seem like a long long time ago that I was reading those first dozen novels on the list below. 2007 was my best year for reading, which in many ways is a little ironic to me since I'm not in school reading 3 books a week anymore.
I finished 58 books, participated in 8 reading challenges, knocked 39 books off the TBR pile (books I owned prior to Jan 1, 2007), and found the world of blogging and all the wonderful bookbloggers.
Here is my 2007 List (links will take you to my thoughts on the book--books in RED are some of my favorites for the year--which doesn't discredit the rest...):
- The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
- Kissing in Manhattan - David Schickler
- Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
- Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man - Fannie Flagg
- Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen
- Talk Before Sleep - Elizabeth Berg
- The Widow of the South - Robert Hicks
- Vinager Hill - A. Manette Ansay
- Sideways - Rex Pickett
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- Rich in Love - Josephine Humphreys
- Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (re-read)
- Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
- Fall On Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
- Ireland - Frank Delaney
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
- Thunderstruck - Erik Larson
- Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (re-read)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
- Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
- The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
- Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquirel
- Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
- His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis
- Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
- Howards End - EM Forster
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
- The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Flesh and Blood - Michael Cunningham
- Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
- The World According to Garp - John Irving
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk
- Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
In 2008 my reading goals are slimmed down a little bit to take off some pressure (not really sure where the pressure is coming from!!). My goal is to read 36 books by December 31, 2008. I will enter challenges at my own risk and may not even formally participate but just keep personal tallies. I also vow to keep my read/unread ratio to at least 60/40% (in other words, keep the book buying to a minimum!). And last but not least, enjoy enjoy enjoy.
10 comments:
Did you know that Edith Wharton and Henry James were very close friends? Now think about Portrait and a Lady and Age of Innocence. I think Countess Olenska is Isabel Archer. Olenska's love interest is Newland Archer. Interesting huh?
Many of your favorites are books I want to read! :-)
I avoided making any statements about the possibility of curtailing my book intake. I do that and I'm doomed.
You are an inspiration to me. What an impressive list of books! No wonder you're so smart. Love, Mom
'Enjoy' is the right attitude! Have a great 2008.
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yay for knocking 39 books off the TBR shelf! That's something I want to do this year.
You read a lot of books in 2007 that I hope to read in 2008 - and in some cases, your reviews are to blame!
*Petunia - sweet information! I was reminded a little of Portrait when I was reading Age of Innocence, but I definitely preferred Wharton's story.
*Literary Feline - Its so hard for me to say that I will limit my goals, but I started to get too worked up about reading near the end of the year--which takes all the fun and pleasure out of it! I hope you enjoy the ones that I did!
*Mom - I love you! Thanks for coming by--not like my beastly sister.
*3M - yes! Above all enjoy enjoy enjoy. Otherwise I might as well go back to school and throw in all the yucky papers.
*Nymeth - It was a little hard to count so the number might be off a little, but that will be another one of my goals for this year--get those pesky books that have been haunting me read!
I just loved reading this post. I so enjoy your organization, and the thoughtfulness you put into your reading.
*Nan - Thanks! I do a lot of thinking about reading, so I appreciate your comment. :)
lol.. looks like you did way more than what you estimated for 08..:) and quite a few challenges too, i must say!:)
Ramya - Ya, I must have been crazy when I made that post. :) I have been less stressed this year, though and I've been good at managing my challenges. So, I don't feel so bad.
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