My reading goal this year was simple, read more than I did in 2008. In 2008 I read 74 books. I did not meet this goal as I only read 68 books in 2009. I’m not disappointed though – 68 is a respectable number of books! :-)
I did finish off a few authors I’d been working through, discovered a few new series and new authors, as well as read new books from old favorite authors. I didn’t have as much grad school reading because I completed my last class in Feb 2009! :-)
Also in Spring of 2009 I acquired the Kindle App on my iPhone – which will never replace reading paper books, but enables me to read while stuck in traffic and always have a book handy!
Here’s the complete list of what I read in 2009, in no real order:
Fiction
Carl Hiaasen: Strip Tease, Skin Tight, Double Whammy – none were as good as some of the 1st novels I read by him. I think I have 2 or 3 more novels of his to read, I’ll finish them off in 2009.
Nevada Barr: A Superior Death, Deep South, Track of the Cat, Ill Wind, Borderline, – This wraps up the Anna Pigeon series of mysteries set in National Parks. Lucky for me Nevada is still writing these!
Bittersweet – this is Nevada’s 1st novel written 10 years before the Anna Pigeon novels – I thought it was fabulous, although some of the writing was rather “clunky”
13 1/2 – Nevada Barr’s latest – a stand alone mystery/thriller. It was very good – kept me guessing until the last page, even though I had figured it out!
Chris Bohjalian: The Trans-Sister Radio, Before You Know Kindness, Skeletons at the Feast, The Buffalo Soldier, The Law of Similars, Water Witches
Charlene Ann Baumbich: Dearest Dorothy Series: Are We There Yet?, Slow Down You’re Wearing Us Out, If Not Now, When?, Merry Everything!, Who Would Have Ever Thought?, Help! I’ve Lost Myself
Marian Keyes: Watermelon, The Other Side of the Story: A Novel
Janet Evanovich: Plum Spooky, Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Paints the Town, Miss Julia Delivers the Goods
Deborah Crombie: A Share in Death, All Shall be Well
Alice Hoffman: The Story Sisters, Horsefly
A Gracious Plenty – Sheri Reynolds
The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler
Made in the U.S.A – Billie Letts
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Anne Shaffer
The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
The Stepmother – Carrie Adams
The Leisure Seeker: A Novel – Michael Zadoorian
Very Valentine – Adriana Trigiani
The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
That Camden Summer – LaVyrle Spencer
The Inn at Lake Devine – Elinor Lipman
Gods in Alabama – Joshilyn Jackson
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 – Christopher Moore
Non-Fiction/Memoir
Laurie Notaro: We thought You Would Be Prettier, The Idiot Girls Action-Adventure Club, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)
John McDonald: Down the Road a Piece: A Storyteller’s Guide to Maine, A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar
Paula Denton: Learning Through Academic Choice, The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn
Fat Girl: A True Story – Judith Moore
Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp – Stephanie Klein
Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities – Marian Keyes
Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town – Chris Bohjalian
The Maine Woods – Henry David Thoreau
Narrow Dog to Indian River – Terry Darlington
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work – Richard DuFour
I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood – Phillip Gulley
The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades – Gail Boushey
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband and a Bus with a Will of it’s Own – Doreen Orion
A Friend Like Henry – Nuala Gardner
Prairie Tale: A Memoir – Melissa Gilbert
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