I thought it was about time for me to post another "What I've been reading" for the year of 2009. I'll put the ones that got 5 stars in italics. There's lots of good 4 stars in there too. The scale is:
1 STAR. Did not like at all
2 STARS. It was ok
3 STARS. I liked it
4 STARS. I really liked it
5 STARS. It was Amazing
And here we go:
January:
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 4 STARS
The Art of Growing up by Veronique Vienne 3 STARS
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 3 STARS
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer 3 STARS
Running with Angels by Pamela Hansen 3 STARS
Maus I and II by Art Speigelman 3 STARS
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin 3 STARS
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 5 STARS
February:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 5 STARS
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff 5 STARS
Mutiny's Daughter by Ann Rinaldi 3 STARS
Sold by Patricia McCormick 5 STARS
An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina 5 STARS
Book Crush, Book Lust and More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl 4 STARS
March:
Monkeys by Susan Minot 4 STARS
Blindness by Jose Saramago 4 STARS
April:
The Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark 2 STARS
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner 3 STARS
Visual Chronicles by Linda Woods 5 STARS
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman 4 STARS
A Lifetime of Secrets by Frank Warren 4 STARS
My Last Supper by Melanie Dunea 4 STARS
84 Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff 4 STARS
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch 3 STARS
May:
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt 4 STARS
The Art of Being a Woman by Veronique Vienne 3 STARS
Do you Believe: Conversations on God by Antonio Monda 2 STARS
Who Moved my Cheese by Spencer Johnson 2 STARS
June:
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson 4 STARS
Taking Flight by Kelly Rae Roberts 4 STARS
I was a Really Good Mom Before I had kids by Trisha Ashworth 2 STARS
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines 2 STARS
July:
A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 3 STARS
The Shack by William P. Young 2 STARS
Margarettown by Gabrielle Zevin 4 STARS
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 4 STARS
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 4 STARS
August:
The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman 2 STARS
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 2 STARS
September:
Almost French:Love and Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull 4 STARS
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson 2 STARS
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 5 STARS
October:
Geekspeak How Life + Mathematics = Happiness by Graham Tattersall 5 STARS
Tales of a Female nomad by Rita Golden Gelman 2 STARS
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs 3 STARS
90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper 2 STARS
November:
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank 2 STARS
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 4 STARS
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman 4 STARS
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 5 STARS
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 4 STARS
December: (almost finished with these two, I'm thinking 3-4 stars maybe)
The Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Not done, will have to finish in 2010:
Dough: a Memoir by Mort Zachter
Home Comforts: The art and science of keeping house by Cheryl Mendelson
Yes, that's 55 books if I counted that right!
