What I read in 2007
We had a “Read One Book a Week in 2007” thread at LibriVox, so I actually kept track of nearly everything that I read last year. I didn’t literally read one book a week — some weeks I read several and some weeks I read none at all, but whatever, it added up to 52. A few things slipped through the cracks, but here are the 52 that I remembered to write down:
1. Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris
2. The Christmas Store, by Ray Sipherd (not recommended)
3. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Excellent!!!)(Jan. 9)
4. Castle, by David Macaulay (Jan. 5)
5. Cathedral, by David Macaulay (Jan. 9)
6 The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, by Eva Rice (Jan 11)
7. London is the Best City in America, by Laura Dave (Jan 18)
8. The Grey King, by Susan Cooper (Jan 29)
9. The Shepherd, The Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, by Dave Barry (hilarious and touching) (Jan 31)
10. When Madeline Was Young, by Jane Hamilton (Amazing!) (Feb 3)
11. The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton (feb)
12. Disobedience, by Jane Hamilton (excellent!!) (Feb)
13. Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers (librivox – excellent)(Feb)
14. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (LibriVox) (March)
15: Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
16: Busman’s Honeymoon, by Dorothy Sayers
17: The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy (LV, read by Gypsygirl) A rip-roaring adventure!
18: Something from the Oven
19: Summer People (meh)
20: Under Orders (Dick Francis, yay!)
21 Making History (Stephen Fry, yay!)
22: Revenge (Stephen Fry. This one interfered with my sleep)
23: Strawberry Girl (Lois Lenski)
24: Aran Knitting (Alice Starmore)
25: A Room with a View (E.M. Forster, recorded for LV)
26: San Francisco Boy (Lois Lenski)
27: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
28: Texas Tomboy (Lois Lenski)
29: Betsy and the Great World
30: Fever 1793 (Laurie Anderson, excellent YA historical fiction)
31: Murder at the Racetrack (short story collection)
32: little women next door (Sheila Klass)
33: Lady Susan (Austen, LV recording)
34: Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey)
35: No Need to Knead (Suzanne Dunaway)
36: Shopaholic and Baby (sophie kinsella)
37: One Third Off (Cobb, LV recording)
38: The Daughter of Time
39: Literacy and Longing in LA
40: Bagthorpes Abroad
41: Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet (excellent)
42: Make Him Look Good
43: The Four-Story Mistake, by Elizabeth Enright
44: Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes (loved it!!)
45: The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes (loveloveloved it!)
46: Sushi for Beginners, by Marian Keyes (awesome!)
47: Mad Dash, by Patricia Gaffney (very good!)
48: Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress
49: And Then There Were Five, by Elizabeth Enright
50: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (LV recording, HOT!!!)
51: A Little Princess (LV recording, Karen Savage, HOT!!!)
52: Being Committed, by Anna Maxted
And we’re all set to read a book a week in 2008!
Category: Blog, Books 6 comments »
January 15th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Oh I’m about to put a post up with some of the books that I’ve read in the past few months. I really have been on a reading frenzy, and it’s not helped by the fact that I work in an office of a large book shop. It’s a good job I’m not selling the books as I’ve already spent lots of my wages on paperbacks!
Oh there are a few in your list I recognise and some I’d like to read – must not buy any more books!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Goodness, what a lot of wonderful reading! I use to churn through books, but I reckon I’d be lucky to have read a 5th of that last year. More books this year! (But do I really need another new years resolution??)
I’m off to make that sour cream cake, but with either cream & lemon juice, or yoghurt. No car + two kidlets + hot hot weather = no jolly trips to the supermarket for us!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I think yoghurt will work fine!
January 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Made them as cupcakes, with yoghurt, and some sultanas in with the nut mix. Hot from oven – they taste fantastic!! And lovely and moist. But must eat proper lunch first… :-)
January 15th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
yoghurt, eggs, sultanas — sounds like “proper lunch” to me! Oh yeah, there’s all that butter and sugar, too… Hmm… ;-)
May 14th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hi, nice to find this page with great free audiobooks. Also, I person who love books is certainly a lovly person! Where did I hear that…? Ah! Yes, I just make it up now! lol By they way, thanks for your good work and effort. I truly apreciate that.