Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Book Ninety Three

Day Three Hundred Sixty Eight
Nina Sankovitch "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading"
222 pages

I believe this is about a woman who reads a book a day. I could definitely do it.... and I wish I had a year to do absolutely nothing. I read 91 full books last year. That's averaging a book every 4 days. Can I do better this year?

Monday, September 19, 2011

Book Ninety Two Done

Day Three Hundred Sixty Seven
Kristin Hannah "On Mystic Lake"
322 pages

Such a great book!!!! Her first book and you can see why she is so loved now. Highly recommend everyone reading her books. All of them! Now.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Book Ninety Two - One More Time

Day Three Hundred Sixty Six
Kristin Hannah "On Mystic Lake"
322 pages

I believe this is her first book...

Book Ninety Two Not So Much

Day Three Hundred Sixty Six
Aimee Bender "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
292 pages

I've been trying for a week to force myself to get into this book and just couldn't do it. I even passed the one year mark (yesterday) for this project and kept trying. But I have to move on because this book is boring me. I looked her up and I have read some of her other work and I do not believe I enjoyed it. Should have given up sooner....

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Book Ninety Two

Day Three Hundred Fifty Eight
Aimee Bender "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
292 pages

I remember reading good reviews of this book but I can't recall what it's about.

Book Ninety One Done

Day Three Hundred Fifty Eight
Carolyn Parkhurst "The Nobodies Album"
312 pages

This was an incredible book. An author decides to re-write the endings to all her novels. As she is on her way to turn in her rough draft she passes by a street and reads her estranged son has been charged with murdering his girlfriend. The last chapters and re-writes of them are interwoven with the story of her son. I'm not doing it much justice but it was really great.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Book Ninety One

Day Three Hundred Fifty Three
Carolyn Parkhurst "The Nobodies Album"
312 pages

I cannot remember what this is about but I know I read another book by this author which was "Dogs of Babel". It was a really weird book but I remember liking it. Let's see if I feel the same way about this one.

Book Ninety Done

Day Three Hundred Fifty Three
Jay-Z "Decoded"
308 pages

This was such an interesting book. He explained a lot of his life and childhood. Some sections were him breaking down the lyrics of his songs. Good read... learned some new things about his lyrics.