Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Books Books and More Books

One of my goals for 2013 is to read at least 26 books this year.  Although I would love to read 52, some weeks, I would rather veg out to Babylon 5 and knitting or spending way too much time learning Spanish through Rosetta Stone.

I've made pretty good progress on this goal so far: Books read in January:
City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte       (thumbs down)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn                       (thumbs up)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel * (thumbs down)
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake              (thumbs way up)

Also on my bookshelf:
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright *

Regeneration by Pat Barker
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'll write reviews of these books later.

* denotes bookclub selection 


The rest of the books I read in 2012:
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red House by Mark Haddon *
The Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist by James Joyce
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Fated by S.G. Browne
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Faranheit 451 by Ray Brandbury
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch