Okay. It’s 10:24. I have twenty minutes to post this sucker. Why the rush? After some comment exchanges with the talented Coe Booth regarding time spent writing blog entries, one of my resolutions this year is to spend twenty minutes per entry, thirty max and NO ANAL EDITING ALLOWED!
(I don’t have time to dwell, but let me just say for someone like me, this will be a very difficult, difficult challenge.)
Another one of my goals, (yes–I finally wrote out my goals last night after an highly motivating Oprah episode that–again–I don’t have time to elaborate on,) is to read 60 books this year. In 2008, my goal was fifty, that YAY! I did accomplish. So here’s my . . .
BOOKS READ IN 2008
(10:31–tick, tick, tick, oh the pressure!!!)
One Last Dance, Eileen Goudge
Goals: How to get what you want…, Brian Tracy
Reaching for Sun, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Heartland I, Lauren Brooke
Barnstormers, Loren Long and Phil Bildner
Beanball, Gene Fehler
Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr
Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, Meg Cabot
Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr
Lessons from a Dead Girl, Jo Knowles
Two Way Street, Lauren Barnholdt
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
Here Lies the Librarian, Richard Peck
The Notebook, Nicolas Sparks
13 Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson
For One More Day, Mitch Albom
The End of the Beginning, Avi
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks, Robin Brande
Teen Idol, Meg Cabot
Harmless, Dana Reinhardt
How to take the Ex out of Ex-Boyfriend, Janette Rallison
Twenty Wishes, Debbie Macomber
How to be bad, E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle
Sweethearts, Sara Zarr
Second Summer of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Third Summer of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Remember me?, Sophie Kinsella
The Last Summer, Ann Brashares
Dead is the New Black, Marlene Perez
A Room on Lorelei Street, Mary E. Pearson
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
Local Girls, Alice Hoffman
The Coffin Quilt, Ann Rinaldi
Middle School is worse than meatloaf, Jennifer, L. Holms
Bloom, Elizabeth Scott
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, E.L. Konigsburg
Outside Beauty, Cynthia Kadohata
Are you afraid of the Dark, Sidney Sheldon
Red Kajak, Priscilla Cummings
Number One Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
Inexcusable, Chris Lynch
The Absence of Nectar, Kathy Hepinstall
A Brief Chapter in my impossible life, Dana Reinhardt
Living Dead Girl, Elizabeth Scott
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
Hope was Here, Joan Bauer
Rules of the Road, Joan Bauer
Total Constant Order, Crissa-Jean Chappell
Whew!!
And now my favorites, excluding anything by Richard Peck and Joan Bauer because they were rereads. Otherwise, Hope was Here and A Long Way to Chicago will ALWAYS top my list!!!
My favorite midgrade novel? Red Kajak by Priscilla Cummings
My favorite young adult novel? Oh my gosh. This one is way too difficult because I’ve read some AMAZING books. (I mean, come on, doesn’t ya rock?) But if someone forced me to make a decision, I’d say A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary E. Pearson. And Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth. And any book with Sara Zarr or Jo Knowles on the cover. And Inexcusable by Chris Lynch. I mean, hello? That book was fantastic. Beanball was wonderful and deserves some major kudos. Harmless rocked and so did Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature and How to be Bad.
I’m sorry. I’ll stop. See? The young adult genre is the bomb, y’all.
My favorite adult book? The Absence of Nectar, Kathy Hepinstall
My favorite overall book? Again, The Absence of Nectar. I absolutely love, love, LOVE this novel!
~~Time check: 10:50, twenty-six minutes exactly. Not too bad, eh? Well . . . okay, I must confess to pre-typing out the list of books last night. But, hey, it’s a major improvement!~~~
