100+ Books in 2025 discussion

Thank goodness for goodreads - I have a pretty good list of books starting in February. But given that I am starting this in March, I will be happy if I hit 85. Alright - here we go!

1. The Little Book
2. The Graveyard Book [image error]
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. The Princess and the Hound
5. Dragonwyck
6. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
7. The Somnambulist
8. Hollywood: the Movie Lover's Guide
9. The Girl Who Could Fly [image error]
10. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2
11. Southern California in the 50's
12. The She
13. Batman: Joker's Last Laugh
14. Reserved for the Cat
15. Don't Go Shopping for Hair Care Products Without Me
16. Midnight Never Come
17. Killer Wedding

These are from March alone? Or what you remember reading so far this year??

Oh my gosh, I just tried to flag this so I could find it easily and then I just realized on here that is bad. I'm not sure if I did it or not. If so, OOPS and sorry!

Robin wrote: "These are from March alone? Or what you remember reading so far this year??"

I can vouch for reading these in 2009. Haha can you imagine? I would never remember anything I read that fast!

I decided to go back and think through what I'd read that I knew of in 09 so far starting from January, and I came up with very little! I'm so glad that I have this new library love helping me to conquer my not finishing books, because I don't like that I've finished so little in this new year! :) That will have to change. :) (I can feel a reading binge coming on. :))

18. Dim Sum Dead

19. The Mislaid Magician

20. The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

21. Moriarty

You are just cruisin way too fast for me to keep up. :)

But I should be at 25 by the end of March to be on target, and I don't see getting through 4 books this week!

I know there is about a 2% chance that I get 100 this year, but it's fun to keep track anyway. :) I think that 50 is a more reasonable goal for me, actually.

22. Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne

23. Aurelie: a fairy tale

24. Thief of Time

25. Crocodile on the Sandbank

26. The Thirteenth Tale

27. Hatter M

28. The Great American Mousical

29. The Murders of Richard III

30. The Curse of the Pharoahs

31. An Evil Guest

32. Mumbo Gumbo

33. Strangers On A Train

34. ghostgirl

35. The Amulet of Samarkand

36. Perfect Sax

37. Y: The Last Man Vol. 9: Motherland

38. Y: The Last Man Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores [image error]

39. Don't Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me

40. Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium

41. The Magicians and Mrs. Quent

42. The Flaming Luau of Death

43. The China Study

44. Drood: A Novel [image error]

45. How We Decide

You are so going to hit 100 this year! You just need to have 5 more by the end of June to be half way done!

I am at half of that, so think I will hit 52, which isn't good in terms of the 100 book challenge, but I'm happy with it for me. I think one book a week is a good goal to have each year. :)

Good job, reader-extraordinaire! :)

46. Dead Connection

47. The Book of Lost Things

48. The Mummy Case

The Arrival

I cannot in fairness count it toward the 100, as it has almost zero text. But I still wanted to remember it as part of my year's reading. :)

Response to #41: Yay! How'd you like it?

Response generally: Damn girl, good job!

49. Neuromancer

50. I, Coriander

Janey wrote: "Response to #41: Yay! How'd you like it?

Response generally: Damn girl, good job! "

Very interesting. I guess, if anything, I wanted it to be even weirder? I'm not quite sure. It was beautiful though, without a doubt.

Would have been cool had it been weirder, definitely --something like Chris Van Allsburg's books, the sort of uncanny nature of objects?

I thought Tan's book captured the WTF-ness of being in a foreign place well though.

Janey wrote: "Would have been cool had it been weirder, definitely --something like Chris Van Allsburg's books, the sort of uncanny nature of objects?

I thought Tan's book captured the WTF-ness of being in a f..."

I agree - although what is the deal with the little familiars? If anime has taught us anything, its that there are cute cats as pets all over the world. Why should it be strange for there to be pets? They were awesome - I really liked them, and I liked that they seemed like the soul animals in Pullman books, but it made no sense from a 'foreign-ness' perspective. Cats would look like cats no matter where you immigrated from, is I guess my point.
Incidentally, I loved the kitchen/batch implements. Almost steampunky.

51. The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health

52. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

53. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You [image error]