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Jan 01, 2012 01:38PM
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1. The Magic Treehouse: Christmas in Camelot - Mary Pope OsborneNot the strongest start to the year... but the first to be finished. I was reading this with my third graders, and we finished it up after the holiday break.
2. Not Another Apple for the Teacher - Erin Barrett & Jack Mingo
3. Bones of the Master - George Crane
5. The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine PatersonI can't believe I'm a reading teacher and I've just read this book. Anyway, it was a good read.
6. Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
7. Toward the Fullness of Life, The Fullness of Love - Arnaud Desjardins
8. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis SacharA re-read, one of my favorites from childhood. I read it with the kids at school.
9. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
Very strange. It's highly rated; maybe I just missed something? Anyway, I picked it up at a book sale in California, and it was as strange and random as I expected.
11. Neil Armstrong is My Uncle, and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me - Nan Marino
12. Open Secret - Rumi13. The Way of Power - Red Hawk
14. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
17. The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp through British Royal History - Matt Richardson 18. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple - Karen Cushman (re-read; read it with my 5th graders)
19. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
20. The Pilgrim's Progress - John BunyanI feel like I've been slogging through this book forever.... it's a relief to be done. On to the next!
21. Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk CrossWhat a fantastic book!
22. Red-Robed Priestess - Elizabeth Cunningham
23. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
Stefanie wrote: "19. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert"I remember reading this book a few years ago and finding it laugh-out-loud funny. Did you enjoy it?
I did enjoy it, and found it quite funny. However, I kept comparing it (justifiably - in many ways their formatting is similar) to Jon Stewart's "America (The Book)," which had me roaring with laughter. I feel like I went into it with my hopes disproportionately high - I found it funny, but not as funny as I'd been expecting. You know?
24. Merlin: The Lost Years - T.A. Barron
25. Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages - Ammon SheaIf you're feeling daunted by 50 books, this'll put things in perspective for you! This was a better read than I expected.
Also - I'm halfway done, hooray!
26. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. ThompsonA reread, but a deserved one. I enjoyed it better than when I read it back in 2004.
27. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon WinchesterI suppose this has been the summer of OED for me...
28. Stupid White Men - Michael MooreVery weird to read this so far removed from the time in which it was written.
29. American Folk Tales and Songs - Richard Chase
30. Lost City Radio - Daniel Alarcón
31. Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon
32. Skillful Grace: Tara Practice For Our Times - Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Trulshik Adeu Rinpoche (Translated & Edited by Erik Pema Kinsang & Marcia Binder Schmidt)
33. The Perfect Royal Mistress - Diane Haeger
34. Ulysses - James JoyceI finally finished it. Whew.
I expect my tally for this year will go up significantly faster now that this epic isn't in the currently-reading mix. I did enjoy it, though...
Susan wrote: "That should count as several books."Haha, thank you. If I don't hit 50, I may take that and run with it. ;) It was quite monumental. Glad I read it, though.
35. Kosher Jesus - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
36. Self Observation - Red HawkReread. This time was in a book study with a meditation group. Fantastic.
38. The Stolen Crown - Susan Higginbotham
39. The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong
Hurricane Reading!40. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
41. Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham - J.R.R. Tolkien
is everything ok where you are? Im in nebraska so i didnt get hit. we got close to getting the outer part of the huge storm though. it went into iowa.
"OK" is a relative term... yes, by New Jersey standards, things are totally ok here. I had no power for 3.5 days, and there's gas rationing, and I haven't had work in a week... but my family is fine and I didn't have any more property damage than a few shingles torn off the roof. I'm really keenly aware of how much worse it could've been... even in surrounding blocks, the tree damage was really bad, and many people closer to water (the shore in particular, but some of the rivers as well) lost everything.I didn't realize the storm stretched that far... wow. The power outage meant that I missed an awful lot of the information about what was going on outside of my immediate local sphere during the whole thing.
Thank you for asking, though!
42. Bored of the Rings - Henry N. Beard (Harvard Lampoon)
43. What's the Difference? - How to Tell Things Apart That Are Confusingly Close - Marc Tyler Nobleman
Finished 2 books with my 5th graders this week, both of which are rereads for me but count. :)44. The Top Ten Ways to Ruin the First Day of School - Ken Derby
45. Among the Hidden - Margaret Petersen Haddix
46. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - C. S. LewisAnother reread. Read this one with another one of my classes. The finish line keeps getting closer!
48. Wayside School is Falling Down - Louis SacharI remembered liking this book a lot more the first time I read it. My kids at school liked it well enough, though.
49. Life is So Good - George Dawson50. The Joy of Living - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
And with that... I'm done! I may get 51 or 52 in, though, so I'll post any more I read. :)
yay! ill make it to 25. that was my goal.
51. Nine Stories - J.D. SalingerA reread, but a nice way to round out the year.
