Book Addled

I love to read.  I will read anywhere – in the car, in the tub, in bed, out of bed, on the porch – and I will read just about anything.  I love lists almost as much as I love books.  So, lists of books really make my toes curl.  Here are some fabulous lists. 

You’re How Far Behind on Your Magazines?

Right now, I’m reading the March 2009 edition of The Atlantic and the May 25, 2009 edition of New York magazine. For those of you playing along at home, that’s just 4 more issues of The Atlantic until I’m caught up and a more embarassing  5 issues of New York. 

Books I’m Currently Reading

 • Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery

• The Witching Hour, Anne Rice

• The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy

• Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Books I Finished in 2009

• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens • The Kommandant’s Girl, Pam Jenoff • Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis • Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Vicki Myron & Bret Witter • Swapping Lives, Jane Green • Waiting for Daisy, Peggy Orenstein • People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks • The Cherry Pit, Donald Harrington • The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon • Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert • Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (all 972 tiny paperback pages) • The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War, Dan Gilgoff • The Lady Elizabeth, Allison Weir • After the Rice, Wendy French • Muletrain to Maggody, Joan Hess • Shadow Music, Julie Garwood • The Prize, Julie Garwood

 Books I Finished in  2008

• Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Libby Malin • A Lady Raised High, Laurien Gardner • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier • The Sound of Language, Amulya Malladi •  My Sister, My Love, Joyce Carol Oates • Sammy’s House, Kristin Gore • Mistress of the Revolution, Catherine Delors • To Shield the Queen, Fiona Buckley • The Doublet Affair, Fiona Buckley • Queen’s Ransom, Fiona Buckley • To Ruin a Queen, Fiona Buckley • Queen of Ambition, Fiona Buckley • Marie Antoinette: the Journey, Antonia Fraser • Rasputin’s Daughter, Robert Alexander • The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, Robert Alexander • The Magician’s Assistant, Ann Patchett • Bel Canto, Ann Patchett • American Gods, Neil Gaiman • The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi, Jacqueline Park • Any Place I Hang My Hat, Susan Isaacs • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë • Roman Blood, Stephen Saylor • The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton • Golden Retrievers for Dummies, Nona Kilgore Bauer • Adoptable Dog: Teaching Your Adopted Pet to Obey, Trust and Love You, John Ross & Barbara McKinney

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