I adore books and reading! I am oh.so.thankful for the public library system in our city! I decided that I wanted to track all the books I read in 2010.
(NF) means non-fiction and then I put the month after it. I also listed if it was my 2nd time through a book.
1) The Cruelest Month – Louise Penny JAN
2) Super Freakanomics – Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner (NF) JAN
3) Terrify No More – Gary Haugen (NF) JAN
4) Still Life – Louise Penny JAN
5) A Fatal Grace – Louise Penny FEB
6) Unseen Acedemicals – Terry Pratchett FEB
7) A Hole in Our Gospel (2nd reading) – Rich Stearns (NF) FEB
8) Private Eyes – J Kellerman MARCH
9) The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie MARCH
10) The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie MARCH
11) U is for Undertow – Sue Grafton MARCH
12) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl MARCH
13) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator – Roald Dahl MARCH
14) The Brutal Telling – Louise Penny APRIL
15) A Rule Against Murder – Lousie Penny APRIL
16) The Man in the Brown Suit – Agatha Christie MAY
17) Murder on the Links – Agatha Christie MAY
18) A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah (NF) MAY
19) The Last Song – Nicolas Sparks MAY
20) Spoken from the Heart – Laura Bush (NF) JUNE
21) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie JUNE
22) The Shadow of your Smile – Mary Higgins Clark JULY
23) The Big 4 – Agatha Christie JULY
24) Walt Disney World with kids 2010 – Wiley (NF) JULY
25) The Private Life of the Cat Who – L.J. Braun JULY
26) The Mystery of the Blue Train – Agatha Christie AUG
27) 4:50 from Paddington – Agatha Christie AUG
28) Death in the Clouds – Agatha Christie AUG
29) Partners in Crime – Agatha Christie AUG
30) Lucky Girl – Mei Ling Hopgood (NF) AUG
31) The Help – Kathryn Stockett AUG
32) Sizzling 16 – Evanovich AUG
33) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin SEPT
34) Wrecked – Carol Higgins Clark SEPT
35) The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins SEPT
36) City on our Knees – Toby Mac (NF) SEPT
37) Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins SEPT
38) MockingJay – Suzanne Collins OCT
39) 7 Dials – Agatha Christie OCT
40) I will wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett OCT
41) Random Mystery Novel OCT
42) Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie NOV
43) House Rules – Jodi Picoulet NOV
44) Diary of Ma Yan – Ma Yan (NF) NOV
45) The Confession – John Grisham NOV
46) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2nd time) – CS Lewis DEC
47) Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Curtis DEC
48) Legal Tender – Lisa Scottoline DEC
49) Choosing to See – Mary Beth Chapman (NF) DEC
50) How to Train your Dragon Book 1 – Cressida Cowell DEC
51) Rough Justice – Lisa Scottoline DEC
52) Just Courage – Gary Haugen DEC
53) The Borrowers – Mary Norton DEC
Plus I am giving myself a half credit for making it 130 pages through “First Family” about John and Abigail Adams. It was well done, but I couldn’t take any more of his egomania and putting everything in his life above his wife and family.
I also read Nadia at least 60 chapter books since we read every morning and every nap time. We got through 33 of the Magic Tree House books in the fall.
I really enjoy mystery novels and realized early in the year that I had never picked up an Agatha Christie novel. It’s fantastic to read a mystery with no cell phones, computers, high speed travel and security cameras.
Now the question that comes after people hear my total is:
“How do you read so much?”
First off, I can read really fast. Faster than most people probably. I read at least 3 times a week for 45 minutes while I ride the bike at the gym. I read at night before bed instead of watching TV. And now I am finally training Nadia to sit next to me sometimes and “read” her books while I read something of mine.
I don’t see any numbers like this happening again for a long time once we have Amelie and adjust to being a family of 4. And I am just fine with that and so excited about this new part of our life.