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Book Journal 2009

January

Hater- David Moody

Entry added on 1/6/2009 12:48 PM |

What I’ve Read 2008

Jan.

The Bitch Posse- Martha O'Connor

The Little Friend- Donna Tartt

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers- Grant Naylor

For a Few Demons More- Kim Harrison

Feb.

Devil in the Details- Jennifer Traig

Definitely Dead- Charlaine Harris

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey- Chuck Palahniuk

The Stolen Child- Keith Donohue

The Queen's Fool- Philippa Gregory

March

A Much Younger Man- Dianne Highbridge

Assassination Vacation- Sarah Vowell

Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked, and Spewed- Lance Carbuncle

Sharp Objects- Gillian Flynn

Bellwether- Connie Willis

High Maintenance- Jennifer Belle

In The Garden of Iden- Kage Baker

The Spellman Files- Lisa Lutz

Sky Coyote- Kage Baker

 

April

Geek Love- Katherine Dunn

Duma Key- Stephen King

The Other End of the Leash- Patricia McConnell


May


The Outlaw Demon Wails- Kim Harrison

Choke- Chuck  Palahniuk

June

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin- Marion Meade

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters- Gordon Dahlquist

 

July

A Spot of Bother- Mark Haddon

Sex,Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman

The Egyptologist- Arthur Phillips

The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life- Anne Lamott

Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose: Constance Hale

 

August

Fearless Fourteen- Janet Evanovich

The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida: Volume 1- John E. Worth

Florida's Indians From Ancient Times To Present- Jerald T. Milanich

Tatham Mound- Piers Anthony

Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe- Jerald T. Milanich

Florida's Lost Tribes- Theodore Morris

Brutal Journey- Paul Schneider

A Great and Terrible Beauty- Libba Bray

 

Sept.

Rebel Angels- Libba Bray

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The Sweet Far Thing- Libba Bray

Love is a Mix Tape- Rob Sheffield

When You Are Engulfed in Flames- David Sedaris

My Custom Van- Michael Ian Black

Walking Through Walls- Phillip Smith

The Ghost in Love- Jonathan Carroll

The Wordy Shipmates- Sarah Vowell

 

Oct.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City- Nick Flynn

A Poetry Handbook- Mary Oliver

Conflict of Honors- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Bambi vs Godzilla- David Mamet

We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive- Laurie Notaro

What Rhymes with Bastard?- Linda Robertson

I Love Everybody and Other Atrocious Lies- Laurie Notaro

 

Nov.

Downtown Owl- Chuck Klosterman

How to Read Novels Like a Professor- Thomas C. Foster

Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War- Jeffrey Lockwood

Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl- Anonymous

The Constant Princess- Philippa Gregory

Winter Study- Nevada Barr

Angel: After The fall- Joss Whedon

 

Dec.

The Price: My Rise and Fall as Natalia, New York's #1 Escort- Natalie McLennan

Topiary- Adam Engel

Grave Surprise- Charlaine Harris

Curse of the Spellmans- Lisa Lutz

Something Rotten- Jasper Fford

Twilight- Stephenie Meyer

Yellow Fever- Steffan Piper

The Book of Unholy Mischief- Elle Newmark

 


 


Entry added on 3/3/2008 7:06 PM |

2007- Part 2

Please comment or PM me about any books or authors that you want to discuss.

July

Cell- Stephen King 

Woe is I- Patricia T. O'Conner

Whores on the Hill- Colleen Curran

Four and Twenty Blackbirds- Cherrie Priest

The Boleyn Inheritance- Philippa Gregory

Freakonomics- Steven D. Levitt

Meridon- Philippa Gregory

 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J. K. Rowling

 

Aug.

Possible Side Effects- Augusten Burroughs

How to Be a Great Lover- Lou Paget

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse- Robert Rankin (haven't finished)

You Suck- Christopher Moore

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single- Eric Schaeffer

The Road- Cormac McCarthy

 

Sept.

Lisey's Story- Stephen King

Special Topic in Calamity Physics- Marisha Pessl

How I write- Janet Evanovich

Two For the Dough- Janet Evanovich

Words Fail Me- Patricia T. O'Conner

 

Oct.

Three to Get Deadly- Janet Evanovich

I am Legend - Richard Matheson

Four to Score- Janet Evanovich

Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal- Robert Hieronimus

High Five- Janet Evanovich

Hot Six- Janet Evanovich

Seven Up- Janet Evanovich

Earthly Joys- Philippa Gregory

The Scent of Shadows: The First Sign of the Zodiac-  Vicki Pettersson

 

Nov.

Jennifer Government- Max Barry

The Taste of Night: The Second Sign of the Zodiac- Vicki Pettersson

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Having Sex- Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (haven't finished)

Hard Eight- Janet Evanovich

The Rising- Brian Keene

To The Nines- Janet Evanovich

Ten Big Ones- Janet Evanovich


Dec.

Eleven on Top- Janet Evanovich

Undead and Unpopular- Mary Janice Davidson

I, Vampire- Michael Romkey

The Idiot Girls' Acyion-Adventure Club- Laurie Notaro

Hand-To-Hand  Combat- Army Field  Manual

Twelve Sharp- Janet Evanovich

Visions of Sugar Plums- Janet Evanovich

Lean Mean Thirteen- Janet Evanovich

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood- Laurie Notaro

Plum Lovin'- Janet Evanovich

The Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fford

California Demon- Julie Kenner

Entry added on 7/5/2007 4:45 PM |

Too funny, Leah! Just too funny!  How is your novel coming along? If it reads like your comments about your addiction to books from toddler on, I will be happy to read it! Why don't you submit something to Eclectic Pen?

Sure appreciated your help in  finding my book title (Space Merchants) for me. I did a search, found it, ordered it, and will be re-reading it soon. All thanks to you.

Best Wishes, Linda

By: Linda K. | Date: 8/1/2007 10:36 AM |

2007

What I've been reading. Feel free to comment or discuss.

Jan.

The Doomsday Book- Connie Willis

The Other Bolyn Girl- Philippa Gregory

The Science of Vampires- Katherine Ramslad

To Say Nothing of the Dog- Connie Willis

The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

Storm Front- Jim Butcher

Complete Stories- Dorothy Parker

Feb.

Danse Macabre- Laurell K. Hamilton

Dhampir- Barb and J.C. Hendee

How Fiction Works- Oakley Hall

The Elegant Universe- Brian Greene

Feeding Your Dog For Life- Diane Morgan

Natural Health For Dogs and Cats- Dr. Pitcairn

The Starter Wife- Gigi Levangie Grazer

The Theif of Lives- Barb and J.C. Hendee

Dry- Augusten Bouroughs

The Big Sleep- raymond Chandler

March

Spook- Mary Roach

Bitter is the New Black- Jen Lancaster

The Writer's Guide to Character Traits- Linda L. Edelstein

Dead as a Doornail- Charlaine Harris

Popco- Scarlett Thomas

Plot and Structure- James Scott Dell

Early Bird- Rodney Rotham

The Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde

Fool Moon- Jim Butcher

Lost in a Good Book- Jasper Fforde

April

Story Structure Architect-

Heroes and Heroines- Tami D. Cowden

The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield

Cryptonomicon- Neal Stephenson

May

Undead and Unreturnable- Mary Janice Davidson

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax- Liz Jensen

The Memory Keeper's Daughter- Kim Edwards

Bloodsucking Fiends- Christopher Moore

June

Stiff- Mary Roach

Dead Man Rising- Lilith Saintcrow

Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris

Wideacre- Philippa Gregory 

The Favoured Child- Philippa Gregory

Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut

Entry added on 5/30/2007 2:39 PM |
You have strange taste in books.
By: Leah W. | Date: 5/30/2007 2:53 PM |
Yes, I know. I am a very interesting person.
By: Leah W. | Date: 5/30/2007 2:54 PM |

Great, for some reason I can't delete the comments that I have made to myself.

It's kind of like talking to yourself or doing something really lame and then you realize that there is someone else there. Oops. Uh, hi. Have you been there long? Oh, you have? So you caught my whole rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General? ...Great.  

By: Leah W. | Date: 5/30/2007 3:00 PM |