Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelieavably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Monday, January 02, 2012

Books Read 2012

Beginning 1/2012:

Mt TBR CHALLENGE Checkpoint 3/28/12

1. We the Animals by Justin Torres
2. Out of Oz by Gregory McGuire 568 pages CHUNCKSTER CHALLENGE
3. State of Wonder by Anne Pachett
5. Falling upward : a spirituality for the two halves of life by Rohr, Richard
6. One good dog by Wilson, Susan 
7. One thousand gifts:a dare to live fully right where you are Voskamp, Ann
8. The psychopath test:a journey through the madness industry Ronson, Jon
9.  Every good and perfect gift:a novel by Jernigan, Brenda
10.NOT DONE Jerusalem, Jerusalem:how the ancient city ignited our modern world by Carroll, James
11. Rosie by Anne Lamont
12. Just the Way you are by Barbara Freethy
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. 11/22/62 by Stephen King CHUNCKSTER CHALLENGE 849 Pages
15. Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century by Ken Follett
16. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
17. The Midwife's Confession
18. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
19. The Budda in the Attic
20. The Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford
21. World Without End Ken Follett CHUNCKSTER CHALLENGE 1014 Pages
22. The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Urrea
23. Jack the Dog: And His Boy by Victor Brodt
24. Buck Naked Faith: A Brutall Honest Look at Stunted Christianity by Eric Sandras
25. The Memory of Love CHUNCKSTER CHALLENGE 464 Pages
26. Soon by Jerry Jenkins
27. The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
28. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
29 The Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
30. Shades of Gray by Kim Sanders
31. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides CHUNCKSTER CHALLENGE 529 PAGES
32. Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamont
33. Daughter of the Bamboo Forest by Sheng-Shih Lin
34  Voodoo Daddy by Thomas L. Scott
35. What Your Childhood Memories Say About You by Kevan Leman
36. Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
37. Fifty Shades Darker by EL James
38. Fifty Shades Freed  by EL James
39. Anti-Aging Herbs by Lee Ann Dobbins
40. A Great Place for a Seizure by Terry Tracy
41. Shades of Grey by Andy Holloman
42. Short of a Picnic by Eric Shaprio
43. Only the Truth by Pat Brown
44. Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
45. Casting Stones by G.M. Barlean
46. The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ
47. Power of Vitamin D by Sarfraz Zaidi
48. Swim by Jennifer Weiner
49. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
50. In One Person by John Irving
51. Ten Thousand Saints  by Eleanor Henderson
52. Longing by Karen Kingsbury
53. Loving by Karen Kingsbury
54. Turquoise
55. Elsie
56. Wild
57. Beautiful Joe
58. Penumbra
59. The Dovekeepers
60. Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
61. Sugar Crash by Elena Aitken
62. The Eve Tree
63.  The Leftovers
64. The Thinana King
65.The Year God's Daughter
66. Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis
67. The Kingmaker's Daughter
68. The Sense of an Ending
69. Killing Lincoln
70. The Feast Nearby
71. Georgia on My Mind
72. Trailing: A Memoir
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