Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2017

Lists Gone Wild!

It's no secret that I am a reader. I love books. I also love lists. So it's no surprise that I actually keep book-related lists. Books I've read. Books I think other people might like. Books I want to read.

My confession to you all is that my Books To Read list is over 20 pages long. Typed, single-spaced pages. With separate sections including Young Adult, Fiction, and Nonfiction. With notations, like asterisks for books I'm dying to read. With words like "Buy" or "Request from Library."

Is that weird?

In my defense, my husband has books on the list, too. But . . . his Books To Read titles might total one page.

And I do go through the list regularly. But . . . I usually add more books than I subtract.

Sigh. I know I will never, ever be able to read all the books I want to in my lifetime. In the words of Lemony Snicket:

"It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books 
I was meaning to read."

Well, if that's the case then I better make the most of the time I've got and get reading!

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Do you have a Books To Read list? How many pages is it? How do you organize it (Please don't tell me I'm alone on this!) Do you set reading goals? Participating in the 2017 Reading Challenge over on Goodreads? If we're not already "friends" over there, let's fix that asap! 

Thursday, December 30, 2010

My Favorite Reads of 2010

The end of the year brings lots of things - holiday clean up, resolutions, extra weight gain, higher bills, and, of course, those "Best Of" lists.  I'm a sucker for a good list.  I often suffer from list lust.  So, here is one of my very own - MY FAVORITE READS OF 2010.*

[* This is purely my own opinion.  This is a random ordering.  I started a lot of books but stopped after the first few pages.  I read a lot of books I thought were okay or that I liked/really liked but didn't love.  This list is for the books I couldn't stop thinking about for various reasons days after I was done reading.]

MY FAVORITE READS OF 2010 
SAVING CEE CEE HONEYCUTT by Beth Hoffman
THE POSTMISTRESS by Sarah Blake
BLACKLANDS by Belinda Bauer
BEFORE I FALL (YA) by Lauren Oliver
SHOOT TO THRILL by P.J. Tracy
THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON by Kate Morton
THE KITCHEN HOUSE by Kathleen Grissom
STILL MISSING by Chevy Stevens
MOCKINGJAY (YA) by Suzanne Collins 
TRASH (YA) by Andy Mulligan
BACKSEAT SAINTS by Joshilyn Jackson
GODS IN ALABAMA by Joshilyn Jackson
THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD by Dave Zeltersman
THE SCHOOL OF ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS by Erica Bauermeister
FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King
ROOM by Emma Donoghue
UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY by Shandi Mitchell

Please feel free to leave your thoughts on these books, or any others that made your favorite reads list, in the comments section.  I'm always on the lookout for a great book, and hey, it's never too late to start the 2011 list.

Happy New Year!