Finally, a book challenge I think I can finish--52 books in 52 weeks. http://www.read52booksin52weeks.com/
The goal is to read one book (at least) a week for 52 weeks. The rules are very simple:
- The challenge will run from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010. **
- Participants may join at any time.
- All forms of books are acceptable including e-books, audio books, etc.
- Re-reads are acceptable as long as they are read after January 1, 2010.
- Books may overlap other challenges.
- Create an entry post linking to this blog.
- Come back and sign up with Mr. Linky in the "I'm participating post" below this post.
- You don't have a blog to participate. Post your weekly book in the comments section.
- I'll be adding a post with Mr. Linky for participants to post book reviews. ***
I'm joining in a bit late, but I'm already almost finished with my 3rd book of the year. I would be further along in my reading if I could just slog my way through Under the Dome: A Novel
Wendy
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by Michael Zadoorian. I discovered this little gem on the new books rack at the library. Someone had pulled it off the shelf, and, instead of putting it back in its proper place, had placed it face up at the end of the row. I noticed an endorsement from Elmore Leonard--love Elmore!--so I picked it up and read the flap. It was about an older couple who had always enjoyed traveling around the country who were taking their final trip. My parents have always taken long road trips together, and every year they proclaim that this will probably be the last trip. I thought I would be a book my mom might enjoy. I read it first. Then she read it. Then she read it out loud to my dad. Then she passed it along to a friend. Then I said them 12 more times. Lets just say the book caused a ripple effect and changed lives.
by Jess Winfield I read the back cover of this one while wandering through the aisles of Barnes and Noble waiting for Glenn Beck to sign Arguing With Idiots. It looked quirky, and I am all about the quirk. I jotted the name and author down on the back of my checkbook cover so I could get it at the library. My purse is full of notes about books I want to read. My husband seems to think our money is better spent on the mortgage and the grocery store than at Amazon.com, so it's the library for me. Thankfully, Charleston County has an excellent library system.
by Bill Bryson No, I am not on a Shakespeare kick. I just happened to notice that a Bill Bryson book existed that I had never read. I had to remedy that situation immediately.
by George Crile I checked this one out last year, but I had to return it before it was due. I hope to finish it this time. I think it's a movie, but I don't like to see the movie until I've read the book. If I haven't read the book first then I couldn't drive my husband insane by constantly complaining how much Hollywood ruined the book. That's half the fun!
by Elinor Lipman I will admit that I picked this one up off the new books shelf because I liked the cover. Yes, I am that shallow.
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner I think I am the only person on the planet that hasn't read Freakonomics. 
by Erich Maria Remarque I think I read the Cliff's Notes on this one in college. I read a lot, and I mean a lot, of Cliff's Notes in high school and college. Nothing makes me not want to read a book like being told that I have to read it. This is one of the main reasons I unschool my children, so they can be free to follow their own pursuits.
by Steve Turner This is the book that I am most excited about. I can clearly remember purchasing On the Road when I was a teenager. My family and I were on a road trip up the eastern seaboard. I bought it during a stop over in Atlantic City. I was probably about 14 or 15. I bet I read One the Road and Dharma Bums 10 times each. I wanted to be a beatnik so badly I even wore a beret (that I bought on vacation in San Francisco no less!) occasionally. I say occasionally because it cut off the circulation to my scalp. I wore lots of black and wrote bad poetry (really, really bad). I tried reading On The Road again a few years ago and wondered what I ever saw in it. Wasn't it Truman Capote who said, "That's not writing, that's typing" in reference to Jack Kerouac? Sadly, I found that to be true. It's funny how things look so differently at 35 than they do at 15. I still have a soft spot for Jack, though.
by Pat Conroy
by Brooks Hansen
by Joanne Harris
by Anita Diamant
by Audrey Niffenegger 
by John McWhorter
by Chaim Potok 
by Alfred Lansing
by Fred Chappell 
by Susan Issacs
by Yann Martel
by Vanessa Farquharson 
by Anne Lamott
by Maria de los Santos
by Donald Miller
by Jeannette Walls
by Rodney Rothman 
by Dennis Lehane pg 387
and am about 3/4 of the way through
. Thor's protagonist, former Navy SEAL Harvath, is to the war on terror what Jason Bourne was to the cold war. I'm not normally a war thriller type of girl, but these books are so immensely readable that I can't put them down. I am constantly hounding my husband with weapons questions, because he was born with that male war knowledge collective unconscious gene. For instance, I thought RPG stood for Role Playing Game. Apparently, it stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade. Okay, I'm just kidding about that one, but there is quite a bit of weapons terminology that I'm not really familiar with. I really think my husband would the Scot Harvath books, but all he wants to do is read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books over and over again. It think he has read that series 4 or 5 times in the span of our marriage. But I digress.....
and lose readership completely. Bwhahaahaha!
, a great, fun read. I'm on really sure how much of The Accidental Billionaires is true and you much is pure conjuncture. The author's note states that he based the account on "dozens of interviews, dozens of sources, and thousands of pages of documents, including several court proceedings." The author also states the that the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerburg, declined to speak with him.
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