It all started when I was a toddler, three or four years old, in the car with my family. We passed a sign which I pointed to and then asked, "Mommy, does that say 'president?'" She covered my eyes and told me not to look. She gets a little red when I tell the story now, her only defense being she was afraid I would learn to read incorrectly. As if there's a right or wrong way. Well, many years have passed and I'm now an eighteen (almost nineteen) year old with bifocals and a collection of vintage dictionaries and thesauri. Books have been my ever-present companions, my dear friends, and my faithful teachers. I love the old, familiar tales, and I thrill in discovering a new yarn. I hope to share that joy with other people through this blog.
Kindle 3: Three-thousand-five-hundred books worth of capacity.
1942 Webster: Two-thousand-six pages of dictionary, several hundred more of reference.
Two of my most prized possessions.
I plan on posting reviews of the books I read, as well as just talking about books in general. Along those lines, I want to talk about which books I'm excited to read this year. I'm going to do a fifty book challenge this year. I did one a year and a halfish ago (I didn't start at the beginning of the year) and was successful, by following attempt was foiled by excessive school memorizing. And then graduating. And then college. So yeah, time to take another crack at it! If you do the math, fifty books in a year comes out to about one book a week. (I am about a half a book behind right now. I know how to start it off right.) The thing I found most helpful while doing my last fifty book challenge was a list of books to read for the year. I'd love any recommendations as well.
To Read (in no particular order):
- Until We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
- The Dragon's Apprentice, by James A. Owen
- Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
- Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud, by Andrew Lane (The US release is next month, but I really want it for Kindle, but the Kindle version doesn't come out until Dec 2012. Seriously.)
- Prince Ombra, by Roderick MacLeish
- Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Isherwood On Writing, by Christopher Isherwood
- The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood (I started it last year, but I have yet to figure out what the plot is supposed to be, but I'll power through. It's excellent writing, I just have no clue what is supposed to be happening.)
- Christopher Isherood: The Sixties, by Christopher Isherwood (And if I find a decent copy of the first set of his diaries, I'll add that to the list too.)
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes, by Maureen Johnson
- The Last Little Blue Envelope, by Maureen Johnson
- Lola and the Boy Next Door, by Stephanie Perkins
- The Boy Book: A Study Habits and Behaviors, Plush Techniques for Taming Them, by E. Lockhart
- The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon -- and Me, Ruby Oliver, by E. Lockhart
- Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver, by E. Lockhart (Don't begrudge me the long titles.)
- The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel, by David Levithan
- Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan (I definitely need to do a re-read. It was SO AMAZING.)
- The Princess Bride, by William Goldman (It's not a fifty book reading challenge without reading TPB for the millionth time.)
- The Bermudez Triangle, by Maureen Johnson
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green (Don't tell the other Nerdfighters, but I haven't read this yet! :O!!)
- Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales, by Tamora Pierce
- The Sable Quean, by Brian Jacques
- Going Bovine, by Libba Bray
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Freddie Mercury: His Life In His Own Words, edited by Greg Brooks and Simon Lupton
Okay, half a year is enough to get started, methinks. Leave me a comment with a suggestion.
Happy reading!
~Emily~
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