December Reads

(Complete: December 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. The Luckiest Girl In The World - by Steven Levenkron (%)
2. Twisted - by Laurie Halse Anderson (%)
3. The Invisible Ring - by Anne Bishop
4. Gold Unicorn - by Tanith Lee
5. Mystic and Rider - by Sharon Shinn
6. The Thirteenth House - by Sharon Shinn (%)
7. Dark Moon Defender - by Sharon Shinn (%)
8. Reader and Raelynx - by Sharon Shinn (%)
9. Cat's Cradle - by Kurt Vonnegut (%)(#)
10. Dreams Made Flesh - by Anne Bishop
11. Queen In Winter - by Sharon Shinn (%)
12. No Words Alone - by Autumn Dawn (%)
13. Primal Needs - by Susan Sizemore (%)
14. The Devil Inside - by Jenna Black (%)
15. The Devil You Know - by Jenna Black (%)
16. The Devil's Due - by Jenna Black (%)

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 16
   
2. New: 12
   
3. Literary-ish: 1
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 152
   
2. New: 78
   
3. Literary-ish: 23

November Reads

(Complete: November 30)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. Salvation In Death - by J.D. Robb (%)
2. Uglies - by Scott Westerfeld (%)
3. When It Happens - by Susane Colasanti (%)
4. Pretties - by Scott Westerfeld (%)
5. Specials - by Scott Westerfeld (%)
   
6. World War Z - by Max Brooks (%)
7. The Pagan Stone - by Nora Roberts (%)
   

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 7
   
2. New: 7
   
3. Literary-ish: 0
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 136
   
2. New: 66
   
3. Literary-ish: 22

October Reads

(Complete: October 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. The Outstreched Shadow - by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
2. To Light A Candle - by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
3. Let It Snow - by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
4. When Darkness Falls - by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory (%)
5. Paper Towns - by John Green (%)
6. Personal Demon - by Kelley Armstrong (%)
7. Danger in the Shadows - by Dee Henderson
8. The Negotiator - by Dee Henderson
9. The Guardian - by Dee Henderson
10. Speak - by Laurie Halse Anderson (%)
11. The Truth Seeker - by Dee Henderson
12. The Protector - by Dee Henderson
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 12
   
2. New: 4
   
3. Literary-ish: 0
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 129
   
2. New: 59
   
3. Literary-ish: 22

September Reads

(Complete: September 30)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. The Lark and the Wren - by Mercedes Lackey
2. Prince of Ice - by Emma Holly (%)
   
3. Songbook - by Nick Hornby (%)(#)
4. Just Listen - by Sarah Dessen (%)
5. This Lullaby - by Sarah Dessen (%)
6. The Truth About Forever - by Sarah Dessen (%)
7. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - by Rachel Cohn and Daniel Levithan (%)
8. Animal Farm - by George Orwell (%)(#)
   

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 8
   
2. New: 7
   
3. Literary-ish: 2
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 117
   
2. New: 55
   
3. Literary-ish: 22
   

August Reads

(Complete: August 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. Something Rotten - by Jasper Fforde (%)(#)
   
2. Breaking Dawn - by Stephenie Meyer (%)(!)
3. The House of Many Ways - by Diana Wynne Jones (%)
4. Alpha and Omega - by Patricia Briggs
5. Cry Wolf - by Patricia Briggs (%)
6. Dealing With Dragons - by Patricia C. Wrede
7. Searching For Dragons - by Patricia C. Wrede
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - by Stephen Chbosky (%)
9. Gale Force - by Rachel Caine (%)
10. Superpowers - by David J. Schwartz (%)
11. Arrows of the Queen - by Mercedes Lackey
12. Arrow's Flight - by Mercedes Lackey
13. Arrow's Fall - by Mercedes Lackey
14. By The Sword - by Mercedes Lackey
15. Magic's Pawn - by Mercedes Lackey
16. Magic's Promise - by Mercedes Lackey
17. Magic's Price - by Mercedes Lackey
18. Winds of Fate - by Mercedes Lackey
19. Winds of Change - by Mercedes Lackey
20. Winds of Fury - by Mercedes Lackey
21. The Black Gryphon - by Mercedes Lackey
22. The White Gryphon - by Mercedes Lackey
23. The Silver Gryphon - by Mercedes Lackey
24. Girl at Sea - by Maureen Johnson (%)
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 24
   
2. New: 8
   
3. Literary-ish: 1
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 109
   
2. New: 48
   
3. Literary-ish: 20
   

July Reads

(Complete: July 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. Dear Enemy - by Jean Webster (%)(#)(!)
2. Interworld - by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves (%)
3. Epic - by Conor Kostick (%)
4. Howl's Moving Castle - by Diana Wynne Jones (%)(!)
5. Castle In The Air - by Diana Wynne Jones (%)(!)
6. Stupid and Contagious - by Caprice Crane
7. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead - by Max Brooks (%)
8. The Eyre Affair - by Jasper Fforde (%)(#)
9. Lost In A Good Book - by Jasper Fforde (%)(#)
10. The Well of Lost Plots - by Jasper Fforde (%)(#)
    
11. Fairyville - by Emma Holly (%)
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 11
   
2. New: 10
   
3. Literary-ish: 4
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 85
   
2. New: 40
   
3. Literary-ish: 19
   

June Reads

(Complete: June 30)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. High Noon - by Nora Roberts (%)
2. The Boy Next Door - by Meg Cabot
3. Boy Meets Girl - by Meg Cabot
4. Dance Upon The Air - by Nora Roberts
5. Heaven And Earth - by Nora Roberts
6. Face The Fire - by Nora Roberts
   
7. Daring To Dream - by Nora Roberts
8. Born In Fire - by Nora Roberts
   
9. Born In Ice - by Nora Roberts
10. Daddy-Long-Legs - by Jean Webster (%)(!)(#)
11. Soon I Will Be Invincible - by Austin Grossman (%)(#)
12. Black Unicorn - by Tanith Lee (!)
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 12
   
2. New: 3
   
3. Literary-ish: 2
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 74
   
2. New: 30
   
3. Literary-ish: 15
   

May Reads

(Complete: May 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. A Rake's Vow - by Stephanie Laurens
2. Scandal's Bride - by Stephanie Laurens
   
3. On a Wild Night - by Stephanie Laurens
4. On a Wicked Dawn - by Stephanie Laurens
5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - by C.S. Lewis (#)
   
6. Prince Caspian - by C.S. Lewis (#)
   
7. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - by C.S. Lewis (#)
   
8. The Silver Chair - by C.S. Lewis (#)
   
9. The Horse and His Boy - by C.S. Lewis (#)
   
10. The Hollow - by Nora Roberts (%)
11. The Magician's Nephew - by C.S. Lewis (#)
12. The Last Battle - by C.S. Lewis (#)
13. Firebird - by Kathy Tyers
14. Eclipse Bay - by Jayne Ann Krentz
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 14
   
2. New: 1
   
3. Literary-ish: 7
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 62
   
2. New: 27
   
3. Literary-ish: 13
   

April Reads

(Complete: April 30)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. The Hero and the Crown - by Robin McKinley
2. High Fidelity - by Nick Hornby (%)(#)
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon (%)(#)
4. The Secret Hour - by Scott Westerfeld (%)
5. Vampire Academy - by Richelle Mead (%)
6. Devil's Bride - by Stephanie Laurens
   

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 6
   
2. New: 4
   
3. Literary-ish: 2
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 48
   
2. New: 26
   
3. Literary-ish: 6
   

March Reads

(Complete: March 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. Slaughterhouse-Five - by Kurt Vonnegut (%)(#)
2. Looking For Alaska - by John Green (%)
3. Broken - by Kelley Armstrong (%)
4. Stardust - by Neil Gaiman (%)
5. No Humans Involved - by Kelley Armstrong (%)
6. Naked in Death - by J.D. Robb
7. Strangers in Death - by J.D. Robb (%)
8. Moon Called - by Patricia Briggs
9. Sebastian - by Anne Bishop
10. Belladonna - by Anne Bishop (%)
11. Daughter of the Blood - by Anne Bishop
12. Heir of the Shadows - by Anne Bishop
    
13. Queen of the Darkness - by Anne Bishop
14. Goddess of the Night - by Lynne Ewing
15. Into the Cold Fire - by Lynne Ewing
16. Gossip Girl - by Cecily von Ziegesar (%)
    
17. Coraline - by Neil Gaiman (%)
18. Hard Times - by Charles Dickens (%)(#)
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 18
   
2. New: 10
   
3. Literary-ish: 2
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 42
   
2. New: 22
   
3. Literary-ish: 4
   

February Reads

(Complete: February 29)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. The Hunt - by Susan Sizemore (%)
   
2. 13 Little Blue Envelopes - by Maureen Johnson (%)
   
3. A Grief Observed - by C.S. Lewis (#)
   
4. Bitten - by Kelley Armstrong
5. Stolen - by Kelley Armstrong
6. Peter Pan - by J.M. Barrie (#)(%)
7. Dime Store Magic - by Kelley Armstrong
8. Industrial Magic - by Kelley Armstrong
9. Haunted - by Kelley Armstrong
   

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 9
   
2. New: 3
   
3. Literary-ish: 2
   

Year in Review:

1. Total: 24
   
2. New: 12
   
3. Literary-ish: 2
   

January Reads

(Complete: January 31)

(%) = New
(#) = Literary-ish
(!) = Do Not Own

1. Dragonsdawn - by Anne McCaffrey
2. All the Weyrs of Pern - by Anne McCaffrey
3. The Dolphins of Pern - by Anne McCaffrey
4. An Abundance of Katherines - by John Green (%)
5. The Skies of Pern - by Anne McCaffrey (%)
6. Iron Kissed - by Patricia Briggs (%)
7. Joust - by Mercedes Lackey
8. Alta - by Mercedes Lackey
9. Sanctuary - by Mercedes Lackey (%)
10. Aerie - by Mercedes Lackey (%)
11. Twilight - by Stephenie Meyer
12. New Moon - by Stephenie Meyer (%)(!)
13. Eclipse - by Stephenie Meyer (%)(!)
14. Dragon's Kin - By Anne McCaffrey (%)
15. The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall - by Anne McCaffrey
    

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Month in Review:

1. Total: 15
2. New: 9
3. Literary-ish: 0

Year in Review:

1. Total: 15
2. New: 9
3. Literary-ish: 0
   

2008 - Introductions and Rules - 150 in '08

Here's the deal. In general, I read a lot of whatever I want to and at the end of the year I have usually read quite a lot, but can never remember exactly what I've read, when I read it, if I finished a book or got bored with it, or the number of books I've bought compared to the number of books I've actually completed. Also, my ratio of genre fiction to anything resembling anything literary is usually about 1,000:1 -- not because I don't like classics, nonfiction, etc. but because I am generally a fairly lazy reader and genre fiction makes for a quick read.

All of this needs to change.

My goals for 2008 are fairly simple:

1. keep track of what I read and when I read it
2. read more books I could consider "literary"
3. read the books that are sitting unread on my shelves because I've gone to the bookstore again before finishing all of the books I bought on previous trips
   

In order to ensure that I meet my goals, I have come up with a few reading rules that I will be following this year.

1. All 150 books must be read between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008 (duh).
   
2. Of the books I read this year, ¹/₃ must be books I've never read. Bonus points if I read 75, new books, but 50 will fulfill this requirement.
3. 20 books must fall into a vague non-genre, literary category that encompasses all the books I am usually too lazy to read (classics, nonfiction, literary fiction, Tolkien, etc.). NOTE: This does not necessarily mean all non-genre. I will count fantasy authors like Tolkien and LeGuin in this category.
4. If by the end of June I have already read more than 75 books, my challenge of reading 150 books will be upped to 200. The numbers in rules 2 and 3 will be raised accordingly.

That's pretty much it. I will be posting the list of books I read and monthly roundups here in this blog. I'll put up a link to my 2008 LibraryThing tag for anyone who is interested, but I think it's likely that I will be the only person who cares about anything found here.