100 Books in 2009

Some days I can start reading blogs and following links forever. It is enormously engrossing. I move from one interesting post to another. It is like wandering through a giant department store of interesting people. Today is one of those days. I started with the list of elderbloggers that Ronni added to her elderblogger list at Time Goes By and went from there. When I find a blog that I feel a connection to I add it to my Google Reader list. Today I've added about 10 blogs to my list.

During my browsing I decided to sign up for the 100 BOOKS IN 2009 challenge as presented on J. Kaye's Book Blog.

Here is what I've read so far in 2009 with links to my reviews.

1. A Perfect Union, Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
2. Soul Made Flesh - The Discovery of the Brain -- and How it Changed the World
3. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
4. One True Theory of Love by Laura Fitzgerald   2/5/2009
5. John Quincy Adams - A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul C. Nagel  2/18/2009
6. Founding Mothers - The Women who Raised our Nation by Cokie Roberts 2/25/2009
7. The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean 3/5/09
8. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin 3/8/09
9. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 3/11/2009
10. Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher 3/18/2009
11. Angels Fall by Nora Roberts 3/27/2009
12. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 3/29/2009
13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 4/1/2009
14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 4/30/2009
15. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett 5/5/2009
16. Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts 5/7/2009
17. American Lion by Jon Meacham 5/26/2009
18. Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison 5/29/2009
19. The Increment by David Ignatius 6/2/2009
20. Introducing C. B. Greenfield by Lucille Kallen 6/12/2009
21. A book of bees by Sue Hubbell 7/5/2009
22. Different Seasons by Stephen King 7/16/2009
23. The Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick 7/17/2009
24. Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer 7/23/2009
25. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff 8/1/2009
26. Street Fighters by Kate Kelly 8/3/2009
27. Coraline by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell 8/6/2009
28. Coming Home by Posamunde Pilcher 8/19/2009
29. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin 8/20/2009
30. Catherine de Medici - Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda 8/28/09
31. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 9/3/2009
32. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell 9/5/2009
    
33. Sense and Sensability by Jane Austin 9/14/09
34. Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead 10/9/09
35. Old Tippecanoe - William Henry Harrison and His Time 11/18/2009

The deal with the challenge is that I will add books to this list as I finish them.

I don't think I'll make it to 100 but it is fun to keep a list of what I am reading this year.

Comments

[J. Kaye]

1.

Wanted to stop in and welcome you to the 100 + Reading Challenge. If you haven't already, feel free to join us at the Yahoo Groups where others are participating in this challenge as well as others.

Also, the links to post your reviews are up in the right sidebar at J. Kaye’s Book Blog.

[havenwoodhouse.blogspot.com]

2.

Hello, Marion! It's so nice to meet you. Thanks for signing my Follow list!

I'm amazed that you're planning to read 100 books this year! I'm also quite jealous. My idea of a great retirement involves long hours by a fire with a stack of books close at hand. Your blog is informative and fun, and I'll be back to visit.

:-)
Vicki

[Marylou]

3.

Hello Marion. Thank you for adding me to your blog list...I will begin visiting your site as well...What a wonderful networking, entertaining, and informing tool this is...
Marylou