Reading List 2009

This may seem like a hefty list but since I read about 30 books last year as well as my school reading I feel like this isn't a big deal. So here is my 2009 reading list.

January

1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
   
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
3. The Green Dwarf by Charlotte Bronte

February

1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
2. The Tea House Fire by Ellis Avery
   
3. The Communist Manifesto by Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx
   
4. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
   

March

1. Northanger Abbe by Jane Austiny
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
3. Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
   
4. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
   
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
   

April

1. Emma by Jane Austin
2. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
   
3. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
   
4. Marie Antoinette the Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever and Catherine Temerson

May

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
   
2. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

June

1. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
   
2. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
   
3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
   
4. 1984 by George Orwell
   

July

1. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
   
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
   
3. Walden by Ralph Waldo Emerson
   

August

1. Civil Disobedience by Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
   
3. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

September

1. Mansfeild Park by Jane Austin
   
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. The Odyssey by Homer
   

October

1. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
2. Artemesia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre and Liz Heron
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
   

November

1. The Transformation by Catherine Chidgey
   
2. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 by Ann B. Shteir
3. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
   

December

1. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
3. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
4. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
6. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
7. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
   

Alternates

1. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
   
2. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller
3. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
   
4. The Shack by William P. Young (This one I know I'll be reading while reading the other I just had no where else to put it.)

Frankenstein

I started reading Frankenstein first. I'll get to the La Guin. Its kind of fitting that I read Mary Shelley right now. I'm getting sick and 19th century Gothic literature is just what I need right now. The Left Hand of Darkness will be good for while I'm recovering. I'm also gradually reading Cure for the Common Life. Not so much because I feel like I need a cure or because I feel like I'm worthless but I really like it. Its not just for "losers", its also a good way to remind yourself that your talents are not your own and you should be using them to further God's kingdom.

My October Books

So I've kind of given up on my old list. Some of them I started and just couldn't get into, others I just am choosing not to read right now. Oh well. There is a new list though. October is here and that means scary movies, too much candy, and dark books. I'm gradually making my way into the "scary" books. Here is my list in order of how I will read them:

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I'm looking forward to this month. I like darker literature.

srsly straying! hard core straying!

I couldn't do Courtesan. I'm sure it's great but with this wonderful weather we've been having (its srsly feels like Fall) I had to read Time Traveler's Wife. The reason this is such serious straying is because I've already read this book. But honestly, I had to. And that's final. lol. It just works so well with the weather. I needed a little bit of a love story anyway.

Straying From the List

I just finished Emily Griffin's Something Borrowed and Something Blue. I had a hard time getting through the first half of Something Blue because it was so hard to like the main character. As she changes the book gets easier to read. Now I'm on to Courtesan by Diane Haeger. Its Historical Fiction so it should be pretty amazing. We'll see.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

That is all.

Its Been A While

I know I haven't written in a while. I actually forgot the password to this blog. lol. I'm back now. I have strayed. I've been reading things that are not on my list. Oh well, I guess. At least I'm reading. Of the things I've read, Eat, Pray, Love is my favorite. Please read it. Its amazing! It will change your life. Seriously.