Thursday Thirteen #2: TBR
This is my second Thursday Thirteen... the first I did over a year ago. Hmm... Who knew this was an annual, not a weekly, thing?
I'm a little late for new year's resolutions, but I thought that I'd list thirteen books that I already own that I want to read before the end of 2008.
Last year I joined a TBR Reading Challenge, but I fell off the wagon when H was born in March. It's not that I didn't keep reading, but I just didn't have time to post reviews here, update my list, chat with the TBR Challenge group, and so on.
This year I still don't feel up to joining in again (hopefully next year), but I thought I'd still do an unofficial challenge to myself here, with this list. A lot of the books on this list were on my challenge list for last year. I hope to not have to write them again on my challenge list for 2009.
- The Pianoman's Daughter by Timothy Findley
- With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore
- Itsuka by Joy Kogawa
- The Silver Metal Lover by Tannith Lee
- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
- Swan Song by Robert McCammon
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (happy, shy?)
- Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Jewel by Bret Lott
Good luck to me!
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one of my fave geek books. i don't know if you'll like it but hope you do. you'll be like the only other person i can talk to about it when you're done. no one else i know has read it! :(
As for why I have them in the first place, some were passed on to me, others I picked up (mostly from thrift shops) because they'd been recommended or just looked interesting.
I STRONGLY recommend Tuesdays With Morrie. It was a great book that I still remember vividly several years later.
I may have to read it again actually.
Teena
It reminds me of that Sedaris book you loaned me - really funny, but I can't help wondering where it's going. I've read and snickered at the geek jokes, but it doesn't seem to be promising anything else. It's not bad reading, but it doesn't call to me to pick it up again and again, I feel like I could stop now and have had enough of a taste... does that make sense?
Still, though, I like his writing, so unless this goes very quickly downhill, I'll try something else from him.