This is the first posting for my new blog. My plan is to share good books that I'm reading, tips on helping your children improve their reading, and anything else that I find interesting in the literary world.
I have always enjoyed reading. It was not until the last 10 years or so that I really became immersed in literature. In 2006, I made a new year's resolution to read an average of a book a week for a year. I finished the year with 52 new books in my repertoire.
Here are the books I read in the order I read them:
Lipstick Jungle by Candice Bushnell
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
A False Sense of Well Being by Jeanne Braselton
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
Match Me If you Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet by Robert Arnot
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Spilling Clarence by Anne Ursu
Tell Me What to Eat to help prevent Breast Cancer by Elaine Magee
Dr. Bob Arnot’s Revolutionary Weight Control Program by Robert Arnot
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg
Say When by Elizabeth Berg
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Graves
Until I Find You by John Irving
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Reading Crisis by Jeanne Chall
Liberating Paris by Linda Bloodworth Thomason
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Theodore Rosevelt’s Darkest Journey – The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Postville by Stephen Bloom
An Innocent Man by John Grisham
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
The Vote by Sybil Downing
The Thanksgiving Ceremony by Edward Bleier
Thunderstruck by Erik Lawson
The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Ageless by Suzanne Sommers
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
