Welcome to my reading lists page. This is a list of books I've read starting in 2005 when I began this blog. The annual lists have gotten shorter, most significantly during the years I was trying to get pregnant and giving birth. Many of my readers have enjoyed looking through my lists and reading what I had to say about some of the books listed. I hope you will too.
No books completed in 2009.
Cover to Cover in 2008
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Nell Freudenberger: Lucky Girls: Stories (P.S.)
This collection of short stories is not awesome. She's a horrible storyteller. -
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Cover to Cover in 2007
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Tayari Jones: The Untelling
The author's publicist is a fan of my blog and sent me a copy, which she predicted I'd enjoy. She was so right. It took me forever to finish because I've been very preoccupied with my life this year. I'm positive no story has ever affected me as much as this one. I'm affected and changed by having read this novel.
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David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Favorite Collections of Stories:
1. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
2. How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Love, love, love this writer.
Cover to Cover in 2006
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Four suicidal strangers meet at a popular suicide spot on New Year's Eve, each with the intent to jump, and their lives are changed by the chance meeting. A heavy subject is dealt with in a very comical way. This would be an awesome...and pretty profound...movie.
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Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Stopped just past half...
I'm taking a break from this one. I'm halfway through it and am not enjoying the reading as much as I like to. Very challenging--a good thing-- as I said earlier, but I do need a break. I'm retiring it to my nightstand to finish bit by bit at night before bed. -
Julie Orringer: How to Breathe Underwater: Stories
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Lauren Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
Loved it! Can't wait to see the movie. -
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Zane: The Sex Chronicles : Shattering the Myth
I really didn't read this one cover to cover. Only read the first 4 or 5 stories. I thought I was grown, y'all, but I'm still a baby. I couldn't finish this one. -
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Cover to Cover in 2005
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Hannah Crafts: A Bondwoman's Narrative
Technically, I "listened" to this book, but books on tape count too dammit!
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Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
what she said
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Lawrence Otis Graham: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
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Connie Briscoe: Sisters and Lovers
This was my second time reading this one. I read it once when I was a young teen, but wanted to again, just to see if it would be different. It's interesting becasue the author is deaf, and that's very evident in some of the odd dialog between her characters. -
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Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
This was my third of fourth time reading this book. When I heard O was doing a movie version of it, I had to read it again to refresh. I was kind of surprised they left out the skin-tone issues...maybe 'cause Tea Cake's character in the movie wasn't dark-skinned like he was in the book. I don't think you can read this one too many times. Everytime the experience is different...especially if you read it at different stages in your life like I have...young teen, older teen, married woman, etc. It's such a rich work of fiction. -
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