Book list 2008
Here’s the books I read last year, with random tallyings and totallings that I felt like doing. My favorite books are bolded. If you want to know any of my thoughts on any of the books, just enter the name of the book in the search box up at the top of the page (under Making it Up as I go) and it should bring up the related posts. (It will bring up this post as the first of the results, just keep on scrolling.)
Totals:
58 books read
31 fiction, 25 non-fiction, 5 re-reads
3 from the library, 27 bought, 9 bought on the kindle, 17 already owned or was given
Most exeeded expectation: Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Most failed expectations: Comic Book Tattoo
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The books:
Sharp Objects- Gillian Flynn
Death Before Wicket- Kerry Greenwood
The Man Who Was Thursday-G.K. Chesterton
20th Century Ghosts- Joe Hill
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Positive Discipline- 2-24-08
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance– Gyles Brandreth
How to Talk So Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will talk-Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
More Charlotte Mason Education- Catherine Levinson 3-5-08
A Charlotte Mason Education- Charlotte Levinson 3-8-08
MJ & BP- Jamie S. Rich
The Devil in Amber- Mark Gatiss
The Vesuvius Club- Mark Gatiss
Book of Mormon
A New Testament– Sherwood Anderson
The Pirates, In an adventure with Scientists- Gideon Defoe
Raising Children who Think for Themselves- Elisa Medhus
A Charlotte Mason Companion- Karen Andreola
Charlotte Mason Summaries- Leslie Noelani
Faith, Hope, and Charity- Janet Peterson and LaRene Guant
No Doubt about it- Sheri Dew
Siblings Without Rivalry- Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Julie and Julia- Julie Powell
The Woman Who Wouldn’t- Gene Wilder
Raising a Reader- Jennie Nash
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox- Maggie O’Farrell
The Mysterious Benedict Society- Trenton Lee Stewart
Autobiographies of Mormon Pioneer Women
Wit’s End- Karen Joy Fowler
The Lace Reader- Brunonia Barry
Phoenix- Steven Brust
Jhegaala- Steven Brust
Queen of the Flowers- Kerry Greenwood
Your Child’s Strengths- Kimberly Fox
Comic Book Tattoo- many
When You Are Engulfed in Flames- David Sedaris
The Secret files of the Diogenes club- Kim Newman
The Bible
Oscar Wilde’s Wit and Wisdom
Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
Grace (Eventually)- Anne Lamont
A Handful of Dust- Evelyn Waugh
Unicorns- Ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois
Time Out for Parents- Cheri Huber
Old Man’s War- John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades- John Scalzi 10-1-08
Making a change for good- Cheri Huber
The mother in me- ed. Kathyrn Lynard Soper
Doctrine and Covenants
Pearl of Great Price
A question of Death- Kerry Greenwood
The Toddler Busy Book- Trish Kuffner
Token- Joelle Jones and
Widows of Eastwick- John Updike
The Last Colony – John Scalzi
The Jesus of Suburbia- Mike Erre