50 Books Into 2010

Made it to 50 books in 2010 by the end of March! A pretty steady pace on the reading. I have moved away from the bodice-rippers and towards essay & short story collections, as well as books that presaged their movie counterparts. For April, I see a great deal of poetry. But, the list for March:

Books Read in March 2009

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Life Makeovers: 52 Practical and Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week At A Time by Cheryl Richardson
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Find Your Strongest Life: What the happiest and most successful women do differently by Marcus Buckingham
I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman (poems) by Jude Nutter
Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays by Eula Bass
Push by Sapphire
Face (poems) by Sherman Alexie
Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite
Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorm
So Cold The River by Michael Koryata
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

(Full list of this year's list of books I've read available here on my tumblr page.)

Comments

Peter Tobey said…
Congratulations. Your blog has been nominated for our Library Blog Awards. In fact, your blog was suggested more than once. We're in the process of assembling information about all those nominated and will be sending a short questionnaire, including the categories of awards and the judges involved. Would you please send me your email address so that I can send you the questionnaire? If your email is on your blog, I couldn't locate it.

Thanks in advance,
Peter W Tobey
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9:51 AM
Fleur-de-Lys said…
I am impressed. But I am also looking for you email account, or at least if you like poetry, check out my blog http//polygraphya.blogspot.com
I wrote poetry when I was a teenager and then I stopped until about 4 years ago and there is no lookng back. My blog is the raw words, I have actually made two small volumes of the best, where I changed some of the words and cleaned it up together with some photos. Feel free to take a peak!
PS Funnily enough I am also a librarian, but doesn't work as such.
8:24 AM
Fleur-de-Lys said…
Take a look at my blog,
polygraphya!
8:25 AM
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