My completed book list for 2010 is MUCH LESS impressive than Levi’s. I started off with a bang. Then sleep became much more precious than reading, and any extra minutes I could spare were consumed with naps and early bedtimes. But, you know what? I still read an average of 2+ books a month, and that’s 27 more books that are now a part of the landscape of my mind. And I’m okay with that.
I was intentionally ambitious in my book list at the beginning of 2010, so I have many more in the queue with which to fill the reading hours of 2011. I think I’ll skip making a new book list for now.
I reviewed most of the completed books here and there last year. The bulk of the reviews were short and sweet, but I poured blood, sweat, and tears (okay, not really) into my reviews of Twilight and The Hunger Games Trilogy if you’re interested in my thoughts and missed them the first go-around.
The Ballad of Sir Dinadan by Gerald MorrisSir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World by Sid FleischmanAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia StuartFunny in Farsi by Firoozeh DumasMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education by Leigh A. BortinsCranford by Elizabeth GaskellMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie BarrowsBlue Like Jazz by Donald MillerTime Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevittDutch Color by Douglas M. Jones IIIThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonParsifal’s Page by Gerald MorrisQuo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczThe Savage Damsel and the Dwarf by Gerald MorrisThe Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee StewartShakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson26 Fairmount Avenue series by Tomie DePaolaJack: A Life of C.S. Lewis by George SayerGoing Solo by Roald DahlA Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis PetersCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, retold by Martin Jenkins
“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.” ~Barrow