Thursday, January 4, 2007

My Ratings for Books Read Last Year



The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield 4
Animal Farm - George Orwell 5
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 5
Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter 5
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5
Laddie - Gene Stratton-Porter 5
The Poet of Loch Ness - Brian Jay Corrigan 2
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 4
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe 4.5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 4
The Secret of Sarah Revere - Ann Rinaldi 3.5
To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis 4
The Return of the Twelves - Pauline Clarke 3.5
The Last Silk Dress - Ann Rinaldi 3
The Red Right Hand - Joel Townsley Rogers 4

Monday, January 1, 2007

2007 TBR Challenge


The challenge is to pick 12 books which have been collecting dust in my to be read pile and read them during the year.

Here are my 12 books (plus)


Eli by Bill Myers
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
finished 1/12/07 3.5
The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde now reading
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Talisman by Stephen King
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
On Writing by Stephen King
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Alternate:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Way of the Master, Ray Comfort
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Roughing It, Mark Twain
John Adams, David McCullough now reading
Jane and the Unpleasantness
at Scargrave Manor
, Stephanie Barron