Yay, I hit 30!

1. The Pilgrimmage- Paulo Coehlo
2. The Opposite of Fate- Amy Tan
3. Bookends- Jane Green
4. Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters, and Seymour and Introduction- J.D. Salinger
5. The Hours- Michael Cunningham
6. I'm a Stranger here Myself- Bill Bryson
7. And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
10. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim- David Sedaris
11. Take the Cannoli- Sarah Vowell
12. Philosophy for Beginners-Osborne
13. Stuart:A Life Backwards-Alexander Masters
14. The Empty House- Rosamund Pilcher
15. How to Cook a Wolf- MFK Fisher
16. The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum-Izzo
17. A Slender Thread-Diane Ackerman
18.Rebecca- Daphne du Maurier
19. Triple-Ken Follett
20.Sleeping Tiger-Rosamund Pilcher
21.French Women for all Seasons-Mirielle Guilano
22. A Year in the Merde-Stephen Clarke
23. An Open Life-Joseph Campbell
24. Yellow Jack- John R. Peirce
25. Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
26. Embraced by the Light- Betty Eadie
27. The Quiet American- Graham Greene
28. Nickel and Dimed-Barbara Ehrenreich
29. Possible Side Effects- Augusten Burroughs
30. The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian was not the worst time I have ever had, but looking back I feel like that could have been 600+ pages of time better spent. It wasn't bad, really. It just didn't get to that place you thought it was getting to. I think she could have wrote all that into 300 pages, then told us more about the actual plot, and it would have been good. I don't have a quote, it wans't that kind of dazzle you language. It kinda is pissing me off the more I think about it because it should have been a good book. It was a great idea and she messed it all up.

This week I have been feeling like this project is stupid. I am reading a lot of books this year, but I think next year I will focus on reading 50 important books, or even just 50 from my list. My list is rough, and I had wanted to whittle it down a bit, but it isn't a speed competition sort of list. I am seeing the error of my ways. Now I am going to end up reading a ton of crap that I would have never even read instead of working on my to-read list. I am a dummy