Saturday, September 25, 2010

Love of Reading

This blog will be my online record of books I have read in the last five years.  I find it helps me to remember books I've enjoyed and where my interests have been since 2005.

June 2005
Confederates in the Attic... Tony Horowitz...Fascinating!
Because of Winn-Dixie...Kate DiCamillo
Death Comes for the Archbishop...Willa Cather...Excellent, Loved
For the Good of Earth and Sun...Georgia Heard
Empire Falls...Richard Russo...okay
Old School...Tobias Wolff... well written
The Beekeeper's Apprentice...Laurie King...annoying

July 2005
Reading Essentials...Regie Routman...valuable for professional reading
Blood of My Blood...Marjorie Rawlings..riveting
One of Ours...Willa Cather...well-written
My Antonia...Willa Cather...weird, didn't finish
Twilight Comes Twice...Ralph Fletcher...beautiful picture book
Hello, Harvest Moon...Ralph Fletcher...beautiful picture book

August 2005
Birds of a Feather...Ngaio Marsh...slightly dated mystery
Enter a Murderer...Ngaio Marsh
Lost Treasure...Janet S. Anderson... interesting juvenile fiction
Night at the Vulcan...Ngaio Marsh
Death of a Peer...Ngaio Marsh...best so far
Mrs. Presumed Dead...Simon Brett...light reading
Crossing to Safety...Wallace Stegner...good

September 2005
Shepherds Abiding...Jan Karon...okay

October 2005
Maigret's Christmas...Georges Simenon...excellent mystery
Maigret and the Wine Merchant...Georges Simenon...enjoyable mystery
Maigret and the Gai Moulin...Georges Simenon...good mystery

November 2005
Artists in Crime...Ngaio Marsh...okay mystery
The Beckoning Lady...Marjory Allingham...very difficult to keep at reading, mystery

December 2005
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Alexander McCall Smith...loved, as usual
The Moving Finger...Agatha Christie...mystery

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