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My yearly book count start-date used to be in November. So in 2006-ish, I read fifty books that I had not read before. Fifty was too small a number, though. For 2007-ish, I boosted the goal to seventy-five books and/or 18,000 pages in a year but counted re-reads as well as new books. I did make it -- quite comfortably with the page count but I just barely got in under the wire with the book count so my goal is changing again. The number of books is back down to fifty but the page count is up to 25,000. And I am counting re-reads again.
I was going to wait until January 1st to start reading but OMFG I COULD NOT HELP MYSELF. I started reading on Christmas day. At least that's not a totally bizarre day to start a yearly count, like November 12th or 21st or whatever day I was using before. XD So, here's where I'll be keeping track of what I've read. Hooray, organization. I'll try to "review" all (or at least most) of them. Once a write-up has been posted, the title in this entry will become a link to it (and all links will open into a new tab/window). :)
Title: Fevre Dream
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 334
Start Date: December 25
Finish Date: January 01
Title: Another Word a Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
Author: Anu Garg
Pages: 217
Start Date: January 02
Finish Date: January 03
Title: Limericks: Over 550 Sometimes Polite, More Often Impolite, Poems to Read and Repeat!
Author: Isaac Asimov, John Ciardi
Pages: 205
Start Date: January 12
Finish Date: January 23
Title: The Late Hector Kipling
Author: David Thewlis
Pages: 339
Start Date: January 01
Finish Date: February 02
Title: Transformations
Author: Anne Sexton
Pages: 112
Start Date: February 07
Finish Date: February 07
Title: The Golden Compass
Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 399
Start Date: February 03
Finish Date: February 13
Title: The Subtle Knife
Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 326
Start Date: February 13
Finish Date: February 17
Title: The Amber Spyglass
Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 518
Start Date: February 18
Finish Date: February 22
Title: The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury*
Author: Janet Schulman (stories selected by)
Pages: 308
Start Date: February 22
Finish Date: February 23
Title: The Bloody Chamber
Author: Angela Carter
Pages: 126
Start Date: February 23
Finish Date: February 25
Title: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel
Pages: 132
Start Date: March 01
Finish Date: March 02
Title: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer*
Author: Bill Maher
Pages: 228
Start Date: March 02
Finish Date: March 02
Title: The Line Between
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 231
Start Date: February 23
Finish Date: March 05
Title: The Five People You Meet in Hell
Author: Rich Pablum
Pages: 132
Start Date: March 07
Finish Date: March 07
Title: P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
Author: James Kirkwood
Pages: 223
Start Date: March 07
Finish Date: March 14
Title: Kissing the Witch: Old Stories in New Skins
Author: Emma Donnoghue
Pages: 228
Start Date: March 16
Finish Date: March 21
Title: Fragile Things
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 388
Start Date: March 31
Finish Date: April 04
Title: After
Author: Francine Prose
Pages: 330
Start Date: April 9
Finish Date: April 11
Title: A Fine and Private Place
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 264
Start Date: March 22
Finish Date: April 19
Title: Johnny Got His Gun
Author: Dalton Trumbo
Pages: 243
Start Date: April 20
Finish Date: April 24
Title: The Most Evil Women in History
Author: Shelley Klein
Pages: 188
Start Date: April 24
Finish Date: April 29
Title: Lost Boys
Author: Orson Scott Card
Pages: 528
Start Date: April 30
Finish Date: May 01
Title: Notes on a Scandal
Author: Zoe Heller
Pages: 258
Start Date: May 01
Finish Date: May 04
Title: The Club Dumas
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Pages: 362
Start Date: May 04
Finish Date: May 08
Title: Sideways
Author: Rex Pickett
Pages: 351
Start Date: May 08
Finish Date: May 11
Title: The Prestige
Author: Christopher Priest
Pages: 360
Start Date: May 12
Finish Date: May 14
Title: Stone Butch Blues
Author: Leslie Feinberg
Pages: 304
Start Date: May 15
Finish Date: May 18
Title: Revenge
Author: Stephen Fry
Pages: 320
Start Date: May 23
Finish Date: May 31
Title: White Night
Author: Jim Butcher
Pages: 404
Start Date: May 31
Finish Date: June 04
Title: Small Favor
Author: Jim Butcher
Pages: 420
Start Date: June 06
Finish Date: June 10
Title: The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Author: Art Spiegelman
Pages: 296
Start Date: June 10
Finish Date: June 14
Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Pages: 328
Start Date: June 16
Finish Date: June 19
Title: The Society of S
Author: Susan Hubbard
Pages: 304
Start Date: June 20
Finish Date: June 23
Title: Anansi Boys
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 334
Start Date: June 24
Finish Date: July 04
Title: A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams
Pages: 142
Start Date: July 08
Finish Date: Jul 09
Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Author: Edward Albee
Pages: 242
Start Date: July 09
Finish Date: July 10
Title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories
Author: Carson McCullers
Pages: 152
Start Date: July 13
Finish Date: July 18
Title: The Haunted Mask*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 121
Start Date: July 25
Finish Date: July 25
Title: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 124
Start Date: July 26
Finish Date: July 26
Title: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 123
Start Date: July 29
Finish Date: July 29
Title: You Can't Scare Me*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 120
Start Date: July 30
Finish Date: July 30
Title: One Day at Horrorland*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 123
Start Date: August 04
Finish Date: August 04
Title: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 122
Start Date: August 05
Finish Date: August 05
Title: Ghost Beach*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 119
Start Date: August 06
Finish Date: August 06
Title: It Came from Beneath the Sink*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 112
Start Date: August 07
Finish Date: August 07
Title: A Shocker on Shock Street*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 117
Start Date: August 08
Finish Date: August 08
Title: The Haunted Mask II*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 124
Start Date: August 10
Finish Date: August 10
Title: The Headless Ghost*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 113
Start Date: August 10
Finish Date: August 10
Title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Author: Rebecca Wells
Pages: 356
Start Date: July 18
Finish Date: August 21
Title: A Game of Thrones*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 674
Start Date: August 22
Finish Date: August 26
Title: A Clash of Kings*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 728
Start Date: August 26
Finish Date: September 05
Title: The Hedge Knight*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 137
Start Date: September 05
Finish Date: September 06
Title: Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 186
Start Date: September 06
Finish Date: September 07
Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 498
Start Date: September 07
Finish Date: September 11
Title: New Moon
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 563
Start Date: September 11
Finish Date: September 16
Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 629
Start Date: September 16
Finish Date: September 18
Title: The Neverending Story
Author: Michael Ende
Pages: 396
Start Date: September 19
Finish Date: September 25
Title: A Storm of Swords*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 924
Start Date: September 06
Finish Date: September 28
Title: Watchmen
Author: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Pages: 390
Start Date: September 25
Finish Date: September 29
Title: Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Pages: 341
Start Date: September 30
Finish Date: October 01
Title: Heart-Shaped Box
Author: Joe Hill
Pages: 351
Start Date: October 01
Finish Date: October 04
Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Pages: 326
Start Date: October 06
Finish Date: October 09
Title: Desperate Passage
Author: Ethan Rarick
Pages: 272
Start Date: October 05
Finish Date: October 12
Title: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 754
Start Date: October 13
Finish Date: October 15
Title: Mountain Man Dance Moves*
Author: editors of McSweeney's
Pages: 217
Start Date: October 15
Finish Date: October 15
Title: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories*
Author: Tim Burton
Pages: 113
Start Date: October 15
Finish Date: October 15
Title: Tamsin
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 335
Start Date: October 16
Finish Date: October 24
Title: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Author: Mary Roach
Pages: 306
Start Date: October 24
Finish Date: October 30
Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
Pages: 146
Start Date: October 30
Finish Date: November 01
Title: Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Pages: 351
Start Date: November 02
Finish Date: November 07
Title: The Monsters of Templeton
Author: Lauren Groff
Pages: 361
Start Date: November 08
Finish Date: November 10
Title: The Uncanny
Author: Andrew Klavan
Pages: 404
Start Date: November 15
Finish Date: November 16
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Pages: 374
Start Date: November 18
Finish Date: November 19
Title: Beautiful Children
Author: Charles Bock
Pages: 407
Start Date: November 11
Finish Date: November 23
Title: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Pages: 240
Start Date: December 01
Finish Date: December 01
Title: The Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Pages: 192
Start Date: December 01
Finish Date: December 02
Title: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Pages: 512
Start Date: December 06
Finish Date: December 13
Book Count: 76/50
Page Count: 22,993/25,000
*Not a review; just a link to the book on amazon.com.
I was going to wait until January 1st to start reading but OMFG I COULD NOT HELP MYSELF. I started reading on Christmas day. At least that's not a totally bizarre day to start a yearly count, like November 12th or 21st or whatever day I was using before. XD So, here's where I'll be keeping track of what I've read. Hooray, organization. I'll try to "review" all (or at least most) of them. Once a write-up has been posted, the title in this entry will become a link to it (and all links will open into a new tab/window). :)
Title: Fevre Dream
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 334
Start Date: December 25
Finish Date: January 01
Title: Another Word a Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
Author: Anu Garg
Pages: 217
Start Date: January 02
Finish Date: January 03
Title: Limericks: Over 550 Sometimes Polite, More Often Impolite, Poems to Read and Repeat!
Author: Isaac Asimov, John Ciardi
Pages: 205
Start Date: January 12
Finish Date: January 23
Title: The Late Hector Kipling
Author: David Thewlis
Pages: 339
Start Date: January 01
Finish Date: February 02
Title: Transformations
Author: Anne Sexton
Pages: 112
Start Date: February 07
Finish Date: February 07
Title: The Golden Compass
Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 399
Start Date: February 03
Finish Date: February 13
Title: The Subtle Knife
Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 326
Start Date: February 13
Finish Date: February 17
Title: The Amber Spyglass
Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 518
Start Date: February 18
Finish Date: February 22
Title: The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury*
Author: Janet Schulman (stories selected by)
Pages: 308
Start Date: February 22
Finish Date: February 23
Title: The Bloody Chamber
Author: Angela Carter
Pages: 126
Start Date: February 23
Finish Date: February 25
Title: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel
Pages: 132
Start Date: March 01
Finish Date: March 02
Title: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer*
Author: Bill Maher
Pages: 228
Start Date: March 02
Finish Date: March 02
Title: The Line Between
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 231
Start Date: February 23
Finish Date: March 05
Title: The Five People You Meet in Hell
Author: Rich Pablum
Pages: 132
Start Date: March 07
Finish Date: March 07
Title: P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
Author: James Kirkwood
Pages: 223
Start Date: March 07
Finish Date: March 14
Title: Kissing the Witch: Old Stories in New Skins
Author: Emma Donnoghue
Pages: 228
Start Date: March 16
Finish Date: March 21
Title: Fragile Things
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 388
Start Date: March 31
Finish Date: April 04
Title: After
Author: Francine Prose
Pages: 330
Start Date: April 9
Finish Date: April 11
Title: A Fine and Private Place
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 264
Start Date: March 22
Finish Date: April 19
Title: Johnny Got His Gun
Author: Dalton Trumbo
Pages: 243
Start Date: April 20
Finish Date: April 24
Title: The Most Evil Women in History
Author: Shelley Klein
Pages: 188
Start Date: April 24
Finish Date: April 29
Title: Lost Boys
Author: Orson Scott Card
Pages: 528
Start Date: April 30
Finish Date: May 01
Title: Notes on a Scandal
Author: Zoe Heller
Pages: 258
Start Date: May 01
Finish Date: May 04
Title: The Club Dumas
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Pages: 362
Start Date: May 04
Finish Date: May 08
Title: Sideways
Author: Rex Pickett
Pages: 351
Start Date: May 08
Finish Date: May 11
Title: The Prestige
Author: Christopher Priest
Pages: 360
Start Date: May 12
Finish Date: May 14
Title: Stone Butch Blues
Author: Leslie Feinberg
Pages: 304
Start Date: May 15
Finish Date: May 18
Title: Revenge
Author: Stephen Fry
Pages: 320
Start Date: May 23
Finish Date: May 31
Title: White Night
Author: Jim Butcher
Pages: 404
Start Date: May 31
Finish Date: June 04
Title: Small Favor
Author: Jim Butcher
Pages: 420
Start Date: June 06
Finish Date: June 10
Title: The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Author: Art Spiegelman
Pages: 296
Start Date: June 10
Finish Date: June 14
Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Pages: 328
Start Date: June 16
Finish Date: June 19
Title: The Society of S
Author: Susan Hubbard
Pages: 304
Start Date: June 20
Finish Date: June 23
Title: Anansi Boys
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 334
Start Date: June 24
Finish Date: July 04
Title: A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams
Pages: 142
Start Date: July 08
Finish Date: Jul 09
Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Author: Edward Albee
Pages: 242
Start Date: July 09
Finish Date: July 10
Title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories
Author: Carson McCullers
Pages: 152
Start Date: July 13
Finish Date: July 18
Title: The Haunted Mask*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 121
Start Date: July 25
Finish Date: July 25
Title: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 124
Start Date: July 26
Finish Date: July 26
Title: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 123
Start Date: July 29
Finish Date: July 29
Title: You Can't Scare Me*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 120
Start Date: July 30
Finish Date: July 30
Title: One Day at Horrorland*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 123
Start Date: August 04
Finish Date: August 04
Title: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 122
Start Date: August 05
Finish Date: August 05
Title: Ghost Beach*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 119
Start Date: August 06
Finish Date: August 06
Title: It Came from Beneath the Sink*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 112
Start Date: August 07
Finish Date: August 07
Title: A Shocker on Shock Street*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 117
Start Date: August 08
Finish Date: August 08
Title: The Haunted Mask II*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 124
Start Date: August 10
Finish Date: August 10
Title: The Headless Ghost*
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 113
Start Date: August 10
Finish Date: August 10
Title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Author: Rebecca Wells
Pages: 356
Start Date: July 18
Finish Date: August 21
Title: A Game of Thrones*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 674
Start Date: August 22
Finish Date: August 26
Title: A Clash of Kings*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 728
Start Date: August 26
Finish Date: September 05
Title: The Hedge Knight*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 137
Start Date: September 05
Finish Date: September 06
Title: Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 186
Start Date: September 06
Finish Date: September 07
Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 498
Start Date: September 07
Finish Date: September 11
Title: New Moon
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 563
Start Date: September 11
Finish Date: September 16
Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 629
Start Date: September 16
Finish Date: September 18
Title: The Neverending Story
Author: Michael Ende
Pages: 396
Start Date: September 19
Finish Date: September 25
Title: A Storm of Swords*
Author: George R.R. Martin
Pages: 924
Start Date: September 06
Finish Date: September 28
Title: Watchmen
Author: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Pages: 390
Start Date: September 25
Finish Date: September 29
Title: Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Pages: 341
Start Date: September 30
Finish Date: October 01
Title: Heart-Shaped Box
Author: Joe Hill
Pages: 351
Start Date: October 01
Finish Date: October 04
Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Pages: 326
Start Date: October 06
Finish Date: October 09
Title: Desperate Passage
Author: Ethan Rarick
Pages: 272
Start Date: October 05
Finish Date: October 12
Title: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 754
Start Date: October 13
Finish Date: October 15
Title: Mountain Man Dance Moves*
Author: editors of McSweeney's
Pages: 217
Start Date: October 15
Finish Date: October 15
Title: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories*
Author: Tim Burton
Pages: 113
Start Date: October 15
Finish Date: October 15
Title: Tamsin
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 335
Start Date: October 16
Finish Date: October 24
Title: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Author: Mary Roach
Pages: 306
Start Date: October 24
Finish Date: October 30
Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
Pages: 146
Start Date: October 30
Finish Date: November 01
Title: Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Pages: 351
Start Date: November 02
Finish Date: November 07
Title: The Monsters of Templeton
Author: Lauren Groff
Pages: 361
Start Date: November 08
Finish Date: November 10
Title: The Uncanny
Author: Andrew Klavan
Pages: 404
Start Date: November 15
Finish Date: November 16
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Pages: 374
Start Date: November 18
Finish Date: November 19
Title: Beautiful Children
Author: Charles Bock
Pages: 407
Start Date: November 11
Finish Date: November 23
Title: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Pages: 240
Start Date: December 01
Finish Date: December 01
Title: The Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Pages: 192
Start Date: December 01
Finish Date: December 02
Title: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Pages: 512
Start Date: December 06
Finish Date: December 13
Book Count: 76/50
Page Count: 22,993/25,000
*Not a review; just a link to the book on amazon.com.