Anyway, I started out January with about two hundred unread books lying around the house and ended the month with...umm...uncountable amounts of books unread. Even though I started actively tracking the books that I read in May 2009, all of the books that I acquired this year came from Paperback Swap and Library Book Sales, as well as several trips to our local library. I ended up with approximately 36 books read - I'm sure that I read more than that this year, but as I only started recording the books that I read in May, I couldn't tell you with any certainty what I read up until then. Quite a number of my books that I read this year left my house to go to new homes so that's something I guess. :)
Let me try to break down the influx for you:
Re-reads:
- The Basement by Bari Wood
- A Place Called Saturday by Mary Astor
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
- The Legacy by Jere Cunningham
Changes to the TBR pile
Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Painting the Darkness by Robert Goddard
- The Haunting of Sara Lessingham by Margaret James
- Errands by Judith Guest
- Exorcist: The Beginning by Stephen Piziks
- Martha Stewart Just Desserts: The Unauthorized Biography by Jerry Oppenheimer
- The Lost Queen by Norah Lofts
- The Magic Cottage by James Herbert
- One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward
- Firebird by Janice Graham
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- Call in the Night by Susan Howatch
- Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
- The House at Sunset by Norah Lofts
- Nickel Dreams: My Life by Tanya Tucker and Patsi Bale Cox
- Crown of Aloes by Norah Lofts
- The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
- The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi
- An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
- Out of the Dark by Norah Lofts
- A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
- The Ice House by Nina Bawden
- To See a Fine Lady by Norah Lofts
- The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
- The Brittle Glass by Norah Lofts
- Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
- The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon
- Duma Key by Stephen King
Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! :))
- Second Heaven by Judith Guest
- The Tarnished Eye by Judith Guest
- The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
- Duma Key by Stephen King
- The Great Fire by Monica Dickens
- The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
- Dear Doctor Lily by Monica Dickens
- The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon
-Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let the Doctor Get Away With Murder by James B. Stewart
- The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy
- Three-Dimensional Needlepoint by Gale Litvak
- Complete Guide to Creative Needlepoint by Jo Bucher
- 120 Needlepoint Design Projects by Charles Barnes and David Blake
- Nature in Needlepoint by Eva Brent and Meg Merrill
- Ireland by Mark Morris and Anthony Cassidy
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
-Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
- Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds and David Patrick Columbia
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- Give us This Day by R. F. Delderfield
- The Doctor's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Deception and Two Gruesome Deaths by John Glatt
- House Sensation: Spirited and Stylish Home Decoration by Anne McKevitt
- Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case by Jack Kneece
- Claudia's Shadow by Charlotte Vale Allen
- My Beloved Son by Catherine Cookson
- Now You Know by Kitty Dukakis and Jane Scovell
- Crescent City by Belva Plain
- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
- The Case of Lucy Bender by Lawrence Sanders
- The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Moninger
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- Horror House by J. N. Williamson
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
- The Town House: The Building of the House by Norah Lofts
- The History Channel: History's Mysteries: Dead, Doomed and Buried by Jane Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens
- The History Channel Presents Haunted History: Ghostly Graveyards and Spooky Spots by Cameron Banks
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
- Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney
- Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
- The Truth About the Irish by Terry Eagleton
- Unsolved Mysteries...Stranger Than Fiction by Clifford L. Linedecker
- The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere
- Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal by Ann Rule- Celtic Book of Seasonal Meditations: Celebrate the Traditions of the Ancient Celts by Claire Hamilton
- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
- Hints and Tips to Make Life Easier by Reader's Digest Editors
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Spartina by John Casey
- Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen
-Ghosts: Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories by John Alexander
-Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky
-The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
-Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
-Call in the Night by Susan Howatch
- Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward
- Crown of Aloes by Norah Lofts
-Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
-The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley
- Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman
- The Painter's Composition Handbook by Jan Herring
- Your Naturally Healthy Home: Stylish, Safe Simple by Alan Berman
- Medieval Castles of Ireland by David Sweetman
- Encyclopedia of 312 Scroll Saw Designs by John La Forge
- The Godmother: The True Story of the Hunt For the Most Bloodthirsty Female Criminal in Our Time, Griselda Blanco by Richard Smitten
- Painting in Watercolor by Kate Gwynn
- Watercolour Painting: The Ron Ranson Technique by Ron Ranson
- Rockport's Colors For Living: Baths by Jennie L. Pugh and Sandra Ragan
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
- Anyone's Daughter: The Times and Trials of Patricia Hearst by Shana Alexander
- A Candle For St. Jude by Rumer Godden
- Plain Grief by Maxine Chernoff
- Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany by Peter Wyden
- Joy in the Morning: A Novel by Betty Smith
- Dreams of Other Days by Elaine Crowley
- Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Pilgrim's Progress: In Today's English by John Bunyan
- Slave Girls by Wensley Clarkson
- The Power of Darkness by Doris Sutcliffe Adams
- The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading year for me. Here's a further breakdown:
Books Read: 36
Pages Read: 21,663
Grade Range: A+! to C!
So, there you go! The reading year that was 2009! I hope that you all had an equally good reading year; if not a little better. :) See you all next year! :)
Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight
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