Book Log 2009
Book Log 2009
Eclipse of the Sun
by Michael D. O’Brien
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Plague Journal
by Michael D. O’Brien
Strangers and Sojourners
by Michael D. O’Brien
Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
(notes)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
by Neal Stephenson
(described in this post)
The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
Betsy’s Wedding
by Maud Hart Lovelace
Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Heaven to Betsy
by Maud Hart Lovelace
(notes)
Meet the Malones
by Lenora Mattingly Weber
Beany Malone
by Lenora Mattingly Weber
When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
North Park: A San Diego Urban Village, 1896-1946
by Donald P. Covington
(parts)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
by Maud Hart Lovelace
(review)
Viola in Reel Life
by Adriana Trigiana
Twisted
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
by Bill Willingham and Lan Medina
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
by Jacqueline Kelly
Pretty Dead
by Francesca Lia Block
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
by Scott Wiedensaul
(I didn’t finish, but it’s excellent)
The Pretend Wife
by Bridget Asher
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan
Lost
by Jacqueline Davies
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
The Chosen One
by Carol Lynch Williams
Sweethearts
by Sara Zarr
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
Genesis
by Bernard Beckett
The Bite of the Mango
by Mariatu Kamara
with Susan McClelland
Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card
Chocolate Unwrapped
by Rowan Jacobsen
(notes)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E. Lockhart
The Actor and the Housewife
by Shannon Hale
(notes)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
George & Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism
by Charlotte Moore
Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
by Nick Hornby
The Rosary
by Karen Edmisten
(review)
The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
(notes)
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
by Laurie Viera Rigler
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
(notes)
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
(notes)
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
by Nick Hornby
(notes here and here)
Elephants Can Remember
by Agatha Christie
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
by Rowan Jacobsen
(notes)
Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
“The Sisters”
by James Joyce
Damosel: In Which the Lady of the Lake Renders a Frank and Often Startling Account of her Wondrous Life and Times
by Stephanie Spinner
(I interviewed her in this post)
The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour
Stolen
by Vivian Vande Velde
(notes)
Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor
by Mike Costa and Fiona Staples
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
(notes)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by Cory Doctorow
(notes)
The Plain Princess
by Phyllis McGinley
The Sherwood Ring
by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
(notes)
Great Books
by David Denby
(parts)
The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir
by Cylin Busby and John Busby
Murder on the Orient Express
Pride and Prejudice
Austenland: A Novel
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Square
by Henry James
(notes)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Daisy Miller
The Great Gatsby
Lolita
The Twilight of American Culture
The Music Teacher
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple Mysteries)
The Ten-Year Nap
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
