A look back..
Dec. 15th, 2007 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rkoldIt's been nearly a year since I started going to the gym. In that time period, I don't think I've lost weight, but I do think I am in better shape. Even nicer, I've gotten to do more reading. I've always loved to read but I am a horrible slow reader and over the last few years I'd been reading mostly fan-fic and not actual books.
So for 2007 I read for the first (or re-read since I'd not read in 15+ years):
The Nanny Diaries
Good Omens
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Fast Food Nation
Learning to Bow
The Tipping Point
Bait and Switched
The Devil Wears Prada
Around the World in 80 days (re-read)
The Bone Doll's Twin
Hidden Warrior
Oracle's Queen
Shelters of Stone
I am currently about half way through The Discontinuity of Small Things and Blink Oddly, I find Blink and Bait and Switched just not as entertaining as the previous books by their respective authors and they've been a real chore to get through. I'm also not so fond of The Discontinuity of Small Things. The writing style seems too pretentious to me, though the story it's trying to tell is interesting. I got tons of books as gifts for Channukah/My birthday including: The True Meaning of Smek Day, The United States of Arugula, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse and two books from my sister in law, The Pinhoe (latest Chrestomanci book) and His Majesty's Dragon. I also have Triangle, The Romance Reader, The Pact, Never Let Me Go, and A Gesture Life. I have some others that look good as well. ^_^;; I'm also sort of interested in reading/getting Thunderstruck now after finding out it's about Dr. Crippen and Marconi because I just know Captain Kendal will have to be in it!
So for 2007 I read for the first (or re-read since I'd not read in 15+ years):
The Nanny Diaries
Good Omens
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Fast Food Nation
Learning to Bow
The Tipping Point
Bait and Switched
The Devil Wears Prada
Around the World in 80 days (re-read)
The Bone Doll's Twin
Hidden Warrior
Oracle's Queen
Shelters of Stone
I am currently about half way through The Discontinuity of Small Things and Blink Oddly, I find Blink and Bait and Switched just not as entertaining as the previous books by their respective authors and they've been a real chore to get through. I'm also not so fond of The Discontinuity of Small Things. The writing style seems too pretentious to me, though the story it's trying to tell is interesting. I got tons of books as gifts for Channukah/My birthday including: The True Meaning of Smek Day, The United States of Arugula, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse and two books from my sister in law, The Pinhoe (latest Chrestomanci book) and His Majesty's Dragon. I also have Triangle, The Romance Reader, The Pact, Never Let Me Go, and A Gesture Life. I have some others that look good as well. ^_^;; I'm also sort of interested in reading/getting Thunderstruck now after finding out it's about Dr. Crippen and Marconi because I just know Captain Kendal will have to be in it!
