Recent Book Activity

The books on my shelf do not represent my taste in literature. Open to pretty much anything except romance. Especially like young adult lit, horror, true ghost stories, etc.

Currently Reading
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Books/Short Stories I've completed in 2011(Total to date = 24)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Road by Cormac McCarthy Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne Collins Angels' Town by Ralph CintronBird by Bird by Anne Lamott Shirley Jackson The Lottery (re-read)Eudora Welty Why I Live at the P.O. Isaac Bashevis Singer The Spinoza of Market Street Tillie Olsen I Stand Here IroningRalph Ellison Battle Royal Grace Paley An Interest in LifePeter Taylor The Old Forest Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to FindSaul Bellow Looking for Mr. Green William H. Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Ernest J. Gaines The Sky Is GrayRobert Coover The Babysitter John Barth Night-Sea JourneyDonald Barthelme Views of My Father Weeping Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Cynthia Ozick The ShawlJoyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (re-read)

Book-Boxes I'm Currently Participating In
bookstogive's I Hate Science Fiction/Fantasy k00kaburra's Classics BookboxJennyC1230's Calendar Bookbox

Book-Boxes I'm Currently Hosting
Huge Potluck Bookbox
1) JennyC1230 - Georgia 2) Flossie771 - Georgia3) ashleyosbcam - Alabama 4) Lehrerin - Illinois5) heartthumper - Kansas6) LoriPed - Oregon 7) Oliviapoolside - Washington8) Ollie1976 - North Carolina 9) bookstogive- Tennessee10) easterngirl71- Illinois 11) joniwithaj - Ohio12) spfldjohn- Massachusetts 13) 4th Estate - New Jersey<--- BOX IS HERE14) Ctychic - New Jersey

Morphing Romance Bookbox
1) KarmelK - Michigan 2) LoriPed - Oregon3) love2cook - Texas4) Aramena - Oklahoma 5) heartthumper - Kansas6) svoight - Tennessee 7) Flossie771 - Georgia8) JennyC1230 - Georgia9) dreammer - Ohio 10) donduckandy - Pennsylvania/option>11) Ctychic - New Jersey

Book-Boxes I've Completed
Laevina's Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror dreammer's Anything Goes Book BoxMarysGirl Non-Fiction Book Box Loriped'sPotpourri of Fiction Book Boxnelka35's USA - science fiction/fantasy bookbox Oliviapoolside's In Memory of Kalman BoxKaila-ann's Mixed Bag Bookbox Waternixie's Potluck Bookbox IIbksfamly's Miscellaneous Book Box #2 princess-peapod's Spring Cleaning 2009 Bookboxblackadder75's All Girl Bookbox bksfmly's misc Bookboxturnpages' "Good Books" Bookbox KarmelK's Mini BookboxPrincess-Peapod's Shrinking Bookbox literarylover's Anything Goes Bookbox lilmztaz's Summer Bookbox bksfamly's Miscellaneous Bookboxprincess-peapod's General Bookbox Tribefan's What's For Dinner Bookbox

Bookrings I've Completed
Bobbarama's The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Book-Boxes I've hosted:

Anything Goes Bookbox
Ctychic - NJMegi53 - VA DeeOhTea - RITribefan - OHkeno-mom - TX Maurean - FLariesgirl29 - TNCtychic - NJ<---Box is back home!

Huge Box of Cookbooks Bookbox
Ctychic - NJMsjoanna - NY emtmeghan - MArootmartin - MABluestocking88 - WA NMReader - NMCtychic - NJ <---Box is back home!

Spring Cleaning Bookbox
Ctychic - NJBluestocking88 - WA momofap - IAJayebirch - TXMsjoanna - NY mom2jwn - PABriansbaby - GARidingReader - FL lynlee4 - FLUnknownCritic - AR Tribefan - OHrootmartin - MACtychic - NJ <---Box is back home!

Completed Rings I've Hosted
Playing For Pizza by John Grisham
Oldreader - CABug2004 - NE Ctychic - NJ<---Book is home!

Listening Is An Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps by Dave Isay
LGinder - CAKarmelK - MI merrymari - MIBug2004 - NEsunfi - OH Jumpingin - BC Canadahyphen8 - HI Ctychic - NJ<--- Book is here!

Books/Short Stories I've completed in 2010 (Total to date = 80)
Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich Riding In Cars With Boys by Beverly DonofrioCoraline by Neil Gaiman The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsA Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrauHoles by Louis Sachar The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanLord of the Flies by William Golding (re-read) The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (re-read) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.Lowis Lowry, The Giver. Janet Evanovich, Plum Spooky.Michelle Cliff, Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place.CrimethInc for Beginners, Days of War, Nights of Love. James Joyce, Araby.Alice Munro, Boys and Girls. Alice Walker, Everyday Use.Grace Paley, Wants. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried.Ron Carlson, Blazo. Jamaica Kincaid, Girl.Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh. William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily.Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. John Cheever, The Enormous Radio.Raymond Carver, Feathers. Melissa Pritchard, Sweet Feed.Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths. Tobias Wolff, Hunters in the Snow.Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants. Stephen Crane, The Open Boat.Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find.Mary Robinson, Yours. Gary Soto, Oranges. Black Hair.Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage. Maxine Kumin, Family Reunion. Woodchucks.Joy Harjo, Remember. Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays.Thompson, The Fathers. Kevin Stein, Rhetoric.Wiliam Stafford, Traveling through the Dark. Ask Me. At the Bomb Testing Site. Walt McDonald, A Thousand Miles of Stars.Alberto Rios, Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science. Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz.Marilyn Chin, Turtle Soup. Gary Snyder, Axe Handles.Linda Hogan, Crossings. Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Blown.Anne Sexton, The Abortion. Daisy Zamora, Lineage.Lucille Clifton, at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989. For deLawd. Emily Dickinson, A Light Exists in Spring.Alice Walker, a woman is not a potted plant. StephenDobyns, Cézanne's Doubts. Pablo Neruda.Octavio Paz, Wind and Water and Stone. James Hoggard, Storm Watch.Robert Hass, Happiness. House. Lanston Hughes, The Weary Blues. Dream Variations. Rita Dove, Weathering Out. Teaching Us to Number Our Days.Carolyn Kizer, Bitch. Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous. Making a Fist.Donald Hall, White Apples. Ox Cart Man. Jimmy Santiago Baca, Green Chile.Maya Angelou, Africa. Claribel Allegria, Documentary.Elizabeth Bishop, One Art. James Dickey, In the Mountain Tent.Richard Hugo, Montana Ranch Abandoned. Denise Levertov, The Well.Mary Oliver, A Visitor. James Wright, Lying in a Hammock on William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota. A Blessing. Quincy Troupe, A Poem for “Magic.”Carolyn Forché, The Colonel. Jim Harrison, March Walk.Robert Frost, Birches.

Books/Short Stories I've completed in 2009 (Total to date = 32)
The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanDon't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix Song Of Myself by Walt WitmanAn Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedge She's Come Undone by Wally LambPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald Life of Pi by Yann MartelOedipus Rex by Sophocles The 10 Keys to Success by John BirdStardust by Neil Gaiman The Epic of GilgameshUndead and Unpopular by Mary Janice Davidson Ya-Ya's In Bloom by Rebecca WellesDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Welles Little Alters Everywhere by Rebecca WellesMatchstick Men by Eric Garcia Malcolm X as told to Alex HaleyMore Headlines by Jay Leno The Bagel Book: Recipes for Bagel Lovers by Nancy Becker Five-Finger Discount A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski How To Stop Worrying & Start Living by Dale CarnegieMagic in the Wind by Christine Feehan Marley & Me by John GroganPlaying for Pizza by John Grisham The Ponder Heart by Eudora WeltyTales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling Bite Size History Facts You Won't Believe! by Hugh Westrup Heathcliff Spins a Yarn by George GatelyJack and the Beanstalk by Melissa Tyrrell Little House Hotel by John Sandford


Each year my goal is to surpass the number of books read the previous year.

Books/Short Stories I've completed in 2008 (Total = 60)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Buried Talents by Richard MathesonPrey by Richard Matheson Dancing On The Sand A Story of an Atlantic Blue Crab by Kathleen M. Hollenbeck Witch War by Richard MathesonThe Funeral by Richard Matheson Person to Person by Richard MathesonNew Jersey Hello U.S.A. by Charles Fredeen Comet's Nine Lives by Jan BrettCesar Chavez Man of Courage by Florence M. White The Water Shell by Gretchen SchieldsEllen Foster by Kaye Gibbons No Man's Land by Paul SwiftTales for the Midnight Hour by J.B. Stamper One For the Money by Janet EvanovichTwo For the Dough by Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly by Janet EvanovichThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger The Loser's Handbook by Walter LeeCritters of Arizona Pocket Guide by Wildlife Forever Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man by Tim Allen Four To Score by Janet EvanovichAnimorphs The Message by K.A. Applegate CSI: Demon House by Collins - Rodriguez - WoodAngels and Demons by Dan Brown Skipping Christmas by John GrishamAll I Need To Know I Learned From My Cat by Suzy Becker The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris GardnerTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Shopgirl by Steve MartinThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Green Mile Two Dead Girls by Stephen King The Green Mile The Mouse On The Mile by Stephen King The Green Mile Coffey's Hands by Stephen KingThe Green Mile The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix by Stephen King The Green Mile Night Journey by Stephen KingThe Green Mile Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk KiddWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates Hands by Sherwood AndersonHills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway The Man Who Was Almost A Man by Richard WrightAn Ounce of Cure by Alice Munro Life by Bessie HeadThe Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara A Father by Bharti MukherjeeThe Lottery by Shirley Jackson Twilight by Stephenie MeyerLos Vendidos by Luis Valdez Trifles by Susan GlaspellThe Old Man & The Sea by Ernest Hemingway Still More Bone-Chilling Tales of FrightThe "M" Word (Bel Barrett Mysteries) by Jane Isenberg Death of a Salesman by Arthur MillerListening Is an Act of Love: The StoryCorps Project Million Dollar Jeans by Ron RoyEncyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Hand-prints by Donald J. Sobol The Baby-Sitter's Club Beware, Dawn by Ann M. Martin

Books/Short Stories I've completed in 2007 (Total = 23)
The Bad Beginning A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1 by Lemony Snicket The Reptile Room A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2 by Lemony Snicket The Wide Window A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3 by Lemony Snicket The Miserable Mill A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4 by Lemony Snicket The Austere Academy A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5 by Lemony Snicket The Ersatz Elevator A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6 by Lemony Snicket The Vile Village A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7 by Lemony Snicket The Hostile Hospital A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8 by Lemony Snicket The Beatrice Letters by Lemony SnicketThe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Carnivorous Carnival A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9 by Lemony Snicket Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling The 250 Job Interview Questions you'll most likely be asked...and the answers that will get you hired! The Slippery Slope A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10 by Lemony Snicket Little House on Rocky Ridge (The Rose Years)The Hardy Boys The Crowning Terror by Franklin W. Dixon Double Fudge by Judy BlumeTales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Fudge-a-mania by Judy BlumeFear Street Missing by R.L. Stein The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren WrightThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

My Ratings (Borrowed from TheDuneDan)
1 - only read a few pages
2 - read more than a few pages but didn't finish
3 - finished book, but more a chore than pleasure
4 - finished book , but wouldn't choose to read another by this author
5 - average, but wouldn't put me off another book by same author
6 - slightly better than average , would try author again
7 - better than average, would definately read this author again
8 - Very good and enjoyable would look out for author again
9 - Very very enjoyable, would recomend to others, possible permanent collection
10 - Excellent, definately permanent collection,actively recomend to others

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