Recent Book Activity

I'm an avid reader and author of All Encompassing Trip.


My full library can be found on Shelfari where I'm the moderator of Shelfari's 50 Book Challenge

Books I read in 2010:

1. I Am the Messenger - (1/2) - Markus Zusak 368p
2. The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) - (1/24) - Stephen King 1141p
3. Bite Me: A Love Story - (1/30) - Christopher Moore 320p
4. The Giver - (1/31) - Lois Lowry 208p
5. The Shipping News - (2/13) - Annie Proulx 352p
6. Music for Torching - (2/20) - A.M. Homes 368p
7. From Dead to Worse - (2/27) - Charlaine Harris 302p
8. The End Of Alice - (2/28) - A.M. Homes 272p
9. The Girl Who Chased the Moon - (3/7) - Sarah Addison Allen 288p
10. Illustrado - (3/27) - Miguel Syjuco 320p
11. The Idiot - (4/4) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 656p
12. The Things They Carried - (4/10) - Tim O'Brien 256p
13. The Spellman's Strike Again - (4/11) - Lisa Lutz 400p
14. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - (4/23) - Stieg Larsson 576p
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) - (4/24) - MaryAnn Shaffer 290p
16. Tell All - (4/25) - Chuck Palahniuk 192p
17. Light Boxes - (5/1) - Shane Jones 160p
18. The Nobodies Album - (5/4) - Carolyn Parkhurst 320p
19. A Gate at the Stairs - (5/7) - Lorrie Moore 336p



Books I read in 2009:

73. Go with Me: A Novel (P.S.) - (12/31) - Castle Freeman Jr. 192p
72. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - (12/30) - Kurt Vonnegut 190p 2009 FAVORITE
71. Snuff - (12/28) - Chuck Palahniuk 208p
70. Altar of Eden - (12/27) - James Rollins 416p
69. Shades of Grey: A Novel - (12/23) - Jasper Fforde 400p
68. Chronic City - (12/12) - Jonathan Lethem 480p
67. The Woods - (12/4) - Harlen Coben 418p
66. Pirate Latitudes - (11/20) - Michael Crichton 320p
65. New World Monkeys - (10/09) - Nancy Mauro 304p
64. The Girl With No Shadow - (9/23) - Joanne Harris 480p
63. I Capture the Castle - (9/7) - Dodie Smith 352p 2009 FAVORITE
62. The Maze Runner - 9/4 - James Dashner 384p
61. Catching Fire - (8/30) - Suzanne Collins 400p
60. The Year of the Flood: A Novel - (8/29) - Margaret Atwood 448p
59. Love Walked In - (7/23) - Marisa de los Santos 320p
58. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West - (7/10) - Cormac McCarthy 352p
57. Tortilla Flat - (7/4) - John Steinbeck 208p
56. Summer of Love - (6/30) - Lisa Mason 384p
55. John the Revelator - (6/26) Peter Murphy 277p
54. L.A. Candy - (6/21) - Lauren Conrad 336p
53. American Adulterer (6/12) - Jed Mercurio 352p
52. Orlando: A Biography - (6/11) - Virginia Woolf 352p
51. All Together Dead - (6/5) - Charlaine Harris 352p
50. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - (5/30) - Jonathan Howard 304p
49. Glover's Mistake - (5/29) - Nick Laird 256p
48. The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel - (5/27) - Robert Crais 416p
47. The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) - (5/25) - Michael Chabon 432p 2009 FAVORITE
46. The Angel's Game - (5/20) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 470p
45. Fool Moon - (5/17) - Jim Butcher 352p
44. All That I Have: A Novel - (5/15) - Castle Freeman, Jr. 176p
43. The Shadow of the Wind - (5/10) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 487p
42. Dexter by Design: A Novel - (5/6) - Jeff Lindsay 304p
41. Thirteen Reasons Why - (5/1) - Jay Asher 320p
40. A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years - 4/27 - Gregory Maguire 336p
39. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) - (4/26) - Naomi Novik 384p
38. Definitely Dead - (4/25) - Charlaine Harris 352p
37. The Book Thief - (4/22) - Marcus Zusak 576p 2009 FAVORITE
36. B Is for Beer - (4/21) - Tom Robbins 128p
35. The Girl Who Played with Fire - (4/12) - Stieg Larsson 569p
34. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - (4/10) - Douglas Adams 224p
33. We - (4/5) - Yevgeny Zamyatin 232p
32. Brave New World - (4/4) - Aldous Huxley 288p
31. Never Let Me Go - (4/2) - Kuzuo Ishiguro 304p 2009 FAVORITE
30. Cathedral of the Sea: A Novel - 3/30 - Ildefonso Falcones 624p 2009 FAVORITE
29. Shogun - 3/28 - James Clavell 1,152 p
28. Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.) - (3/15) - Joanne Harris 336p 2009 FAVORITE
27. After Silence - (3/7) - Jonathan Carroll 225p
26. The Metamorphosis - (3/6) - Franz Kafka 76p
25. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella - (3/5) - Alan Bennett 128p
24. The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel - (3/2) - Yoko Ogawa 192p 2009 FAVORITE
23. In the Company of the Courtesan - (3/1) - Sarah Dunant 385p
22. The Hunger Games - (2/27) - Suzanne Collins 384p
21. The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) - (2/21) - Lionel Shriver 544p
20. Blindness - (2/16) - Jose Saramago 352p
19. Storm Front - (2/14) - Jim Butcher 336p
18. Fool: A Novel - (2/14) - Christopher Moore 336p
17. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - (2/7) - Junot Diaz 352p
16. Dead as a Doornail - (2/7) - Charlaine Harris 295p
15. Good Grief: A Novel - (2/4) - Lolly Winston 352p
14. Fortune's Rocks: A Novel - (2/1) - Anita Shreve 453p
13. East of Eden - (1/31) - John Steinbeck 602p 2009 FAVORITE
12. Less Than Zero - (1/24) - Bret Easton Ellis 208p
11. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel - (1/23) - Colleen McCullough 352p
10. American Psycho - (1/18) - Bret Easton Ellis 416p 2009 FAVORITE
9. Pride and Prejudice - (1/10) - Jane Austen 314p
8. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - (1/13) - Lynn Truss 240p
7. Dead to the World - (1/11) - Charlaine Harris 292p
6. Slaughterhouse-Five - (1/10) - Kurt Vonnegut 224p
5. Sepulchre - (1/9) - Kate Mosse 592p
4. The Magician's Nephew (Narnia) - (1/6) - C.S. Lewis 208p
3. The Ghost in Love: A Novel - (1/4) - Jonathan Carroll 320p
2. All Encompassing Trip - (1/2) - Nicole Del Sesto 308p
1. A Clockwork Orange - (1/1) - Anthony Burgess 192p

Books I read in 2008:

100. Club Dead - (12/30) - Charlaine Harris 292p
99. The Sugar Queen - (12/28) - Sarah Addison Allen 288p
98. Living Dead in Dallas - (12/27) - Charlaine Harris 291p
97. Dead Until Dark - (12/26) - Charlaine Harris 304p
96. The Magus - (12/25) - John Fowles 672p
95. The Blind Assassin: A Novel - (12/20) - Margaret Atwood 544p
94. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas (P.S.) - (12/20) - John Baxter 288p
93. The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole Novels) - (12/13) - Robert Crais 368p
92. Cellophane - (12/12) - Marie Arana 384p
91. Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love - (12/8) - Yehuda Koren, Eliat Negev 250p
90. The Bell Jar - (12/4) - Sylvia Plath 288p (yes, again)
89. Letters Home - (12/1) - Sylvia Plath 512p
88. The Book of Lost Things: A Novel - (11/28) - John Connolly 348p
87. When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel - (11/22) - Kate Atkinson 400p
86. The Paris Enigma: A Novel - (11/18) - Pablo De Santis 244p
85. Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery) - (11/15) - Sarah Addison Allen 320p
84. Cosmicomics - (11/11) - Italo Calvino 153p
83. Out: A Novel - (11/2) - Natsuo Karino 400p
82. The Modern Neurosis Handbook: A Guide to Coping - (10/26) - Andrea Sarvady 144p
81. The Catcher in the Rye - (10/24) - JD Salinger 224p
80. The Bell Jar - (10/19) - Sylvia Plath 288p
79. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) - (10/18) - Lawrence Block 354p
78. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - (10/15) - Tom Robbins 386p
77. Curse of the Spellmans: A Novel - (10/11) - Lisa Lutz 416p
76. Coyote Blue - (9/30) - Christopher Moore 320p
75. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - (9/22) - Steig Larsson 480p
74. Amazonia - (9/18) - James Rollins 544p
73. Breaking Dawn - (9/6) - Stepehenie Meyer 768p
72. The Soloist - (9/5) - Mark Saltzman 304p
71. Eclipse - (8/31) - Stephenie Meyer 672p
70. The Last Detective - (8/30) - Robert Crais 352p
69. The Glass Castle - (8/28) - Jeannette Walls 288p
68. My Life As A Fake - (8/23) - Peter Carey 288p
67. Galilee - (8/20) - Clive Barker 656p
66. Confessions of a Recovering Slut - (8/9) - Hollis Gillespie 272p
65. Picasso at the Lapin Agile - (8/8) - Steve Martin 78p
64. Golden Bones - (8/3) - Sichun Siv 336p
63. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany - (7/25) - Bill Buford 336p
62. The Dracula Dossier - (7/19) - James Reese 343p
61. Key Witch - (7/12) - Robert Tacoma 217p
60. New Moon - (7/9) - Stephenie Meyer 565p
59. I Love You, Beth Cooper - (7/6) - Larry Doyle 255p
58. A Girl Named Zippy (7/5) - Haven Kimmel 282p
57. The Virgin Suicides - (6/28) - Jeffrey Eugenides 256p
56. Black Cocktail - (6/25) - Jonathan Carroll 76p
55. House of Leaves - (6/23) - Mark Danielewski 709p
54. The Raw Shark Texts - (6/20) - Steven Hall 448p
53. Such a Pretty Fat - (6/15) - Jen Lancaster 400p
52. The Ice Queen - (6/10) - Alice Hoffman 224p
51. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - (6/8) - Haruki Murakami 416p
50. Twilight - (6/6) - Stephenie Meyer 498p
49. The Stranger - (6/1) - Albert Camus 144p
48. Dead Silver - (6/1) - Neil McMahon 288p
47. Generation X - (5/31) - Douglas Coupland 192p
46. Julian - (5/31) - Gore Vidal 528p
45. Windfalls - (5/25) - Jean Hegland 368p
44. The Art of Racing in the Rain - (5/18) - Garth Stein 336p
43. High Fidelity - (5/18) - Nick Hornby 336p
42. The Ruins - (5/11) - Scott Smith 528p
41. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - (5/4) - Joshilyn Jackson 320p
40. Voice of Our Shadow - (5/3) - Jonathan Carroll 189p
39. L.A. Requiem - (4/30) - Robert Crais 416p
38. The Thirteenth Tale - (4/28) - Diane Setterfield 432p
37. The Lilac Bus - (4/26) - Maeve Binchy 196p
36. Indigo Slam - (4/20) - Robert Crais 320p
35. The Plague - (4/19) - Albert Camus 320p
34. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - (4/19) - Jeanette Winterson 176p
33. Sexing the Cherry - (4/15) - Jeanette Winterson 167p
32. Sunset Express - (4/13) - Robert Crais 338p
31. Haunted - (4/12) - Chuck Palahniuk 432p
30. Antony and Cleopatra - (4/9) - Colleen McCullough 551p
29. Filth - (4/5) - Irvine Welsh 392p
28. The Diving Pool - (4/1) - Yoko Ogawa 164p
27. On, Off - (3/31) - Colleen McCullough 432p
26. Ice Hunt - (3/24) - James Rollins 544p
25. Dexter in the Dark - (3/22) - Jeff Lindsay 320p
24. Queenmaker - (3/16) - India Edghill 384p
23. Nefertiti - (3/15) - Michelle Moran 480p
22. Monster, 1959 - (3/9) - David Maine 256p
21. Middlesex - (3/8) - Jeffrey Eugenides 544p
20. No Country for Old Men - (3/2) - Cormac McCarthy 309p
19. Breakfast at Tiffany's - (3/2) - Truman Capote 178p
18. My Life So Far - (2/27) - Jane Fonda 624p
17. I Am Not Myself These Days - (2/20) - Josh Kilmer-Purcell 336p
16. Runemarks - (2/19) - Joanne Harris 544p
15. The Boleyn Inheritance - (2/16) - Philippa Gregory 528p
14. Water for Elephants - (2/9) - Sara Gruen 350p
13. Bright Lights, Big Ass - (2/8) Jen Lancaster 385p
12. Carry Me Down - (2/8) - M.J. Hyland 326p
11. Brown Girl in the Ring - (2/5) - Nalo Hopkinson 256p
10. Sputnik Sweetheart - (2/3) - Haruki Murakami 224p
9. Carter Beats the Devil - (2/2) - Glen David Gold 496p
8. Dearly Devoted Dexter - (1/25) - Jeff Lindsay 304p
7. The Penelopiad - (1/24) - Margaret Atwood 224p
6. The Origin - (1/22) - Irving Stone 774p
5. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels - (1/12) - Jasper Fforde 384p
4. The Amber Spyglass - (1/11) - Philip Pullman 480p
3. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - (1/7) - Chuck Palahniuk 336p
2. The Glass Harp - (1/5) - Truman Capote 97p
1. The Stolen Child - (1/4) - Kevin Donohue 336p

Books I read in 2007

1. Bloodsucking Fiends (1/1) - Christopher Moore 2. Exile in Guyville - (1/5)- Dave White (hilarious, reviewed on Amazon) 3. You Suck - (1/20)- Christopher Moore (reviewed on Amazon) 4. Twelve Sharp - (1/21) - Janet Evanovich 5. The Zahir - (1/28)- Paulo Coelho (have no idea how I slogged through it) 6. The Passion - (1/28) - Jeanette Winterson (EXCELLENT book!)7. The Big Over Easy - (2/4) Jasper Fforde 8. Dream Angus - (2/10) Alexander McCall Smith 9. Abundance - (2/17) - Sena Jeter Naslund10. Kafka on the Shore - (3/3) Haruki Murakami 11. All Encompassing Trip - (3/7) Nicole Del Sesto 12. Heart-Shaped Box - (3/10) Joe Hill13. Kissing the Beehive - (3/15) Jonathan Carroll 14. Between, Georgia - (3/24) - Joshilyn Jackson15. Not Quite One of the Boys - (3/25) Vincent Sakowski 16. Black Swan Green - (4/15) David Mitchell 17. The Dogs of Babel - (4/23) - Carolyn Parkhurst 18. Cat's Cradle - (4/25) - Kurt Vonnegut 19. The Road - (4/27) - Cormac McCarthy20. The Historian - (4/29) - Elizabeth Kostova 21. Norwegian Wood - (5/8) - Haruki Murakami 22. Number9Dream - (5/24) - David Mitchell 23. We Are All Fine Here - (5/25) - Mary Guterson 24. Year of Wonders - (5/26)- Geraldine Brooks 25. The Fourth Bear - (5/28) - Jasper Fforde 26. The Wild Sheep Chase - (5/30) - Haruki Murakami 27. Oryx and Crake - (6/6) - Margaret Atwood 28. Case Histories - (6/9) - Kate Atkinson 29. Gentlemen and Players - (6/13) - Joanne Harris30. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country - (6/16) - Ken Kalfus 31. The Spellman Files - (6/17) - Lisa Lutz 32. The Tenth Circle - (6/19) - Jodi Picoult 33. Post Office - (6/23) - Charles Bukowski 34. Company - (7/1) - Max Barry 35. Dark Cities Underground - (7/4) - Lisa Goldstein 36. The Wrestler's Cruel Study - (7/10) - Stephen Dobyns 37. Behind the Scenes at the Museum - (7/13) - Kate Atkinson 38. Cloud Atlas - (8/11) - David Mitchell 39. To Kill a Mockingbird - (8/12) - Harper Lee 40. In Cold Blood - (8/18) - Truman Capote 41. The Ghost Orchid - (8/21) - Carol Goodman 42. Wild Ducks Flying Backward - (8/25) - Tom Robbins 43. Kitchen Confidential - (8/30) - Anthony Bourdain 44. Dance Dance Dance - (9/3) - Haruki Murakami45. Lean Mean Thirteen - (9/11) - Janet Evanovich 46. Ginger Man - (9/24) - J.P. Donleavy 47. Hotel Pastis - (9/30) - Peter Mayle 48. Chocolat - (10/1) - Joanne Harris 49. Eleanor Rigby - (10/3) - Douglas Coupland 50. The Kite Runner - (10/5) - Khaled Hosseini 51. This Book Will Save Your Life - (10/6) - A.M. Homes 52. Emotionally Weird - (10/12) - Kate Atkinson 53. Run - (10/13) - Ann Patchet 54. The Handmaid's Tale - (10/14) - Margaret Atwood 55. One Good Turn - (10/23) - Kate Atkinson 56. Slam - (10/28) - Nick Hornby 57. From the Teeth of Angels - (11/4) - Jonathan Carroll 58. Helen of Troy - (12/2 ... finally!) - Margaret George 59. The Song of Troy - (12/8) - Colleen McCullough 60. Other Voices, Other Rooms - (12/9) - Truman Capote 61. The Firebrand - (12/20) - Marion Zimmer Bradley 62. After Dark - (12/23) - Haruki Murakami 63. The Golden Compass - (12/24) - Philip Pullman 64. The Subtle Knife - (12/25) - Philip Pullman 65. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - (12/27) - Jeff Lindsay 66. World Without End - (1/1) - Ken Follett

Books I read in 2006:

1. Fen - Freya North2. The Menstruating Mall - Carlton Mellick III 3. The Portable Door - Tom Holt4. Just A Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito 5. Hell House - Richard Matheson6. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman 7. Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut8. Key Weird - Robert Tacoma 9. Chemical Gardens - Gina Ranalli (available April 2006) 10. Sleeping in Flame - Jonathan Carroll11. Whiskey Sour - J.A. Konrath 12. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie13. M is for Malice - Sue Grafton 14. Voodoo River - Robert Crais15. State of Fear - Michael Crichton 16. In Your Dreams - Tom Holt17. A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore (BRILLIANT - Read this book! reviewed on Amazon) 18. Pip - Freya North19. Tangerinephant - Kevin Dole 2 20. Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster (reviewed on Amazon) 21. Attention. Deficit. Disorder. - Brad Listi (reviewed on Amazon) 22. By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept - Paulo Coehlo 23. It Came From Below The Belt - Bradley Sands (reviewed on Amazon) 24. A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon (excruciating)25. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coehlo (reviewed on Amazon) 26. Apathy and Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan (reviewed on Amazon) 27. What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson28. Between the Bridge and the River - Dreamy Craig Ferguson 29. Calling Out - Rae Meadows (available July 2006 - GREAT read!) 30. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut31. Deity - Vic Mudd 32. Key Weirder - Robert Tacoma33. Stupid and Contagious - Caprice Crane 34. Fallen - David Maine (reviewed on Amazon)35. Lord Vishnu's Love Handles - Will Clarke (reviewed on Amazon) 36. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde37. gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson 38. Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovich39. The Preservationist - David Maine 40. Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs41. The Broker - John Grisham 42. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk43. Lost and Found - Carolyn Parkhurst (review on Amazon) 44. Perfume - Patrick Suskind45. The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin 46. Winkie - Clifford Chase (reviewed on Amazon) 47. Echoes - Maeve Binchy48. Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy 49. Miss New York Has Everything - Lori Jakiela (reviewed on Amazon) 50. The Zero Game - Brad Meltzer51. Suicide Girls in the Afterlife - Gina Ranalli 52. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (reviewed on Amazon) 53. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn54. Bloody Mary - J.A. Konrath 55. Pilate's Wife - Antoinette May (reviewed on Amazon) 56. The Worthy - Will Clarke57. Samson - David Maine (reviewed on Amazon) 58. Room for Improvement - Stacey Ballis (reviewed on Amazon) 59. Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch - Hollis Gillespie60. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk 61. The Fortune Quilt - Lani Diane Rich62. Next - Michael Crichton