I needed some cheering up so I went to a secondhand bookstore at lunch time and... well, let's just say that I have no will power. Here's what I got - guess how many are on my reading list for this year. Ummm...none.
1. Dancer by Colum McCann
2. The Last of the Irish Males by Joseph O'Connor
3. Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (finished 24/02/08)
7. The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
8. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
9. The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend
10. Sorceress by Celia Rees (now I have to buy Witch Child soon...)
11. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
12. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
13. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
14. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
15. Folktales of the North American Indian
16. Cajun Tales of the Louisiana Bayous by Ray Robinson
2 comments:
There must be some other Challenge you can join to get these on your official list, isn't there? :-) Ha! Great list!
Lezlie
wow. that was some big cheering up you did there! ;p
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