Comments on Magpie Musing: 2011: A Year In Books

I saw every year I'm going to write down the b...

2012-01-10T16:29:55.752-05:00

I saw every year I'm going to write down the books I read. And ... every year I fail to do so! I did update my goodreads this morning...but only to include very recent things. Hmmm...but...I have my Kindle & Nook & iBook aps...so...ok, off to goodreads again!
btw...got a sample of make the bread, buy the butter ... it intrigued me, but I haven't bought it yet...

I'm grateful for goodreads, too, because usual...

2012-01-06T21:54:58.811-05:00

I'm grateful for goodreads, too, because usually by the end of the year I can't remember what I read at the beginning! According to goodreads I read 29 books, but I know I read more books to MQ that I didn't bother to record, and I think one or two personal books may have slipped through the cracks as well.

I read (or listened to) 63 books last year. Plus b...

2012-01-05T10:00:20.041-05:00

I read (or listened to) 63 books last year. Plus books I read to my children that weren't counted on GoodReads. I read The Magic Pudding, some Laura Ingalls Wilders, a Moomintrolls, Carbonel, etc. to the youngest. To the eldest, I can only recall Tom Sawyer. Because it was the next-to-last. We're in the middle of Huck Finn right now. Maybe I should be tracking those too?

Ooh, I can't believe I haven't read Mrs. B...

2012-01-05T00:02:55.287-05:00

Ooh, I can't believe I haven't read Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler with my kids yet. That is one of my all-time faves.

Our big achievement was listening to the unabridged, audiobook versions of Harry Potter. It took a year! And I just finished Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese), which I enjoyed very much.

I can hardly remember what I read last year. Which...

2012-01-04T23:22:23.342-05:00

I can hardly remember what I read last year. Which is incredibly sad given that I'm a closet bathtaking/ toothbrushing/sittingatthestoplight kind of reader. If it's good! But in the last half an hour I did read The Giving Tree with my kindergartner- he got 3-4 pages into it.And listened attentively to my second grader read to me all about Helen Keller. I'm going to check out good reads!!

I do love me some Good Reads. Having looked at my ...

2012-01-04T12:04:45.150-05:00

I do love me some Good Reads. Having looked at my mere 33 books for 2011 I challenged myself to do 40 for 2012. We shall see. One down, though most of it was read in 2011. I'll take the win!

did your daughter like the finn family moomintroll...

2012-01-04T09:54:47.845-05:00

did your daughter like the finn family moomintroll? mine do not, much to their mother's disappointment.

My greatest reads of last year were the Game of Th...

2012-01-04T04:25:37.921-05:00

My greatest reads of last year were the Game of Throne books. I loved them so much that I still keep trying to find fantasy books and reading them just to re-create the whole experience of escapism plus deeply enjoyable prose. And failing. But I can't give up just yet.

By the way, I finally did your Monday aversion and discovered that your aversion to canned tuna is at the heart of our deepest problems as a society. I didn't quite do it justice, but I tried.

I knew you were the perfect person to get "Re...

2012-01-03T22:31:10.530-05:00

I knew you were the perfect person to get "Reality is Broken."

The book I just finished reading is Packing for Ma...

2012-01-03T22:13:08.219-05:00

The book I just finished reading is Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach. I highly recommend it. As well as the rest of her books.

I'm going to try to figure that out, especiall...

2012-01-03T21:13:59.163-05:00

I'm going to try to figure that out, especially the read-alouds, but I need to wait to ask the kids for help remembering the full list....

Assembling my year of books post now. I love Good...

2012-01-03T20:34:28.291-05:00

Assembling my year of books post now. I love Goodreads to an almost creepy extent. I love seeing your food-ish books listed - anxious to hear how the olive oil one was (scandalous? didn't know olive oil had scandals associated with it).