Current Number of Books in Personal Collection:
Began the year with a total of 638 books 1/1/08.
644 as of 4/1/08

Real-Time Reading (or, what is either sitting on my desk or being read now)
Lamb by Christopher Moore

Books on Pause (books I was reading, but are presently on hold…)

Books read so far in 2008
26. The Virgin’s Lover by Phillipa Gregory
25. Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters by Phil McGraw
24. 5 Essential People Skills by Dale Carnegie Training
23. Focus: Achieving Your Highest Priorities by Stephen R. Covey
22. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyers
21. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke
20. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyers
19. New Moon by Stephenie Meyers
18. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
17. Twilight by Stephenie Meyers
16. 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask by Ilyce Glink
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
14. Firegirl by Tony Abbott
13. Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
12. Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin
11. The Perfect Body Diet by Women’s Health Magazine
10. The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
9. Lord Greville’s Captive by Nicola Cornick
8. To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
7. Loving What Is by Byron Katie
6. I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
5. Lenny’s Space by Kate Banks
4. Allure: Confessions of a Beauty Editor by Linda Wells
3. Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
2. Blood Ties III: Ashes to Ashes by Jennifer Armintrout
1. Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Books Read in 2007
ended the year with a total of 638 books in personal collection
31. No Talking by Andrew Clements
30. Heat by Max Lupica
29. You Suck by Christopher Moore
28. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
27. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
26. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
25. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
24. Nancy Drew #8: Nancy’s Mysterious Letter by Carol Keene
23. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
22. Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain
21. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone (Book 2) by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
20. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide (Book 1) by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
19. Merlin by Jane Yolen
18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
17. It’s Easy Being Green: a handbook for earth-friendly living by Crissy Trask
16. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
14. Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
13. Hobby by Jane Yolen
12. Passager by Jane Yolen
11. Tiger Rising, The by Kate DiCamillo
10. Small Murders by Carrie McGath
9. The Land of Elyon Book 1: The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman
8. Juliet Dove, Queen of Love (A Magic Shop Book) by Bruce Coville
7. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
6. Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
5. Grimoire for the Green Witch by Ann Moura
4. Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2. Blood Ties: Possession by Jennifer Armintrout
1. Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Favorite Books:
Avalon by Anya Seton
Beauty and the Beast by Marianna Mayer
Blood Ties: Possession by Jennifer Armintrout
Blood Ties: The Turning by Jennifer Armintrout
Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Daily Life in Medieval Times by Frances & Joseph Gies
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Emma by Jane Austen
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Faeries by Brian Froud
Flutterby by Stephen Cosgrove
Flutterby Fly by Stephen Cosgrove
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Gift From the Sea by Anne Lindbergh
Good Faeries, Bad Faeries by Brian Froud
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter Books, Years 1, 3, 5 and 7 (hmm… all odd numbers. Odd.)
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
Little, Big by John Crowley
the Love-Artist by Jane Alison
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Rides the Unicorn by Adrian Mitchell
Paganism by Joyce Higginbotham
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli
Susannah Morrow by Megan Chance
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
the Translator by John Crowley

Books to Read:
Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas
Dragons of Pern Series by Anne and Todd McCaffrey
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell
The Poison Apples by Lily Archer
Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
Vampire of New York by Lee Hunt
Lady of the Roses by Sandra Worth
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Marked by P.C. & Kristin Cast
Sorcery & the Single Girl by Mindy Klasky
Girls Guide to Witchcraft by Mindy Klasky
Bras and Broomsticks by Sarah Mlynowski
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan
Frogs and French Kisses by Sarah Mlynowski
Spells and Sleeping Bags by Sarah Mlynowski
Skinny Bitch
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
Secrets of a Former Fat Girl
How Did I Get So Busy?
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Dexter
Guardians of Ga’Hoole by Kathryn Lasky
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

Favorite Authors:
Austen, Jane
Gaiman, Neil
Moore, Christopher