Frith's Book List: 2010

[Frith]

I may be a tad bit late coming to the forum but I have been keeping a tab on what books I have read this year. My goal was to read over a hundred books but I feel like I may not make it to my goal; however, I still have a little under a month. Hard college courses, what can I say?

A little note about my list: those that have an asterisk beside them have been read more than once. I also took it upon myself to re-read a lot of my childhood favorites as part of my New Years' Resolutions which explains several of the book series like Harry Potter and The Little House on the Prairie books. =]

Books I’ve Read 2010:

1. Romeo & Juliet *
2. Dead Until Dark x2*
3. Living Dead in Dallas
4. Club Dead
5. Dead to the World
6. Dead as a Doornail
7. Definitely Dead
8. All Together Dead
9. From Dead to Worse
10. The Lovely Bones
11. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
14. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
16. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
18. White Fang
19. Dead and Gone
20. Call of the Wild
21. Shakespeare’s Sonnets*
23. Looking for Alaska*
24. Watership Down*
25. Leaves of Grass*
26. Tales From Watership Down
27. Little House in the Big Woods
28. Farmer Boy
29. Little House on the Prairie
30. On the Banks of Plum Creek
31. The Turning
32. Possession
33. Ashes to Ashes
34. All Souls’ Night
35. Riding in Cars With Boys- Beverly Donofrio
36. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
37. Traveller by Richard Adams
38. Alan Alda: A Biography by Raymond Strait
39. Tuck Everlasting
40. Richard Adam's Favorite Animal Stories
41. Catcher in the Rye
42. Readings on the Catcher in the Rye
43. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
44. Twilight
45. By the Shores of Silver Lake
46. The Long Winter
47. Little Town on the Prairie
48. These Happy Golden Years
49. The First Four Years
50. Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
51. Nine Stores by J. D. Salinger
52. Franny and Zooey

[Jez]

I used to love the Little House on the Prairie books!

How did you like the Jack London books?

[Frith]

I did/do too. I used to read them over and over again when I was younger and in January I realized that it had been at least four years since the last time I had read the series.

I love Jack London! White Fang and Call of the Wild were books I read often when I was younger too.

I think you can see a pattern with most of the books I read this year, those from my childhood. =]

[Jez]

Oh, they weren't italicized, so I didn't think they were rereads. I love them, so I'm so glad to see you like them too! Have you read The Sea Wolf? That's the other one of his I've read and enjoyed.

It sounds like so much fun to go back and revisit your old childhood favorites. :)

[Frith]

I mean the ones that were italicized were read more than once this year.

Yeah, a majority of what I have read this year has been stuff I've read in the past.

[Jez]

Ah ok. :)

[Frith]

Oh, they weren't italicized, so I didn't think they were rereads. I love them, so I'm so glad to see you like them too! Have you read The Sea Wolf? That's the other one of his I've read and enjoyed.

It sounds like so much fun to go back and revisit your old childhood favorites. :)

I haven't read the The Sea Wolf. I'll add it to my library list for Monday. =]

It really is fun to go back and reread books from your childhood; it's very nostalgic because it takes me back ten years to pre-teenhood. haha

[Jez]

I hope you like it. :) I enjoy reading about Wolf Larsen. He's an interesting character.

I love going back and rereading childhood favorites. Even when they don't stack up to my more "adult" eyes, they still bring back all the memories of reading them. It's like revisiting old friends.

[Frith]

I love going back and rereading childhood favorites. Even when they don't stack up to my more "adult" eyes, they still bring back all the memories of reading them. It's like revisiting old friends.

I usually can breeze through a juvenile fiction book, like those in the Little House series, in under a day. My younger sibling remarks at how fast I can finish a book but she is even more amazed at how fast I can read books for younger audiences.

[Jez]

Ha! Yes, that adds an extra bit of fun to reading them. I feel all proud of myself for finishing a book so quickly. :P

[Moony]

I have the Little House books, but never completely finished a book that wasn't read in class... Yeah, I was thinking to myself that I should read all those books sometime.

[Frith]

Moony, read them now! =] It's a quick series. I just finished the last one (minus the journal that was published post-humous, On the Way Home)

[Winifred]

That's an interesting mix of reads, Frith! I second Jez's suggestion for The Sea Wolf by Jack London.

I used to love rereading my favorites, still do sometimes, but, so little time, so many books.

If you like Jack London, you might like Farley Mowat's books: Lost in the Wilderness (I read a version published in papaerback as Two Against the North, don't know what they are calling it nowadays), The Dog Who Wouldn't Be and Owls in the Family are all great reads about living in the Canadian wilderness.

[Moony]

Well, I did join the reading challenge to read 30 books off my shelf for 2011. The Little House series would fit in nicely with that goal.

[Frith]

=]

I sure that I won't quite make my goal of 100 but I'm within a good range for taking hard classes that took up most of my time.

Moony, it fits perfectly.

Winifred, I'll have to add those to my reading list for next year or sooner if I finish the list I have now.