One of the main reasons I’m posting my summer reading recap so late, is that I’ve tried to post it several times and gave up because I realized how boring it is. At the beginning of the summer I set a goal of seven specific books to read this summer, and I ended up reading all of them. The books were:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Night by Elie Wiesel
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
I think the reason I find this so boring to post about is that I already talked about all of these books in my monthly Polysyllabic Spree posts.
Anyway, I’m happy that I met my goal. I definitely learned my lesson from the summer of 2007, when I picked out 15 books and only read 6 of them. I’ve learned I’m not good about sticking to pre-set lists, especially over a long time frame.
Overall this summer, I read 32 books. Nice improvement from Summer 2007 (18 books). The books I read were:
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
- The Penderwicks of Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- The Solitary Vice Against Reading by Mikita Brottman
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- American Bloomsbury Susan Cheever
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
- The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
- Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
- The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by P. G. Wodehouse
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
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