Reading, 2007

I'm blogging this from Arizona, where it hasn't rained in, oh, at least 24 hours. The sun is shining, I haven't had a wool sweater on since I got here, and there has been plenty of bourbon consumed. I suppose I might get bored living someplace where the weather stayed the same all the time, but at least it wouldn't be rain all the time.

I joined TBR (To Be Read) as part of my NY resolution to read more. Here's my list.

TBR List for 2007

Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising Dorothy Dunnett, Niccolo Rising Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride A. S Byatt, Babel Tower Carolyn Chute, Merry Men Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing To Sarantium Peter Matthiessen, Lost Man’s River Nuala O’Faolain, My Dream Of You Joyce Carol Oates, The Falls Orhan Pamuk, Snow

12 books, 12 months. These were chosen randomly from my shelves. I would note that a few of them are "firsts" in their series (the Bell, Dunnett, and Kay books), so I may end up sidetracked. Whatever. (Deb, note that Niccolo made the list!)

And, An Alternate List, in case of fast reading, or if I despise a book and can’t finish it. Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler John Updike, In the Beauty Of The Lilies Ahdaf Soueif, The Map Of Love Jane Smiley, Moo John Cowper Powy, A Glastonbury Romance Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Of the Pointed Firs Wallace Stegner, All The Little Live Things

If you want to join, there's a Yahoo group. The rules are that you choose 12 books that have been hanging around your house collecting dust, and read them over 12 months. There are prizes along the way for those who keep up. They have to be new-to-you books, not re-reads. I think I can find 12 from that list that will work for me in the coming year.

Oh, and you have to sign up by the end of this month, or you're out of luck.

And now it's cocktail hour. Until next time...