I suck at updating

Reading:

Dead as a Doornail

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Completed:

15. How Starbucks Saved My Life

16. Living Dead in Dallas

17. Club Dead

18. Dead to the World

Bought:

Sookie Stackhouse novels 2-5 - Charlaine Harris

Bend the Rules with Fabric - Amy Karol

Handmade Home - Amanda Blake-Soule

Seen:

Julie and Julia

The Tudors, Season 2

I think I'm just better at reading in the summer

Reading:

Nothing at this exact moment (disregarding that damn Wuthering Heights that I just can't read more than three pages of at any one sitting), but I'm assembling a pile of vacation books.

Completed:

8. The Heroines - Eileen Favorite

9. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles - Jennifer 8 Lee

10. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Bought:

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Seen:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We are Wizards

A Very Potter Musical

Fanboys

Night at the Museum

He's Just Not That Into You

Rolling update of stuff I haven't posted in ages

Reading:

Wuthering Heights

Completed:

5. In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson

6. Looking for Alaska - John Green

7. Pretty In Plaid - Jen Lancaster

Seen:

Bride Wars

Bones Seasons 1-3

How I Met Your Mother Season 3

I Love You, Man

Reading:
253 - Geoff Ryman

Completed:
4. Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks

Seen:
Last Chance Harvey
New In Town

Reading:
How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer

Completed:
3. Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann

Reading:
Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann

Completed:
2. The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Reading:
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Completed:
1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Seen:
How I Met Your Mother, seasons 1 and 2

Completed:
Persuasion

Seen:
The Women (2008 version)

Book Total for 2008... 27

Total Austen: five of her six novels (I read Emma in 2007)
Total Fforde: six of his seven (I read The Big Over Easy in 2007)
Total memoirs: six.
Total series completed: two (Thursday Next, Twilight)
Total semi-embarrassing YA: five
Total books referencing 9/11 as semi-significant plot points: two
Total rereads: only one, Persuasion, which was a favorite of 2008 and the last book I read for the year, finished on the 31st.
Most surprising book discovery: that I did not complete a single Bryson this year... I finished one at the end of 2007 and read, but did not complete The Mother Tongue.

one long three-month wrap up

Oy. Terrible with the updating, I am.

Reading:
Persuasion - Jane Austen (reread #1... possibly the only reread I've done this year)
The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson (I may not be able to get through this one and I feel like I'm betraying a favorite author)

Completed:
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
Paper Towns - John Green
Harry, A History - Melissa Anelli
Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby
perhaps more?

Bought:
Jane Eyre (for 25c at the rummage sale)
Paper Towns
Harry, A History
Shakespeare Wrote for Money

Seen:
Young @ Heart
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Leatherheads
Tape (second viewing, but I forgot how much I like this one)
and I'm sure some others that I don't remember at the moment...

Reading:
The Fourth Bear

Completed:
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels

Reading:
probably will start First Among Sequels soon

Completed:
Such a Pretty Fat

Bought:
First Among Sequels

Reading:
TBD

Completed:
The Well of Lost Plots
Breaking Dawn
Lost in Austen: A Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
Something Rotten

Bought:
Breaking Dawn

Seen:
Manos, the Hand of Fate ala MST3K
Mama Mia

Reading:
The Well of Lost Plots

Completed:
Mansfield Park! finally!!

Bought:
The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde

Seen:
The Dark Knight
The Other Boleyn Girl
Slings and Arrows Season 3

Reading:
Mansfield Park (still, maybe one day I'll finish it)

Completed:
On Call

Bought:
Atonement
The Darjeeling Limited

Seen:
Slings and Arrows Season 2
WALL-E (x2, with the cousin, one of which was his special advance copy)
The Tudors Season 1
Mansfield Park
Sex and the City

Reading:
I suppose Mansfield Park and On Call, the same as I was before I was packing and started Twilight

Completed:
Eclipse (read back to back over seven days)
New Moon
Twilight

Bought:
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Such a Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster
(definitely something else here)

Seen:
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Shaun of the Dead

Reading:
Mansfield Park

Completed:
Lost in a Good Book

Bought:
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Reading:
On Call

Completed:
Northanger Abbey

Bought:
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson

Seen:
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Smart People
Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Reading:
Northanger Abbey

Completed:
The Eyre Affair

Seen:
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (2008)

Reading:
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Completed:
Sense and Sensibility

Bought:
Northanger Abby - Jane Austen
The Family That Couldn't Sleep - D. T. Max

Seen:
Semi-Pro

Completed:
Persuasion
Atonement

Bought:
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Seen:
Death at a Funeral
Once
Penelope