december 2007

ellis peters - black is the colour of my true love's heart (again) [28-4]
ilona karmel - stephania (again) [4-9]
sylvia plath - the bell jar (again) [10-15]
w somerset maugham - of human bondage (again) [17-29]

november 2007

daniel horch - the angel with one hundred wings (again) [1-3]
barbara kingsolver - prodigal summer (again) [2-6]
anita shreve - the polit's wife (again) [7-8]
andre dubus - house of sand and fog (again) [8-10]
sue miller - while i was gone (again) [11-13]
kathleen cambor - in sunlight, in a beautiful garden (again) [14-24]
jane hamilton - a map of the world (again) [17-26]
leo tolstoy - anna karenina [22-

october 2007

roddy doyle - a star called henry [23-15]
george orwell - 1984 (again) [27-16]
amy tan - the bonesetter's daughter (again) [17-19]
margaret atwood - alias grace (again) [20-23]
mary roach - stiff (again) [24-30]

september 2007

bill bryson - in a sunburned country (again) [30-8]
anna gavalda - i wish someone were waiting for me somewhere (again) [9-10]
ha jin - waiting [10-19]
john fowles - the collector [20-21]

august 2007

sean wilsey - oh the glory of it all [31-5]
robert m. martin - there are two errors in the the title of this book [5-]
sophie kinsella - shopaholic ties the knot [6-7]
miles harvey - the island of the lost maps [9-12]
aj jacobs - the know-it-all... (again) [12-17]
patrick mcmanus - the bear in the attic [17-27]
sarah macdonald - holy cow [20-26]
amulya malladi - the mango season [26-28]

jane magazine

i've been reading jane magazine for some time now. and altho it's super cheap for a subscription (only $8 for a full year!), for some reason, i've never subscribed. recently some friends of mine gave me a gift subscription and i was super happy. on wednesday i finally got my first issue in the mail. that night, while online, i found out that jane magazine had folded the week before. ...wtf?! at first i felt really bad, as if me not subscribing contributed to the failure of the magazine. but i don't think it did, cause i bought it every month from newstands, which actually brings in a greater profit. but anyway, now that jane mag has ended, i wonder wat's gonna become of my subscription and my friends' $8?

july 2007

frank mccourt - 'tis a memoir [28-2]
ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451 (again) [2-4]
anita shreve - resistance [4-6]
chang-rae lee - native speaker [7-10]
the best american short stories of 2003 [12-16]
martin page - how i became stupid (again) [16-18]
jose saramago - the history of the siege of lisbon [19-]
simon winchester - the professor and the madman [21-23]
bill bryson - a walk in the woods [23-26]
chad kultgen - the average american male [27-30]

june 2007

jon krakauer - into thin air (again) [30-2]
leo tolstoy - anna karenina [3-]
barbara kingsolver - the poisonwood bible (again) [5-12]
joan dejean - the essence of style (nonfiction) [12-15]
yukio mishima - the sailor who fell from grace with the sea (again) [16]
[vacation 17-27]

may 2007

bill bryson - the lost continent (again)
steve martin - shopgirl: a novella
bill bryson - i'm a stranger here myself (again)
anita shreve - a wedding in december [fin 23]
beverly swerling - city of dreams [24-29]

April 2006

michael crichton - the andromeda strain (again)
michael crichton - the terminal man (again)
michael crichton - timeline (again)
tobias wolff - the night in question
anna gavalda - i wish someone were waiting for me somewhere

march 2007

esquire presents: what it feels like... (again)
yann martel - the life of pi
stephen king - skeleton crew (read / skimmed) (again)
stephen king - night shift (read / skimmed) (again)
stephen king - nightmares and dreamscapes (read / skimmed) (again)
michael crichton - airframe (skimmed) (again)

men's life or boy's guide?

i'm a female in my early/mid 20s. a lot of the guys around my age who have magazine subscriptions are getting laddie mags, aka maxim, fhm... i don't like these boys. they are not the type of guy i want to end up marrying (if and when i do). i realize that if i do get married. it probably won't be anytime soon and most likely will not be to some early/mid 20 year old guy. but still. the magazine subscription says something.

the type of guy i prefer, if he is getting a men's interest magazine, is getting something like gq or esquire. smart and funny, but still sexy. this is a man's magazine. boys get maxim.

which are you?

february 2007

sophie kinsella - confessions of a shopaholic
jose saramago - blindness
alice steinbach - educating alice
ann patchett - taft
the best american short stories 1998

january 2007

jane hamilton - the book of ruth
bill bryson - the life and times of the thunderbolt kid: a memoir
kathryn harrison - the binding chair
jhumpa lahiri - the namesake
chuck palahniuk - stranger than fiction: true stories
suzanne finnamore - otherwise engaged (again)
emily griffin - something blue

started but didn't finish:
azar nafisi - reading lolita in tehran: a memoir in books
kelly link - magic for beginners