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• The lack of quotation marks doesn't annoy me in this book


• like it better than No Country for Old Men

• There weren't any books that I ignored or whatever in school, so I decided to read a book that is regularly taught in school, just not to me


• was originally going to read Anne Franks diary, but there were complications. I will read it someday.


• Wish that I would have read this ten years ago. I didn't go through what Melinda went through, but I was exactly like that.


• The ending was kind of abrupt

• First read it in grade 8


• My copy has what looks to be a reject boy band on the cover


• She really hated Hank Williams


• The description of Dally reminds me of Keifer Sutherland

1. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (actually, maybe it started with this)


2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman


3. Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper


4. The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman


5. maybe Deception Point by Dan Brown

FICTION

• The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje


• In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje


• If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin


• Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (using this for the reading challenge)


• The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels


• Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez


• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez


• 1984, George Orwell


• In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust


• Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham


• The Hours, Michael Cunningham


• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury


• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas


• As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (also using for the reading challenge)


• Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson


• The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia


• Bel Canto, Ann Patchett


• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak


• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers


• The Princess Bride, William Goldman


• Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, Scott McClanahan


• A Burnt Out Case, Graham Greene


• The Tenth Man, Graham Greene


• White Oleander, Janet Fitch


• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov


• The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (using for challenge)


• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson


• On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan


• The Collector, John Fowles


• The History of Love, Nicole Krauss


• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino


• The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe


• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind


• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera


• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera


• A Convergence of Birds, edited by Jonathon Safran Foer


• Translations, Brian Friel

POETRY / ON THE SUBJECT OF POETRY

• No, Ocean Vuong


• Love, an Index, Rebecca Lindenberg


• The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee


• Everything Begins Elsewhere, Tishani Doshi


• Radical Symmetry, Katherine Larson


• Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman


• Heavy Petting, Gregory Sherl


• The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail, Gregory Sherl


• i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, mira gonzalez


• Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire


• Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Stephen Mitchell


• Here, Wislawa Szymborska


• Bluets, Maggie Nelson


• The Poetry of Pablo Neruda


• Crush, Richard Siken


• The Cinnamon Peeler, Michael Ondaatje


• The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich


• The Weight of Oranges / Miners Pond / Skin Divers, Anne Michaels


• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke


• The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux


• The Making of a Poem, Eavan Boland & Mark Strand

NONFICTION

• Just Kids, Patti Smith


• Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje


• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, Ann Patchett


• The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls


• Half Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls


• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki


• Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion


• A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit


• The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit


• The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa


• Henry and June, Anaïs Nin

1. Finished in one day: The Crow. Have been watching the movie since I was little. Amazing art.


2. Antonym in the title: N/A


3. Set somehere you've always wanted to visit: My books didn't travel very much. Also, I'm sort of a homebody. I guess London in Neverwhere. But one country that always makes me go "OMG WTF why are you so prettyful!?" is Iceland. So for 2015, I'll get a book set in Iceland.


4. Came out the year you were born: The Witching Hour.


5. Book with bad reviews: 50 Shades of Grey


6. Trilogy: Didn't get a whole one in, but finished His Dark Materials. Least sentimental/condescending childrens books ever. And so good.


7. Book from childhood: I assume this means re-read a book you read as a child, I re-read Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess before donating it.


8. Love Triangle: The Forest of Hands and Teeth


9. Set in the future: The Handmaids Tale


10. Set in highschool: Fly on the Wall


11. Colour in the title: Pink Smog


12. Made you cry: I don't know if any made me cry. Maybe Wintergirls.


13. Magic: The Night Circus


14. Graphic Novel: Fun Home


15. By An author you never read before: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. A lot would have fit into this category, but I wanted to point this book out. So good.


16. Book you own but never read: I have a shit ton of books that fit here, but I'll single out the ones that have been with me for years. Like coffee table books, do people ever read them? Mine was Birthday Secrets, an astrology book.


17. Takes place in your hometown: none, the closest was Toronto-set Scott Pilgrims Precious Little Life. Toronto is 4 hours away I think. I looked up novels set in Windsor on the library website, found a few that might be interesting.


18. Written in a different language: The Little Prince (French).


19. Christmas: A Midwinter's Tail was set in early December and mentions Christmas. Snowed in seemed to be set during winter break, but it never mentions Christmas or New Years. Or when they go back to school.


20. Author with your initials: Nope. Jodi Picoult for 2015 it is.


21. A play: N/A


22. Banned book: 1984


23. Based on or inspired by a tv show: Buffy comic book


24. Started but never finished: The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963. We started reading it in school, but then they took it off the reading list. I don't think it was banned, I think it was paperwork or something. I dunno.


25. More than 500 pages: The Witching Hour. But I won't be using the same books for several categories in 2015.

1. Suspicion (1941)


2. Johnny Eager (1941)


3. This Gun for Hire (1942)


4. The Glass Key (1942)


5. Keeper of the Flame (1942)


6. Double Indemnity (1944)


7. The Lost Weekend (1945)


8. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)


9. Notorious (1946)


10. The Big Sleep (1946)


11. The Killers (1946)


12. Deception (1946)


13. Humoresque (1946)


14. Dark Passage (1947)


15. I Walk Alone (1948)


16. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)


17. The Bribe (1949)


18. White Heat (1949)


19. In a Lonely Place (1950)