Well, I'm not going to make my goal of 12,000 pages read, but I did read more than last year. I managed to get over 10K, so 85% of my goal isn't too bad.
Since, there is no need to read like crazy for the rest of the night, here's this year's accomplishment:
| Author | Title | Finish Date | Pages | From List | |
| 1 | Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | 1/9/2008 | 187 | X |
| 2 | DeLillo | White Noise | 1/20/2008 | 326 | X |
| 3 | Caldwell | Tobacco Road | 01/24/08 | 184 | X |
| 4 | London | The Sea-Wolf | 2/28/2008 | 287 | |
| 5 | Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 4/14/2008 | 165 | X |
| 6 | Naipaul | A House for Mr. Biswas | 4/21/2008 | 564 | X |
| 7 | O'Hara | Appointment in Samarra | 4/28/2008 | 240 | X |
| 8 | Styron | Sophie's Choice | 5/17/2008 | 562 | X |
| 9 | Meyer | Twilight | 7/24/2008 | 498 | |
| 10 | Meyer | New Moon | 7/26/2008 | 563 | |
| 11 | Meyer | Eclipse | 8/1/2008 | 629 | |
| 12 | Meyer | Breaking Dawn | 8/28/2008 | 754 | |
| 13 | Lancaster | Such a Pretty Fat (Seriously, Another Memoir): A Narcissist's Quest to Discover if her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big or Why Pie is not the Answer | 9/2/2008 | 379 | |
| 14 | Dreiser | An American Tragedy | 9/7/2008 | 856 | X |
| 15 | Smart | By Grand Central Station I sat Down and Wept | 9/9/2008 | 206 | X |
| 16 | Kingston | Tripmaster Monkey | 9/20/2008 | 340 | X |
| 17 | Gilbert | Eat, Pray, Love | 9/27/2008 | 334 | |
| 18 | Smith | The Top 10 Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class | 10/18/2008 | 118 | |
| 19 | Dacyczyn | The Complete Tightwad Gazette | 11/1/2008 | 927 | |
| 20 | Cramer | What It Takes | 11/9/2008 | 1051 | |
| 21 | Sarton | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing | 11/15/2008 | 220 | X |
| 22 | Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | 11/16/2008 | 179 | X |
| 23 | Windling | The Wood Wife | 11/22/2008 | 320 | X |
| 24 | Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury | 11/30/2008 | 321 | X |
| 25 | Eker | Secrets of the Millionaire Mind | 12/8/2008 | 202 |
So I got sucked into Twilight. I will blame it on the fact that I went to high school with Stephanie Meyer (nee Morgan). I also was majorly sidetracked with reading and researching financial books. And since I'm making excuses here, I was a fool to think that I could get through War and Peace (which would have put me over 12k) in ten days.
Recommendations from this year include What it Takes, Fahrenheit 451, Sophie's Choice and The Tightwad Gazette.
I'm in the middle of a number of books. I got really distracted this year and lost focus on "The List" but I'm not that worried about it. I did manage to get 14 from the list read and at one point this year I hit 33.33% finished. That was a decent milestone.
On my nightstand and currently reading:
War and Peace -Tolstoy
The Weekend Millionaire Mind-Set - Summey and Rodgers
The One-Minute Millionaire - Allen and Hansend
The Frugal Duchess - Rosenberg
The Rainbow - DH Lawrence
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer and Barrows
Up next: Ender's Game - I hear it's great.
I'm bumping up next year's goal to 15k pages read. Even though I didn't meet the 12K from this year, with more focus I know I could have.
- Mood:
satisfied

