Copy of Booklist 2010

I finished 2 new books, A Big Little life and Smoking Mirror. I started another book, a reread: The Prodigal Summer. I am about 1/13th of the way through. I am LOVING IT! I forgot how much I loved it. It's the audio book--I read the paper one years ago. The thing about the audio book is that Barabara Kingsolver HERSELF is reading it and has a wonderful voice!!!

BIG little is about Dean Koontz's dog, a golden retriever that had been a helper dog. It's pretty good, if you don't mind pooping and peeing and barfing and a little religious stuff. Of course, it made me cry.

Smoking Mirror is about Gauguin and is interesting but a little strange. I liked it.

I am probably, after I do some errands, going over to Roalndale--I am writing this from google docs, becasue I have hurry, I have not been to gmail and don't know when I will get a chance, not for a while. It is sunny and nice--did I tell you the aconites are coming up out front, and tiluips are up, and daffies now 4-6 inches. And justs ince yesterday, the Hellebore (Easter Rose) double bud is up another couple inches.

I have still NOT started The poet and the Lady. It's a hardcover book.

Booklist 2010

1. The Blue Roan Child, Jamieson Findlay, Jan 2, 2010
   
2. The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynn Reid Banks, Jan 2, 2010
3. Summer on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber, January 3, 2010
4. Angel Rock, Darren Williams, January 4, 2010
5. Angel City, by Tony Johnston and Carol Byard, ch, Jan 7, 10 (read twice)
   
6. I Can Make You Thin, by Paul McKenna
7. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster, Jan 12, 2010
8. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, Jan 15, 2010
9. Back on Blossom Street, Debbie Maccomber, Jan 19, 2010
10. Home, Marilynn Robinson, January 20, 2010
11. Housekeeping, Marilynn Robinson, January 25, 2010
12. Where Angels Go, Debbie Macomber, 1-31-10
13. Muggie Maggie, Beverly Cleary, Children's, 2-1-10
14. Animals in the Snow, Margaret Wise Brown, children's, 2-2-10
15. The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith, 2-3-10
16. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, rr, 2-10-10
17. Gilead, by Marilynn Robinson, 2-18-10
18. The Big Six, by Arthur Ransom, 2-21-10
19. 74 Seaside Ave, Debbie McComber, 2-25-10
20. Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith
21. Dust for Dinner, Ann Turner & Robert Barrett, children's
22. Twenty Wishes, Debbie Macomber, 3-10-10
23. Morris the Artist, by Laure Segal, children's, 3-13-10
24. A BIG little life, Dean Koontz, 3-15-10
    
25. Smoking Mirror, Douglas Rees, 3-16-10
    

rr = reread
ch = children's

Unfinished books 2010:

1. Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton, March, 2010--read half (UGH!) :-( too much graphic violence for me. The story line would have been interesting if it weren't for the overdone violence. I would guess this is probably a book intended for those "Men are from Mars" men.
   

Movies 2010--Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (read first, much earlier)