Roundup Time

Books read and blogged:

JPod - Douglas Coupland
Running With Scissors - Augsten Burroughs
I'm With the Band - Pamela Des Barres
DaCapo Best Music Writing 2008 - Various
Helpless - Barbara Gowdy
House of Meetings - Martin Amis
Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden
Flight - Sherman Alexie
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
George Elliot Clarke - I & I
Cintra Wilson - Colors Insulting to Nature

Books read, blog entries pending:

* Michael Azerrad - Our Band Could Be Your Life
* John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
* Chinua Achebe - Anthills of the Savannah
* Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
* Alan Moore - V for Vendetta
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Danny Sugerman - Wonderland Avenue

Total Books read thus far:

20

Books left to read by January 2010 (to meet goal, ostensibly)

80

Amount of books I need to read per month to make this goal:

13 (roughly)

Amount of books I probably will read per month, realistically:

Depending on the month (and my job status) 0-15


Books I'm super keen on reading in the future:

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
From Hell - Alan Moore
Fool - Christopher Moore
Columbine - Dave Cullen
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
The Drive-In - Joe R. Landsdale
Starved for Science - Robert Paarlberg
Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryanosuke
Miles: The Autobiography - Miles Davis


Books I am not so hot on reading but feel weirdly obligated to read anyway because I know their long-term effects will be important and I WILL LEARN TO ENJOY THEM:

What is the What - Dave Eggers
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Look, Homeward Angel - Thomas Mann
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer (yes. I HAVE TO.)
Where Angels Fear to Tread - Joseph Conrad
Too Fat to Fish - Artie Lange
The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
One of the Obama biographies


Books that I will under no circumstances read this year because they are too large and will make me feel bad about myself (but I would like to try them sometime):

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna What's her last name

People who seem to be into the blog despite my infrequent posting:

Around 10. This is actually more than I expected. Thanks guys!

People who seem to be secretly competing with me but are not saying this outright (judging by some sly, friendly but slightly edgy and always persistent lines of questioning)

25

If you're one of these, good on ya. Keep going, and keep telling me what you're reading and how long it took you, in your slightly detached, bored-seeming but still weirdly intense emails. It's funny. I support your efforts.

Keep on keepin' on, you all!!!