I’ve been doing a lot of reading and viewing this year, and I wanted to at least briefly reflect on what I’ve read and seen. I’ll probably forget some things, but here goes…

Reading:
(in no particular order)

The Man in the Ceiling, Jules Feiffer
Cat’s Cradle
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Calculating God, Robert J. Sawyer
The Toy Collector, James Gunn
Birdsong, Rumi poems translated by Coleman Barks
The Love Poems of Rumi, translated by Deepak Chopra
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
The Outsiders, SE Hinton
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus J. Borg
Coraline
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Blankets, Craig Thomspon
Why I Hate Saturn
You Are Here
I Die at Midnight, Kyle Baker
Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Roger Housden
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
From a Buick 8
Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower, Stephen King
America: The Audiobook, Jon Stewart
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (audiobook), Al Franken
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
An Acceptable Time, Madeline L’Engle
Oryx and Crake
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
If the Buddha Dated, Charlotte Kasl
True Story Swear to God: Chances Are…, Tom Beland
Slightly Settled, Wendy Markham
Dearly Beloved, Wendy Corsi Staub
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
Angels & Demons
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Speak, Laura Halse Anderson
Waltzing the Cat, Pam Houston
Back Roads, Tawni O’Dell
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Holes, Louis Sachar
Messenger, Lois Lowry
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Dave Barry Slept Here, Dave Barry
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Written on the Body, Jeannette Winterson
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Not too shabby of a list, I think. I’ve been introduced to a lot of new stuff, wrapped up some stuff that’s been going on for a *long* time (*cough* Dark Tower *cough*), picked up a couple of classics, read some things by some favorite authors, discovered some new favorite authors and enjoyed some timeless YA lit. All in all, a good year for reading. 🙂

Here are some of the things still on my “to read” list:

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Edible Woman
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
High Fidelity
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
Sammy’s Hill, Kristin Gore
Kiss Her Goodbye, Wendy Corsi Staub
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Euginedes