A book a week

Target: 100+
Running total:

Several years ago I decided that I would do my utmost to read a book a week, because I felt like I was getting out of the habit of reading new things and I thought that having a goal to aim for would help. The effort paid off, and it's something I've kept up (off and on) ever since -- it encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.

2007 showed some improvement (no house-moves, one job-move). I've made a resolution to read War and Peace and Ulysses before I'm 30, but will carry on reading other stuff inbetween (the interstices in which I live).

Owen & I are still on LibraryThing and have made a New Year's Resolution to finish cataloguing everything this year...

WeekBook(s) read
Jan 1 - Jan 7Jacqueline Wilson, How to survive summer camp
Jan 8 - Jan 14Charlie Higson, Hurricane Gold
Jan 15 - Jan 21Frank Ormsby (ed.), The hip flask: short poems from Ireland
 Brigid Brophy, Flesh
Jan 22 - Jan 28Muriel Spark, The Abbess of Crewe
Jan 29 - 4 FebAndreï Makine, A life's music
5 Feb - 11 Feb 
12 Feb - 18 FebLeo Tolstoy, War and Peace
19 Feb - 25 FebJosephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
 James Kennaway, Silence
26 Feb - 3 MarJ. G. Ballard, The Crystal World
 Malcolm Bradbury, Cuts
4 Mar - 10 MarMike Carey, Vicious Circle
 Menis Koumandareas, Koula
11 Mar - 17 MarMike Carey, Dead Men's Boots
 Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
18 Mar - 24 MarTove Jansson, Fair Play
25 Mar - 1 AprGraham Greene, May We Borrow Your Husband? and other comedies of the sexual life