2008 Book List

[jayson]

[*]The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon (audio)

I read this one last fall and really enjoyed it. I was hooked from the start as i found the whole premise of a jewish homeland in Alaska rather than the Middle East fascinating.

The audio version I have is read by Peter Reigert [who played Boone in Animal House] who has a great voice for it. Very enjoyable story once it really gets going. Hope you enjoy it when you get to it CR!

[CRinVA]

[*]The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon (audio)

I read this one last fall and really enjoyed it. I was hooked from the start as i found the whole premise of a jewish homeland in Alaska rather than the Middle East fascinating.

The audio version I have is read by Peter Reigert [who played Boone in Animal House] who has a great voice for it. Very enjoyable story once it really gets going. Hope you enjoy it when you get to it CR!

It's next in line after I finish Water for Elephants! I have to plan out my audio books by how I get them from the library and if they can be renewed. Most of them have waiting lists and you never know which will come in first! Some might have a bigger list but also the library system may have more copies! And I end up getting them faster. As an example, when I reserved A Thousand Splending Suns I was #66 on the list - I think I am #28 now! Its been about 2-3 months since I put it on my list.

I have a book The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell that I just keep renewing as I get others that have to be read. If there is no waiting list you can renew over and over. If there is a list you have to return in the allotted time - 3 weeks I think.

I actually have 4 audio books in the car right now and just got notificaiton that No Country for Old Men is ready for pickup. The Ruth Rendell book keeps sliding to the back of the pack! I'llpick up the new book and drop of 20th Century Ghosts in a few days. When you reserve they usually give you 1-2 weeks to actually go and pick them up before they put them back in circulation.

I listen only on comute days - M to F - but I sometimes work from home - and I drive about 75 minutes each way so I get through 2+ CDs per each day that I drive to work!

[fernandito]

Updated list:
3. Mister B. Gone-Clive Barker

Be sure to let me know how it is, Brice!

[Brice]

Updated list:
3. Mister B. Gone-Clive Barker

Be sure to let me know how it is, Brice!

I fucking loved it. I'm not sure if I like it as much as The Books of Blood, but I vanished in it and it is great to see Clive make a return to horror.

[Erin]

Updated List:

1. Imajica - Clive Barker
2. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
3. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
4. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

[fernandito]

Updated list:
3. Mister B. Gone-Clive Barker

Be sure to let me know how it is, Brice!

I fucking loved it. I'm not sure if I like it as much as The Books of Blood, but I vanished in it and it is great to see Clive make a return to horror.

"Good, real horrorshow!!"

Updated List:

1. Imajica - Clive Barker

How'd you like it?

[Erin]

Oh wow I loved it FP! Really a great, epic book. I even had a dream about Gentle the other night.

[OchrisO]

Updated:

The Immortals by Tracy Hickman
Confessor by Terry Goodkind
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice by Karen Travvis
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Golden Compass(put this down a while back and finally picked it back up) - Phillip Pullman

[Erin]

Oo oo are you reading The Subtle Knife next? It's really really good.

[OchrisO]

If I can manage to aquire an audio version of it. I plan to. I was listening to The Golden Compass at work.

[jayson]

UPDATED

Read:
Wolves of the Calla [audiobook re-read] - Stephen King
Song of Susannah [audiobook re-read] - Stephen King
Road to the Dark Tower - Bev Vincent
The Act You've Known for All These Years - Clinton Heylin
War Fever - J.G. Ballard
Passion Is a Fashion [The Real Story of The Clash] - Pat Gilbert
Duma Key - SK

Currently Reading:
The Many Lives of Tom Waits - Patrick Humphries
American Gangster - Marck Jacobson

[Darkthoughts]

1. Insomnia ~ SK (reread)
2. The Shining ~ SK (reread)
3. A Rage In Harlem ~ Chester Himes
4. A Thief Of Time ~ Terry Pratchett (reread)
5. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat ~ Oliver Sacks
6. The Colorado Kid ~ SK
7. Duma Key ~ SK
8. The Stand ~ SK (reread)
9. Thud! ~ Terry Pratchett - currently reading

[fernandito]

I'm almost ashamed to post my list, it's pretty much a dwarf compared to everyone else's

Catch-22 (completed)
A Game of Thrones (completed)
The Hobbit (currently reading)
Duma Key (will commence shortly)

[Hannah]

Already read:
4 Anita Blake books (thanks to the coworker who duped me into getting hooked on them)
Sandman v. 6 & 7

Currently reading:
American Gods
Cerulean Sins - Laurell Hamilton

On the list:
More Neil Gaimen
The other Sandman volumes
Duma Key
Blaze
all the other Laurell Hamilton books
Rant (I should have read this a long time ago, but I don't want to read my signed copy...)
Cormac McCarthy's The Road and No Country For Old Men

[Erin]

Your signed copy...

And you will totally love Rant. It has replaced Choke as my favorite Chucky P book.

[fernandito]

It has replaced Choke as my favorite Chucky P book.

They're going to make a movie out of Choke! It's going to star Sam Rockwell and Angelica Houston, if my memory serves me correctly.

[Daghain]

UPDATED

Christine - Stephen King (reread)
Water for Elephants - Susan Gruen
Lost Boy Lost Girl - Peter Straub
A Widow for One Year - John Irving
Blaze - Stephen King
Cujo - Stephen King (reread)
Danse Macabre - Stephen King (trying to finish this time!)
The Dark Half - Stephen King (reread)
The Memory of Running - Ron McLarty (reading)

[Erin]

Daggers, how was Water for Elephants? I've picked it up over and over again at the bookstore, but never bought it.

[Daghain]

It was awesome! Nothing I would have normally picked up for myself, but my boss lent it to me and it turned out to be a really good read!

[jayson]

i'd never heard of it until you mentioned it Dag, but reading some reviews of it, it sounds very interesting. i may have to pick it up after I finish American Gangster this weekend.

[Daghain]

Another good one from my '07 list was The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. My boss loaned me that one, too. I'd picked it up a couple times but never bought it. It was an awesome read.

[Heather19]

Thanks Daghain, I had never heard of either of those books, but I just looked them up and they both sound really interesting. I'll have to add them to my list of books to read.

[Jean]

updated list:

in Russian:

1. Дина Рубина. На солнечной стороне улицы [Dina Rubina. On the Sunny Side] - novel
2. Дина Рубина. На Верхней Масловке [Dina Rubina. At Upper Maslovka] - novel
3. Дина Рубина. Двойная фамилия [Dina Rubina. Double Name] - novel
4. Дина Рубина. Рассказы (Любка; Воскресная месса в Толедо; Гладь озера в пасмурной мгле) [Dina Rubina. Short Stories: Lyubka; Sunday Mass in Toledo; Lake Surface at Twilight]
5. Дина Рубина. Астральный полет души на уроке физики. - Рассказы. [Dina Rubina. Astral Flight of Soul and a Physics Class.] - Short Stories (reread)
6. Николай Носов. Рассказы [Nikolay Nosov. Short Stories (for kids)] (reread)
7. Николай Носов. Повести. [Nikolay Nosov. Three novels (for kids)] (reread)
8. Борис Акунин. Шпионский роман [Boris Akunin. Spy Novel. (from Project: Genres)] (reread)
9. Борис Акунин. Фантастический роман [Boris Akunin. Fantasy Novel. (from Project: Genres) (reread)
10. Александр Бушков. Полковник, ставший капитаном. [Alexander Bushkov. Colonel Who Became Captain.] Non-fiction.
11. Астрид Линдгрен. Карлсон, который живет на крыше. [Astrid Lindgren. Karlsson on the Roof] - Novel (for kids); Translated from Swedish. (reread)
12. Астрид Линдгрен. Приключения Калле Блюмквиста. [Astrid Lindgren. Kalle Blomkvist's Adventures] - Novel (for kids); Translated from Swedish. (reread)
13. Александр Бушков. А.С.: Секретная миссия. [Alexander Bushkov. A.S.: Secret Mission] - Novel (reread; in progress)
14. Юрий Поляков. Замыслил я побег. [Yuriy Poliakov. Escape] - Novel (reread)
15. Юрий Поляков. Козленок в молоке. [Yuriy Poliakov. Goat in Its Mother's Milk] - Novel (reread)
16. Александр Бушков. Иван Грозный: кровавый поэт. [Alexander Bushkov. Ivan the Terrible] - nonfiction
17. Владимир Соловьев. Путин: путеводитель для неравнодушных. [Vladimir Soloviev. Putin: a Guide] - nonfiction.
18. Юрий Поляков. ЧП районного масштаба. [Yuriy Poliakov. Emergency] - novel (reread)
19. Юрий Поляков. Работа над ошибками. [Yuriy Poliakov. Mistakes Correction] - novel (reread)
20. Юрий Поляков. Грибной царь. [Yuriy Poliakov. Mushroom King] - novel (reread).
21. Юрий Поляков. Подземный художник. [Yuriy Poliakov. Subterranean Artist] - novelette.
22. Юрий Поляков. Возвращение блудного мужа. [Yuriy Poliakov. The Return of a Prodigal Husband] - novelette.
23. Виктор Пелевин [Victor Pelevin]. Generation P. - Novel (reread)
24. Виктор Пелевин. Чапаев и Пустота. [Victor Pelevin. Chapaev and Emptiness]. - Novel (reread)
25. Виктор Пелевин. Священная книга оборотня. [Victor Pelevin. The Sacred Book of Kitsune] - Novel
26. Анна Старобинец. Убежище 3/9 [Anna Starobinetz. Shelter 3/9] - Novel

in German:

1. Andersen. Märchen. (in progress)

in English:

1. Stephen King, Peter Straub. Black House (reread)
2. William Kotzwinkle. The Bear Went Over the Mountain
3. Stephen King. The Tommyknockers (reread)

[OchrisO]

Updated:

The Immortals by Tracy Hickman
Confessor by Terry Goodkind
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice by Karen Travvis
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Golden Compass(put this down a while back and finally picked it back up) - Phillip Pullman
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk(another I started long ago and just got around to finishing)
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Inferno by Troy Denning

[CRinVA]

My Updated 2008 Reading Lists

Finished

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson (audio)
• 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill (audio)
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen (audio)

Currently Reading

• Duma Key, Stephen King
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon (audio)

Planning on Reading

• No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy (audio) - Next in Line
• The Long Road Home #1 - #5, Marvel Comics
• The Water's Lovely, Ruth Rendell (audio)
• Candles Burning, Tabatha King/Michael McDowell
• We're All In This Together, Owen King
• The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (audio)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (audio)
• Paul of Dune, Brian Herbert/kevin J. Anderson
• Brisingr, Christopher Paolini
• Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo