Books I've read so far this year...

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1. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
2. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
5. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
8. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
9. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
10. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
11. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
12. Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game by Stoker Hunt
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

14. The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger -- So far, out of all of the books I've read this year, this one is my favorite. It's about a man with a genetic mutation called chrono-displacement. In other words, he gets unstuck in time for minutes, hours, and even days. He usually shows up in the nude during events having to do with his past or his future. Of course, the story focuses on the life he and his wife shared together. It brought up some interesting themes on free-will versus determinism. I definitely recommend this one!

An aside...I wish I could read more. My neck keeps getting pissed off and I can only sit with a book for limited amounts of time. Pooh! :(

Comments

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Thanks very much for the review. I'm not wary of long books and at the point when I picked it up last, I believe that I wasn't fully treated for my depression so being in that heavy everything feels too hard state coupled with pretty much zero motivation to get anything done (including even checking a book out at the book store to see if I'd like it) must have skewed my opinion and for whatever reason stuck with me afterwards.

Sounds like the book is my style completely. I love books that are organized a bit different from the standard and I love so much getting to know a main character of a book that moving that up to two characters sounds absolutely awesome!

In other words, putting it on my Amazon wish list (which I print out every other weekend to take to the used book store) and going to read it for my read 50 books challenge in 2009 (I already have the rest of my 2008 schedule planned out).