#38

It's driving me nuts that I've forgotten my notebook for several days in succession. I've resorted to writing in my books and, at the moment, on the inside of an Orbit Gum package....which must have my curious train companions in both awe and confusion. But I mean, why else would the inside of gum packaging be plain white, but to be the recipient of my increasingly-worn-down pencil?

And now for something entirely different: Last year, on May 20, I started Twenty Years After. Today, a year later, I finished The Sword in the Stone...50 books later. That may not seem like a lot to some of you (and maybe it does, to others) but for me, that's quite an accomplishment (now I've moved onto a WaMu receipt...at least I'm recycling). I feel very accomplished and satisfied. Fifty books in a year is quite good for someone who has spent the last 8 years reading only what school let her because that's all she had time for. And the 3 years before that were spent in Catholic School, reading Church-y books and the occasional "reading program" books, and sneaking 4 or 5 Redwall books. As someone said the other day--Oh yeah, Lives of the Saints again. Woohoo. Running out of room again...

This is pathetic. I'm writing on my friend's business card. And I'm two stops from home...I hadn't even noticed. So...anyway...books. It's a lot, and they weren't all little books, either. Dumas, yo. Represent. Okay, going home now.



For those interested:
Twenty Years After - Dumas
An Assembly Such as This - Pamela Aidan
The Dharma Bums - Kerouac
Kingdom Keepers - Ridley Pearson
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Duty and Desire - Pamela Aidan
These Three Remain - Pamela Aidan
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
Little Black Book of Stories - A.S. Byatt
Gramercy Park - Paula Cohen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Angels & Insects - A.S. Byatt
Sibling Love & Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction - Glenda Hudson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Jane and Her Gentlemen - Audrey Hawkridge
Notre-Dame de Paris - Hugo
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Dumas
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Mystery on the Moors - Barbara Michaels
Save Me the Waltz - Zelda Fitzgerald
Louise de la Valliere - Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask - Dumas
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation - Lauren Willig
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
Vanity of Duluoz - Kerouac
The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Mr. Knightley's Diary - Amanda Grange
The Knight of Maison-Rouge - Dumas
The Black Tulip - Dumas
Stiff (The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers) - Mary Roach
Interruption of Everything - Terry McMillan
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Peter and the Starcatchers - Pearson & Barry
Peter and the Shadow Thieves - Pearson & Barry
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon - Pearson & Barry
Peter Pan(novel) - J.M. Barrie
Big Sur - Kerouac
A Kiss for Cinderella - J.M. Barrie
Escape from the Carnivale - Pearson & Barry
What Every Woman Knows - J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan (play) - J.M. Barrie
Seduction & Betrayal - Elizabeth Hardwick
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
East of Eden - Steinbeck
The City as a Work of Art - Donald James Olsen
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White