Number of Books Read: 88
Number of RABCKs & Trades received (Thanks to all you generous BookCrossers!): 17
Number of Bookrings & Rays Participated in: 17
Number of Bookrings & Rays Started: 10
Number of Books Released Into the Wild: 21
Number of Books Caught in the Wild: 2
Earliest Written: Physica (Physics) by Aristotle (c. 330 BCE)
Most Recently Published: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (July, 2007)
First Book Finished in 2007: The Tommorow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence
Last Book Finished in 2007: World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
Canadian Challenge Books of 2007:
The Tommorow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
Wacousta by John Richardson
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler
The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill
World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
Top Books of 2007:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Wacousta by John Richardson
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I, The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill
World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
Other Books I Enjoyed in 2007:
The Tommorow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence
The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
Mrs.Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Physica (Physics) by Aristotle
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian
Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
Worst Books of 2007:
(none of which were too bad this year)
Talon by Paulette Dubé
Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Complete List of Books Read in 2007:
- The Tommorow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- In the King’s Service by Katherine Kurtz
- The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
- The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
- The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
- Talon by Paulette Dubé
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Mrs.Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn
- Wacousta by John Richardson
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
- Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Weight by Jeanette Winterson
- The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
- Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Richard II by William Shakespeare
- Sonnets of William Shakespeare
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
- Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
- Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
- “B” is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
- Physica (Physics) by Aristotle
- Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman
- An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- “C” is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
- St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler
- The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
- The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
- Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie
- The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- The Manticore by Robertson Davies
- The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- De Caelo (On the Heavens) by Aristotle
- “D” is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
- Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
- Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian
- “E” is for Evidence by Sue Grafton
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I, The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
- Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
- “F” is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
- “G” is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
- De Generatione et Corruptione (On Generation and Corruption) by Aristotle
- The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill
- “H” is for Homicide by Sue Grafton
- World of Wonders by Robertson Davies