Number of Books Read: 45
Number of RABCKs & Trades received (Thanks to all you generous BookCrossers!): 8
Number of Bookrings & Rays Participated in: 4
Number of Bookrings & Rays Started: 1
Number of Books Released Into the Wild: 8
Number of Books Caught in the Wild: 1
Earliest Written: Athenaion Politeia (The Athenian Constitution) by Aristotle (c. 335 BCE)
Most Recently Published: I Am America and So Can You! by Stephen Colbert (October, 2007)
First Book Finished in 2008: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Last Book Finished in 2008: Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Canadian Challenge Books of 2008:
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles by Anna Brownell Jameson
As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Top Books of 2008:
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles by Anna Brownell Jameson
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Lucrece by William Shakespeare
Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Other Books I Enjoyed in 2008:
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
King Leary by Paul Quarrington
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
Meteorologica by Aristotle
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
Roman Literature and Society by R. M. Ogilvie
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Ruling Passion by Reginald Hill
Worst Books of 2008:
(neither were actually bad per se, only I had very, very high expectations and was disappointed because I didn’t thoroughly enjoy them)
From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Complete List of Books Read in 2008:
- Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
- The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
- I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
- I am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
- Icefields by Thomas Wharton
- The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
- Lucrece by William Shakespeare
- “I” is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
- Winter Studies and Summer Rambles by Anna Brownell Jameson
- The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snickett
- The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
- The Penalty Box by Deirdre Martin
- Chasing Stanley by Deirdre Martin
- One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
- Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
- Meteorologica (Meteorology) by Aristotle
- Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
- Roman Literature and Society by R.M. Ogilvie
- Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Snobbery with Violence by Marion Chesney
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- “J” is for Judgment by Sue Grafton
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- Ruling Passion by Reginald Hill
- Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
- Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
- “K” is for Killer by Sue Grafton
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- “L” is for Lawless by Sue Grafton
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
- Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie