I want to try to put together my list of books that I have read in 2010 so I thought it might motivate me to publish for my Sunday Favorites post an old post from January 4, 2010 in which I listed all the books I had read in 2009.
So here's my list and I hope to get my 2010 list done sometime this week. Please visit the lovely Chari of Happy to Design and see what other great "blasts from the past" others are sharing this Sunday!
A favorite post
originally posted on
January 4, 2010
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown
1. Faith of My Fathers ~ John McCain
2. Bitter Grounds ~ Sandra Benitez
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
3. Twilight ~ Stephanie Meyer
4. New Moon ~ Stephanie Meyer
5. Eclipse ~ Stepanie Meyer
6. Breaking Dawn ~ Stephanie Meyer
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
7. Odd Thomas ~ Dean Koontz
8. The Disappearance of Lyndsey Barratt ~ John Wilson
9. The Wedding ~ Nicholas Sparks
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke
10. A Day To Pick Your Own Cotton ~ Michael Phillips
11. The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart ~ Michael Phillips
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
12. Mrs. Kimble ~ Jennifer Haigh
13. A Million Little Pieces ~ James Frey
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
14. Good in Bed ~ Jennifer Weiner
15. At First Sight ~ Nicholas Sparks
16. rising ~ Darnella Ford
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney
17. Duplicate Keys ~ Jane Smiley
18. Icy Sparks ~ Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley
19. The Nanny Diaries ~ Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
20. Promise Not To Tell ~ Jennifer McMahon
21. Lovely Bones ~ Alice Sebold
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross
22. Lost and Found ~ Carolyn Parkhurst
23. Losing It ~ Valerie Bertinelli
24. I know this much is true ~ Wally Lamb
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
I'm starting 2010 by reading a book my sweet daughter April gave me for Christmas.
It's Julie & Julia by Julie Powell.
What are you reading in the New Year?
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