There are so many possible way to look at a year full of reading! Let's look at the year behind us in as many ways as we can!
Feel free to copy my questions and answer only the ones that are applicable to you and post your reply as a comment to this thread!
What was the best Fictional book you read?
Believe it or not, I have four titles that tie for this designation:
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
Love and Other Near Death Experiences by Mil Millington
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
What was the best Non Fiction book you read?
#1- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Honorable Mention - Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
What was the best book you liked but didn't expect to like?
Saving Fish From Drowning : A Novel by Amy Tan
What was the best book series you read?
The Flavia deLuce Mysteries by Alan Bradley
Name the best book that you re-read this year.
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Was there a title that everyone else loved but you just couldn't get into even though you tried?
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J. K. Rowling
What was the best book that held a bit of mystery?
I have a few that fit here:
Flavia deLuce Mysteries (of course)
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Love and Other Near Death Experiences by Mil Millington
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Name a book you really wanted to like and did like.
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (because I loved The Time Traveler's Wife, also by her, so well .)
Name a book you really wanted to like but did not care for as much as you'd hoped.
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls (because I really LOVED One Day, also written by him.)
What was the best self-help/philosophy/religion title you read?
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore and also
Mister God, This is Anny by Fynn
What was the best book that you finally read but had been meaning to for years?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Name a book whose genre designation you disagreed with after you read the book.
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (This book was designated as "Young Adult. While it is about 19 year olds I really don't feel that anyone younger than 18, or possibly as low as 16, should be reading this. I feel it has maturer themes than I would expect for a book of this genre. I think I'd say the same for this book: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green.)
Name a book that opened your eyes to something you weren't aware of previously.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
What book from this year do you think you could read again already?
I Am he Messenger by Markus Zusak or
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger or
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What title made you cry the hardest?
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denvery Moore
Mister God, This is Anny by Fynn
What title made you laugh the hardest?
Awkward Situation for Men by Danny Wallace or
Love and Other Near Death Experiences by Mil Millington or
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
What was the best juvenile/children's title?
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
What was the best book someone gave you?
Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me by Howie Mandel
What was the best book that someone recommended to you?
I think I found out about this book through the homeschool website I post my reading at monthly. I always read the reviews posted by other moms.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
What is the title you have most recommended to others?
One Day by David Nicholls, my superlative of 2009 or
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley from this year's list
What title is most necessary to have on your personally definitive shelf of books; one you couldn't be without?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What book do you wish you hadn't read?
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical... By Marc Acito
How many books did you read this year?
72
Do you track your reading? How?
Yes. I've used www.librarything.com since Jan 2007 but I've kept records of my reading since spring of 2003 I think. All that I can recall has been recorded on my librarything shelves.
I have never tracked my reading to such a great scale (Gosh!). But now I so wish I had done that.. time for some contemplation..
ReplyDeleteHajra, the good news is that it is easy to begin tracking your reading and I can encourage you that you will be able to recall many of the previous titles you have read so that you may list those now too.
ReplyDeleteMy preferred site for tracking my reading is
www.librarything.com .
The site is free for your first 200 books (at least those are the terms that I recall). After tat number of books you can purchase a yearly or lifetime membership. I purchased a lifetime membership as soon as I began using the stie and it was only about twenty bucks!
If you join the site and would like some help with it, just let me know. I have done tutorials of the site for other people. The most important thing to know to make the site most functional for yourself is that "tags" are ways to designate the books into groupings that make the most sense for you.
The tags that I most often use are:
Own - for when we own the book, Library - if we've borrowed the book, Loaned to...- if I've loaned my book to someone, a designation of the subject matter, a deisgnation of the genre of the book, the month and year that I finished reading the book.
I list every book on my librarything as soon as I begin reading it and place it in the "Currently Reading" collection folder.
Again, if you join the site (free) and you would like some help with it, just let me know.
You can find me there and ask to befriend me so that we can see each other's shelves by looking for me as "TogetherForGood".