Good Reads

Have you ever heard of Goodreads? I use it to keep track of all the books I've read. Some people use it for online book clubs, book recommendations, or social networking. This is the book I just finished.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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Attic Bedroom

Widow's daydreaming with the daily paper and cat
Originally uploaded by Ladik

Over the past few months I've been having eerily vivid, crushing dreams. Recently, I dreamed about my childhood best friend who is soon to be married. The distance between us grew much to far to mend after I left for college, and bridges haven't been mended since. I dreamed that we were at our current age in an attic bedroom (much like her childhood bedroom). We lay in bed next to one another with scrapbooks of old collected memories- like we did as teenagers with Vogue and W magazines. The light poured through gauze covered windows in my dream, it was the yellow gold light of summertime. We laughed and laughed, but then she looked at me with a stone cold face and told me that she was still not inviting me to her wedding. I woke up feeling awful.
Dreams that are so close to reality, that dip their toes in the pool of your conscious, have the power to stick with you far longer then expected.

Books of 2007

Last year I made 2 indefinite resolutions: to read and exercise more. Being like the dork I am I decided to go all out and create a list that included the title, author, and a rating. 5 being the highest. Heres my list:

Books of 2007
Read

• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• 0
  
• Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
• 5
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
• 4
• Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
• 5
• The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner
• 4
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• 3 (The Secret Life of Bees was way better)
• Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen
• 4
• Snowed In: A Novel by Christina Bartolomeo
• 5
• Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
• 3.5
• A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
• 1
• Best Friends by Martha Moody
• 2
• The Brambles by Eliza Minot
• 1
• The Box Children by Sharon Wyse
• 2
• The Photograph by Penelope Lively
• 3
• The Color of Hope by Susan Madison
• 4
• Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
• 3
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• 3
• Every Good and Perfect Gift: A Novel by Brenda Jernigan
• 3
• Lottery by Patricia Wood
• 5
• The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
• 2
• The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
• 5
• Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
• 4
• Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
• 5

Books of 2007
Listened to Via Audio Book

• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
• 5
• The Last Lessons of Summer by Margaret Maron
• 2
• The Center of Everything: A Novel by Laura Moriarty
• 4
• Rise and Shine: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
• 5
• The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
• 2
• Say When by Elizabeth Berg
• 3
• A Beautiful Mind:The Life of Mathmemathical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nashby Sylvia Nasar
• 0
• My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• 5
• The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg
• 4
• Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
• 2
• What the Dead Know: A Novel by Laura Lippman
• 2
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
• 5
• The Myth of You and Me: A Novel by Leah Stewart
• 3
• The Door to December by Dean Koontz
• 0 (the voice on the recording drove me nuts, not to mention the story was awful.)
• The Last Town on Earth: A Novel by Thomas Mullen
• 2
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• 4
• True to Form by Elizabeth Berg
• 2.5
• Long Time Coming by Sandra Brown
• 1 (I didn't realize this was a romance novel until the pulsing member was mentioned, YIKES)
  
• Laced by Carol Higgins Clark
• 2

As I was typing this out I noticed how chick-lit heavy this list turned out to be. I have to admit, it is my not so guilty pleasure...along with Gilmore Girls (you really must admit how witty and clever that show is, com'on guys).