Summer Reading 2008 Recap

One of the main reasons I’m posting my summer reading recap so late, is that I’ve tried to post it several times and gave up because I realized how boring it is. At the beginning of the summer I set a goal of seven specific books to read this summer, and I ended up reading all of them. The books were:

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Night by Elie Wiesel
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

I think the reason I find this so boring to post about is that I already talked about all of these books in my monthly Polysyllabic Spree posts.

Anyway, I’m happy that I met my goal. I definitely learned my lesson from the summer of 2007, when I picked out 15 books and only read 6 of them. I’ve learned I’m not good about sticking to pre-set lists, especially over a long time frame.

Overall this summer, I read 32 books. Nice improvement from Summer 2007 (18 books). The books I read were:

  1. Night by Elie Wiesel
  2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  3. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
  4. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
  5. The Penderwicks of Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
  6. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  7. Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
  8. The Solitary Vice Against Reading by Mikita Brottman
  9. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  10. American Bloomsbury Susan Cheever
  11. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  12. Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
  13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
  14. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
  15. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
  16. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  17. Emma by Jane Austen
  18. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  19. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
  20. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  21. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  22. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
  23. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  24. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
  25. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  26. Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by P. G. Wodehouse
  27. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
  28. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
  29. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  30. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
  31. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  32. How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

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By Emily

Book-hoarding INFJ who likes to leave the Shire and go on adventures.

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