50 Book Challenge for 2011

[wild roses]

I read 32 books altogether:

1.Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
2.The Chimes by Charles Dickens
3.High Spirited Women of the West by Anne Seagraves
4.Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
5.Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman edited by Barbara H. Solomon
6.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
7.An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
8.Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot by Jay Mulvaney
9.Anne of Windy Willows by L. M. Montgomery
10.Villette by Charlotte Bronte
11.Peony in Love by Lisa See
12.Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn
13.Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda
14.The Windsor Style by Suzy Menkes
15.Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery
16.The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters by David Grafton
17.Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
18.Diana, Queen of Style by Jackie Modlinger
19.Edith Head: The Fifty-year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer by Jay Jorgensen
20. Mandy by Julie Edwards
21.Lucie Babidge's House by Sylvia Cassidy
22.Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years by Hamish Bowles
23. Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
24.The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
25.The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
26.Audrey Hepburn: a Woman, the Style edited by Stefania Ricci
27. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
28. All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse by Martin Gottfried
29. The Blythes are Quoted by L. M. Montgomery
30. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship "Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick
31. The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson
32. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

 

[Nils]

I must say, big thumbs up to all of you guys. I must say, I've never completely read a book that I didn't have to read for school. It's just so hard for me, I just don't have enough patience I think. I'm always in awe when people are reading books with 300+ pages or more. I remember that when I was young, I was always super impressed by those "intelligent" kids who read super thick books, but when I decided I wanted to become one of them and read those books myself, I always fell asleep after 5 pages. I guess I'm more of a movie person.