Mindless Meandering

9 November 2008
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis

October 2008
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

6 September 2008
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

14 August 2008
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall

29 July 2008
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

1 July 2008
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz (I got about halfway through this book, packed it for vacation and now can’t find it!)

25 June 2008
Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion

16 June 2008
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich  (Sorry, there is only so much I can read about alcoholic Native Americans….)

11 June 2008
The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff

27 May 2008
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (I gave up on Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  I’m just not a fan of Capote’s style.  I guess I’ll just have to see the movie.)
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson (Bedtime reading)

18 May 2008
Escape by Carolyn Jessop, with Laura Palmer

15 May 2008
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (Yes, I gave up on The Rossetti Letter–it was just too badly written.  I’m still working on Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but only at night before I go to sleep.)

14 May 2008
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips (I can’t guarantee I’ll finish this one.  I just started it and, so far, I’m not impressed)

7 May 2008
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (Book club selection – will review once we’ve discussed it)

25 April 2008
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger

14 April 2008
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan

21 March 2008
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 

18 March 2008
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brian Sanderson 

17 March 2008 (date I finished….)
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke 

13 February 2008
The Giver by Lois Lowry 

3 February 2008
Fatherland by Robert Harris 
(finished, but it’s for my book club.  I’ll post a review after we discuss it–whenever that may be!)

23 January 2008
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant 

20 January 2008
I Am America (And You Can Too!) by Stephen Colbert 
(Okay, I had to put this down for a while.  I’ve read some of it–it’s great fun, but I need something with a little more substance right now.  Plus, I got a great recommendation at my book club–see above).

 14 January 2008
The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik 

11 January 2008
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
(Put this down once I found The View from Mount Joy.  I will get back to it at some point, although someone just advised me to give up on it.  We’ll see!)

 30 December 2007
There’s No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahern 

18 December 2007
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold 

7 December 2007
With Their Backs to the World Portraits of Serbia by Asne Seierstad (sad to say, but I misplaced this while packing!)

5 December 2007
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty 

 2 December 2007
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert