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My Life in Literature Meme

January 3, 2016 at 5:28 am (In So Many Words, Uncategorized) (2015, books, my life in literature meme)

Piggy-backing off of A World of Randomness who apparently piggy-backed off me, which I’m sure I ripped off someone else at some point… It seems we book bloggers love revisiting this bit of fun every year.

Using only books you have read this last year (2015), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title.

Describe yourself: A Scattered Life (Karen McQuestion)

How do you feel: Screw-jack (Thompson)

Describe where you currently live: Paper Towns (John Green)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Haunted Bookshop (Morley)

Your favorite form of transportation: Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees (Agosta)

Your best friend is: Wild (Strayed) [Not really, it’s just the only thing that seemed to fit.]

You and your friends are: Looking for Me (Hoffman)

What is the best advice you have to give: How to Build an Android (Duffy)

What’s the weather like: Rain (Kirsty Gunn) / Storm Front (Jim Butcher)

You fear: Everything I Never Told You (Ng)

Thought for the day: It’s About Time (Evers)

How I would like to die: Peace Like a River (Enger)

My soul’s present condition: A Grief Observed (C.S. Lewis)

My Complete 2015 Reading List is as follows (kid /young adult chapter books were read aloud to the kiddo):

1. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King

2. Serendipities: Language & Lunacy – Umberto Eco

3. The Haunted Bookshop – Christopher Morley

4. The Death of Woman Wang – Jonathan Spence

5. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis

6. Magic Tree House #20 – Mary Pope Osborn

7. One Hundred & One Dalmatians – Dodie Smith

8. Guide to Wild Foods & Useful Plants – Nyerges

9. A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin

10. The Excellent Wife – Martha Peace

11. Garden Crafts for Kids – Diane Rhoads

12. The Homeschool Life – Andrea Schwartz

13. The Gardener’s Bed Book – Wright

14. Wild – Cheryl Strayed

15. One Woman Farm – Woginrich

16. The Quarter Acre Farm- Spring Warren

17. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

18. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick

19. Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry – Elizabeth McCracken

20. Dirty Pretty Things – Michael Faudet

21. How Reading Changed My Life – Anna Quindlen

22. The Penultimate Truth – Philip K. Dick

23. Observations on the River Wye – Gilpin

24. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

25. Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees – William Agosta

26. How to Build an Android – Duffy

27. The Pythagorean Theorem: The Story of Its Power and Beauty – Alfred S. Posamentier

28. Clans of the Alphane Moon – Philip K. Dick

29. Minority Report – Philip K. Dick

30. A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis

31. The Man of Numbers – Keith Devlin

32. Pheromones and Animal Behavior: Communication by Smell & Taste – Tristram D. Wyatt

33. Ape and Essence – Aldous Huxley

34. Solar Lottery – Philip K. Dick

35. Deadly Ruse – E. Michael Helms

36. The Almagest – Ptolemy

37. The Clover House – Henriette Lazaridis Power

38. The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke

39. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

40. Looking for Me – Beth Hoffman

41. The House of Paper – Carlos Maria Dominguez

42. The Colossus and Other Poems – Sylvia Plath

43. High Moon – E.J. Bosley

44. Nerve – Bethany Macmanus

45. A Scattered Life – Karen McQuestion

46. Liber Abaci – Fibonacci

47. Vanity Fare – Megan Caldwell

48. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie

49. The Martian – Andy Weir

50. Critical Lessons – Nel Noddings

51. Echo – Lorena Glass

52. Jewel of the Seven Stars – Bram Stoker

53. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

54. Haunting Jasmine – Anjali Banerjee

55. Casey of Cranberry Cove – Susan Koch

56. The Christie Curse – Victoria Abbott

57. City of Dark Magic – Magnus Flyte

58. Screw-jack – Hunter S. Thompson

59. CATastrophic Connections – Joyce Ann Brown

60. Where I Was From – Joan Didion

61. Getting the Girl – Zusak
62. The Secrets of Droon #1 – Tony Abbot (read this aloud to kiddo)
63. Storm Front – Jim Butcher
64. The Pharaoh’s Cat – Maria Luisa Lang

65. Paper Towns – John Green

66. The Quick and the Dead – Louis L’amour

67. Early Bird – Rothman

68. It’s About Time – Liz Evers

69. The Secrets of Droon #3 – Abbott (read this aloud to kiddo)

70. Better With You Here – Gwendolyn Zipped

71. Rain – Kirsty Gunn

72. Sackett – Louis L’amour

73. Transcendental Wild Oats – Louisa May Alcott

74. Fern Verdant and the Silver Rose – Diana Leszczynski (read this aloud to kiddo)

75. Secrets of Droon #7 – Abbott (read aloud to kiddo)

76. 16 Lighthouse Road – Debbie Macomber

77. The Emotionally Destructive Relationship – Vernick

78. Peace Like a River – Leif Enger

79. Keeper – S. Smith

80. The Year of Learning Dangerously – Quinn Cummings

81. Anemogram – Rebecca Gransden

82. The Summer We Read Gatsby – Danielle Ganek

83. Wren – Regina O’Connell

84. The Writing Circle – Corinne Demas

85. The Good Neighbor – A.J. Banner

86. Spelling V – Meb Bryant

87. Ross Poldark – Winston Graham

88. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng