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schmericaThe subject line is a big huge lie. LIE! The truth value is NIL.
In reality, I turned twenty-one lying on the couch in my parents' living room, watching Buster Bluth get his hand bitten off by a seal. I am sure you can see how that is PRACTICALLY the same thing, though!
In conclusion, BIRTHDAY.
*cough*
(Random note: I am loving pandora.com, but why are all the good songs unable to be bought on iTunes? It played me a cover of "Blitzkrieg Bop" the other day by a band called the Beautiful South and it was the best thing I have ever heard. *covets*)
Here is my list of every single book I read as a 20-year-old:
Books Read, 12/13/04 - 12/12/05
1. Faking It by Jennifer Crusie
2. Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
3. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
4. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner
5. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
6. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
7. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
8. Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis (reread)
9. Frederica by Georgette Heyer
10. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (reread)
11. The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
12. The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
13. As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
14. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
15. Revisions edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Spindel
16. Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
17. A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease, and Other Cultural Revelations by Cintra Wilson
18. The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
19. This Can’t Be Happening At eadMacDonald Hall by Gordon Korman
20. Grass as His Pillow by Lian Hearn
21. What the Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie
22. Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
23. Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
24. Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
25. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
26. Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
27. Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie
28. Weird and Tragic Shores: the Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer by Chauncey Loomis
29. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
30. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
31. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
32. Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (reread)
33. The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
34. No Way to Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley
35. Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
36. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
37. A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
38. We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
39. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
40. Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
41. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
42. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
43. The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
44. Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivations, and Hybrids of the English Language by Kate Burridge
45. The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
46. Saint Augustine by Garry Wills
47. A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
48. The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle
49. Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
50. Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit by Garry Wills
51. Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
52. Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories by Terry Bisson
53. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
54. Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
55. Flu: the Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata
56. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
57. Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
58. 1602 by Neil Gaiman
59. Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
60. 1632 by Eric Flint
61. Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
62. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (reread)
63. True North: Peary, Cook and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson
64. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
65. Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie
66. Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
67. Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
68. Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
69. Nicola and the Viscount by Meg Cabot
70. Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares
71. All American Girl by Meg Cabot
72. Project Princess by Meg Cabot
73. The Princess Present by Meg Cabot
74. Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
75. Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
76. Somewhere I’ll Find You by Lisa Kleypas
77. She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
78. My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley
79. Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
80. Wild at Heart by Patricia Gaffney
81. The Wedding Journey by Carla Kelly
82. A Kiss of Fate by Mary Jo Putney
83. The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
84. Seal Island by Kate Brallier
85. Kiss Me While I Sleep by Linda Howard
86. Tempting Fortune by Jo Beverley
87. Midsummer Moon by Laura Kinsale
88. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
89. Isabel’s Bed by Elinor Lipman
90. The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
91. Uncommon Vows by Mary Jo Putney
92. The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie (reread)
93. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
94. History Play: The Life and Afterlives of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt
95. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (reread)
96. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
97. A Factory of Cunning by Phillipa Stockley
98. Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
99. Pushkin’s Button by Serena Vitale
100. Crooked House by Agatha Christie (reread)
101. The Great Mortality: an Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
102. Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family by Jane Brox
103. How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
104. Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan
105. The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell
106. Ill Met by Moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt
107. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
108. The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
109. Shifting Love by Constance O’Day-Flannery
110. Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
111. The Dark Horse by Patricia Simpson
112. Tithe by Holly Black
113. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
114. The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
115. Silk and Secrets by Mary Jo Putney
116. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
117. One Perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney
118. Murder in the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (reread)
119. The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell
120. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
121. The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell
122. My Fair Temptress by Christina Dodd
123. Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale
124. Hazard by Jo Beverley
125. The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
126. Courtesans and Fishcakes: Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson
127. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (reread)
128. Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase
129. Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale
130. The Midnight Work by Kassandra Sims
131. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
This includes every single book I completed this year. This includes graphic novels, but not individual comic books, magazines, or anything like that. Short story collections only counted if I read every story.
Number of books read: 131
Number of books read for the first time: 122
The shortest book is Project Princess by Meg Cabot, which was under 70 pages; the longest was probably Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which was 800 pages.
Incredible authors I found for the first time included Elinor Lipman, Laura Kinsale and Sarah Caudwell (the last of whom I've now devoured the entire catalog of). I finished the rest of the Jennifer Crusies I hadn't managed in fall 2004, and moved on into historical romance for the first time. I also devoured everything of Meg Cabot's, and continued with more girly YA lit with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, Guitar Girl, and Libba Bray's stuff. Plus, tons more Amelia Peabody.
10 other books from the above list that I enjoyed a lot and haven't mentioned yet in the summary: The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard; As Meat Loves Salt, Maria McCann; Sunshine, Robin McKinley; We So Seldom Look on Love, Barbara Gowdy; A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett; The Egyptologist, Arthur Phillips; Ship Fever Andrea Barrett; The Moon and the Sun Vonda McIntyre; Hammered, Elizabeth Bear; The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay.
In reality, I turned twenty-one lying on the couch in my parents' living room, watching Buster Bluth get his hand bitten off by a seal. I am sure you can see how that is PRACTICALLY the same thing, though!
In conclusion, BIRTHDAY.
*cough*
(Random note: I am loving pandora.com, but why are all the good songs unable to be bought on iTunes? It played me a cover of "Blitzkrieg Bop" the other day by a band called the Beautiful South and it was the best thing I have ever heard. *covets*)
Here is my list of every single book I read as a 20-year-old:
Books Read, 12/13/04 - 12/12/05
1. Faking It by Jennifer Crusie
2. Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
3. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
4. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner
5. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
6. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
7. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
8. Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis (reread)
9. Frederica by Georgette Heyer
10. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (reread)
11. The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
12. The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
13. As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
14. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
15. Revisions edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Spindel
16. Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
17. A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease, and Other Cultural Revelations by Cintra Wilson
18. The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
19. This Can’t Be Happening At eadMacDonald Hall by Gordon Korman
20. Grass as His Pillow by Lian Hearn
21. What the Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie
22. Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
23. Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
24. Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
25. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
26. Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
27. Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie
28. Weird and Tragic Shores: the Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer by Chauncey Loomis
29. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
30. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
31. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
32. Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (reread)
33. The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
34. No Way to Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley
35. Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
36. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
37. A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
38. We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
39. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
40. Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
41. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
42. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
43. The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
44. Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivations, and Hybrids of the English Language by Kate Burridge
45. The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
46. Saint Augustine by Garry Wills
47. A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
48. The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle
49. Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
50. Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit by Garry Wills
51. Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
52. Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories by Terry Bisson
53. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
54. Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
55. Flu: the Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata
56. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
57. Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
58. 1602 by Neil Gaiman
59. Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
60. 1632 by Eric Flint
61. Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
62. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (reread)
63. True North: Peary, Cook and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson
64. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
65. Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie
66. Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
67. Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
68. Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
69. Nicola and the Viscount by Meg Cabot
70. Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares
71. All American Girl by Meg Cabot
72. Project Princess by Meg Cabot
73. The Princess Present by Meg Cabot
74. Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
75. Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
76. Somewhere I’ll Find You by Lisa Kleypas
77. She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
78. My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley
79. Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
80. Wild at Heart by Patricia Gaffney
81. The Wedding Journey by Carla Kelly
82. A Kiss of Fate by Mary Jo Putney
83. The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
84. Seal Island by Kate Brallier
85. Kiss Me While I Sleep by Linda Howard
86. Tempting Fortune by Jo Beverley
87. Midsummer Moon by Laura Kinsale
88. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
89. Isabel’s Bed by Elinor Lipman
90. The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
91. Uncommon Vows by Mary Jo Putney
92. The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie (reread)
93. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
94. History Play: The Life and Afterlives of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt
95. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (reread)
96. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
97. A Factory of Cunning by Phillipa Stockley
98. Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
99. Pushkin’s Button by Serena Vitale
100. Crooked House by Agatha Christie (reread)
101. The Great Mortality: an Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
102. Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family by Jane Brox
103. How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
104. Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan
105. The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell
106. Ill Met by Moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt
107. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
108. The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
109. Shifting Love by Constance O’Day-Flannery
110. Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
111. The Dark Horse by Patricia Simpson
112. Tithe by Holly Black
113. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
114. The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
115. Silk and Secrets by Mary Jo Putney
116. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
117. One Perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney
118. Murder in the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (reread)
119. The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell
120. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
121. The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell
122. My Fair Temptress by Christina Dodd
123. Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale
124. Hazard by Jo Beverley
125. The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
126. Courtesans and Fishcakes: Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson
127. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (reread)
128. Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase
129. Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale
130. The Midnight Work by Kassandra Sims
131. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
This includes every single book I completed this year. This includes graphic novels, but not individual comic books, magazines, or anything like that. Short story collections only counted if I read every story.
Number of books read: 131
Number of books read for the first time: 122
The shortest book is Project Princess by Meg Cabot, which was under 70 pages; the longest was probably Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which was 800 pages.
Incredible authors I found for the first time included Elinor Lipman, Laura Kinsale and Sarah Caudwell (the last of whom I've now devoured the entire catalog of). I finished the rest of the Jennifer Crusies I hadn't managed in fall 2004, and moved on into historical romance for the first time. I also devoured everything of Meg Cabot's, and continued with more girly YA lit with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, Guitar Girl, and Libba Bray's stuff. Plus, tons more Amelia Peabody.
10 other books from the above list that I enjoyed a lot and haven't mentioned yet in the summary: The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard; As Meat Loves Salt, Maria McCann; Sunshine, Robin McKinley; We So Seldom Look on Love, Barbara Gowdy; A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett; The Egyptologist, Arthur Phillips; Ship Fever Andrea Barrett; The Moon and the Sun Vonda McIntyre; Hammered, Elizabeth Bear; The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay.
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13/12/05 13:56 (UTC)I think watching Arrested Development is an *excellent* way to begin your 21st (er, technically 22nd, I suppose) year!
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14/12/05 02:33 (UTC)I think it was definitely a very satisfying start to the year.