Page Turners

After too many deaths, including a good friend's, a bit of existential angst, nine weeks of Swedish classes, and copious food and drink over Thanksgiving week/weekend, I finally have gotten my butt back to blogging. Good.

No mas, drama, please.

Today, I'm thinking about books. My list of books I've read in 2007, some for a second or third time, but most for the first time:

Dan Brown

• Angels and Demons

Charles Dickens

• A Tale of Two Cities
• A Christmas Carol

Alexandre Dumas

• The Count of Monte Cristo

Kerstin Ekman

• The Forest of Hours
• Witches' Ring

Knut Hamsun

• In Wonderland
• The Last Joy

Carl Hiiasen

• Nature Girl (audio, read by Jane Curtain)
• Skin Tight
• Skinny Dip (audio, read by Barry Bostwick)

Arnaldur Indriðason

• Silence of the Grave
• Voices

PD James

• A Mind to Murder
• Unnatural Causes
• The Black Tower
• A Taste for Death
• Devices and Desires
• A Certain Justic
• Children of Men
• Death in Holy Orders
• The Murder Room
• The Lighthouse

Denis Johnson

• Jesus' Son

Stephen King

• The Dark Tower (Book 1, not the whole series)

Elizabeth Kostova

• The Historian

Halldór Laxness

• Under the Glacier

John Lecarre

• A Murder of Quality

Lois Lowry

• The Giver
• Gathering Blue
• The Messenger

Henning Mankell

• Faceless Killers

Cormac McCarthy

• No Country for Old Men
• The Road

Vladimir Nabakov

• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
• The Eye

Theodore Roethke

• The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

JK Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

• Roseanna
• The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
• The Man on the Balcony
• The Laughing Policeman
• The Fire Engine That Disappeared
• Murder at the Savoy
• The Abominable Man
• The Locked Room
• Cop Killer
• The Terrorists

Gwyn Thomas

• Oscar (Book I of The Dark Philosophers)

I think a couple of those I read actually last December, but the reading carried over into January. (It's not unusual for me to leave a book half-finished for a few months then return to it. In the case of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, I took about a year off between page 280 and 281, but about a week from 281 to the end of the book (maybe 570 pages).

My eyes!
-cK

Many Happy Returns

I've been ridiculously remiss in posting (and reading) the past couple weeks. Natch to that but I'll get back to it this weekend.

And, hey: It just snowed here! Lovely.
-cK