September 8, 2013

30 and counting...

Every start of the year I tend to refrain from making New Year resolutions simply because I shouldn't need the start of a new year to make me want to introduce new changes. I should be making conscious decisions to make changes throughout the year regardless of what day it is, but nonetheless I gave into the trend. One of my New Year resolutions was to read 30 books. The prior year I had only read, I believe, around 22 books. Quite a dismal amount considering that in 2011 I had read 52 and surpassed my reading goal by 2 books. Now this year has been a successful year for my reading. I've been reading more contemporary books and following more trends of what's popular, and I've been taking recommendations from the LA Times. So here goes the list of what I've read so far:

  1. While Mortals Sleep - Kurt Vonnegut
  2. Project Jennifer - Jill A. Rosenblatt
  3. Slaughter House-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  4. Playing with Boys - A. Valdes-Rodriguez
  5. Chasing Harry Winston - L. Weisberger
  6. Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut
  7. Now and Forever - Ray Bradbury
  8. The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club - J. Morrison
  9. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
  10. Tempest Rising - Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  11. A Simple Havana Melody: From When the World was Good - Oscar Hijuelos
  12. Six Weeks to Toxic - Louisa McCormack
  13. The Nanny Diaries - E. McLaughlin & N. Kraus
  14. The Paris Wife - Paul McLain
  15. Paris: A Love Story - Kati Marton
  16. The Chosen - Chaim Potok
  17. Holy Land - D.J. Waldie
  18. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love - Carole Radziwill
  19. The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Spohia Al-Maria
  20. How to be a Hepburn in a Hilton World - J. Christy
  21. The Ivy Chronicles - Karen Quinn
  22. Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes - E. Bard
  23. My Berlin Kitchen - Luisa Weiss
  24. Women & Money - Suze Orman
  25. This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
  26. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Moshin Hamid
  27. Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
  28. In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
  29. ¡Yo! - Julia Alvarez
  30. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Therese Ann Fowler
  31. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  32. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
  33. Grace - Grace Coddington
  34. Looking for the Gulf Motel - Richard Blanco
  35. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  36. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? - Maria Semple
  37. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  38. Maya's Notebook - Isabel Allende
  39. Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
  40. Love - Toni Morrison
  41. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut