Turning Pages: Mother's Reads...

Motherhood by example: As a bibliophile, my earliest memories are of books and reading with my mother, going to the library weekly and always having a book in hand.  Visiting my mother, we traded our current reads.  I left Julie Andrew's biography, Home, with her after I finished and she sent me off with Vikas Swarup's Q & A, a gift to her from our relative.  I'll read it and pass it back.  Swarup's book is the best one I've picked up in recent memory and I'm half-way through.  It has been critically acclaimed, is an international bestseller being translated into 32 languages, was shortlisted for the Best First Book by the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won South Africa’s Exclusive Books Boeke Prize 2006, as well as the Prix Grand Public at the 2007 Paris Book Fair.

Remember my new test for literature is the last line of the book.  Swarup's Q & A's last line: "I won't need it (my lucky coin) anymore.  Because luck comes from within."

Books my mother has read in 2008:

January

1. Isabel and the Miracle Baby – Emily Smith Pearce
2. Diamonds in the Shadow – Caroline B. Cooney
3. Good Dog, Stay – Anna Quindlen
4. Escape – Carolyn Jessop
5. Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose (CD)
6. Playing for Pizza – John Grisham
7. Miss Manner’s complete book of dog etiquette – Charlotte Reed
8. Wild Fire – Nelson DeMille (CD)
9. Atonement – Ian McEwan (CD)
10. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett (CD)
11. T is for Trespass – Sue Grafton (CD)
12. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking (Video)
13. Unholy Alliance – David Horowitz
14. Voices from the Heartland – by Carolyn Ann Taylor et al
15. Night Fall – Nelson DeMille (CD)
16. Day of Reckoning – Patrick Buchanan

February
17. World without End – Ken Follett (CD)
18. Don’t Never Shoot Short – Kent Frates
19. The Charm School – Nelson DeMille (CD)
20. Real Change – Newt Gingrich
21. Home to Holly Springs – Jan Karon (CD)
22. I Saw the Lord – Anne Graham Lotz
23. People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
24. Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
25. The Septembers of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer
26. Twilight at Monticello – Alan Pell Crawford
27. Christ the Lord – Road to Cana – Anne Rice
MARCH
28. Basic Black  - Cathie Black (CD)
29. Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (CD)
30. Double Cross – James Patterson (CD)
31. Cash Flow Planning – Dave Ramsey (Cassette)
32. Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich  (CD)
33. The Darkest Evening of the Year – Dean Koontz (CD)
34. A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
35. The Firm (The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor) Penny Junor
36. The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
37. My Enemy’s Cradle – Sara Young
38. Women and Money – Suzie Orman (CD)
39. The Appeal – John Grisham (CD)
40. No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy (CD)
41. Stop Whining, Start Living – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
42. Reclaiming Conservatism – Mickey Edwards
43. 7th Heaven – James Patterson (CD)

APRIL
44. The Invention of Everything Else – Samantha Hunt
45. Strangers in Death – Nora Roberts (CD)
46. Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin (CD – 36)
47. Trudy’s Promise – Marcia Preston
48. The Birth House – Ami McKay
49. Morning on Horseback – David McCullough
50. The Shack – William P. Young
51. Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult (CD-12)
52. Amazing Grace – Kathleen Norris

Comments

[Janet]

Wow. An impressive list. I've been wanting to check out Julie Andrews' children's books as well as her autobiography. I just never can remember to look for them when I'm actually AT the library. I need to make a list.

[tut-tut]

Thanks for the tip on Q&A. Lately, I cannot get through any new book I've gotten at the library. Is it me, or what?