
Books Bought 2007
Honestly, no idea. I don't keep track at all (perhaps that's why my shelves are overflowing)
Books Read 2007
146
By Women: 88
By Men: 52
Non-gendered reading (multiple authors etc.): 6
Rereads : 4
In Translation: 8 (oh, that's low. I have to try harder to increase the variety of my reading choices)
Non-Fiction: 32 (12 of these were on writing/literature)
Multiple Books by the same author:
3 - Alexander McCall Smith, Martine Desjardins
2 - Wilkie Collins, Frances Itani, Elizabeth Goudge, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Earlene Fowler
And as for my favourites, well, it's hard to choose favourites, I've read so many really good books this year. But if I was to pick, by completely subjective criteria like how much fun I had reading or how much I admired the writing style, or how I was surprised by something utterly unknown to me when I picked it up, my Top Fiction reads of 2007 would be:
5/6. Smuggling Donkeys / David Helwig
A Feast of Longing / Sarah Klassen
4. Changing light / Nora Gallagher
3. Remembering the Bones / Frances Itani
2. Fairy Ring / Martine Desjardins
1. The Dream Life of Sukhanov / Olga Grushin
Likewise for Non-Fiction:
3. Burning down the House / Charles Baxter (read recently and not reviewed, but enjoyed)
2. Art Objects / Jeanette Winterson ( I was astonished by her brilliance)
1. Lectures on literature / Vladimir Nabokov (I just finished this, on the recommendations of many bloggers and am amazed by him and ready to start at the beginning again)
And just for interest's sake -
Challenges Joined 2007: 5 (2 still ongoing)
Challenges Completed 2007: 1 (yes, that's right -- 1! although that's not stopping me from joining a ton more for 2008!)