Catching Up

I haven't written on this blog in almost a year and I'm not quite sure why I've decided that I would like to write here more. With that said, a year is a long time, and to try to encapsulate what has happened in that time span now seems utterly pointless. One positive to come out of the year was that I really do need to read more, and so I set a goal for myself to read at least fifty books by the end of May. I will be keeping track here.

Here is the list of what I have read so far:

#1 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

#2 Looking Backwards, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

#3 Atonement by Ian Mcewan

#4 Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski

#5 Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

#6 Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

#7 Ubik By Philip K. Dick

#8 An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

#9 The Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

#10 How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

#11 Candide by Voltaire

#12 Heart of Joy by John Repp

#13 Paycheck and other classic stories by Philip K. Dick

#14 The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould

#15 When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

#16 The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins

#17 Ballistics by Billy Collins

#18 Agape Agape by William Gaddis

#19 Earth (The Book) by the writer's of the daily show *

#20 Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

#21 The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.

#22 On Writing by Stephen King

#23 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

#24 Never Let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

* It seems unfair to consider this a book, but I read it none the less.