Mami Reads: 2012
I was organizing my office when a though suddenly struck me. What will I be reading in 2012? I know there will be plenty of new books to pick up but, if I am to accomplish my mamilutions of 12 books in '12 then I needed to gear up. As I looked at my bookshelves, I seemed to have been possessed. I started pulling out books. Then I realized what I was doing. Â I was making a stash! These books are now at the top of my desk where I will see them day after day. As is usually the case, I did not stick with the 12. It's quite aggressive but, I have 29 30 32 books on the list. I pulled books out that interested me. Books that I haven't yet cracked opened, thin books that would make this goal more accomplishable, books that make me smile, books that I know will make me cry. And here is the list. Â Do you want to join me? If you do, head on over to the bookstore and get yourself a copy!
I am not sure what I'm going to start with what do you think? What will you be reading in 2012?
Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Jill Smokler (be sure to pre-order, it comes out in April!)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
Donde el camino se corta: Nuevos poemas para reirse by Shel Silverstein
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (added 01/05/12 after seeing that the movie was coming out)
Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant 01/03/12
Keeping It Simple!: Keys to Living an Uncomplicated Life by Jayne M DeRouin
La fiesta del chivo (Punto de Lectura) by Mario Vargas Llosa
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
Memoria de mis putas tristes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (January: currently reading)
Night by Elie Wiesel
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario
The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life by Marianne Williamson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (January: currently reading)
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading by Shireen Dodson
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Way of the Bow by Paulo Coelho (added 2/7/12 after reading his blog)Â 02/07/12
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear by Max Lucado
Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life by Bonnie Friedman
