Try as I might to read more in 2010 than in 2009, I somehow managed to read less. After I would finish a really great book, I wanted more great, absorbing, couldn’t stand to put down books. They were not always easy to find. And I’ll admit sometimes, I got caught up in *sigh* – TV.

So the score this year:

2010 = 22 books
2009 = 24 books

Oohh, 2011, we have got to read more than 22 books, especially now that I have my nifty, new Kindle.

2010 Books

1. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – by Stieg Larsson.

2. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5) – by Rick Riordan

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society – by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

4. Hunger Games – by Suzanne Collins

5. Going Rogue – by Sarah Palin

6. Catching Fire – by Suzanne Collins

7. The 19th Wife - by David Ebershoff

8. Mountains Beyond Mountains – by Tracy Kidder

9. Olive Kitteridge – by Elizabeth Strout

10. The Piano Teacher – by Janice Y. K. Lee

11. Nickel and Dimed – by Barabara Ehrenrich

12. Best Friends Forever -by Jennifer Weiner

13. Sarah: A Novel (Canaan Trilogy) – by Marek Halter

14. The Road – by Cormac McCarthy

15. Little Bee – by Chris Cleave

16. L.A. Candy – by Lauren Conrad

17. Half the Sky – by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

18. Autobiography of An Execution – by David Dow

19. Mockingjay – by Suzanne Collins

20. Sarah’s Key – by Tatiana de Rosnay

21. The Girl Who Played With Fire – by Stieg Larsson

22. Linger – by Maggie Stiefvater

Didn’t finish!
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

I was doing well keeping up with my recipes. Then, Thursday, I got distracted by by this book:

My first book of 2010 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I tried to read this book a couple of months ago, but could not get into it. I am reading it the second time before bookclub, I was more motivated knowing it would offer me the chance to get out and go socialize.

On this second round, I stuck with, and it wasn’t until 200 hundred pages that I was officially hooked and could not put it down. It became hard to focus on anything else. It is a murder mystery, but not for the light hearted. I was quite shocked in some places. But I am eager to read the next two in the series, as I really enjoyed the characters, and their relationships with each other. I have to see what more develops. But I might wait awhile.

I’m not sure what to read next. I’ve got some young adult books I could read. Or I could start our next book club book. But I feel like I need something light.

The weekend in food:

Acorn Squash

Wickedly good, acorn squash with heavy whipping cream and maple syrup, always a good winter treat.

Begging.

This guy is developing a bad habit of coming to this counter top looking for food. Granted, I tend to feed him while I am cooking to keep him busy. We let him walk around eating too much. We are trying to get him to sit and eat in his chair.

Good little Jew.

Well this isn’t food, but he’s so cute, I want eat him up!!! But he was acting turdly during tot shabbat, he kept walking up to the front, wanting to mess with the rabbi’s stuff.

Dumplings.

Chicken and Dumplings.

MMMmmmmm!!!

Coconut Cream Pie

My contribution to our waistlines. I am a HUGE coconut fan! That topping was different, it was just heavy whipped whipping cream without sugar, much different from other coconut pies I’ve had.

Licking the plate clean.

He liked the dumplings so much he licked the plate, then proceed to rub the plate all over his face and hair.

Too busy playing in a box.

I also got to attend Mom’s night out and tried a new restaurant – Canopy.

It was a good weekend for food. Not so much for exercising.

And on to another wild week…

The goals was to read 50 books in 2009. Alas, 24 books in 2009 is what I achieved. Heavy on the young adult books, but I lurve young adult lit.

My Books for 2009

1. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City – by Kristen Miller

2. The Yummy Mummy – by Polly Williams

3. The Thirteenth Tale – by Diane Setterfield

4 – The Heretic’s Daughter – by Kathleen Kent

5- The Gargoyle – by Andrew Davidson

6 – Stargirl – by Jerry Spinelli

7 – Out of the Dust – by Karen Hesse

8 – Gossip Girl – by Cecily von Ziegesar

9-Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! – by Laura Amy Schlitz

10-Nightjohn – by Gary Paulsen

11-The Green Glass Sea – by Ellen Klages

12 – The City of Ember – by Jeanne DuPrau

13 – The First Part Last – by Angela Johnson

14 – Nineteen Minutes – by Jodi Picoult

15 – The Ladies Auxiliary – by Tova Mirvis

16 – Little Earthquakes – by Jennifer Weiner

17 – The Glass Castle – by Jeannette Walls

18 People of the Book – by Geraldine Brooks

19 – The Help – by Kathryn Stockett

20 – Shiver – by Maggie Stiefvater

21 – American Wife – by Curtis Sittenfeld

22 – The People of Sparks – by Jeanne DuPrau

23 – Rashi’s Daughters – Joheved – by Maggie Anton

24 – The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

Moving on to 2010!!!

Just wanted to link what I’m currently reading. Fer the heck of it….

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441009344/qid=1096413649/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-2832714-3547844?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

yay, long link, it’s an interesting read.