Update on my reading challenges

1. To read 20 000 pages>>>>> 2068 pages read

2. To wild-release at least one book per month>>> three releases done:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7776152

http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7445817

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3. To read 15 books from my Mountain TBR>>>> none

Books about books

I got this wonderful list of titles from Abebooks.com and thought it worth mentioning:

Sixpence House by Paul Collins

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (read)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (read)

A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (read)

A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel (read)

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (read)

Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (read)

2010- goals and challenges

1. To read 20 000 pages

2. To wild-release at least one book per month

3. To read 15 books from my Mountain TBR

4. To read all Virginia Woolf`s novels

5. To re-read Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert

Summary of 2009 reading

1.Henry Miller- Tropic of Cancer-288p.
2.Marian Keyes- Anybody out there?- 462 pages
3.Miranda Glover- The Masterpiece- 377 pages
4.Astonishing Splashes of Color by Clare Morrall- 327 pages
5.A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami- 286 pages
6.Yana Bukova- A Journey to the Shadow /in Bulgarian/, 312 pages
7.Carlos Ruiz Zafon- The Shadow of The Wind- 457 pages
8.The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid- 209 pages
9.Barbara Nadel- Pretty Dead Things-384 pages
10.The Gathering by Anne Enright- 142 pages, not finished
11.French Lessons by Peter Mayle- 224 pages
12.Khaled Hosseini- Thousand Splendid Suns- 412 pages
13.Eat Pray and Love by Elisabeth Gilbert- 447
14.Getting Out of The House by Isla Dewar-407
15.So Many Ways to Begin with by Jon Mcgregor- 354 pages
16.Burned Alive by Suad- 188 pages
17.Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks- 413 pages
18.Twilight by Stephanie Mayer- 504 pages
19.Nothing to be frightened of by Julian Barnes- 302 pages
20.Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Samosa- 602 pages
21.Recipes for Cherubs by Babs Horton- 402 pages
22.The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry- 302 pages
23.The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella- 469 pages
24.To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee-380 pages
25.Orhan Pamuk- Museum of Innocence- 630 pages
26.From the Inside- Ruth Wyner- 241 pages
27.The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett- 121 page
28.Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver- 464
29.The Collector of the Worlds by Iliya Troyanov- 250 pages, unfinished
30.Portuguese Irregular Verbs by A.M.Smith- 190 pages
31.Three Men in the Snow by Erich Kestner- 190 pages
32.The Right Attitude to Rain by A.M.Smith- 304 pages
33.Grandhotel Bulgaria by Angelika Schrobsdorf- 205 pages
34.Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins- 285 pages
35.Michael Cunningham- Specimen Days- 347 pages
36.Eric-Emanuel Schmidt- "Milarepa"/
37."Oscar and the Pink Dame"/
38.Mr. Ibrahim and the flowers of Quran"-
39.Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve Not Adam- 127 pages
40. Michael Cunningham- Flesh and Blood- 488 pages

40 books, 12 857 pages

2009 favorites:
Astonishing Splashes of Color by Clare Morrall
Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve Not Adam
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Samosa
Carlos Ruiz Zafon- The Shadow of The Wind