Friday, 13^th January 2006 | 10:10 PM
50 Books

I had a crappy Friday at work. We blamed the date, conveniently.

I realised late last year that I had been reading too much escapist fiction (i.e. women's fiction). Not that it's entirely bad, but it's against my nature to be reading only one genre all the time. I blame it all on laziness. I give up on books I can't get into with my short attention span too soon. Intellectually I need to push myself more.

So this year, I aim to read 50 books (inspired by my favourite book blog), and hopefully at least half of them won't be chick-lit. I have at least a shelf of critically-acclaimed/literary prize-winning/literary prize-nominated books anyway.

Here goes...

50 Books of 2006:

1. Spellbound by Nora Roberts
2. Simply Sensual by Carly Phillips
3. Simply Scandalous by Carly Phillips
4. First Comes Love by Christie Ridgeway (24 Jan 2006): They say she's the next Jennifer Crusie, but I don't agree. Read this only if you're really bored.
5. Why Do Men Have Nipples by William Goldberg & Mark Leyner (30 Jan 2006): The book that is selling so well that the publisher was constantly running out of stock of it. It gave such a big headache that I actually memorised the ISBN. It was quite an amusing read - basically like something out of Scholastic's Horrible Science series but for adults.
6. Then Comes Marriage by Christie Ridgeway (11 Feb 2006): Average mindless read. Better than the first one.
7. Crosscut by Meg Gardiner (21 February 2006): Meg Gardiner has got talent, but hasn't quite hit her stride yet. What I can really see is that she gets better with each book. Her prose is good, just needs work with her plotting. Actually somehow I got this vibe that she might better trying to write sci-fi or fantasy because of this lack. I got a bit lost reading this book because I just realised that I missed one book in the series, the one that just came before this title.
8. Jericho Point - Meg Gardiner (24 February 2006)
9. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (25 February 2006)
10. Dealing with Difficult Colleagues (1 May 2006)
11. Conversations with the Fat Girl - Liza Palmer (20 May 2006)

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Saturday, 1^st April 2006 - The constant struggle

Sunday, 26^th March 2006 - Finding my stride again

Monday, 20^th March 2006 - It's like I'm Vulcan, or something

Monday, 27^th February 2006 - My house of cards finally comes down

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