Booking Through Thursday

What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently?

(Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.)

Outlander (Book 1)
by Diana Gabaldon
Pages: 627 (Large paperback)

I would say this would qualify under both the biggest (pages) and the biggest (popularity).

I haven't read many chunksters this year, I opted to listen to them on audio, so as far as actually reading something over 500 pages, this was it. And her series is very popular, although I've not read any more yet.

20 of my 101 memoirs / autobio / biographies

It will take some doing to find 101 M/A/B that I want to read. So far, I've managed to find 20 very interesting ones. I tend to read themes so I've grouped them that way.

Color Key: Read

Race Relations:
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life by Bliss Broyard
The Color of Water by James McBride
Dreams From my Father by Barak Obama

Religion: 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Wiese
Crazy For God by Frank Schaeffer
Save Me From Myself by Brian Welch
The Christmas Box Miracle by Richard Paul Evans
A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Writers:
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis
The Fairytale of my Life: An Autobiography by Hans Christian Andersen

Celebrities: Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
The Music of Silence by Andrea Boccelli
Rage to Survive by Etta James

Uncatagorized: Singing my Him Song by Malachy McCourt
A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands by Chealsea Handler (Various)
Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia byMarya Hornbacher

101 books in 1,001 Days

I've done a 1,001 day challenge in the past, of course I failed. But I've never done a 101 books in 1,001 day challenge. Now of course reading 101 books in 1,001 days is too easy for me. So I have to find a way to make it harder. Now I picked that genre because I love them, so it will be enjoyable, and I'll probably read 101 in 18 months, but hey, it is a goal.

So I've decided to try to read 101 memoir/autobiographies/biographies in 1,001 days. That is approx 3 m/a/b a month, now that's a challenge!

I tallied up all my m/a/b reads in recent years. I got 45. I didn't count the ones I read in my 20s, I stuck with the 30s up. Since I started keeping track of exactly what I've been reading (2006) I have read 36 m/a/b. I guess if I work at it, I should be able to get to 101 in 2 years and 9 months.

Start date: August 11, 2009
End date: May 11, 2012

Currently reading
Nothing in this genre at the moment

READ
1) Rage to Survive - Etta James
2) Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia & Bulimia - Mayra Hornbacher
3) The Last Lecture - Randy Paucsh
4) The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
5) Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
6) Have A Little Faith - Mitch Albom


Others that will be on the list include:
A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
Singing my Him Song by Malachy McCourt
Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball