What I've Read

Here is what I can remember reading recently. This list, I hope, will grow. Once it's off the main page, I will link to this post so that it's easily found. I considered putting it in the side bar, but I suspect the side bar would grow to be longer than the posts eventually and that's just not pretty. Discerning readers may be able to figure out the publisher I work for by the books I list. Not all of them will be published when I first link to them because I get to read books months before they're published as part of my job, so if you want to read them, you'll need to pre-order them. Very early pre-orders will have to be linked through Amazon because they're quicker about posting forthcoming books than Booksense is. All other links will be to Booksense because I strongly support independent bookstores.

1. Atherton by Patrick Carman
2. Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
3. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
4. Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
5. Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Morrison
6. Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
7. Maximum Ride 3: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
8. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
9. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
10. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
11. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson (manuscript)
12. gods behaving badly by Marie Phillips
13. To Catch a Mermaid by Suzanne Selfors
14. The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudnoymous Bosch
15. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
16. Right Behind You by Gail Giles
17. Primavera by Mary Jane Beaufrand
18. Bank by David Bledin
19. Piece of Work by Laura Zigman
20. Because She Can by Bridie Clark
21. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
22. One Mississippi by Mark Childress
23. Equus by Peter Schaffer
24. Jim the boy by Tony Earley
25. The Blue Star by Tony Earley
26. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls by Zoey Dean

I think there are more. As they occur to me (and the above list is not chronological because I listed books as I remembered them), I will post them. Plus, as I read more, I will post more.

First Post (A Mission Statement)

So, I was trying to remember how many books I've read in the last 6 months recently and I couldn't think of them all. That might seem strange, but I read a lot of books. I work in the sales department of a publisher and read between one and three books a week. There are even more books I read just a bit of and don't finish, and I also have a few manuscripts going at any one time that I read when I get a rare quiet moment at work.

I'm annoyed at myself for not readily remembering the books I've read recently, plus, I get paid to talk about books, especially those I've read. This blog, then, will be a place for me to note books I've just finished reading, and as I remember them, a place to list books I've already read. Why a public blog? Well, for two reasons. The first is slightly more self-absorbed (as blogs necessarily are, I suppose). I figure people value my opinions on books (I'm paid money to do just that so there must be something to my conceit), so here I can share them with an even wider audience, and for free, to a wider audience, if I'm lucky. Second, I like to advertise books I like. Authors' careers are built on the sales of their books. If I like an author, I want them to write more, so that I can read more of their books. Perhaps my recommendation of a specific book will lead to more sales of that book (again, if I'm lucky), leading, maybe, to that author getting to publish their next book. When more people buy books by authors I like, I am more likely to get to read their next book. And, then, maybe, I'll remember to post about it here.