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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known around the web as Eglentyne. I am a writer in Texas. I like my beer and my chocolate bitter and my pens pointy.

This blog is one of my hobbies. I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and procrastinate. I have too many hobbies and don’t sleep enough. Around here I talk about whatever is on my mind, mostly reading and writing, but if you hang out long enough, some knitting is bound to show up.

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    I tried to read at least one book each week last year.  (A. Book. A. Week.). Here’s what I managed to read. Click titles to see my remarks.

    January

    Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

    Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

     

    February

    When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

    Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

    A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales by Ying Chang Compestine

    First Light by Rebecca Stead

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen

    The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

     

    March

    Firmin by Sam Savage

    The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

    Food Rules by Michael Pollan

    Push: A Novel by Sapphire

    Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace by James Proimos

    My Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall

    Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types by Sharon Werner

     

    April

    Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

    Mossflower by Brian Jacques

    Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

    Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon

    The Busy Family’s Guide to Money by Sandra Black

    The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

    Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod

    I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World by Eve Ensler

     

    May

    Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman

    America’s Cheapest Family by Annette and Steve Economides

    Drizzle by Kathleen Van Cleve

    Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin

    Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Book 1) by Charlaine Harris

    Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly Book 2) by Charlaine Harris

    An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Book 3) by Charlaine Harris

     Storm Front (Dresden Files Book 1) by Jim Butcher

    Fool Moon (Dresden Files Book 2) by Jim Butcher

     The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

    The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

    The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry


     

    June

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

    The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

    Grave Peril (Dresden Files Book 3) by Jim Butcher

    Tinkers by Paul Harding

    His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire Book 1) by Naomi Novik

    The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

     

    July

    Summer Knight (Dresden Files Book 4) by Jim Butcher

    Heat Wave by Richard Castle

    Blockade Billy by Stephen King

    The Giver by Lois Lowry

    Death Masks (Dresden Files Book 5) by Jim Butcher

    Sold by Patricia McCormick

    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

    Grave Secrets (Harper Connelly Book 4) by Charlaine Harris

    Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

    The Four Arguments by Don Miguel Ruiz

    Throw Out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke

     

    August

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

    Walks With Men by Ann Beattie

    My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides

    South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami


     

    September

    House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

    Blood Rites (Dresden Files Book 6) by Jim Butcher 

     

    October

    One Day by David Nicholls

    How I Write by Janet Evanovich

    Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

    The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

     

    November

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

    Composed by Rosanne Cash 

    Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

    The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

     

    December

    Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present by Hank Stuever

    When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke