Monday, January 01, 2007

2006

This post is more for me than for you, but read on if you will...

2006 read:

  • Rainbow Valley
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • Anne of Ingleside
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • Ernest J. Gaines

  • Anne's House of Dreams
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • The Great Gatsby
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Anne of Windy Poplars
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • Anne of the Island
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • Anne of Avonlea
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • Anne of Green Gables
  • L.M. Mongomery

  • Of Mice and Men
  • John Steinbeck

  • Things Fall Apart
  • Chinua Achebe

  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Walden
  • Henry David Thoreau

  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Ernest Hemingway

  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Ray Bradbury

  • Blue Shoe
  • Anne Lamott

  • Native Son
  • Richard Wright

  • The Water is Wide
  • Pat Conroy

  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • Carson McCullers

  • Educating Esme
  • Esme Raji Codell

  • Ava's Man
  • Rick Bragg

  • Gilead
  • Marilynne Robinson

  • Naked
  • David Sedaris

  • Summer Sisters
  • Judy Blume

  • The End of the Affair
  • Graham Greene

  • The Crying of Lot 49
  • Thomas Pynchon

  • Fever, 1793
  • Laurie Halse Anderson

  • Monster
  • Walter Dean Myers

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Speak
  • Laurie Halse Anderson

  • A Lost Lady
  • Willa Cather

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Milan Kundera

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Baroness Orczy

  • Everything is Illuminated
  • Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • Mark Twain

  • The Plot Against America
  • Philip Roth

  • The Enduring Community
  • Les Newsom and Brian Habig

  • Romeo and Juliet
  • William Shakespeare

  • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
  • Barbara Ehrenreich

  • The Little Prince
  • Antoine de St. Exupery


    • 2006 saw in the theater:

    End of the Spear
    Pirates of the Carribean 2

    2006 new states visited:

    Idaho
    Montana
    Wyoming
    South Dakota
    Minnesota
    Wisconsin
    Indiana

    bringing the total to 28 states visited

    2006 resolutions kept:

    no chocolate for the whole year

    2006 other things of note:

    started coaching cross country
    5th year teaching

    This is a lovely list of lists, but I don't feel like it really encapsulates 2006 for me. I'm not really sure what it would take to encapsulate 2006. Maybe that's why I have a blog anyway.

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    posted by CP @ 11:18 AM 1 thoughts

    1 Comments:

    At 1/03/2007 9:13 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

    courtney, like toothpaste out of the tube and the genie out of the bottle, you have broken free from the bonds of capsulization, never to be encapsulated again.

    because that's what coaching cross country will do for a girl.

     

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