Final books for 2009

[fiveforsilver]

I wanted to post this before the year ends. I'll put in the final tallies later.

160. The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones
Young Adult, fantasy, 480 pages
Chrestomanci series

161. The Boy Book by E Lockhart
YA, fiction, 224 pages
Sequel to The Boyfriend List

More fabulous writing from Lockhart.

162. The Boyfriend List by E Lockhkart
YA, fiction, 229 pages
Prequel to The Boy Book

Roo (Ruby Oliver) has had a difficult month. Her boyfriend dumped her for her best friend, all her friends stopped speaking to her, and a very embarrassing piece of paper was copied and distributed around her entire school - the boyfriend list. It was homework for her therapist. It was a list of every boy she ever kissed, went on a date with, or did anything else even remotely approaching boyfriend territory.

I just love Roo's voice in this and The Boy Book. In this book, each chapter is one name from the list and along with the present-day story of how she's in therapy, dealing with her former friends and crazy parents, and trying to move on, we also get the back story on each guy, and the story of the falling-out with her friends. There are at least three timelines twisting around each other, but it reads effortlessly.

162 / 162 books. (original goal: 150)

83 / 83 ^new books. (original goal: 75)

5 / 10 ^non-fiction. (fail)

48039 / 48039 pages. (original goal: 45000)