Here's What I Read In '08

1. The Birth House Ami MacKay
2. Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama
3. Duma Key Stephen King
4. The Town That Forgot How to Breathe Kenneth J. Harvey
5. Pirate's Passage William Gilkerson
6. Haunted Inns of New England Mark Jasper
7. The Drowning Season Alice Hoffman
8. Sea of Tranquility Lesley Choyce
9. Children of My Heart Gabrielle Roy
10. At A Loss For Words Diane Schoemperlen
11. How Starbucks Saved My Life Michael Gates Gill
12. Losing It (And Gaining My Life Back A Pound At A Time) Valerie Bertinelli
13. The Senator's Wife Sue Miller
14. Maine Ghosts and Legends Thomas A. Verde
15. The Good Mother Sue Miller
16. Falling Ann Simpson
17. STORI Telling Tori Spelling
18. Lost In The Forest Sue Miller
19. Illumination Night Alice Hoffman
20. The Third Angel Alice Hoffman
21. The River King Alice Hoffman
22. Wicked Woods (Ghost Stories From Olde New Brunswick) Steve Vernon
23. Diary Of A Key West Innkeeper Susan Jimbo
24. The World Below Sue Miller
25. Passing Strange Joseph A. Citro
26. Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman
27. The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy
28. The Canning Season Polly Horvath
29. Everything On A Waffle Polly Horvath
30. The Age Of Longing Richard B. Wright
31. The Distinguished Guest Sue Miller
32. True Tales Of The Everglades Stuart McIver
33. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
34. We Keep A Light Evelyn Richardson
35. Peyton Place Grace Metalious
36. While I Was Gone Sue Miller
37. The Teacher's Daughter Richard B. Wright
38. Can't Wait To Get To Heaven Fannie Flagg
39. Monkey Beach Eden Robinson
40. Practical Magic Alice Hoffman
41. Inventing The Abbots Sue Miller
42. The Letter Opener Kyo MacClear
43. Jackie Oh! Kitty Kelly
44. Memoirs Of A Lightkeeper's Son Billy Budge
45. The Fortune Teller's Daughter Alice Hoffman
46. Fisherman's Bend Linda Greenlaw
47. Bag Of Bones Stephen King
48. The Complete Book Of Running For Women Claire Kowalchik
49. Life With My Sister Madonna Christopher Ciccone
50. What Remains Carole Radziwill
51. The Washingtonienne Jessica Cutler
52. Where The Heart Is Billie Letts
53. The Selected Journals Of LM Montgomery Vol. 3
54. Eat Love Pray Elizabeth Gilbert
55. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver
56. The Push And The Pull Darryl Whetter
57. The Probable Future Alice Hoffman
58. The Secret Life Of Lobsters Trevor Corson
59. The Nine Lives Of Charlotte Taylor Sally Armstrong
60. Canada's Haunted Coast Vernon Oickle
61. No Place Like Home (Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women 1771-1938) Conrad/Laidlaw/Smyth
62. The Double Bind Chris Bohjalian
63. Bittersweet: Confessions Of A Twice-Married Man Philip Lee
64. Just After Sunset Stephen King
65. The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry
66. The Stud Jackie Collins
67. The World Is Full Of Married Men Jackie Collins
68. The Hour I First Believed Wally Lamb
69. Sinners Jackie Collins
70. My Famous Evening Howard Norman
71. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Jean Dominique Bauby
72. The Tea House On Mulberry Street Sharon Owens
73. Skylight Confessions
74. A History of Disaster (The Worst Storms, Accidents and Conflagrations In Atlantic Canada Ken Smith

My Three Favourite Books of '08

Duma Key Stephen King

The Hour I First Believed Wally Lamb

The Secret Life Of Lobsters Trevor Corson

Crafty '08

The Year of the hooked rug

- I finished two projects that had been languishing in the closet for about four years (the Halloween quilt and the house scene hooked rug).

- I actually knitted a hat!

- I finally did a project that I had lusted after for years (the three churches rug).

- And, my rug hooking skills improved immensely this year. When I look back at my first attempt last year I'm embarrassed.