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I read this book a few weeks ago, and haven’t got around to writing about it. This book is a really fast read, maybe a day or two. The story is very interesting, but the writing could be better. He admits that he isn’t a writer, and that he really wanted to record his stories for his kids. When enough people started paying attention, he decided to publish it.

I thought it was a good one to read at Christmas time, because it was set this time of year. It is about a US spy in Russia, and how he barely makes it out alive. It’s worth reading, but not my favorite.

I just got done reading Escape by Carolyn Jessop, and wow what a story. This book is definitely not for the faint in heart. It is hard to read at times, but well worth it. The painful truth of what life is like within the FLDS cult is worse than fiction. What she went through to get herself, and all 8 of her kids out of the hands of the cult is truly inspiring. She is an amazing woman with amazing strength.

Here is a little about the book.

Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.

I am an avid reader. It is what keeps me sane (mostly). While reading some blogs this month I noticed a lot of people talking about books that they have read or that they want to. I myself have just finished The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and loved it. So now I’m looking for my next great read. I stumbled upon this list in the archives of a blog I read, and was surprised at how many I’ve read, but also how many great books out there I forgot about or haven’t even heard of.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) Read

2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Read

3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Read

4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)

6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)

7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) Read

9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) Read

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)

17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. The Stand (Stephen King)

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Read

21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) Read

22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Read

24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Read

28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Read

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Read

31. Dune (Frank Herbert)

32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) Read

33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

34. 1984 (Orwell)

35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)

38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)

39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) Read

40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)

42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)

44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) Read

45. The Bible Read

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)

47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Read

48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) Read

49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Read

50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) Read

52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

54. Great Expectations (Dickens)

55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Read

56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)

57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)

58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) Want to

63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)

64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)

65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)

66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) Read

68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

69. Les Miserables (Hugo) Started but didn’t finish

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Read

71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)

72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)

73. Shogun (James Clavell)

74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Read

76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) Want to read

78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)

79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) Read

81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley

82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) Read

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) Read

84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

85. Emma (Jane Austen) Read

86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)

87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)

90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)

91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)

92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)

93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch) Read

98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

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So how many have you read? Which ones did you like, and what are you reading now? If you want to join in the fun repost this on your blog.