"When we build our new house, I am building the walls of bookcases first; then filling them with my books; then building the house to fit the bookcases. Wanna make sure the house is big enough for ALL of my books."

--My dad, 4/29/12

(Click the links for more information.)

• #TuesBookTalk: Watership Down, by Richard Adams
• #1book140: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
• BOOK CLUB: Still Midnight, by Denise Mina
• The Blerd Book Club: Orleans, by Sherri L. Smith
• Twitter Book Club: You Are Free, by Danzy Senna

This project was started by Dog Ear Discs (now Utter Biblio), and because I love Margaret Atwood, I've decided to join him. An Atwood book a month for 22 months? Yes, please! I've read all of her novels, and two or three of her short story collections, but it's been a long time since I've read most of those, so I'm really looking forward to reading them again. (And I'll finally read the short story collections that I haven't read before.)

Here's the schedule:

2012:

MAY -- The Edible Woman (1969)

JUN -- Surfacing (1972)

JUL -- Lady Oracle (1976)

AUG -- Dancing Girls (1977)

SEP -- Life Before Man (1979)

OCT -- Bodily Harm (1981)

NOV -- Murder in the Dark (1983)

DEC -- Bluebeard’s Egg (1983)

2013:

JAN -- The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

FEB -- Cat’s Eye (1988)

MAR -- Wilderness Tips (1991)

APR -- Good Bones (1992)

MAY -- The Robber Bride (1993)

JUN -- Alias Grace (1996)

JUL -- The Labrador Fiasco (1996)

AUG -- The Blind Assassin (2000)

SEP -- Oryx and Crake (2003)

OCT -- The Penelopiad (2005)

NOV -- The Tent (2006)

DEC -- Moral Disorder (2006)

2014:

JAN -- The Year of the Flood (2009)