3. Read 30 books in 2005

8 down, 22 to go. I'm going to have to read a lot of books this summer to complete this goal. This one went fast though. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger has the same delightfully unsettled effect as an amusement park ride. It reminded me a bit of The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing in the creation of a near future landscape, slightly but significantly different from the one we experience every day. Niffenegger's characters are more sympathetic than Lessing's, which only intensified my association with them so that I was being whipped through time with Henry and worrying at home with Clare.