Update: I just finished Three Junes by Julia Glass. I bought the book on sale on Better World, it probably would have languished on my bookshelf if not for this challenge to myself. It's an amazing, lush novel that I could not put down. I'm very glad I read it, so yay challenge!

I'm not doing very well on the great book plan, in part because I've largely only been reading 5 pages a night before falling asleep. And I sneaked in a Star Trek book because I was feeling lazy. It was at least a Peter David book, so not pure trash.

Anyway, here's the list as it stands right now:
1. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

2. Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris

3. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

4. Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century by Michio Kaku

5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

6. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

7. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

9. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough

10. Three Junes by Julia Glass

11. The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight by Mark Caro

12. Fatherland by Robert Harris

I think I'm going to scrap Visions for Physics of the Impossible, also by Kaku. Visions was kind of boring.

An ex-boyfriend is coming to town on business and wants to catch up. Ick.

I tried to take Bandit outside on his leash yesterday, but he got scared and dragged me back home. (We were about 20 feet away.) And he's been whining at the door ever since, wanting to go back outside. D'oh.

I just found out that my cousin is running the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati this weekend. Yay! Another crazy runner in my family. :)

Running must be like crack or something. I distinctly remember spending the last 10 miles of the '06 Chicago Marathon saying that I was never running again. And not only did I start running again, but I'm paying to run in another marathon. Maybe I do it for the t-shirts.