I'm not sure if I am interested in Cannonball Read, but I am interested in reading 100 books in 2009. So, I spent most of my first day of the year reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. This story is wrapped and wrapped around Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and a thirteen year old girl named Matilda. I likes the idea of creating using imagination, reinventing oneself, and how literature can sustain. Now, I will have to read Great Expectations.

Mr. Pip is suppose to be appealing to adolescent readers. I don't mean to put down any reader's ability, but I thought it was quite heavy and thought provoking and in someplaces hard to understand.

So, #1 finished.