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Books I Read in 2009
Since I'm unlikely to finish another book by tomorrow night, I guess I'll go ahead and post this now. The numbers link to the entries where I wrote about each book; the books that I liked the best/would recommend the most are in bold.
1. The Girls in the Back of the Class, LouAnne Johnson
2. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
3. The Wind Done Gone, Alice Randall
4. The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker
5. Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, Carolyn B. Maloney
6. Yes Man, Danny Wallace
7. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
8. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, Barbara Ehrenreich
9. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, Peter Singer
10. 10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness, Michael Hanlon
11. Night Comes to the Cretaceous, James Lawrence Powell
12. Making Money, Terry Pratchett
13. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg, Helen Rappaport
14. The Secret of the Great Pyramid, Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin
15. Snakes and Earrings, Hitomi Kanehara
16. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Jonathan Shay
17. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women, Jessica Valenti
18. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman
19. Achilles, Elizabeth Cook
20. On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson
21. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natalie Angier
22. Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal, Dan Bortolotti
23. Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys, Rob Dunn
24. Return to Titanic, Robert D. Ballard with Michael Sweeney
(lol at the fact that only five of these are fiction! xD )
When I was a kid, I used to read all day every day. When I discovered the Internet, that hobby slowly petered out. Last summer I started making a real effort to start reading again, to start using the library for fun again, and I am really glad to be able to report that I've been keeping it up. At the same time, though, it's hard not to be frustrated that I only finished twenty-four books this year -- that doesn't even work out to a book for every two weeks. I mean, obviously the fact that I stopped reading for like three months didn't help. (I was in the middle of a book called The Mortal Hero when my childhood hero died. It was a little hard to continue after that.) I guess next year twenty-four will be the number for me to break!
I'm definitely glad to be reading again. :)
1. The Girls in the Back of the Class, LouAnne Johnson
2. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
3. The Wind Done Gone, Alice Randall
4. The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker
5. Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, Carolyn B. Maloney
6. Yes Man, Danny Wallace
7. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
8. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, Barbara Ehrenreich
9. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, Peter Singer
10. 10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness, Michael Hanlon
11. Night Comes to the Cretaceous, James Lawrence Powell
12. Making Money, Terry Pratchett
13. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg, Helen Rappaport
14. The Secret of the Great Pyramid, Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin
15. Snakes and Earrings, Hitomi Kanehara
16. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Jonathan Shay
17. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women, Jessica Valenti
18. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman
19. Achilles, Elizabeth Cook
20. On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson
21. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natalie Angier
22. Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal, Dan Bortolotti
23. Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys, Rob Dunn
24. Return to Titanic, Robert D. Ballard with Michael Sweeney
(lol at the fact that only five of these are fiction! xD )
When I was a kid, I used to read all day every day. When I discovered the Internet, that hobby slowly petered out. Last summer I started making a real effort to start reading again, to start using the library for fun again, and I am really glad to be able to report that I've been keeping it up. At the same time, though, it's hard not to be frustrated that I only finished twenty-four books this year -- that doesn't even work out to a book for every two weeks. I mean, obviously the fact that I stopped reading for like three months didn't help. (I was in the middle of a book called The Mortal Hero when my childhood hero died. It was a little hard to continue after that.) I guess next year twenty-four will be the number for me to break!
I'm definitely glad to be reading again. :)
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Are you a member there? I'm not sure if I should sign up; I definitely am not suffering from a lack of things to read, lol.
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I KNOW I'm so bad with buying books and shelving them... eventually they will all be read. :D I just finished all the Harry Potters. finally. fack.
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2710239
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