July 2010 Reads

So now I'm technically a graduate student. Which means way less class/study time than was required by medical school. Obviously, that time should be spent reading, reading, reading away. Here's the list for July:

July 1-4, 2010



World Without End
by Ken Follett
2007
1014 pages
ISBN: 978-0-451-22499-6
Purchased at Bookman/Bookwoman

100 Books While I'm 27: January 2010

Books Before this Point: (Doing Some Checking, Will be determined soon)

January 2010:

The Secret of Lost Things
by Sheridan Hay
2007
349 pages
ISBN: 978-0-385-51848-2

Match Day:
One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
by Brian Eule
2009
272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-312-37784-7
Cincinnati Public Library

The Devil in the White City:
Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
2003
390 pages
ISBN: 978-0-375-72560-9

To Hellholes and Back:
Bribes, Lies and the Art of Extreme Tourism
by Chuck Thompson
2009
321 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8050-8788-8
ARC from LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Eternal on the Water
by Joseph Monninger
2010
344 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4391-6833-2
ARC from Barnes & Noble FirstLook
Anticipated Release: February 2010

Purge: Rehab Diaries
by Nicole Johns
2009
274 pages
ISBN: 978-1-58005-274-0
Cincinnati Public Library

The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
1989
973 pages
ISBN: 978-0-451-22524-5

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
by Chuck Klosterman
2005
237 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7432-6645-7

100 Books While I'm 27

New Goal, New Tracking. Here we go.

1.) November 7, 2009 - November 13, 2009
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
1838
989 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4340-0061-3
Read on the Sony Digital Book

2.) November 13, 2009 - November 17, 2009
And Another Thing...
by Eoin Colfer
2009
275 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4013-2358-2
Cincinnati Public Library

3.) November 17, 2009 - November 22, 2009
Nocturnes
by John Connolly
2006
471 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4165-3460-0

4.) November 22, 2009 - November 23, 2009
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
by George Saunders
2005
130 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59448-152-9

5.) November 23, 2009 - November 25, 2009
Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
2009
406 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59448-887-0
Cincinnati Public Library

6.) November 25, 2009 - November 27, 2009
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
by Dr. Chris Coppola
2009
259 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9840531-1-7
ARC from LibraryThing Early Reviewers

7.) November 27, 2009 - November 30, 2009
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England
by Brock Clarke
2007
303 pages
ISBN: 978-1-56512-551-3

8.) November 30, 2009 - December 3, 2009
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
by Robert Rankin
2002
342 pages
ISBN: 978-0-575-07401-9

9.) December 3, 2009 - December 6, 2009
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
by Allison Hoover Bartlett
2009
274 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59448-891-7
Cincinnati Public Library

10.) December 6, 2009 - December 9, 2009
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
2009
402 pages
ISBN: 978-0-670-02055-3
Cincinnati Public Library

11.) December 10, 2009- present
A Better Angel
by Chris Adrian
2008
227 pages
ISBN: 978-0-312-42853-7

What I'm Reading Now

This summer has not been nearly as productive for reading as I hoped that it might be. As it draws to a close, I am determined to do at least a little bit better at keeping track of what I'm reading for the rest of this year when I imagine that the reading time will be a little bit scarcer than it has been. With that I give you the list of what I'm reading right at this moment, with promises to write at least brief comments on each once I'm done with them and on to the next. Because really, I want to do this for me.

Currently Reading:
Fiction:
The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
2006
615 pages
Wednesday, July 29 -

Non-Fiction:
The Super-Organism:
The Beauty Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies
by Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson
2009
502 pages
Tuesday, July 28 -

2009 Booklist

I'm not even going to bother trying to keep track of exact dates this time, but here's the list of books for this year, with as much information as I have on hand or LibraryThing has attached to the description. I will do my bestest to actually put in all the books that I read this year. Here's hoping.

Note: If the title of a book is linked, that will take you to the entry in this blog that talks about it.

A * next to a book's title indicates that I wrote a review for LibraryThing as pursuitofsanity
A ** next to a book's title indicates that I wrote a review for LibraryThing as troubleactingnormal


January

The Shadow of the Wind*
by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
2005
487 pages

American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
2003
624 pages

Just After Sunset*
by Stephen King
2008
384 pages

New England White**
by Stephen L. Carter
2008
640 pages

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death*
by Charlie Houston
2008
336 pages

The Addict:
One Patient, One Doctor, One Year*
by Michael Stein
2009 (Advance copy, not yet released)
288 pages

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere *
by ZZ Packer
2003
256 pages

January totals: 7 books, 3015 pages

February

The Path of Daggers
by Robert Jordan
1998
685 pages

Winter's Heart
by Robert Jordon
2000
780 pages

The Memory Keeper's Daughter **
by Kim Edwards
2006
432 pages

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest **
by Ken Kesey
1962
277 pages

Island of Lost Girls **
by Jennifer McMahon
2008
255 pages

Songs Without Words
by Ann Packer
2007
322 pages

Totals for February: 6 books, 2751 pages

Late February, March:
The books that I read between then and now:

Rise and Shine
by Anna Quindlen
2008
352 pages

Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
1908
425 pages

Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery
1909
276 pages

Anne of the Island
by L.M. Montgomery
1915
243 pages

Anne of Windy Poplars
by L.M. Montgomery
1936
288 pages

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
by Sandeep Jauhar
2008
299 pages

An Irish Country Doctor
by Patrick Taylor
2004
337 pages

Books from the time that I was doing a crappy time keeping track: 7 books, 2220 pages


April

Brain Surgeon:
A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles *
by Keith Black
2009
225 pages

The Book of Lost Things*
by John Connolly
2006
339 pages

Sarum: The Novel of England *
by Edward Rutherfurd
1987
1032 pages

Tell Me Where It Hurts
by Nick Trout
2008
304 pages

Outcasts United
by Warren St. John
2009
320 pages

Totals for April: 5 books, 2220 pages

May

Neuromancer
by William Gibson
1984
271 pages

Delicate Edible Birds
by Lauren Groff
2009
306 pages

Bright Shiny Morning
by James Frey
2008
501 pages

What is the What
by Dave Eggers
2006
538 pages

Fantastic Voyage
by Isaac Asimov
1966
186 pages

Between Late May and Late July (with Promises to Try Really Hard to Do Better!)

Cutting For Stone
by Abraham Verghese
2009
541 pages

The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
1844-1845
1243 pages

The Given Day
by Dennis Lehane
2008
720 pages

A Wolf At the Table:
A Memoir of My Father
by Augusten Burroughs
2008
256 pages

Full Circle:
One Man's Journey by Air, Train Boat and Occasionally Very Sore Feet Around 20,000 Miles of the Pacific Rim
by Michael Palin
1997
320 pages

Embracing the Wide Sky:
A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
by Daniel Tammet
2009
304 pages

A Study in Scarlet
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1887
90 pages

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
2006
514 pages

The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2009
531 pages

An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears
1998
685 pages

My Stroke of Insight:
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
2009
224 pages

Different Seasons
by Stephen King
1982
508 pages

What Patient's Taught Me:
A Medical Student's Journey
by Audrey Young
2004
228 pages

The Overacheivers:
The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
by Alexandra Robbins
2006
439 pages

The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
2006
615 pages

Weekends at Bellvue
by Julie Holland, MD
2009
308 pages
ARC

The Elephant Keeper
by Christopher Nicholson
2009
298 pages
ARC

Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
2009
272 pages

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
1932
268 pages

TBR Challenge

Librarything is a dangerous place. There I can easily locate the blogs of other book obsessed people, who have come up with nifty reading related ideas.

Today's discovery: The TBR ("To Be Read") Challenge.

Basically, you make a list of 12 books that have been on your to-be-read list for more than 6 months, than you read them. It's supposed to be an annual challenge, but I am starting late, and I'm still going to do 12, because I am determined like that.

After some time spend staring at my bookshelf, I have chosen the following 12 books:

1) A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster

2) Kim
by Rudyard Kipling

3) Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter

4) Native Son
by Richard Wright

5) A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway

6) American Psycho
by Easton Ellis

7) Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

8) One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9) Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad

10) The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Read 7/12/08

11) Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov

12) The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulix

Now I promise not to edit this list, aside from linking the titles to the blog posts about those books once I actually read them and write about them. And we'll see how this goes.

Books are good. Decreasing the size of my to-be-read list is very good. Let's go!

Back to Blogging: Booklist and New Tool

OK, so I live in Cincinnati now, and I have been thinking that I wanted to get back to blogging (since summer is PRIME TIME for basking in the sunshine and reading my afternoons away) but "the road outside my house, is paved with good intentions" as it were.

Anyway, today I was sitting at my desk in my new lab, feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work related reading that I have to do, so I decided to take a break and find something else to read.

So I went to the blogger website. In blogs of note for the month, they have listed Women in Science, which seemed interesting... since I suppose I am one. From there, I checked out Neurosciencegirl... since I suppose I am one of those too. There I found the list below, which I thought was interesting.

This is the list of the 100 or so books most often listed as "unread" by LibraryThing users. You're supposed to bold the books you've read, underline the ones you read for school, and italicize the ones you started and didn't finish. Interestingly, blogger doesn't seem to have an underline feature, I assume because that implies that something is a link, so I'm just bolding what I've read, no matter what the reason. I'm also putting a (*) next to the ones that I own but haven't read, (**) for books that are in my digital book's library but not yet read. Here's my list:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina**
Crime and Punishment**
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick**
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities**
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace**
Vanity Fair**
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books*
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex*
Quicksilver*
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch**
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo**
Dracula**
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility**
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist**
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune*
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere*
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners**
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed*
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame**
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield**

So a couple of things I think are slightly interesting: There are 102 books on this list, and I have read only 36 of them, (which doesn't seem like so very many). I traced the list back as many blogs as I could (turned out to be four) and 36 seems better than average. Also, I seem to be a lot less likely to start but not finish.

Of course, the other intriguing thing about this is : "Where does this list come from again? What exactly is Library Thing?" And it turns out that LibraryThing.com is a very cool little website where you can create a personal profile with all the books in your own library, rate and review them, and then connect with people that have similar taste in books or get recommendations for things to read. So I joined up, and while my library is not even sort of started yet, here it is.

So that makes this list make a little more sense to me, because it didn't seem like a real "Top 100" by any criteria I can think of, but it totally makes sense to me as the "100 books that people that really love books are most likely to have bought, be willing to admit that they own, but not gotten around to actually reading." If that's the criteria, then a list that combines classics (cult and literary) with a bunch of fairly recent popular fiction and some interesting but general non-fiction makes perfect sense. A list of books that would lead readers to think, "I really should read that..."

And by that standard, I am a pretty boring, normal reader. Because there are only about three books here that I have not at least picked up and considered at one point or another... such is life.

Anyway, I'll get internet access back on Monday, and then spend a couple of days playing with my LibraryThing bookshelf, and writing some reviews and figuring out what standards I am going to rate books by, and hopefully using this all as a reason to get back to blogging. We'll see how that goes.

The 2008 Booklist

Welcome to 2008. I'm going to do better this year. I know I've never said anything like that before. ;-)

This year, there will be a slight change in the nature of my reading. Andrew gave me a Sony Digital Book for Christmas (Best Present Ever!) so while I will be doing some of my reading in the traditional way, I will also be reading the classics (100 free books!) digitally. I'll be blogging those the same way as other books, but I will note which ones are digital and which are the more traditional page turning sort.

I'm also keeping a tally, because I think that it will be interesting, and because maybe if I have the motivation of keeping an accurate count it'll get me to do this blogging thing with slightly greater regularity.

With that:
2008 Paper Books Read: 16
2008 Digital Books Read: 3
2008 Total Books Read: 19

January 9, 2008
The Rebels of Ireland
By Edward Rutherfurd
863 pages

January 11, 2008
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austin
Sony Digital Book

January 13, 2007
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
By Stephen King
272 pages

January 16, 2008
Good Dog, Stay
By Anna Quindlen
82 pages

January 17, 2008
Gone Baby, Gone
By Dennis Lehane
443 pages.

January 22, 2008
The Green Mile:
The Complete Serial Novel
By Stephen King
544 pages

February 9, 2007
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Perfection
by Atul Gawande
257 pages

February 17, 2007
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
846 pages

February 18, 2007
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by Pauline Chen
222 pages

The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff
357 pages

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Sony Digital Book

March 20, 2008
The House of God
by Samuel Shem
397 pages

March 23, 2008
A Drink Before the War
by Dennis Lehane
277 pages

March 25, 2008
Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
355 pages

March 26, 2008

Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane

369 pages

March 28, 2008

Sacred

by Dennis Lehane

358 pages

March 30, 2008

Prayers for Rain

by Dennis Lehane

375 pages

March 31, 2008

1st To Die

by James Patterson

462 pages

April 1, 2008

2nd Chance

by James Patterson (with Andrew Gross)

Sony eDigital Book

A Little Catching Up to Do

So, I haven't done so well with the updating thing, and only slightly better consistently writing in my pretty journal, but I figured an update might get me back on track. Here's (at least a partial) list of the books that I have read in the last two months or so, along with some thoughts on each. I have no idea of the dates for most, so I am not going to even attempt, but here goes...

Under the Banner of Heaven

This book really pulled me in, had me thinking quite a bit. For those of you who haven't heard of it/ don't know what it's about: it tells the story of some Mormon Fundamentalist brothers who (very brutally) murder their sister in law and her infant daughter because they believe that "God told them to do it." It frames this story with a lot of other details about the history of Mormonism in general and Mormon Fundamentalism in particular. The book is by Jon Krakauer, who you may know for his other books, Into Thin Air and Into the Wild.

Now the book is good, and certainly very interesting, but I did feel from the beginning that Krakauer might not have been the best person to write it. Not only is he not a Mormon, but he is clearly not religious, and much of what he says about Mormonism, or religious faith in general is loaded with not at all veiled disdain for the faithful. He claims to have respect for Mormons, but also calls says that religious violence is the result of "those murky sectors of the heart and the head that prompt most of us to believe in God - and compel the impassioned few, predictably to carry out that irrational belief to its logical end." I'm not sure that murder is the logical end to faith in Christ...

The book does really make you think, where is the line between faith and delusion? That question is legally part of the trail for these brothers. Were they insane? They thought that they were listening to the voice of God, following the will of God. But if they are insane, than are all people who attempt to live their lives according the to will of the God that they worship insane. Clearly that's taking it too far, but where's the line? It was interesting reading the thoughts of these murderers on the Islamic terrorists. One of the brothers says something about the motivations of Osama Bin Ladin that basically parallels my belief, and says that the 9/11 hijackers were following a false prophet... and its all just a belief in something that we can't prove. I mean clearly, I think that my view of God (really against murder, all murder, all the time) is much nicer than there's, and not just nicer, I believe that I am right, or at least, closer to right than they are. But I can't really prove that's what God wants either, although I can say it gives me a more plesant way to live. It just kind of scared me that if you stuck me and this guy in a room we would agree that the terrorists are wrong, but he would think of me as just as wrong as I think of him... creepy.

Anyway, I do recommend it, because there is a lot of information, and because the book really challenges you to deal with your thinking about God and faith with the challenge of these men's seemly sincere, but also evil, belief. It also has a lot of information about polygamy and Mormon education that I found frightening and challenging, so it's good for that too. If someone reads it, I would really love to talk about it. Yeah.

A Walk in the Woods
I thought that this book was really going to make me want to walk the whole Appalachian Trail, but really, it did not do that. It made me want to go out to the Blue Ridge Mountains for about a week, and then come home to my nice warm bed. I think that the history of the trail was interesting, and I obviously people thinking about doing the trail should read this one, and Bryson's commentary is quite amusing, but the book didn't really stick with me, so it wasn't a life changer or anything.

Magical Thinking
In reading this book, I found myself, for at least the first set of stories, seriously getting Burroughs and David Sedaris mixed up. Same story: gay man tells amusing stories about his childhood and young adulthood. But the later stories are much more powerful, unique and moving, in particular those about his life with his lover, Dennis, who he clearly cares for very deeply. In fact, some of the passages about Dennis rank among the sweetest things that I have ever read.

"What's painful and wonderful about somebody is loving their small things, like the way he is able to smile when he sips his wine, the way his hands fall down at his sides... The truth is Dennis has no bad qualities and no faults. When he's working late and I'm alone, or sometimes when we're in bed together, the lights off, I try to make even a small list of his faults: Things I Put Up With Out of Love. But I haven't been able to think of a single thing that I am not able to first overlook and then come to cherish." (page 222)

It probably didn't help that Andrew had driven all the way up here for the weekend, and was sleeping in the next room being generally wonderful and totally lacking in Things That I Put Up With Out of Love, because I am a lucky girl, and apparently still a hopeless romantic.

Dry

More Augusten Burroughs. This is his memoir about his alcoholism and recovery. I think that it is his most powerful book overall. While it still has the element of the absurd that was almost overwhelming in Running with Scissors it also has the honesty that so moved me in the passage that I quoted above, and throughout the whole book I felt involved. I wanted him to make it. I was rooting for him... it's good. Better than A Million Little Pieces and quite possibly more true, too.

The Orchid Thief
While I don't think that this was either the best or the most interesting book that I have ever read, it certainly got me interested in orchids, and that might be worth it, since they are pretty amazing flowers. I now look for them in places where there are flowers (some pretty ones in the Opryland Hotel) and notice them when they're around. I can sort of understand how people become obsessed, although perhaps not as obsessed as the people in this book are. Still good stuff. Jannine and I went to the Natural History Museum's annual orchid show right as I was starting this book, and now I really feel like I need to go back and look again with all the background. The book will make you appreciate a particularly interesting and complicated family of flowers. It also might make you want to see Adaptation (or see it again in my case.) I might have something to say about that when I get to it.

Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

I was hoping to really like this book, and while I do have to admit that I burned through it very quickly, I was not overly impressed. About halfway though I told Andrew that it reminded me of what would have happened if a lesser man tried to write You Shall Know Our Velocity! and while the end was better than the beginning, still, it was nothing overly special. However, I was intrigued by the trip to the Burning Man Festival, which sounds insane by certainly very interesting. Anyone want to go?

The City Of Falling Angels

This is the same man who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and he has a powerful gift for making the location a character in the story. Although I'm sure that it helps that he chooses events in famously unique places. (MinGoGaE takes place in Savannah, GA and this is a story of Venice.) While it is supposed to be directly about the burning of a famous opera house, it is really a portrait of the city, its complexities and the people that choose to live there, and it is in that exploration that the book comes to life. I am ready to pack my bags and head to Venice to explore whenever someone wants to buy me a plane ticket. It's that kind of book. I recommend it most highly. Great Stuff.

OK. I know I am forgetting several things but I don't have the books in front of me, (including The Tao of Pooh which I read at Andrew's) but I am tried, so I think that I am going to leave it at that and go on from here. Cause I love books. Sweet.

The 2007 Booklist

December 26, 2006 - January 2, 2007
In Praise of Slowness:
Challenging the Cult of Speed
by Carl Honore
c. 2004
321 pages

January 3, 2007-
Under the Banner of Heaven:
A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
c. 2003
399 pages

Dates unknown in January and February and March
A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
c. 1997
350 pages

Magical Thinking:
True Stories
by Augusten Burroughs
c. 2004
268 pages

Dry: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
c. 2003
309 pages

The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
c. 1998
282 pages

Attention. Deficit. Disorder.
by Brad Listi
c. 2006
356 pages

The City Of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
c. 2005
398 pages

March 10-12, 2007
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
by J.K. Rowling
c. 2005
652 pages

March 12-13, 2007
A Perfect Mess:
The Hidden Benefits of Disorder
by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman
c. 2006
316 pages

March 14-15, 2007
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
c. 1967
308 pages

March 16-19, 2007
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
c. 1976
437 pages

March 19
How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers
c. 2004
218 pages

Dates Unknown in March, April and May

i, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
c. 1950
272 pages

Star
by Pamela Anderson
c. 2004
294 pages

No Touch Monkey!
And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
by Ayun Halliday
c. 2003
273 pages

My Friend Leonard
by James Frey
c. 2005
357 pages

The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
c. 2005
642 pages

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
c. 2007
320 pages

Complications:
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
c. 2002
252 pages

Four Blondes
by Candace Bushnell
c. 2000
245 pages

For Us, The Living
by Robert Heinlein
(lent to Andrew before I put it in here)

Lipstick Jungle
by Candace Bushnell
c. 2005
532 pages

Right Now:
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
c. 1998
543 pages

Table of Contents: The Booklist

Here's the running list of the books that I have read, along with relavent information should you want to find them. Click on the title to read the entry about that book, or just scroll down till you find something that interests you. If it's not linked, I haven't finished writing about it. Sometimes I read faster than I write. Books are listed in reverse chronological order by the date that I finished reading them. It is safe to assume that I started the next book on the same day or the morning after I finished the last. Here's the Introduction if you want to read it. Suggestions are always welcome.

Eventually:
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
c.1980, 1984
Harcourt, Inc.: San Diego
535 pages

October 28, 2006
Devil in the Details:
Scenes From An Obsessive Girlhood
by Jennifer Traig
c. 2004
Little, Brown and Company: New York
246 pages

September 30,2006 (ish)
Mountains Beyond Mountains:
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
c. 2003
Random House: New York
304 pages

September 15, 2006
Enchantment
by Orson Scott Card
c. 1999
Ballentine Books: New York
415 pages

August 1, 2006
Naked
by David Sedaris
c. 1997
Little Brown and Company: New York
291 pages

July 26, 2006
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
c. 2000
Little Brown and Company: Boston
272 pages

July 18, 2006:
We Need To Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
c. 2003
Counterpoint: New York
400 pages

July 16, 2006:
An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison
c. 1995
Vintage Books: New York
219 pages

July 12, 2006:
Running With Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
c. 2002
Picador: New York
304 pages

July 11, 2006:
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman
c. 2003
Scribner: New York
246 pages

July 10, 2006:
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
c.1979
The Modern Library: New York
780 pages

June 25, 2006:
A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
c. 2005
Riverhead Books: New York
333 pages

June 21, 2006:
The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
c. 2001
Harcourt, Inc.: Orlando
319 pages

June 13, 2006
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
c. 1999
Pocket Books: New York
213 pages

June 12, 2006
A Prayer For Owen Meaney
by John Irving
c. 1989
Random House: New York
617 pages

June 9, 2006
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Colvino
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
c. 1979, 1981
Harcourt, Inc.: San Diego
260 pages

June 2, 2006
Walking a Literary Labyrinth:
A Spirituality of Reading
by Nancy M. Malone
c. 2003
Riverhead Books: New York
208 pages

June 1, 2006
Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
c.2004
Hyperion Books For Children: New York
451 pages

May 31, 2006
Kill as Few Patients as Possible
Oscar Landon, M.D.
c. 1987, 1997
Ten Speed Press: Berkley, CA
109 pages

May 29, 2006
Something Borrowed
by Emily Griffin
c. 2004
St. Martin's Griffin, New York
322 pages