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I can't sleep anyways and this is driving me crazy. So finally, I bring you
BOOKS I READ IN 2007
In, essentially, reverse chronological order, and with my goodreads ratings (scale of 1-5)
FICTION
Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons (4)
Life of Pi -- Yann Martel (4)
To The Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf (2)
Love and Houses -- Marti Leimbach (4)
Four and Twenty Blackbirds -- Cherie Priest (3.5)
I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov (3.5)
Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing -- Erika Lopez (5)
Meridian -- Alice Walker (3)
Fantomina -- Eliza Haywood (3)
Passing -- Nella Larsen (3.5)
Everything Is Illuminated -- Jonathan Safran Foer (5)
NON-FICTION
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity -- Beverly Daniel Tatum (5)
Be the Pack Leader -- Cesar Milan (2)
Don't Get Too Comfortable -- David Rakoff (4)
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (2)
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats -- Peter Menzel (5)
Say Goodnight to Insomnia -- Gregg Jacobs (3)
Running With Scissors: A Memoir -- Augusten Burroughs (2.5)
Oroonoko -- Aphra Behn (3)
DRAMA
M. Butterfly -- David Henry Hwang (3)
Wyrd Sisters -- Terry Pratchett (3)
Waiting for Godot -- Samuel Beckett (1)
The Vagina Monologues -- Eve Ensler (3)
The Rivals -- Richard Sheridan (3)
YOUNG ADULT
The Book of Three -- Lloyd Alexander (4)
The Woman Who Rides Like A Man -- Tamora Pierce (4)
In the Hand of the Goddess -- Tamora Pierce (5)
Alanna: The First Adventure -- Tamora Pierce (5)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -- Sherman Alexie (5)
Someday Angeline -- Louis Sachar (3)
Wintersmith -- Terry Pratchett (5)
A Hat Full of Sky -- Terry Pratchett (5)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling (5)
The Dark is Rising -- Susan Cooper (4)
The Immortal -- Christopher Pike (3)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents -- Terry Pratchett (4)
The Midnight Club -- Christopher Pike (4)
There's A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom -- Louis Sachar (4)
The Ruby in the Smoke -- Phillip Pullman (3)
Bridge to Terabithia -- Katherine Paterson (3)
Over Sea, Under Stone -- Susan Cooper (3)
The Amber Spyglass -- Phillip Pullman (5)
The Subtle Knife -- Phillip Pullman (5)
The Golden Compass -- Phillip Pullman (5)
The Giver -- Lois Lowry (3)
COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS
Finder: Sin Eater, Vol 1 -- Carla Speed McNeil (3.5)
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 -- Joe Sacco (4)
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda -- J.P. Stassen (4)
Exit Wounds -- Rutu Modan (3.5)
American Born Chinese -- Gene Luen Yang (4)
Gray Horses -- Hope Larson (2)
The Contract With God Trilogy -- Will Eisner (3)
The Rabbi's Cat -- Joann Sfar (3.5)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic -- Alison Bechdel (5)
Calvin and Hobbes: Weirdos From Another Planet! -- Bill Watterson (5)
Calvin and Hobbes: Yukon Ho! -- Bill Watterson (5)
Calvin and Hobbes -- Bill Watterson (5)
Palestine -- Joe Sacco (3.5)
The Complete Maus -- Art Spiegelman (4)
POETRY
In the Next Galaxy -- Ruth Stone (3)
Paradise Lost -- John Milton (2.5)
If Not, Winter (Sappho's Fragments) -- Anne Carson, trans. (4)
Vitreous -- David Ray Vance (4)
TOTAL: 63 books
Not a great year for poetry or drama, esp compared to past years when I've read tons of amazing poetry and drama. I'm sure having no classes this past semester didn't help with that.
Lots of good YA stuff, tho -- my favorite kind of escapism. Good comics, too. All the stuff I've given a "5" to I loved so much I wanted to explode. And in general, lots of enjoyable stuff up there. Tho, yes, escapism seems to be a major theme, b/c I haven't got too much that's really heavy, esp not in fiction. Some weighty, sad graphic novels, tho.
Based on what I like, any book recommendations for me? You may take this list as my recommendations to you, but if anyone wants to talk more specifically about works, I'm happy to!
O yah: I've only included books I've read in their entirety, and obvs this list doesn't include any scholarly articles, individual poems, Cliff's Notes, internet reading, or books I only skimmed or read chunks of.
BOOKS I READ IN 2007
In, essentially, reverse chronological order, and with my goodreads ratings (scale of 1-5)
FICTION
Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons (4)
Life of Pi -- Yann Martel (4)
To The Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf (2)
Love and Houses -- Marti Leimbach (4)
Four and Twenty Blackbirds -- Cherie Priest (3.5)
I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov (3.5)
Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing -- Erika Lopez (5)
Meridian -- Alice Walker (3)
Fantomina -- Eliza Haywood (3)
Passing -- Nella Larsen (3.5)
Everything Is Illuminated -- Jonathan Safran Foer (5)
NON-FICTION
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity -- Beverly Daniel Tatum (5)
Be the Pack Leader -- Cesar Milan (2)
Don't Get Too Comfortable -- David Rakoff (4)
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (2)
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats -- Peter Menzel (5)
Say Goodnight to Insomnia -- Gregg Jacobs (3)
Running With Scissors: A Memoir -- Augusten Burroughs (2.5)
Oroonoko -- Aphra Behn (3)
DRAMA
M. Butterfly -- David Henry Hwang (3)
Wyrd Sisters -- Terry Pratchett (3)
Waiting for Godot -- Samuel Beckett (1)
The Vagina Monologues -- Eve Ensler (3)
The Rivals -- Richard Sheridan (3)
YOUNG ADULT
The Book of Three -- Lloyd Alexander (4)
The Woman Who Rides Like A Man -- Tamora Pierce (4)
In the Hand of the Goddess -- Tamora Pierce (5)
Alanna: The First Adventure -- Tamora Pierce (5)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -- Sherman Alexie (5)
Someday Angeline -- Louis Sachar (3)
Wintersmith -- Terry Pratchett (5)
A Hat Full of Sky -- Terry Pratchett (5)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling (5)
The Dark is Rising -- Susan Cooper (4)
The Immortal -- Christopher Pike (3)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents -- Terry Pratchett (4)
The Midnight Club -- Christopher Pike (4)
There's A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom -- Louis Sachar (4)
The Ruby in the Smoke -- Phillip Pullman (3)
Bridge to Terabithia -- Katherine Paterson (3)
Over Sea, Under Stone -- Susan Cooper (3)
The Amber Spyglass -- Phillip Pullman (5)
The Subtle Knife -- Phillip Pullman (5)
The Golden Compass -- Phillip Pullman (5)
The Giver -- Lois Lowry (3)
COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS
Finder: Sin Eater, Vol 1 -- Carla Speed McNeil (3.5)
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 -- Joe Sacco (4)
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda -- J.P. Stassen (4)
Exit Wounds -- Rutu Modan (3.5)
American Born Chinese -- Gene Luen Yang (4)
Gray Horses -- Hope Larson (2)
The Contract With God Trilogy -- Will Eisner (3)
The Rabbi's Cat -- Joann Sfar (3.5)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic -- Alison Bechdel (5)
Calvin and Hobbes: Weirdos From Another Planet! -- Bill Watterson (5)
Calvin and Hobbes: Yukon Ho! -- Bill Watterson (5)
Calvin and Hobbes -- Bill Watterson (5)
Palestine -- Joe Sacco (3.5)
The Complete Maus -- Art Spiegelman (4)
POETRY
In the Next Galaxy -- Ruth Stone (3)
Paradise Lost -- John Milton (2.5)
If Not, Winter (Sappho's Fragments) -- Anne Carson, trans. (4)
Vitreous -- David Ray Vance (4)
TOTAL: 63 books
Not a great year for poetry or drama, esp compared to past years when I've read tons of amazing poetry and drama. I'm sure having no classes this past semester didn't help with that.
Lots of good YA stuff, tho -- my favorite kind of escapism. Good comics, too. All the stuff I've given a "5" to I loved so much I wanted to explode. And in general, lots of enjoyable stuff up there. Tho, yes, escapism seems to be a major theme, b/c I haven't got too much that's really heavy, esp not in fiction. Some weighty, sad graphic novels, tho.
Based on what I like, any book recommendations for me? You may take this list as my recommendations to you, but if anyone wants to talk more specifically about works, I'm happy to!
O yah: I've only included books I've read in their entirety, and obvs this list doesn't include any scholarly articles, individual poems, Cliff's Notes, internet reading, or books I only skimmed or read chunks of.