May 03, 2010 19:50
So I haven't been here since February 23. I know, because I looked.
If you've a mind to, tell me the most important thing you've been up to since then.
OR
Ask me a question.
OR, (since who knows what ya'll come up with?)
Here is a list of the books I have read since the beginning of the year - ask me about any one of them:
What the Dog Saw, by Malcomb Gladwell
Rise and Shine, by Anna Quindlan
Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette, by Sena Jeter Naslund
For Us, The Living, by RA Heinlein
To Sail Beyond the sunset, by Heinlein
The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Gladwell
Separate From the World, by PL Guas
Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
The Wednesday Sisters, by Meg Waite Clayton
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, by Leanda De Lisle
Skeletons at the Feast, by Chris Bohjalian
The Omnivore's Dilemma, A Natural History of Four Meal, by Michael Pollan
The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schafer and Annie Barrows
The Moral Underground - How Ordinary Americans Subvert and Unfair Economy, by Lisa Dodson
The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, by Ally Carter
In Defense of food, and Eater's Manifesto, Pollan
Digging to America, by Ann Tyler
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett (a reread)
I'd Tell you I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You, Ally Carter
Descartes' Bones, a Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith & Reason, by Russell Shorto
Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Buriel Barber
Summerland, by Michael Chabon