Books read in 2006
Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Seeing by Jose Saramango
The Kite Runner by Kahlid Hosseini
Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
Needled to Death by Maggie Sefton
Yarn Harlot: The Secret LIfe of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Elektra: Love and war by Frank Miller with illustrations by Bill Sienkiewicz
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Knitting Lessons by Lela Nargi
Dr. No by Ian Flemming
Choke by Chuck Phallinuck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
This seems like a pretty short list for me. I've really relegated most of my reading to the subway though, which is about half an hour to and from work and back. Even on those hour and a half trips to Beacon while I was dating Aaron, I think I might have knitted or slept instead of reading. I think I'll try to read more books in 2007. I also did a lot more this year than I did last year. I started doing belly dancing classes, the aquaexercise classes, and played softball as well. Maybe I'll set aside a day in particular where I don't knit after work and instead go to a cafe somewhere (maybe Esperanto because that place is awesome) and just read for a few hours before going home.
I started reading a few books that kinda fell to the wayside. The most notable of those is The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I quickly realized that this book must have been written for him and him alone since I could make neither heads nor tails of the plot after reading more than a hundred pages. Also, I think I read some of a book my cousin gave me for Christmas last year called Manifesta about feminism. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I think I put it down when I started dating Aaron...which, as we've seen was proven to be a rather stupid thing to do.
I really liked Elektra: Love and War and was pretty fortunate that Greg had a copy that he was willing to loan to me. I'd love to actually own that book, but since it seems to be out of print and worth $120, I have a feeling that I won't be buying it anytime soon.
The book on this list that I've probably talked the most about is Chuck Phallinuck's Choke. This book was one of the most amusing books I've read. I'll probably read something by him again this year. I like to disperse authors that I like a lot throughout years because it's always such a let down when you finish all the works of an author.
I'm currently reading A Deadly Yarn by Maggie Sefton - another knitting murder mystery, and Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. On deck, there's the Motorcycle Diaries, and my friend wants me to read some sort of Ayn Rand book which I'm not quite eager to do, but at least Penguin publishes her, so I don't have to like pay for it. :) I think this year's classic will be The Brothers Karamazov. Does anyone have a suggestion for a non-fiction book?
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Seeing by Jose Saramango
The Kite Runner by Kahlid Hosseini
Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
Needled to Death by Maggie Sefton
Yarn Harlot: The Secret LIfe of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Elektra: Love and war by Frank Miller with illustrations by Bill Sienkiewicz
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Knitting Lessons by Lela Nargi
Dr. No by Ian Flemming
Choke by Chuck Phallinuck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
This seems like a pretty short list for me. I've really relegated most of my reading to the subway though, which is about half an hour to and from work and back. Even on those hour and a half trips to Beacon while I was dating Aaron, I think I might have knitted or slept instead of reading. I think I'll try to read more books in 2007. I also did a lot more this year than I did last year. I started doing belly dancing classes, the aquaexercise classes, and played softball as well. Maybe I'll set aside a day in particular where I don't knit after work and instead go to a cafe somewhere (maybe Esperanto because that place is awesome) and just read for a few hours before going home.
I started reading a few books that kinda fell to the wayside. The most notable of those is The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I quickly realized that this book must have been written for him and him alone since I could make neither heads nor tails of the plot after reading more than a hundred pages. Also, I think I read some of a book my cousin gave me for Christmas last year called Manifesta about feminism. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I think I put it down when I started dating Aaron...which, as we've seen was proven to be a rather stupid thing to do.
I really liked Elektra: Love and War and was pretty fortunate that Greg had a copy that he was willing to loan to me. I'd love to actually own that book, but since it seems to be out of print and worth $120, I have a feeling that I won't be buying it anytime soon.
The book on this list that I've probably talked the most about is Chuck Phallinuck's Choke. This book was one of the most amusing books I've read. I'll probably read something by him again this year. I like to disperse authors that I like a lot throughout years because it's always such a let down when you finish all the works of an author.
I'm currently reading A Deadly Yarn by Maggie Sefton - another knitting murder mystery, and Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. On deck, there's the Motorcycle Diaries, and my friend wants me to read some sort of Ayn Rand book which I'm not quite eager to do, but at least Penguin publishes her, so I don't have to like pay for it. :) I think this year's classic will be The Brothers Karamazov. Does anyone have a suggestion for a non-fiction book?