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Books in 2011
01. The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
02. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
03. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
04. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
05. Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
06. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
07. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
08. Roseanna by Maj ( Read more... ) -
Book Challenge 2010
-Moonshine by Alaya Johnson
-The J-Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall by Ian Bremmer
-The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
-Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
-Modern Greece: A Civilization on the Periphery by Keith R. Legg and John M. Roberts
-One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare
-Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater -
50 Book Challenge 2009
01. Race in another America by Edward Telles
02. The Lugano Report by Susan George
03. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
04. Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
05. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
06. For Matrimonial Purposes by Kavita Daswani
07. Senrid by Sherwood Smith
08. A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian
09. The Queen of Attolia by Megan ( Read more... ) -
50 Book Challenge 2008
01. The Fox by Sherwood Smith
02. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
03. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
04. The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
05. Global Capitalism by Jeffrey A. Frieden
06. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
07. Old Magic by Marianne Curley
08. The Akhenaten Adventure by P.B. ( Read more... ) -
Summer Books Pt. 2
So, my plans are pretty much set. I'm going to the Philippines for a week+ and Malaysia for two months (with at least a day in Singapore, please). I initially wanted to go to Thailand, but I can't see how it would work. *sigh* For another day I suppose ( Read more... ) -
Summer Books
I'm determined to read classics this summer, mostly because I'm equally determined to go to Asia, regardless of the country, and they don't have libraries there. At least, libraries I could access.
(Stolen from Emily):
Communist Manifesto (Marx)The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber ( Read more... ) -
Gloria Steinem quotes
I found her on a Starbucks coffee cup, actually... funny, I can't find the Starbucks quote on the Internet ( Read more... ) -
Final List: 50 Book Challenge 2007
Wow. I started this challenge thinking it would be easy; I figured I'd been reading 50 books a year without prompting anyway, and joined mainly to share my reading and to have others share their reads with me. But it has been a struggle: there have been two (or three) times that I grasped a book just to be reading a book ( Read more... ) -
Harry Potter 7! 9 Days and Counting...
I went to see the Harry Potter 5 movie yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. I guess I'd been setting the bar low enough on the movies in comparison to the books that I actually liked it. I liked all the pieces of the film, but actually cringed every time they had to stop and mention something about the plot ( Read more... )