What I'm Reading: Late 2009 / 2010 Edition

Dec 31, 2010 13:35

Ugh - I've been so bad at updating this as I read.  I get so much from the library, and read so many books (frequently at the same time) that it's easy for me to lose track of things.  I wish my library had a "borrowing history" thingy.

Memoirs:

The Scent of God - Beryl Singleton Bissell
Escape - Carolyn Jessop
Old Friends - Tracy Kidder
In The Sanctuary of Outcasts - Neil White
Women of the Asylum : Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife - Irene Spencer
Waiting for the Apocalypse - Veronica Chater
The Places In Between - Rory Stewart
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Julie Powell
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone - Various
Arranged Marriages: Stories - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Let's Take The Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship - Gail Caldwell

Sexuality:
The East, the West, and Sex : A History of Erotic Encounters - Richard Bernstein
The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters

Vegan:

Vegan Freak (2nd Ed) - Bob and Jenna Torres
Becoming Vegan - Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry - Gail A. Eisnitz

Misc. Non-Fiction:

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress - Candacy Taylor
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement - Kathryn Joyce

Cookbooks and Health:
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume 1) - Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle
Slim Forever: The French Way - Michel Montignac
The French Diet - Michel Montignac
Skinny Bitch
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
My Life Among Serial Killers - Helen Morrison, M.D
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History - David Aaronovitch
Sick Girl
The Pleasure is All Mine: Selfish Food for Modern Life - Suzanne Pirret

Fiction:

Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
Lemon Tart: A Culinary Mystery - Josi Kilpack
The White Queen - Phillipa Gregory
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
'Tis a Pity She's a Whore - John Ford
Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Geek Love
Survivor - Chuck Palanhiuk
Not My Daughter Barbara Delinsky
A Reliable Wife
A Good Fall
American Psycho
A Summer to Die - Lois Lowry
Daphne's Book - Mary Downing Hahn
Cemetary Dance - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Black Candle: Poems about women from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - Chitra Bangeree Divakaruni
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

Pagan/Wiccan/New Age:

Goddess Alive: Inviting Celtic and Norse Goddesses into Your Life - Michelle Skye

Esoteric:

Self-Initiation Into the Golden Dawn Tradition: A Complete Cirriculum of Study for Both the Solitary Magician and the Working Magical Group - Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero
Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr - Mary K. Greer

Mormon Related:

Mormon America: The Power and the Promise - Richard Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
The Unknown God -Nate Taylor
The Journal of Discourses: Vol 1
Jesus the Christ - James Talmage
The Sermons of Joseph W. Musser
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith - Compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Fire of the Covenant - Gerald Lund (fiction)
The Mormon Mirage - Latayne C. Scott
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs - Elissa Wall and Lisa Pulitzer
2010 Conference Talks of the AUB
Key to the Science of Theology - Parley P. Pratt
1886 Priesthood Succession
The Forgotten God
The Next Step is Essential
Daughters of Sarah: Pioneer Women Defend Plural Marriage

Blogs, Forums and Websites that I Regularly Read:

http://mormonfundamentalism.org/
http://dietingmadedelectable.blogspot.com/
http://vegancupcakes.wordpress.com/
http://tacit.livejournal.com/profile
http://biglegwoman.blogspot.com/
http://kateharding.net/
http://fatrantblog.wordpress.com/
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove
http://mormanity.blogspot.com/

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