ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER BOOKWORM.

[shkarlson]

The Fifty Book Challenge has welcomed a goodly number of new members, and some of them have been ambitious at getting their fifty books for 2012 read in the first quarter.  I continue to play along, and there's a realistic hope of fifty by the end of the year, but if not, well, that's a mountain I've already climbed.  Herewith the first quarter summary, with links to detailed reports at the Challenge.  Some books are particularly good (+), others particularly bad (-).

1. Locked On,  11 January 2012.
2. Death of the Liberal Class,  12 January 2012.
3. Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All,  29 January 2012.
4. Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education,  30 January 2012.
5. A Nation of Moochers: America's Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing,  12 February 2012.
6. Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II,  3 March 2012 (+).
7. The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters,  13 March 2012.
8. The Hunger Games Companion,  23 March 2012.
9. Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter,  29 March 2012.

I'll start a new bookworm.

Oooooooooo

(Cross-posted to Cold Spring Shops and European Tribune.)