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starfishchick

A Year of Reading: May 2011

May 31, 2011 21:44

( The Best American Sports Writing 1992, The Best American Sports Writing 1994, U is for Undertow, Paper Towns, The Bullpen Gospels: A Non-Prospect's Pursuit of the Major Leagues and the Meaning of Life, Doc: A Novel, Life's That Way, The White Queen, The Daughter of Time,
Substitute Me, The Prince of Tides, The Little Stranger, The False Princess, The Bride's Farewell )

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pescana June 1 2011, 01:55:46 UTC

I loved loved loved Graceling, in fact I read it again last week. Haven't read any more of Cashore's work, although I have Fire and will most likely read the next one. I hope you like it!

I gave up on the new Kinsey books after the one that didn't actually tell us who did it or have the usual write-up at the end. (P is for Peril) I thought my copy was missing some pages, but no. K is for Killer is still my favorite, but I'll re-read any of them aside from that one.

I am reading a book about how to run without injury. It's pretty interesting, at least to me!

starfishchick June 1 2011, 12:53:49 UTC

I certainly don't love the newer Kinsey books like I loved the first half of the alphabet. (And I can't remember which is which!!)

But I will probably keep reading them until the bitter Z is for Zebra end.

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starfishchick June 1 2011, 16:40:26 UTC

Just pass it on, donate it, whatever. Don't send it back, I do have my own copy. (I buy extras at library book sales for recovery packages and similar.)

mellyflori June 1 2011, 02:26:23 UTC

I'm in the middle of a kind of epic non-fiction kick so I've read some interesting things lately. I loved "The Murder Room" about the cases and personalities of the Vidoq Society (a group so cool my husband thought it was fictional). I also had a blast with "Beating Back the Devil" about the students in the first class of the CDC's Epidemiological Investigation Section.. frankly the idea that there's like and FBI for diseases is cool and terrifying all at once. Also it made me even more twitchy about how close to USAMRID I live ( ... )

starfishchick June 1 2011, 12:56:52 UTC

I read At Home in March and loved it. (And I read Packing for Mars in January and liked it a lot. I was OK with the toilets, but too much information on motion sickness.)

Ooh, Beating Back the Devil sounds great - though it would likely ramp up my paranoia to unbearable degrees.

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