I've been sick all year. I've only left the house once in 2010. I was planning to leave the house today, just to go to the library, but it keeps SNOWING.

The snow is pretty. But I am tired of being cooped up in the house.

I read 59 books last year, woohoo!

Here's the list.

My favorite: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Also notable:
Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
The End Is Now by Rob Stennett
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve ( Read more... )

I am married now. Everything was lovely. The process was relatively stress-free.

We still have one party to go--Dad's--on Sunday. But the honeymoon is over. I have to go back to work today. Boooo!

When John gave me the engagement ring, it was too big ( Read more... )

Me: "Where are you going?"
John: "I'm going to take a shower."
Me: "Oh no you don't! You're not going anywhere until I calculate the square footage of Sweden!"

PS - As best I can determine, it's 4,843,370,188,800. That's 4.8 trillion square feet!

To War and Peace:

You know what? Forget you, War and Peace. You are boring. I enjoy the "Peace" bits, with the society and the dying old man and Pierre's antics and the pregnant princess with the downy lip and the ugly girl . . . but I am NOT interested in battles, or Napoleon, or horses, or Andrey. I made it through Les Miserables last year by ( Read more... )

Last night we decided on (Lost) Sawyer-inspired nicknames. I am now "Sassafras".

Me, Doodlebug, and Tugboat laughed until we peed our pants.

Ask for a Convertible by Danit Brown

and

All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

The first two books I finished in 2008 have a lot in common. Ask for a Convertible is a collection of short stories that all have something to do with the character Osnat, an Israeli girl whose family moves to Michigan when she is a young girl. All the Sad ( Read more... )

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Books 2009

Books
1. Ask for a Convertible by Danit Brown
2. All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
3. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
4. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
5. Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the ( Read more... )

Technically, I still have three days so I might finish one more book (Arabian Nights) this year. We'll see.

I really liked nonfiction this year, specifically autobiographies. My number of books is down, but that is mainly because I read a lot of fat books, including Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, and Crime and Punishment.

47 books read in 2008. ( Read more... )