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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Books books books!
I feel as if my last few blog posts have been questionable
in terms of their relevance to science, sewing, or sautéing, so in the interest
of “crafting” (sewing’s cousin, right?) here are two things I made in pottery
class this year. I call them “bird mug” and “flower bowl.”
Ah, I feel like a legitimate part of the group now. Legit enough to get to my real post: books books books! I begin with a sad fact: I lost my list of books to read some time ago. It’s hard enough trying to recreate a list of books that you came up with yourself, but it’s a whole new ballgame when you’re attempting to recall titles and authors that other people had suggested. Unfortunately, at least 83% of my list was made up of other people’s suggestions. Needless to say I gave up and started over, hence the book email I sent to you all a few months back.
Keeping in line with my first book list, I did not want to
be confined by my own literary experiences—it’s more fun incorporating other
people’s recommendations into the mix. I also realized that in addition to discovering
what others have read and enjoyed, I was interested in knowing what folks intended to read. So here’s a little
compilation of titles and authors, courtesy of you all:
The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins |
Bossypants | Tina Fey |
In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson |
A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin |
Medium Raw | Anthony Bourdain |
Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain |
The Sisters Brothers | Patrick deWitt |
The Paris Wife | Paula McLain |
The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
Modoc | Ralph Helfer |
Polar Dream | Helen Thayer |
A Complicated Kindness | Miriam Toews |
Anna Pigeon series | Nevada Barr |
Something Fierce | Carmen Aguirre |
The Big Year | Mark Obmascik |
Pink Boots and a Machete | Mireya Mayor |
The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective's Agency | Alexander McCall Smith |
Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey |
Merlin trilogy | Mary Stewart |
The Power of One | Bryce Courtenay |
Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
Best Laid Plans | Terry Fallis |
1Q84 | Haruki Murakami |
The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson |
A Study in Sherlock | Laurie R. King (editor) |
The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
Still Alice | Lisa Genova |
The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
Josephine B trilogy | Sandra Gulland |
Trinity | Leon Uris |
Song of the Dodo | David Quammen |
A Primate's Memoir | Robert Sapolsky |
Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers | Robert Sapolsky |
South | Ernest Shackleton |
Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold |
Foutainhead | Ayn Rand |
Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson |
Three Day Road | Joseph Boyden |
The Hakawati | Rabih Alameddine |
the Arthurian saga | Jack Whyte |
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And this is the result of those emails...so far...
And this is the result of those emails...so far...
Almost all of these books, authors, or genres are on people’s
“to read” list, and helped guide my wandering eyes while in the bookshops. Libraries
are great, but there is something to be said about adding a couple new titles
to the ol’ bookshelf, know what I mean? If you’ve forgotten, I suspect you’ll
remember sooner rather than later. ;-)
Happy Reading!
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