What Erica Read in 2011
Only 34? Lowest in recorded history!
| The Silent Gondoliers | William Goldman | |
| All the Sad Young Literary Men | Keith Gessen | |
| Night Train to Lisbon | Pascal Mercier | Translated from the German |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | Translated from the French (I LOVED this book.) |
| The Solitude of Prime Numbers | Paolo Giordano | Translated from the Italian |
| Blindness | José Saramago | Translated from the Portuguese |
| To The End of the Land | David Grossman | Translated from the Hebrew (This is an incredible book.) |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | |
| The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch | Sue Fishkoff | Wildly more interesting than I could have imagined. Recommended. |
| Rashi's Daughters. Book III: Rachel | Maggie Anton | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois | Just the most delightful afternoon read ever. Thanks, Aloni! |
| The Imperfectionists | Tom Rachman | |
| A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | |
| Tales from the Yoga Studio | Rain Mitchell | |
| Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam | Maggie Anton | |
| Assasins | Stephen Sondheim | Again, because my friend was in a production of it... and actually had the line, "Miss Goldman, I am in love with you." |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Ready for my usual rant about how far we've come regarding black and how far we have NOT come regarding fat? |
| The Tenth Song | Naomi Regen | Fun to read this while I was actually in Israel... |
| Invasive Procedures | Orson Scott Card | |
| The Unnamed | Joshua Ferris | |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | author | |
| The Pilgrimage | Paulo Coelho | Read this for book club. I didn't like it, and neither did they... |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Astrid Lindgren | Still no mention of Blomkvist |
| A Tad Overweight But Violet Eyes To Die For | G.B. Trudeau | Another Doonesbury book... |
| We're Not Out of the Woods Yet | G.B. Trudeau | Do I usually record comic books here? |
| Eat That Frog | Brian Tracy | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Nostalgic for India... |
| Understanding Comics | Scott McCloud | |
| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Into The Wild | Jon Krakauer | |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | |
| the Bhagavad-Gita | God, ha ha | |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | Read this on my Blackberry |
I have here lists of just about every book I've read in past years, though some years are nicely formatted and some are a big mess. One day I'll get them all looking nice, but when? Oh yeah, the 23rd... Here's a silly summary of recent years.
Here we go. This is some thrilling stuff, folks! We have: 2010, 2009, and 2008 in reverse order because I'm a little bit busy right now, 2007 and 2006, pretty clean, and 2005, very messy. We have 2004, also messy but slightly more interesting. Here is 2003 and 2002, which I think aren't as bad.
Hey, what's your favorite book ever? What would you recommend as a Great Book to just about anyone? E-me!
By the way, the reason these books are all hyperlinked to their pages on amazon.com is that I'm an amazon.com "associate", meaning that if you click through to amazon using any of the links on this page and then buy *anything* (even if it's NOT the item I have hyperlinked), then I get "credit" for having referred you in and I get some little percent of what you spend. So I LOVE IT WHEN YOU CLICK THROUGH! Please do it all the time, every time you want to buy something on amazon, come here first! You're the best!
You can also use this link to Amazon's main page to buy anything and I'll get a kick-back, yippee!!