But what have you read for me laaatelyyyyyy? |
| May
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| Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin |
Allen Zadoff |
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| Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have |
Allen Zadoff |
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| We Can Build You |
Philip K Dick |
As with lots of sci-fi, I just didn't really get it. |
| A Yellow Raft In Blue Water |
Michael Dorris |
A thrice-told tale that I quite enjoyed, despite having expected something completely different. A beautiful novel. |
| Fool Me Once |
Fern Michaels |
This book was so bad. I very rarely dislike a book, just because I love to read so much. If it's a novel and I can at all get into the story, I like it. This, however, was bad. Don't read it. |
April
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| What is the What |
Dave Eggers |
So incredibly good, as always. So much overuse of the phrase "this day", as always. |
| The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner |
Alan Sillitoe |
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| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Steig Larsson |
The book was so good, the movie was so bad. |
| Gentlemen of the Road |
Michael Chabon |
Not his best. |
| March
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| And Then We Came To The End |
Joshua Ferris |
I so totally lived this. It was great to look back on it and laugh, since I escaped. Probably wouldn't have been so entertaining to me in 2004. |
| Go Ask Alice |
Anonymous |
I think she'll know. |
| The Gift of Fire |
Richard Mitchell |
Again, for the 80th time. |
| Craphound |
Cory Doctorow |
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| The Runner's Literary Companion |
Garth Battista |
While training to run my marathons, I read one story or excerpt from here every Friday night, last thing before bed, on the nights when I'd be waking up to go for a training run, and maybe one or two of the poems at the end. I'm a little bit embarrassed, but honestly this routine is just *SO* Erica, isn't it? |
February
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| SEEDS: a memoir |
Sasha Vukelja |
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| Zeitoun |
Dave Eggers |
This is GREAT. Dave Eggers is amazing. I read this just before going to New Orleans, of course. |
| January
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| Restore Yourself: The Antidote for Professional Exhaustion |
Edy Greenblatt |
I'd say Edy was a good friend of mine, but my copy of her book still isn't inscribed, so maybe she's not such a good friend :) |
| Franny and Zooey |
J D Salinger |
Read this again... just before he died... |
| The Way of a Pilgrim |
Anonymous... and RM French |
and then finally read this... |
| Marathoning for Mortals |
John Bingham & Jenny Hadfield |
Why, I did just run my first marathon this month, thanks for asking! It was awesome. Why yes, John Bingham did speak at our Inspiration Dinner the night before the run. Yeah!! |
| The Pilgrim Continues His Way |
Anonymous... and RM French |
and this. |
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: 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!!
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