read 50 non-technical books in 2008

but I’m catching up!

5. Middlesex
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406

6. How Sassy Changed my Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/0571211852

7. Welcome to the Monkey House
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/0385333501

8. The Awakening
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/0393960579

The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life by Angelo Pellegrini
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72041

2. Stumbling On Happiness
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2605847

3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972128

How To Be Idle
http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/806336

I live a good life. I chose my career based on what I thought would make me happiest. I chose wisely and I get paid to do something that I am passionate about. That passion inspires me to constantly learn and develop as a designer which is awesome except that it has taken over my life. Most of the stimulus I take in is design related and as a result, my work is becoming self-referential and a little shallow since I am fishing for inspiration in a pond instead of an ocean. I am not interested in producing malnourished work and frankly, I have been aching for a yummy book that I can’t put down. Cramming 50 books into a year is going to be tough but deciding which books I’m going to read is going to be tougher.