Read 43 books

I’m staying in Rockford for two weeks with my husband. He’s here on work, and I’m here to keep the hotel bed warm. I figured I’d take advantage of the situation and go on the sort of reading spree I haven’t had time for since my summer breaks from grade school.

Currently, I’m over half way through with Lullaby. I like Palahniuk because reading him is effortless – like watching a clever show on television, which I don’t mean as an insult. I was struck by slight resemblances between Palahnuik and Murakami as I was reading yesterday. Anyway, back to the books!

Another good page-turner. I never go wrong when I pick up a Greg Iles novel. I highly recommend him.

I enjoyed this book as well. It kept me so interested that I read it in one sitting.

Read 43 books! It took me a long time I guess.

Gonna have to reach 100 now! :D

Cheers people.

I enjoyed this.. definetly a page turner

It was okay… I wanted to see how James Frey wrote fiction after reading “a million little pieces”. This book is different, thats for sure.

This was a very inspirational and interesting true story. I enjoyed it alot and recommend it.

Mudbound by Hilary Jordan

I’m an avid reader but I’ve never kept a log on what I’ve read. I’ll try it.

1. on the road

I was listening to this one on CD and two of the discs got broken. For now, I’m moving on.

2. kafka on the shore

3. five little pigs

Agatha Christie mystery. What more to say?

4. the sum of our days

I especially appreciate the whole idea of wanting to live among your clan. But this seemed like a work she needed to push out for her publisher, rather than something inspired.

5. 100 years of solitude

6. sonichka and other stories

I enjoyed Ulitskaya’s collection

7. tropic of cancer

This novel was all hunger, sex, and relationships among the starved.

8. to the lighthouse

9. lullaby

Palahnuikesque

10. super crunchers

For someone with an interest in math / economics, but no background in it, it seems like Ayers’s work puts out a scant breadcrumb path of knowledge. Otherwise, it seems a bit obvious. Some of the particular cases he examines are interesting.

11. american pastoral

American Pastoral was good. I think parts of the beginning were sentimental (to the author?) and unnecessary to the story. But those may have been my favorite parts.

12. the third angel

Great work by Alice Hoffman, which gets better and better as the stories progress

13. Absolute Sandman Volume III

13. I like it. On to volume IV.

14. cry, the beloved country

amazing

15. big fish

Worth quitting a job over.

16. portrait of the artist as a young man (reread)

17. siddhartha

18. true history of the kelley gang

I read most of it, then set it aside (because of exams). I’ve tried to finish it since, but I can’t seem to get into it again.

19. goodbye, columbus

Excellent collection.

20. master and margarita

21. for the relief of unbearable urges

great collection!

22. how i paid for college: a novel of sex, theft, friendship and musical theater

Clever and entertaining, but the main character / narrator annoyed me. Still, I couldn’t help but like it in the end.

23. in the woods

24. all saints

25. heart shaped box

26. beloved

26. perfect.

27. the time traveler’s wife

Enjoyable read. (side.thought)The bulk of the fiction books I’ve read since stating this goal feature gorgeous women. I think it may be a blend of vicarious living with mild narcissism. Audrey Neiffenegger’s female lead, for example, is a very attractive redheaded artist – Neiffenegger herself is a visual artist and a redhead. / Are the mind and experiences of these women somehow more poignant given their aesthetics? Are adventures likelier to befall the stunning? I don’t resent them their beauty, but I’d like or dislike these women all the same without it.

28. end the fed

Rothbard (probably maybe) next. Then Velben. Keynes. And so on.

29. my life with turtles

recommended by my dad. a memoir by david m. carroll. now that I’ve started taking my daddio’s recommendations, perhaps I should read ‘my family and other animals’ by gerald durrell next

30. naked economics

Entertaining but the points weren’t new to me. I may read it anyway, it’s a good book. But I’m setting it aside for now.

31. Geography of Bliss

Loved it. Good read if you enjoy random facts and learning about people, places, brief philosophies, and the like.

33. divisadero

I enjoy Michael Ondaatje’s style. Slow like honey. And this book was a good length for something slow and introspective.

34. the magician’s nephew

Lackluster response from this little critic. I most liked the parts where the animals discover jokes.

35. all the o. henry short stories in my collection

36. guernsey literary and potato peel pie society

not memorable, but a good read

37. animal, vegetable, miracle

It was packed with rich and inspiring information, but I’d rather her husband have wrote it.

38. pilgrim at tinker creek

39. assassination vacation

Sarah Vowell rocks, period.

40. jewish literacy

41. harry potter and the half-blood prince

The best part about Harry Potter books, is getting absorbed into them.

42. harry potter and the deathly hallows

This one is way better than the Half Blood Prince. I like that most good characters are flawed in their goodness, and most bad characters are flawed in their badness. But I hate, hate, hate (SPOILER, SPOILER!) that Snape dies. Jeez. He was my favorite character. Maybe because he’s played by Alan Rickman.

43. shalimar the clown

Worth reading – especially the middle.

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