Keep track of all the books I read in 2009

“This text addresses the earliest stage of the infant’s attachment to the mother and shows how we can use the understanding of their origin of severe psychopathology in psychotherapy. The author advocates discrete, limited and well-timed physically interpretive touching in therapy.” -amazon.com

This was heavy reading but well worth it.

I enjoyed this book a lot. The main charecter was sympathetic, but foolish. She’s a new mom who is resentful of her partner’s lack of encouragement to expand beyond staying at home, nursing their baby and walking in the park.
It was an interesting aside to read a bit about the maternity leave in the UK. I have 12 weeks and I have to go back.

The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater (audiobook)
by Frank Bruni

The best memoir I’ve read (er, listened to) in a lonnnnnnnnnng time.

(Sookie Stackhouse #4)
by Charlaine Harris

Addicted, I tell you!

Julie & Julia by: Julie Powell

we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver

• post-apocalyptic fiction with a positive twist
• strong female characters
• philosophical musing about humanity’s tendency for both good and evil, but done in an organic way that is not jarring
• page-turning excitement
• books about the near future
• books on environmental issues
• exploration of how science and religion can inform each other
• humor

Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens. Yet fire or flood may belong to an Armageddon whose awful grandeur may not be our fate. Plague — unlovely, heroic, unstoppable, might well get us first. That’s what happens in Margaret Atwood’s new novel, “The Year of the Flood,” her latest excursion into what’s sometimes called her “science fiction,” though she prefers “speculative fiction.” If we have to have a label, that’s a better one, since part of Atwood’s mastery as a writer is to use herself as a creative computer, modeling possible futures projected from the available data — in human terms, where we are now.

A memoir by Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots ex-wife. She went through heroine addiction and suffers from bipolar. It was interesting.

The third in the Twilight series. This was so-so, not sure if I will read Breaking Dawn, but I might as well.

A memoir about a girl growing up poor with unstable parents. It almost made me cry.