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How I did it: With the help of a friend. I figured, based on what I enjoy in television and movies I could decide the type of book I want to read. I ended up borrowing a book recommended by a friend based on my interests. To make sure that I had time, any freetime I dedicate to "time wasting" or as me and my friends like to call it "Halo 3" I would instead use at least 10 minutes to read. Most of the time it was enough to keep me interested to the poin… Read how I did it…
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daycarelady I wish I was the moon tonight
to purchase any new reading but I am alternating while nursing, between Anais’ “A woman speaks” and Joseph Campbell’s “Pathways to Bliss”
Both are easy enough to open up randomly and read a bit here and there…
1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
4. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
5. Paradise Lost by John Milton
6. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
9. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
10. My Antonia by Willa Cather
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
12. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
16. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
17. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
18. The Waste Land by TS Eliot
19. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
20. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
21. The Stranger by Albert Camus
22. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
23. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
24. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
25. I, Robot by Issac Asimov
26. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
27. The Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
28. The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
29. The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
30. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
31. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
32. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
34. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
35. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
37. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
38. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick
39. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
40. Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
41. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
42. Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
43. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
44. Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelly
45. The Believer’s Authority by Kenneth E. Hagin
46. Christianity Today magazines
daycarelady I wish I was the moon tonight
another collection of short stories but my ex is so rough with books that he’s destroyed the binding and the silly thing keeps falling apart.
Also, I usually read when I am sitting down to nurse the baby and start feeling really sleepy and relax round about page 3 and my eyes start to close…
daycarelady I wish I was the moon tonight
“Summer” by Edith Wharton. I enjoyed it, easy read, a departure from her normal themes.
※ [All books from college that I never read]
※ [Autobiographies]
※ The Coming Generational Storm by Kotlikoff & Burns
※ The Paradox of Choice
※ Breadline USA by Abramsky
※ Robert’s Rules of Order
※ A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink
※ A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
※ Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero
※ A Deep Dark Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby
※ Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
※ Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
※ The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan






