Mini Book Review #1

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Ken Follet has come a freaking long way from Lie Down With Lions. 




This same guy wrote Pillars of the Earth!! 

PS- Happy Thanksgiving! I'm grateful for many things, and the ability to always keep trying! 

Booklist III

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Cold weather and long holidays means lots of reading ahead and two bonus titles. 
  1. Supergods - Grant Morrison
  2. Misery - Stephen King
  3. Boys Will Be Boys - Jeff Pearlman 
  4. Maus - Art Spiegelman
  5. Buddhism for Beginners - Thubten Chodron
  6. The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest - Timothy Egan
  7. How to Look Expensive - Andrea Pomerantz Lustig
  8. The Meaning of Sports - Michael Mandelbaum
  9. Forty Million Dollar Slaves - William C. Rhoden 
  10. Freud for Beginners - Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
  11. You Are What You Wear - Jennifer Baumgartner 
  12. A History of God - Karen Armstrong
  13. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  14. The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
  15. The Essential Rumi - Rumi
  16. Columbine - Dave Cullen
  17. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Hazuo Miyazaki
  18. Wonderful Life - Stephen Jay Gould
  19. Why We Run - Bernd Heinrich
  20. The Earth Shall Weep - James Wilson 
  21. Varsity Green - Mark Yost 
  22. You Are Not So Smart - David McRaney
  23. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
  24. Beginner's Guide to Jungian Psychology - Robertson 
  25. The Coming Plague - Laurie Garrett
  26. Existentialism - Thomas E. Wartenberg
  27. Jaws - Peter Benchley
  28. Awakening the Buddha Within - Lama Sura Das
  29. The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
  30. The Mating Mind - Geoffrey Miller
  31. BONUS: The Physics of Superheroes - James Kakalios
  32. BONUS: Lie Down with Lions - Ken Follett 
Oh, here's a good mix.  I'm slowly adding to the library right now.  I love Amazon.  I don't even mind they are a giant, evil, corporation that will probably end up taking over the world a la "Wall-E" style with its blatant megacorporation-y tactics and unabashed capitalism.  I love free shipping and no tax.  I love reading! And I still love sports and science nonfiction.  My writing itch is coming back, though--time to grab some fiction reads again. 
 
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