reading

Cormac Mccarthy: No Country for Old Men

Book of the month.  I would have preferred to read a Mccarthy book that wasn't already a movie but I didn't choose this one.  I loved the movie.  I just hating reading a book after seeing a movie because I tend to have the entire thing mapped out already in my head.

Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down

Pretty funny for a book about suicide. 

Camus: The Stranger

The book club meets Sunday.  Get moving.

Finished: September 9, 2007

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Modern Library)
Hardback edition copyright 1957 purchased from the Goodwill for $2.99 in June.

Finished: August 3, 2007

Stephanie Klein: Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir

I found it at the Bellevue Goodwill for $3. I kind of couldn't bring myself to buy it on Amazon earlier this year. Sort of like only reading People Magazine when you're at the gym. I could never bring myself to actually buy People Magazine, but yeah, I secretly love to read it.

Finished: June 3, 2007

Irene Nemirovsky: Suite Française

A Christmas gift from The Dude in 2006.  Yes, I'm just getting around to reading it now.

David Maine: Fallen

Bookclub selection for May.

Finished: May 12, 2007

Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451

I just picked up a copy and the book club meets in one week. Good thing this book is an easy, quick read.

Finished: March 30, 2007

Hampton Sides: Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier

I picked up this book from the Goodwill for $2 and I'm really enjoying it. It was a great companion on the trip to Spain and a lot smaller than Omnivore which I have yet to finish.

Finished: April 15, 2007

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Christmas gift from The Dude.

Finished: April 21, 2007

The Shipping News

Set in Newfoundland, major prize winner, great story, found at the Goodwill for $2.

Finished: January 8, 2007

Andy Adams: The Log of A Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

Picked up to keep me from staring at people while riding Metro to and from work.  Also found at the Goodwill for $2.

Steve Martin: Shop Girl

Pretty much the only thing preventing me from screaming at my fellow bus riders to stop sitting on my coat. Also, it only cost me $2 at the Goodwill.

Finished: November 6, 2006 (Yes, the same day.  Stop looking at me like that.)

Stephen Ambrose: Undaunted Courage

Why finish any one book I'm currently reading when I can just start a new one?

David K. Shipler: Arab and Jew

"The partisan will not find satisfaction in this book; at least I hope not. I hope to bother him, to nag him into facing unpleasantness. If he is tempted to stop when he first meets a difficult fact, I would only urge him to read on."

Gary W. Eldred: The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (and How to Avoid Them)

A gift from my friend Deron on my birthday back in March. Knowledge is power.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home

A gift from my aunt way back in July of 2002. It's handy and I'm glad I took the time to read it.

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow

Another book Misty bought me for my birthday.  It's really interesting.

Angelo M. Pellegrini: The Unprejudiced Palate : Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life

Misty got this for me for my birthday. When I don't want to lift The Beatles book, I read this. She also bought me Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong which I can't wait to start reading.

Finished: June 10, 2006

David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day

A monkey named Egan recommended this book when I was pestering him for Christmas present ideas for The Dude months ago. The Dude liked it and now I'm reading it since lugging my current Beatles book on a plane would pretty much be the definition of insanity.

Finished: April 30, 2006