books
lately i've read:
books on my bedside table (i've at least started reading, and will probably finish):
so.. which ones should i pack for xmas.. *) you should feel free to talk to me about any of these books. especially if you want to recommend books on my toread pile *) i like talking about books!
- The Gift of Fear : Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Gavin De Becker) - Awesome.
In Praise of Slowness : Challenging the Cult of Speed - this felt like a big ad for books that actually said something
Fast Food Nation
Me Talk Pretty One Day(David Sedaris)
Barrel Fever(Sedaris)
Books 1-3 of the Kushiel series (Jacqueline Carey)
books 1-3 of the His Dark Materials trilogy (what the golden compass movie is based on) (Pullman)
Y: the last man (i think graphic novels should count. and this one particularly rocks)
reread a bunch of madeline l'engle books
reread a lot of ghatti books (gayle greeno)
books on my bedside table (i've at least started reading, and will probably finish):
- River of Dancing Gods (Jack L. Chalker)
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure (Dan Baum)
the cripple and his talismans (anosh irani)
Orlando (Virginia Wolfe)
the castle (kafka) (does this even count?! i've been reading this for ~10 years now.. eep.)
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Moore)
A Dirty Job (Moore)
Slave Ship (Frederik Pohl)
Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Into Vision (Stephen R. Donaldson)
Citizen Coors: A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer(Dan Baum)
little women
kushiel #4
anne rice's beauty books
the compass rose (le guin)
dress your family in corduroy and denim (sedaris)
ham on rye (bukowski)
motherless brooklyn (lethem)
the fortress of solitude (lethem)
a crapton of terry brooks books.. somehow i've never opened any of his books and yet keep getting more.. how does this *happen* ?
a clash of kings (i might need to reread a game of thrones first, since i forget all the political intrigues that make this book make sense)
mirror mirror (maguire)
son of a witch (maguire)
... the list goes on..
so.. which ones should i pack for xmas.. *) you should feel free to talk to me about any of these books. especially if you want to recommend books on my toread pile *) i like talking about books!