I am cutting To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise loose and sending it back to the library. I have been trying to read it for a solid year, and I made it halfway through...it looks like I'm only a third of the way through, but a full third of the book is endnotes. It's interesting and all, but dry as a bone. I can't ( Read more... )

Since today is the 27th of December and it's currently 9:08 (and will be later still when I finish this post) and I hope to get to bed early for some actual sleeping, I will likely not complete another book this calendar year; if I do, I'll edit or do another post or something. Here's the remainder of the list of finished ones. We'll start over in ( Read more... )

I get bogged down in my book list mid-year and then have to post them all at once the last week of December. This year it was Daddy's hospitalization with pneumonia in July which got me off track. He's doing fine now, BTW ( Read more... )

I seem to have been neglecting my book posts lately. Like, since April. Sorry about that. Let's catch up, shall we?

In May, I read:

21: Live For Your Listening Pleasure, by David Sedaris (audiobook). As stated previously, I've been reserving audiobooks for exclusive use on the treadmill, so as to make the treadmill way less boring. While I was ( Read more... )

April saw the completion of seven books, including my first audiobooks.

14: Nancy Clark's Food Guide for Marathoners: Tips for Everyday Champions by Nancy Clark. I got this one from the library because I'm still having trouble figuring out how to eat for running. I'm fine for going three miles and under, but anything beyond that finds me running ( Read more... )

I finished only two books in March, both of them last weekend while I was laid up with a bad back. Neither of them required much brainpower, which is good when you're hopped up on pain pills, and both were free, since Debbie lent them to me. This brings my total books completed this year to 13. I miss those days when I had vacant hours to spend ( Read more... )

I managed to finish five books this month.

7: Cocktail Shakers, Lava Lamps, and Tupperware: A Celebration of the Lifestyle Design from the Last Half of the 20th Century, by Wayne Hemingway. I remember reading in ARTnews back in the late 80s about a controversial show at the MOMA called something along the lines of "High and Low". The gist of the ( Read more... )

Here it is the last day of the first month of 2010, and I'm gonna try to be better about updating the monthly book post this year. Hopefully we won't have any hospitalizations or other drama to throw me off track like last year. Crossing fingers.

1: Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, by Jason Sheehan. Man, the ( Read more... )

I have three books in progress on the nightstand but I didn't finish them in time to count them as read in 2009, so we end the year with 41 books. Fewer than I would have liked, but more than I expected considering the circumstances of the year. You know?

36: Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the ( Read more... )

We're up to late September-early October, because I checked these out right after Mom was diagnosed.

31: The Breast Cancer Survival Manual: A Step-By-Step Guide for the Woman with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer, by John Link, M.D. A straightforward, helpful book, with good virtual bedside manner. The only problem is it was published in 1998 and ( Read more... )