Here's the list of books I actually finished reading in 2012. I still have like 10 books in progress, but they will have to go on next year's list, because I'm not going to get them finished before midnight tonight. I didn't do as well as I had hoped...I like to aim for 52 books a year, but this year I fell short at 38 (or 46, if you count all the ( Read more... )

Here's the end of the 2011 reading list.

45: Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher (audiobook). I had seen the HBO special of her stage show of the same name, so parts of this were not new to me, but it's a very insightful book on the trials of drug and alcohol addition. Carrie reads her book in a matter-of-fact and utterly hilarious manner. It's ( Read more... )

I'll go back and add links to Amazon later. I just can't be bothered right now.

34: Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom, by Kristin Van Ogtrop. Funny. Would recommend to other working moms, and have already bought two copies as presents. It's not a particularly deep book, but it's an easy read, which is what a ( Read more... )

Recently I have completed the following books:

24: Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity, by Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell. I liked this one. It's very conversational...like your two runner friends are chatting with you about stuff like bras and compression shorts and chafing and dealing with Hell ( Read more... )

In recent weeks I have completed the following books:

13: Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup, by Chris Lendt. Out of print, but I got it brought in by Interlibrary Loan. Y'all, this book is FASCINATING. I've read plenty of band biographies before, but they are usually written by a PR agent or a band member/ghost writer claiming to be a ( Read more... )

10: The Eat-Clean Diet: Fast Fat-Loss that lasts Forever!, by Tosca Reno. Since I've started running more regularly, and since I discovered I can no longer eat red meat, I've been working on my diet, because basically, if I eat junky crap, I tend to feel like junky crap, and then I run like junky crap. And also I eat way too much sugar and way too ( Read more... )

Through February 5:

1: Oh No She Didn't: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make and How to Avoid Them, by Clinton Kelly. Not as funny as his first book. A lot of this is just common-sense stuff, like don't wear sheer hose if you didn't shave your legs and don't wear reinforced hose with sandals and mom jeans are bad and make your butt look flat as ( Read more... )

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... )