Books I've Read
Total Found: 87 Displaying 1 - 87
Date Read (from) - 2008-01-01
Date Read (thru) - 2008-12-05
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2008-01-01 | Slam (Hornby, Nick - 2007) |
Fiction | At 16, Sam's carefree days of skateboarding are finished when his girlfriend gets pregnant. Sam's panicked internal monologue is shamefully familiar to men twice his age. | ||
2008-01-02 | Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (Cody, Diablo - 2006) |
Memoir | She's from Minneapolis (by way of Chicago)!! Removing her clothes and dry-humping strangers in sex clubs had become her way of escaping premature respectability. Quite inexplicably, her boyfriend was completely cool with her new occupation, even joining her on occasional sex jaunts. When the inevitable burnout set in, Cody switched to phone sex, until that, too, got old, and the 9-to-5 straight world beckoned. Cody's so alarmingly entertaining, readers will wish the book were longer, though they'll be glad it ends before anything really ugly happens. | ||
2008-01-03 | Dream When You're Feeling Blue (Berg, Elizabeth - 2007) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $5.38 Kindle book. Bought long after reading. The three Heaney sisters write to and receive letters from fiances, boyfriends, and boys they've met at USO dances during WWII. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-01-04 | Eternity Road (McDevitt, Jack - 1997) |
Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Available as library eBook. Post-apocalyptic. Eternity Road is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it. (found on a list at amazon.com) |
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2008-02-01 | Fragile Things (Gaiman, Neil - 2006) |
Short Stories | Short Fictions and Wonders | ||
2008-02-02 | The Sunrise Lands (Stirling, S.M. - 2007) |
Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Author. First book in the "Dies the Fire" / Emberverse 2 trilogy. A stranger from the mid-west brings a summons from Nantucket Island for Rudi Mackenzie to go there and fulfill his destiny. He forms a fellowship of nine people to go out East. |
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2008-03-01 | The Ice Cave (Bledsoe, Lucy Jane - 2006) |
Essays | A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic. | ||
2008-03-02 | The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe (Various - 2001) |
Essays | Not super duper, but it was a fast read so it must have been pretty decent. | ||
2008-03-03 | Creative Pickling (Ciletti, Barbara - 2000) |
Cookbook | From Classic Dills to Ginger Pears, 50 Sweet, Savory, and Tangy Recipes. | ||
2008-03-04 | All About Canning & Preserving (Rombauer, Irma S. and more - 2002) |
Cookbook | Hot Pepper Jelly | ||
2008-03-05 | As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir (Jacobs, Fay - 2004) |
GLBT | Qlib. She's Jewish, she's gay. She and her partner chucked a "normal life" in the suburbs mid-career to build a new life for themselves by the ocean, a move that many of us would like to make but few have the guts to follow through on. | ||
2008-03-06 | Going Alone (Rogers, Susan Fox (Editor) - 2004) |
Essays | Women's Adventures in the Wild | ||
2008-03-07 | Antarctica (Rogers, Susan Fox (Editor) - 2007) |
Essays | Life on the ice. | ||
2008-03-08 | My Road to Microsoft (Bittencourt, Soraya - 2003) |
Memoir | A success story of building Expedia | ||
2008-04-01 | Maximum Ride (Patterson, James - 2006) |
SciFi | Second in a series about 6 kids who escaped from a mad-scientist experiment to hybrid birds and kids. | ||
2008-04-02 | Lifeguarding (McCall, Catherine - 2006) |
Memoir | A memoir of secrets, swimming, and the south. | ||
2008-04-03 | Women on the Verge (Rogers, Susan Fox (Editor) - 1999) |
Essays | Lesbian tales of power and play. | ||
2008-04-04 | Making It Big: Sex Stars, Porn Films, and Me (LaRue, Chi Chi - 1997) |
Memoir | Chi Chi LaRue is a drag-queen porn movie director. This is his memoir. | ||
2008-04-05 | Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures (Leo, Jennifer L. editor - 2003) |
Essays | Essays about travel misadventures. | ||
2008-04-06 | If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name (Lende, Heather - 2005) |
Memoir | Obituary writer's autobiographical love letter to her isolated community. | ||
2008-04-07 | Mommy Knows Worst (Lileks, James - 2005) |
Non-fiction | Highlights from the golden age of bad parenting advice. | ||
2008-04-08 | Hammer of the Gods (Davis, Stephen - 1985) |
Auto/Biography | The Led Zeppelin Saga | ||
2008-04-09 | Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field (Rogers, Susan Fox - 1994) |
Essays | Collection of essays, some fiction. | ||
2008-04-10 | The Road (McCarthy, Cormac - 2006) |
Post-Apocalyptic | Earth has been leveled by an unspecified calamity, possibly nuclear, and is inhabited now by scavenging bands of humans, among them an unnamed father and son. How do you explain the behaviour of scavenging humans in such a situation to a child? Would it be a mercy to just kill the kid? | ||
2008-05-01 | Juno: The Shooting Script (Cody, Diablo - 2007) |
Other | Well, it's the script from the movie, Juno. | ||
2008-05-02 | Why Does My Bird Do That? (Mancini, Julie Rach - 2007) |
Non-fiction | A guide to parrot behavior. | ||
2008-05-03 | Ham Radio for Dummies (Silver, Ward - 2004) |
Technical/Reference | "Here's what you need to know to get on the air". | ||
2008-05-04 | Reversible Quilts: Two at a Time (Pederson, Sharon - 2002) |
Craft | Something I saw in the library catalog. | ||
2008-05-05 | Stack the Deck! (Alexander, Karla - 2002) |
Craft | Crazy quilts in 4 easy steps. | ||
2008-05-06 | Stack a New Deck (Alexander, Karla - 2004) |
Craft | More great quilts in 4 easy steps. | ||
2008-05-07 | New Cuts for New Quilts (Alexander, Karla - 2006) |
Craft | More ways to stack the deck. | ||
2008-05-08 | The Rift (Williams, Walter J. - 1999) |
Post-Apocalyptic | Earthquakes disrupt the mid-west. | ||
2008-05-09 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Chandrasekaran, Rajiv - 2006) |
Non-fiction | Living in the "Green Zone" in Iraq - the walled-off headquarters for U.S. authorities. This is a fantastically written account of well-meaning people who seem to find themselves in over their heads. | ||
2008-05-10 | Simple Start Stunning Finish (Wells, Valori - 2007) |
Craft | Fabric secrets, easy piecing, quilting solutions. | ||
2008-05-11 | Free & Eazy Circles: Magic Ballz & Other Foundation Follies (Mullen, Jan - 2006) |
Craft | Jan Mullen did the Cut Loose Quilting that I like. This one is kinda interesting, but I am having a very hard time understanding her instructions. You make wedges and piece them on a foundation to make a round wheel. | ||
2008-05-12 | Reverse Applique With No Brakez (Mullen, Jan - 2003) |
Craft | It looks like you make a sandwich with backing, batting, "secret layer" and top. Then you cut holes through the top to reveal the "secret layer", then stitch down the edges of your hole to keep it from exploding. | ||
2008-05-13 | Stash-Buster Quilts (Edwards, Lynne - 2006) |
Craft | Time-Saving Designs for Fabric Leftovers | ||
2008-06-01 | A Dirty Job (Moore, Christopher - 2006) |
Fantasy | Charlie Asher is a Death Merchant who must retrieve souls stored in the beloved posessions of the recently departed. | ||
2008-06-02 | Post Secret (Warren, Frank - 2005) |
Non-fiction | Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives. Postcards containing secrets that people wrote and sent in, and then were posted online. Now published in a book. | ||
2008-06-03 | The Secret Lives of Men and Women (Warren, Frank - 2007) |
Non-fiction | More postcards containing secrets sent to Frank. See postsecret.com | ||
2008-06-04 | Tales From the Edge: True Adventures in Alaska (Kaniut, Larry - 2005) |
Essays | Essays. About adventures in Alaska. | ||
2008-06-05 | The Guy Not Taken (Weiner, Jennifer - 2006) |
Short Stories | Short stories. | ||
2008-06-06 | The Stupidest Angel (Moore, Christopher - 2004) |
Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book, bought after reading. A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-06-07 | My Secret (Warren, Frank - 2006) |
Essays | More PostSecret postcards | ||
2008-06-08 | You Suck (Moore, Christopher - 2007) |
Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Bought after reading. Vampire Jody and her minion, Thomas C. Flood, reappear after vanquishing ancient vampire, Elijah. Minor character, Abby Normal, from A Dirty Job makes a much bigger appearance. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-06-09 | Garden Spells (Allen, Sarah Addison - 2007) |
Magical/Mystical | "Overflowing with the tangled joys and sorrows of and life." One sister adds magical powers to food with the flowers from her garden. | ||
2008-07-01 | Into the Wild (Krakauer, Jon - 1996) |
Non-fiction | Some guy goes into the woods for an adventure, and ends up starving to death. What was he thinking? | ||
2008-07-02 | Quaker Summer (Samson, Lisa - 2007) |
Fiction | A "Women of Faith Novel of the Year". "What's wrong with a woman who has everything...yet still feels miserable inside." | ||
2008-07-03 | The Third Angel (Hoffman, Alice - 2008) |
Magical/Mystical | Three women in three different times in love with the wrong men. | ||
2008-07-04 | A Lifetime of Secrets (Warren, Frank - 2007) |
Non-fiction | More postcards. | ||
2008-07-05 | Prodigal Summer (Kingsolver, Barbara - 2000) |
Fiction | Three intertwined stories about the mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. | ||
2008-07-06 | Queen of the Oddballs (Carlip, Hilary - 2006) |
GLBT | Memoir. Looks amusing. | ||
2008-07-07 | American Nerd (Nugent, Benjamin - 2008) |
Non-fiction | The "story of my people" from a guy who had anxiety attacks when forced to play soccer. | ||
2008-08-01 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon, Mark - 2003) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Unknown. Autistic narrator, a teen named Christopher, solves a dog's murder. "Read it now!" Ingenious and marvelously executed. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
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2008-08-02 | The Drowning Season (Hoffman, Alice - 1979) |
Fiction | Disfunctional Russian immigrant family lives in the USA where the unloved adult son tries repeatedly to drown himself. | ||
2008-08-03 | Self-Made Man (Vincent, Norah - 2006) |
Non-fiction | One woman's journey into manhood and back again. | ||
2008-08-04 | Property Of (Hoffman, Alice - 1977) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Purchased long after reading. Anonymous narrator falls in love with the president of the local gang. He believes foremost in honor, and it twists his fate. She follows him down the hole into heroin. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-08-05 | Angel Landing (Hoffman, Alice - 1980) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Bought eBook long after reading. Free with Amazon credits. An explosion has occurred at Angel Landing III, the power plant under construction at the edge of a Long Island harbor. Natalie Lansky, an antinuclear organizer, is unaware that this event will change her life. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-08-06 | The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted (Berg, Elizabeth - 2008) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. Bought long after reading. Most of the heroines in this collection are alone, overweight, and processing regrets. Sounds like a downer, but it's not. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-08-07 | 6 | Look Me in the Eye (Robison, John Elder - 2007) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. Augusten Burrough's Asperger Brother. Growing up was a mystifying experience for Robison, a bright kid unable to grasp even the most basic social skills. It's a fantastic life story (highlights include building guitars for Kiss) told with grace, humor, and a bracing lack of sentimentality. Autism spectrum. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
Source: Library. Format: Hardcover. |
2008-08-08 | What It Is (Barry, Lynda - 2008) |
Art | This graphic-art guide is an inspirational tribute to the do-it-yourself creative spirit. | ||
2008-08-09 | Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer (Doctoroff, Tom - 2005) |
Non-fiction | 1. Chinese people put pineapple, not pepperoni, on pizza. All foods are divided into 'heaty' and 'cooling' foods, and the two must be balanced at all times. Pizza is heaty, so the pineapple cools it down. 2. In China, 'fresh' means 'alive'. Daoism is still a force in the People's Republic. Daoists believe our natural state is the only 'balanced' state. Therefore, Chinese have a deep aversion to man-made preservatives. For that matter, Chinese women get prickly about chemicals in shampoo. 3. Chinese people never have dinner parties. The home is a place of refuge, escape, and, every once in a while, self-expression. Comfort is key. But where you live is paramount, which is why apartment blocks sport such names as 'The Gathering of All Heroes Under Heaven' and 'Tycoon Court'. 4. More than 80 percent of Shanghai couples now get married with an engagement ring, up from practically zero a couple of years ago. In an unsafe world, men have to demonstrate 'not talk about' their love. Women are suspicious of guys who say, 'I love you'. 5. In China, feminine beauty is a tool that moves a woman forward. Cosmetic surgery is all the rage because it helps a young woman to land a job, not a man. | ||
2008-09-01 | On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency (Transue, Emily R. - 2004) |
Memoir | While her stories are often heartbreaking, they are also touching testimonies of a young doctor's efforts to treat each of her patients with compassion and respect. | ||
2008-09-02 | Blindness (Saramago, Jose - 1997) |
Post-Apocalyptic | Blindness is an apocalyptic thriller in which an entire town, save one doctor's wife, succumbs to a blindness epidemic. | ||
2008-09-03 | The Commitment (Savage, Dan - 2006) |
Memoir | Savage's fourth book is true to his ribald, hilarious advice column. | ||
2008-09-04 | The 13 Clocks (Thurber, James - 1950) |
Magical/Mystical | This is a kid's book. Meanie Duke imprisons his niece and messes with the young princes who come to woo her. "It's one of the great kids' books of the last century. It may be the best thing Thurber ever wrote. It's certainly the most fun that anybody can have reading anything aloud." -Neil Gaiman | ||
2008-09-05 | Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer (Stark, Tim - 2008) |
Memoir | Stark uprooted a handful of heirloom tomato seedlings from his Brooklyn brownstone and returned to Eckerton Hill, his Pennsylvanian boyhood home, to harvest two acres of multicolored oddities. From Mennonite country to New York City, using a rusted Toyota pickup, he transported his first auspicious crop of Hill Billies, Tiger Toms and Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifters to the Union Square Greenmarket, becoming the unlikely purveyor of apples to heirloom aficionados and Michelin-starred chefs. | ||
2008-09-06 | America's Boy (Rouse, Wade - 2006) |
Auto/Biography | A journalist remembers his childhood struggles to gain acceptance from the jeans-wearing set, his envy of his admired older brother, his parent's atypical personalities, and the Fourth of July accident that ended his brother's life. | ||
2008-09-07 | The Sugar Queen (Allen, Sarah Addison - 2008) |
Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: Author. Allen's follow-up to Garden Spells hews to the same formula in a North Carolina town that holds enough magic to seem quirky but not ridiculous. |
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2008-09-08 | Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You (Gosling, Sam - 2008) |
Non-fiction | Gosling's conclusions are supported by rigorous academic research, but his engaging book is aimed at a popular audience; he presents it as a field guide to the "special brand of voyeurism" he calls "snoopology." Few readers may actually rummage through their neighbors' garbage in search of what Gosling dryly calls "behavioral residue," but Snoop's conceit makes for an entertaining tour of how people project their inner selves outward into the world. | ||
2008-10-01 | Overclocked (Doctorow, Cory - 2007) |
SciFi | "Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his generation." Well! If you want to glimpse the future of copyright policing, video game sweatshops, robotic intelligence, info war, and how computer geeks will survive the apocalypse, then this collection of shorts is your oracle. | ||
2008-10-02 | As I Live and Breathe (Weisman M.D., Jamie - 2002) |
Memoir | Notes of a patient-doctor. | ||
2008-10-03 | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Doctorow, Cory - 2003) |
SciFi | What Jules wants to do is move to Disney World, join the ad-hoc crew that runs the park and fine-tune the Haunted Mansion ride to make it even more wonderful. When his prudently stored consciousness abruptly awakens in a cloned body, he learns that he was murdered; evidently he's in the way of somebody else's dreams. | ||
2008-10-04 | Someone Come to Town, Someone Leaves Town (Doctorow, Cory - 2005) |
SciFi | Alan is the son of a mountain and a washing machine. | ||
2008-10-05 | Wild Animals I Have Known (Bentley, Kevin - 2002) |
Memoir | Polk Street Diaries and After | ||
2008-10-06 | Little Brother (Doctorow, Cory - 2008) |
SciFi | Seventeen year old is caught up in the ethically questionable interrogation and torture of citizens after a terrorist attack on San Francisco destroys the Bay Bridge and the BART tunnel to Oakland. | ||
2008-11-01 | A country doctor's casebook (MacDonald, Roger A. - 2002) |
Memoir | Memoirs of a doctor from up north. See also "A country doctor's chronicle : further tales from the north woods" | ||
2008-11-02 | Eastern Standard Tribe (Doctorow, Cory - 2004) |
SciFi | Theorizes that people in the world of the internet will shift their schedules to match those of others from around the world whose interests better match their own over those people in their own time zone. | ||
2008-11-03 | The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why (Ripley, Amanda - 2008) |
Non-fiction | Ripley offers a compelling look at instinct and disaster response as she explores the psychology of fear and how it can save or destroy us. Surprisingly, she reports, mass panic is rare, and an understanding of the dynamics of crowds can help prevent a stampede, while a well-trained crew can get passengers quickly but calmly off a crashed plane. | ||
2008-11-04 | Ya-Yas in Bloom (Wells, Rebecca - 2005) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book, bought after reading this. Seems like kind of a random selection of stories thoughout the life and times of the Ya-Yas and their children and grandchildren. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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2008-11-05 | A country Doctor's Chronicle (MacDonald, Roger A. - 2004) |
Memoir | Further Tales from the North Woods | ||
2008-11-06 | Living Dead in Dallas (Harris, Charlaine - 2002) |
Chick Lit | Sookie Stackhouse is summoned to Dallas to help the Dallas vamps find one of their nestmates who has been kidnapped. | ||
2008-12-01 | Applique (Ganderton, Lucinda - 1996) |
Craft | Suggested By: Unknown. Techniques, Projects, Patterns, Motifs. |
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2008-12-02 | Applique Delights (Goldsmith, Becky and Linda Jenkins - 2004) |
Craft | 100 Irresistable Blocks from Piece O' Cake Designs | ||
2008-12-03 | Club Dead (Harris, Charlaine - 2003) |
Chick Lit | Sookie's vampire boyfriend, Bill, disappears. She goes to Jackson, Mississippi to look for him. Even with a Werewolf to protect her, she runs into grave danger while listening for leads at "Club Dead". | ||
2008-12-04 | 44 Scotland Street (Smith, Alexander McCall - 2005) |
Fiction | Series about a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh was inspired by Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City". 44 Scotland Street, Espresso Tales, Love Over Scotland, The World According to Bertie, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones. | ||
2008-12-05 | Dead to the World (Harris, Charlaine - 2004) |
Magical/Mystical | Witches try to take over Bon Temps. Eric's memory is erased. Sookie gets sucked into the middle of a war. | ||
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