What Erica Read in 2012
Only 30? Lowest in recorded history!
Special note for 2012 edition: I've read lots
of little fables in Italian this year, for
Italian practice. Do they count?
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| Travels with Charley | John Steinbeck |
At about 2500 miles into my own
travels this fall, I visited the Steinbeck Museum in
Salinas, CA. At about 6100 miles, I bought a copy of
this in a little second-hand book store in Vermont.
Read it slowly and loved it. |
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| The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | I loved the first half and am still processing the second. |
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| A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | Listened to the audiobook of this, expertly read by **, on my road trip to Vancouver and back. |
| Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| The Rabbi Wore Moccasins | Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer | I got mine inscribed by the author! If you're nice to me, I could maybe get your copy signed too :) |
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| Roots | Alex Haley | Great. This is a great and wonderful book and fully worth your time. |
| For the Relief of Unbearable Urges | Nathan Englander | Depresssssing. |
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| The Cookbook Collector | Allegra Goodman | I think this is my favorite book of Allegra's so far! I recommend it. |
| Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan | Bruce Feiler | |
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| WORDFREAK | Stefan Fatsis | |
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| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | So good I've already lent it out. |
| The Reluctant Tuscan | Phil Doran | Arrgh. Not so good. Confusing for me, because I read it while in Brazil, trying to speak Portuguese, not Italian. |
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| Little Bee | Chris Cleave | |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | See, I read non-fiction sometimes! |
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| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Süskind | Have been planning to read this for years, finally did it, thoroughly enjoyed it |
| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions | Edwin A. Abbott | Pure geek joy. |
| Let The Great World Spin | Colum McCann | This was a beautiful book that only got more beautiful as it went on. Highly recommended. |
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| The Trial | Franz Kafka | Classics for free on the iPad. Thank you, Project Gutenberg. |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide | Robert Louis Stevenson | Classics for free on the iPad. Thank you, Project Gutenberg. |
| Something Rotten | Jasper Fforde | |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potok | Wow, so good. Why didn't I ever read this before? |
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| Shylock's Daughter | Erica Jong | Capodanno a Venezia! |
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| Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 2) | Suzanne Collins | |
| Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 3) | Suzanne Collins | |
| The Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare... | Alexander Shakespeare |
i tre
porcellini
Il gatto con gli stivali
Cenerentola
Pinocchio
RaperonzoloI have here lists of just about every book I've read in
past years, though some years are nicely formatted and
some are a big mess. One day I'll get them all looking
nice, but when? Oh yeah, the 23rd... Here's a silly summary of recent years.
Here we go. This is some thrilling stuff, folks! We have:
2010, 2010, 2009, and 2008 in reverse order because
I'm a little bit busy right now, 2007 and 2006, pretty clean, and 2005, very messy. We have 2004, also messy but slightly
more interesting. Here is 2003
and 2002, which I think
aren't as bad.
Hey, what's your favorite book ever? What would you recommend as a Great Book to just about anyone? E-me!
By the way, the reason these books are all hyperlinked to their pages on amazon.com is that I'm an amazon.com "associate", meaning that if you click through to amazon using any of the links on this page and then buy *anything* (even if it's NOT the item I have hyperlinked), then I get "credit" for having referred you in and I get some little percent of what you spend. So I LOVE IT WHEN YOU CLICK THROUGH! Please do it all the time, every time you want to buy something on amazon, come here first! You're the best!
You can also use this link to Amazon's main page to buy anything and I'll get a kick-back, yippee!!