busy at work: September 2008

Monday, September 29

quote of the day

"Maybe it wasn't your turn to give.
Maybe it was your turn to receive."

-Ethel West

: Name: shelly; Location: Seattle, Washington

Since 10.9.2005

Now reading:
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Up Next:
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever
Dante's Purgatorio by Birk, Sanders
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
East of Eden by John Steibeck

Recently completed:
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz -- 07.07
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides -- 06.09
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta -- 05.30
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls -- 05.26
Bonk by Mary Roach -- 05.07
Playing by Melanie Abrams -- 04.28
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card -- 04.13
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan -- 03.02
A Charmed Life by Liza Campbell -- 02.10
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie -- 12.19
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith -- 12.12
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson -- 1.6.2008
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompsonn -- 11.11
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain -- 10.18
Blindness by Jose Saramago -- 10.11
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk -- 9.10
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe -- 9.02
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova -- 8.21
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling -- 7.21
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling -- 7.8
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by J.K. Rowling -- 6.19
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac -- 6.12
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse -- 5.14
Dante's Inferno by Birk, Sanders -- 5.7
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson -- 4.19
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis -- 4.9
The Secret History by Donna Tartt -- 4.8
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson -- 3.30
The Dead Father's Club by Matt Haig -- 3.3
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan -- 2.24
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore -- 1.6.07
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk -- 12.23
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs -- 12.3
Sastun by Rosita Arvigo -- 11.18
Little Children by Tom Perrotta -- 11.4
a spot of a bother by Mark Haddon -- 11.1
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart -- 10.22
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -- 10.5
Night by Elie Wiesel -- 9.14
The God File by Frank Turner Hollon -- 9.11
Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi -- 9.8
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi -- 9.7
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut -- 9.6.06
The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
See No Evil by Robert Baer
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Still remaining...
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Cider House Rules by John Irving
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
A Concise History of the Catholic Church by Thomas Bokenkotten
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Crazy Cock by Henry Miller
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many Sided American
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Watership Down by Richard Adams

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