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[Hasn’t paid for leisure reading or movie rentals for years, without torrents]
Torrents? No, Chuck Testa.
And by Chuck Testa I mean my local library.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1gx1qONw91r8rqtqo1_500.jpg)
Wednesday Apr 4 08:57pm[Hasn’t paid for leisure reading or movie rentals for years, without torrents]
Torrents? No, Chuck Testa.
And by Chuck Testa I mean my local library.
Tuesday Mar 20 08:28pmToday in zero circ books. I’m thinking of putting it out on display with a sign that says, “SERIOUSLY people? If it weren’t for this book The Hunger Games wouldn’t exist! Check this book out right now and get it off my zero circ list.” (I think I have to work a little on my wording)
I’ve always assumed that if The Most Dangerous Game and The Lottery had a baby and that baby was raised on reality television then the baby would be The Hunger Games.
Every Book I Read in 2011
Books published in 2011 in bold. (A) is for audiobook. My favorite ten books of the year are marked with a *.
January
- Tinkers by Paul Harding (A)
- Revolutionaries by Jack Rakove
- The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (A)
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (A)
- * Boilerplate : history’s mechanical marvel by Paul Guinan
February
- The Archaeology of Home by Katharine Greider
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (A)
- The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
- Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
- Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (A)
March
- The Far Side of the World by Patrick O’Brian (A)
- One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
- Sixty Feet, Six Inches by Bob Gibson & Reggie Jackson
- * Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
April
- * 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
- Take Time For Paradise by A. Bartlett Giamatti
- Ambassadors of Reconciliation by Ched Myers
- Poverty of Spirit by Johannes B. Metz
- Why you can disagree— and remain a faithful Catholic by Philip S. Kaufman
- As It Was In The Beginning by Robert McClory
May
- Beastly Fury by Robert Sanders
- * Soccer in a football world : the story of America’s forgotten game by David Wangerin
- Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics by Jonathan Wilson
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (A)
- The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore
- The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (A)
- Once in a lifetime : the incredible story of the New York Cosmos by Gavin Newsham
June
- Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca & Flora Lichtman (A)
- Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Syzmanksi
- * One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
- The Crime of the Century by Stephanie Schorow
- The Underboss by Gerard Neill
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (A)
July
- The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King (A)
- Taking the Field by Howard Megdal
- The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (A)
- Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway by Kirk Johnson
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (A)
August
- Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
- Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs! by Symphony Space (A)
- Dangerously funny by David Bianculli (A)
- Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion by Johan Harstad
- * Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson (A)
- Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids & Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future by Judy Molland
- *The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
- Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
September
- Boston Riots by Jack Tager
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (A)
- Consequences by Penelope Lively
- The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack
- Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- * Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (A)
- Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein (A)
- Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
December
- * Maphead by Ken Jennings
- The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
What did you read in 2011?
Saturday Dec 31 03:11amBlueberries for Sale by Robert McCloskey
I love this book a TREMENDOUS MOUTHFUL. Also, I have a little crush on Little Sal’s Mother.
With links to reviews on my blog. (A) is for audiobook, all the others were read in print.
With links to reviews on my blog. (A) is for audiobook, all the others were read in print.
- Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
- Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs! by Symphony Space (A)
- Dangerously funny by David Bianculli (A)
- Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion by Johan Harstad
- Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson (A)
- Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids & Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future by Judy Molland
- The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
- Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
I discovered Edward Gorey in my teen years and was particularly impressed by his morbid imagination in The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Early in my freshman year at The College of William & Mary, I saw a poster of this book for sale and immediately purchased it. Since the walls of my dorm room were already decorated I put it on my door. I was shocked when I ended up getting lots of nasty notes telling me how horrible the poster was. It made me wonder if I went to the wrong school.
Monday Sep 12 10:53amThe Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey
With links to reviews on my blog. (A) is for audiobook, all the others were read in print.
- The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King (A)
- Taking the Field by Howard Megdal
- The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (A)
- Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway by Kirk Johnson
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (A)
I’d love to read this book mostly because I’d love to see what could possibly be said about the Mets in book length form in 1964. Then again they didn’t have blogs back then.
Monday Aug 1 12:59amperipherybaseball:
original paperback copy, first published in 1964 by Grosset & Dunlap.
