Wednesday, August 23, 2006

book worm: an archive

UPDATE: Scroll to the bottom of this post to see the books I'm currently reading.

When I originally posted this in August, 2006, I was reading:

• The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke

And before that, in order for the most part:

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
• Snow Crash
• Designing with Web Standards
• You Think You Hear
• Disgrace
• Foop!
• Wolves in Chic Clothing
• Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide
• The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (audiobook)
• The Four Agreements
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (audiobook)
• The Namesake (audiobook)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (audiobook)
• Pattern Recognition (audiobook)
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
• Home Land
• The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

Probably forgot a few... but that was most of what I read in 2006.

I mostly read when I'm traveling (actually the audiobook binge was when I did 2 road trips within a couple months), or when I'm at the gym. It's funny because I was super busy & stressed last fall & I see a big hole in my reading there because I wasn't going to the gym as much. Anyway... listing this out is fairly revealing to who I am. I like light-hearted reads, but I also am a total geek, and am someone always striving to better myself in my life and in my career. That about sums it up, right?

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UPDATED 3/5/07: In effort to keep up my book list, I am going to keep adding to this post. I've now read:

• The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
• Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
• The Tender Bar: A Memoir - favorite book of 2006!
  
• A TON of graphic novels/comics, thanks to my friend Kevin who lent them to me.
• King Dork - such a FUN read!
• The Life of Pi - didn't like this
• The Bean Trees - really enjoyed this
• History of Love - Going to start tracking how long it takes me to read each book & this one I started 3/5/07 & finished 4/4/07. Exactly a month! Probably a fairly common pace for me, but we'll see as I start tracking them more.
• A Long Way Down - started 4/6/07 & finished 4/19/07 - wow, that was fast! You can tell I have been going to the gym regularly. ha.
• This Book Will Save Your Life - started 4/20/07 & finished 5/12 on VK in Maui
• Currently in book limbo... I tried to start Son of the Circus, but couldn't get into it. I'll keep ya posted!
• Middlesex - started 6/15/07 & finished 8/25/07. This one took me awhile, as I have to admit I didn't really like the first 1/2 of it all that much. The book finally got interesting for me around page 350 or so, thankfully & the final quarter of it made it worth reading.
• The 4-Hour Workweek...gah, I have to keep updating this later, gotta run! :)