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My reading slowed in 2008, as I knew it would. Now that I don't work at the City, I do not have the extra 10 -15 (paid) hours to read each week. I still got through 40 books, and had it not been for a few months where I read next to nothing I may have hit the 52 which had been my goal in previous years. I still love to read and have enough book to keep me reading for the next 10 years... and of course I am always buying more. So on to next year!
So here is what I read in 2008.
1/1/2008 Diego Rivera : science and creativity in the Detroit murals Dorothy McMeekin
2/13/2008 Funeral In Berlin Len Deighton
3/10/2008 Dali Robert Radford
3/19/2008 3001 Arthur C. Clarke
3/27/2008 Secrets Of The Tomb Alexandra Robbins
4/5/2008 Digital Fortress Dan Brown
4/8/2008 Post Office Charles Bukowski
4/13/2008 Pagan Babies Elmore Leonard
4/19/2008 Flash - Stop Motion Mark Shultz
4/20/2008 Bold Women In Michigan Virgina Law Burns
4/30/2008 The Secret Life of Henry Ford John Côté Dahlinger
5/5/2008 Big Trouble Dave Barry
5/10/2008 Ham On Rye Charles Bukowski
5/23/2008 The Icpress File Len Deighton
5/28/2008 Factotum Charles Bukowski
6/30/2008 Don't Bend Over In the Garden, Granny - You Know Them Taters Got Eyes Lewis Grizzard
7/7/2008 The Time Machine H G Wells
8/13/2008 LaBrava Elmore Leonard
8/18/2008 Stori Telling Tori Spelling
8/25/2008 Cat Chaser Elmore Leonard
8/30/2008 My Life In High Heels Loni Anderson
9/4/2008 Shop Girl Steve Martin
9/9/2008 Mustang Ranch Alexa Albert
9/13/2008 Horse Under Water Len Deighton
9/18/2008 Adult Children of Alcoholics Janet G Woitiz
10/6/2008 Split Images Elmore Leonard
10/11/2008 Brave New World Aldous Huxley
10/18/2008 I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This Bob Newhart
10/19/2008 Struggle For Intimacy Janet G Woitiz
10/25/2008 Welcome To The Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut
11/13/2008 Exterminators Christopher Golden
11/18/2008 Playing With The Grown-ups Sophie Dahl
11/20/2008 Life Laughs Jenny McCarthy
11/28/2008 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen
12/1/2008 Call of the Wild Jack London
12/20/2008 The Russia House John LeCarre'
12/25/2008 Behind the Scenes Elizabeth Keckley
12/27/2008 The Call Girl Actress Erica Black
12/31/2008 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom
12/31/2008 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
Thursday, January 01, 2009
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (40)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
Read 12/31/08
I talk about reading with a co-worker, and this was an author he recommenced. It is a collection of short stories. Each story seems to leave as much unsaid as it tells, and the real story seems to be in what they don't say. Most of the stories are a single incident.. so it is almost as if you are sitting in on a conversation and you have to fill in the gaps in what is said. The stories make you think, and many of them are sad... or perhaps defeated is a better word. May about damaged relationships... looking back on them... overall a great book.
Since this was short stories I have been reading this book here and there since fall. When I finished my other book last night I read the last few stories in this collection.
Raymond Carver
Read 12/31/08
I talk about reading with a co-worker, and this was an author he recommenced. It is a collection of short stories. Each story seems to leave as much unsaid as it tells, and the real story seems to be in what they don't say. Most of the stories are a single incident.. so it is almost as if you are sitting in on a conversation and you have to fill in the gaps in what is said. The stories make you think, and many of them are sad... or perhaps defeated is a better word. May about damaged relationships... looking back on them... overall a great book.
Since this was short stories I have been reading this book here and there since fall. When I finished my other book last night I read the last few stories in this collection.
Tuesdays With Morrie (39)
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
Read 12/31/08
This is written by a sports writer for the Free Press who in 1994 was watch ABC Nightline and sees a story about his favorite Prof and mentor from college. And he is dying from ALS. He gets back in touch with him and begins flying from Detroit to Boston each week on Tuesday to talk with his dying friend.
Morrie, although dying has a upbeat view on life and lots of wisdom about how to enjoy life. In the end Mitch learns a lot about himself through these sessions.
The book is a quick read, and give you something to think about without being too heavy.
Mitch Albom
Read 12/31/08
This is written by a sports writer for the Free Press who in 1994 was watch ABC Nightline and sees a story about his favorite Prof and mentor from college. And he is dying from ALS. He gets back in touch with him and begins flying from Detroit to Boston each week on Tuesday to talk with his dying friend.
Morrie, although dying has a upbeat view on life and lots of wisdom about how to enjoy life. In the end Mitch learns a lot about himself through these sessions.
The book is a quick read, and give you something to think about without being too heavy.
Behind The Scenes (37)
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
Elizabeth Keckly
Read 12/25/08
This is an autobiography written in 1868 by a woman who was born into slavery. Later bought her freedom and went on to become a seamstress. In this capacity she worked for and became friends with Mrs. President Lincoln. It is an interesting look at life in that time, and also and unusual look at the President and his wife. Not in that capacity, but just as a friend.
The book is very readable for its age and I highly recommend it.
or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
Elizabeth Keckly
Read 12/25/08
This is an autobiography written in 1868 by a woman who was born into slavery. Later bought her freedom and went on to become a seamstress. In this capacity she worked for and became friends with Mrs. President Lincoln. It is an interesting look at life in that time, and also and unusual look at the President and his wife. Not in that capacity, but just as a friend.
The book is very readable for its age and I highly recommend it.
The Russia House (36)
The Russia House
John LeCarre'
Read 12/20/08
I realized I had not read a LeCarre' book this year. I enjoy his books, but they take a while to get though. This was no different, about a new 'joe' who brings in some amazing but unsolociated information from Russian. Then we follow him as he goes back to Moscow and contacts a woman he falls for, and his informant. The resulting debriefings are confusing as you try to figure out which side everybody is on... Like so many of his books.. in the end it does not matter :)
John LeCarre'
Read 12/20/08
I realized I had not read a LeCarre' book this year. I enjoy his books, but they take a while to get though. This was no different, about a new 'joe' who brings in some amazing but unsolociated information from Russian. Then we follow him as he goes back to Moscow and contacts a woman he falls for, and his informant. The resulting debriefings are confusing as you try to figure out which side everybody is on... Like so many of his books.. in the end it does not matter :)
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