Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Books I meant to read, or at least check out

Was trying to clean the apt this evening (it's progressing swimmingly, obviously, given my phenomenal focus), and came across all these scraps of paper with books I meant to read - some from at least November, I know, because I thought I could read them following the surgery while I was on bedrest.  So, so I have them all in one place, instead of the batch of scraps of paper and old receipts, etc., here we go:
Olive Kitteridge, E. Strout (I think I'm STILL on the waiting list at the library for this one)
Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
The Children's Book, Byatt
New Amsterdam, E. Bear (I feel like I actually picked this one up, it looked awful, and I just forgot to cross it off the list - not sure)
Wild Swans
Goldengrove, Francine Prose
Girl Mary
Guernica, Dave Boling
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Beside a Burning Shore
Palace of Strange Girls
Socialite Evenings, Shobhaa De
Rose Labyrinth, Titania Hardie
Shutter Island Dennis Leha
Into the Woods, Tana French
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi W. Durrow
The Blue Orchard, Jackson Taylor
Victoire, Maryse Conde
The Poisoner's Handbook, Amy Greene
Quieter Than Sleep, Joanne Dobson
The Ninth Daughter, Barbara Hamilton - it's an "Abigail Adams mystery" - holla!
whatever Wid-LC PQ3949.2.C65 M5613 is (?! why do I do this to myself??)
The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, Paula Butturini
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today, Ted Conover
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Jerome Charyn
I Love You Like a Tomato, Marie Giordano (Wid-LC PS3607.I47 I13)
Forcing Amaryllis, Louise Ure (Wid-LC PS3621.R4 F67)
Sometimes I Dream in Italian, Rita Gresi (Wid-LC PS3553.I7 S66)
Habeas Campus, Wendi Lee (Wid-LC PS3562.E3663 C73)
Liberation, Joanna Scott (Wid-LC PS3569.C636 L53)
The Trouble With Going Home, Camilla Crespi (mystery?)
13 Moons, Frazier (PS3556.R3599 T48)
Mudbound, Hilary Jordan (PS3610.O6556 M83)
Wild Sage, Melissa Orme (I think that's her last name?  I can't read my writing!)
The Last Courtesan, J. Hill
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, Peter Silver
Speaks the Nighbird
Catherine's Cadeau
Children of the Night, Dan Simmons (PS3569.I47292 C48)
The Crook Factory, Dan Simmons (PS3569.I47 292 C76)
The Language of Bees
The Postmistress
Birthright
The Savage Detectives
The Poker Bride
Gambling Man
The Almond Picker, Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Lucia: a Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, Andrea di Robilant - I enjoyed his book A Venetian Affair, which was based on old family papers, so I figure I could give this a shot...although I think he relies pretty heavily on co(ghost)-writers.  And this makes me think - there were some books, about a woman, I think from Mass., who is a historian, and then there's a guy from Oxford, and then...some sort of historical mystery thingy?  What were the names of those?  Okay, note to self, check that out at some point.  Oh, and there was ANOTHER historical mystery, and I think it was the first in a series - um, an English guy, maybe noble-ish, and he had a wife, but they really met when she was a prostitute in Spain, during the war, and...their kid is kidnapped?  I think I liked it - of course, I can't remember anything about it really, so maybe it wasn't that great!
Judaism: A Way of Being, David Gelernter (Yeah, I don't know.  But it could be interesting!  In this month's Yale University Press religion email)
Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity, Luke Timothy Johnson (ditto on YUP - ha, that makes me laugh - sounds awesome)
Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion, Barbara Herrnstein Smith (YUP...uh, might be a bit ambitious on this one.  But I can dream!)

1 comment:

  1. Read "Shutter Island," by Dennis Lehane, on April 18 (see 4/21 post for more)

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