- Byzantium: the Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Michael Angold
- Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust edited by James Cuno
- Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin
- A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter
- Appetite for Life: the Biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch
- Love Stories in this Town by Amanda Ward
- First Ladies Quotations Book edited by William Foss
- Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean
- Who Moved my Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway
- Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box by Madeleine Albright
- Emma Goldman: American Individualist by John Chalberg
- The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger
- Che: A Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
- Post Grad by Emily Cassel
- Feisty First Ladies and other Unforgettable White House Women by Autumn Stephens
- The Motorcycle Diaries: notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
- Hot Dog: a Global History by Bruce Kraig
- Soda Pop! From Miracle Medicine to Pop Culture by Gyvel Witzel and Michael Witzel
- Smart Girls Like Me by Diane Vadino
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
- Collecting Political Buttons by Marc Sigoloff
- The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food by Jeffrey Masson
- Extraordinary Texas Women by Judy Alter
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
- Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- Loot: the Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman
- Speaking with the Angel edited by Nick Hornby
- The Wisdom of Sam Ervin edited by Bill Wise
- It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather Armstrong
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones
- Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States by Hector Tobar
- Stories from Candy Land: Confections from One of Hollywood's Most Famous Wives and Mothers by Candy Spelling
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields
- Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things) by Abby Sher
- Always a Reckoning and other poems by Jimmy Carter
- Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride by William Kloss
- The Governor by Rod Blagojevich
- William McKinley by Kevin Phillips
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
- Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater by Frank Bruni
- Miley Cyrus: Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus
- Lady Bird Johnson: Our Environmentalist First Lady by Lewis Gould
- Bait and Switch: the (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Long Chalkboard and other Stories by Jenny Allen
- Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or by Andrew Friedman
- Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites by Brian Lamb
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age edited by Ariel Schrag
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
- Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security Obsessed World by Eve Ensler
- Richistan: a Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank
- Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
- When Everything Changed: the Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
- Unsweetined by Jodie Sweetin
- Breakfast at Tiffany's and three other stories by Truman Capote
- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The West Wng: The Official Companion created by Aaron Sorkin
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
- Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
- Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
- Confessions of an Heiress: a Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose by Paris Hilton with Merle Ginsberg
- Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do by Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford
- All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown
- Celebutantes by Amanda Goldberg
- Audition: a Memoir by Barbara Walters
- Everyone Worth Knowing by Laura Weisberger
- Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
- My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster
- Inside South Austin: a Guide by Diane Barnet
- Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto
- The New York Regional Mormon Singles Dance by Elna Baker
- The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee by Sarah Silverman
- Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
Friday, January 1, 2010
Books Read in 2010
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Um, there have been eight days in 2010. Don't you think you're kind of slacking?
Whoa, it's growing. I may have to eat my words. chomp chomp
Um, how long are those first lady quotations? Should that one really count as a book?
(Hopefully you know I'm just a jealous ingrate.)
280 pages, but there was a lot of space in between.
To be fair, Pat Nixon rambles quite a bit.
Whoa, a slight to Pat Nixon, and a compliment to you all in one. You're the man.
I'm coming along on the Matisse biography that I started about a year ago.
Whoa. Did you just read like ten books in the last week?
I hope you realize that reading can poke your eye out.
Yeah, um, way too many of these comments are by me. This is not right.
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I have a blog post in my drafts folder (about a month old) about first ladies. I keep putting it off, because I get to Abigail Adams, which makes me think of the movie John Adams, which reminds me of a quote from Parks & Recreation "Now I've got some things I want to say about Laura Linney." Then I go watch Parks & Recreation.
Also, I'm still unemployed. So that's fun.
All is forgiven.
(Sorry no job yet. That must be beyond frustrating. Especially because anyone should be THRILLED to hire you. Not joking. I love Parks & Recreation. That's no joke either. Looking forward to first ladies post.)
Oh, hey, I now send nightly reports to a friend on the Matisse bio as a way of getting myself to actually finish it. I'm getting close to the end of volume one! Yay. It's a great biography, actually. Hillary Spurling. She did an incredible job of mitigating some of the myths about Matisse AND uncovering things that were simply not known or were overlooked. (Yes, I realize that having to devise motivational tricks to get oneself to read is completely foreign to you [except maybe for The Grapes of Wrath?], but I decided not to be embarrassed about it even with asuperreader like you.)
I am going to add that to my list of books to check out.
Whoa, I've actually influenced your list of potential books?
I read Sh*t My Dad Says. The book, not just the tweets. So, that counts. (It's really funny. There's a great narrative in it. I recommend it. You would read the entire book in about 15 minutes. Only exaggerating a little bit.)
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