Books of 2011
January 2nd, 2012
So it seems that this is becoming a ‘reading’ blog. Weird. And what could be less interesting than READING about someone else’s READING? I’ll get to work on that, and post some actual content. :)
But I am compelled to write this post, because I’ve been writing these book summaries for a little while now: 2010, (where did 2009 go?) and 2008. Weird that this blog has been going on for 5 years.
Away we go!
- The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present
- The Hunger Games
- Catching Fire
- Morality for Beautiful Girls
- Mockingjay
- V for Vendetta
- The Music Teacher
- Signora Da Vinci
- The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
- Rembrandt’s Whore
- The Kalahari Typing School for Men
- Piano Girl: A Memoir
- Here Burns My Candle
- Mine is the Night
- Tears of the Giraffe
- Sold
- The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
- The Full Cupboard of Life
- Mistress: A Novel
- The Bean Trees
- Cutting for Stone
- Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
- Thin, Rich, Pretty
- Remote Control
- Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style
- Hallelujah
- Sarah
- Glory Season
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
- From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
- Cage of Stars
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Uncommon Criminals
- The Historian
- The Lacuna
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- What is the What
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Help (re-read after I saw the movie)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
- Chocolat
- 13 Rue Therese
- Everyone Worth Knowing
- Too Rich for a Bride
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- The Only Alien on the Planet
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (re-read)
- A Christmas Carol (re-read)
- The Importance of Being Ernest (re-read)
And there it is! Chime in if you read any of the same books & loved them/hated them. I’d love to hear your opinion.
Some highlights for me this year: the Hunger Games was a super fun series, Sold, Cutting for Stone, and Nothing to Envy. I always love book recommendations! Leave some for me in the comments, or add me on Goodreads!
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Emily:
I hope your stimulator is still keeping most of the migraine monsters at bay!! Sorry to read in other posts that weather still is a problem. As always I came away from your book list with several I will have to read!!!
Have had myoclonus myself for ages. For me, sometimes I’m a little bit of a jerk, sometimes I’m a big jerk!! (a little myoclonus humor for ya!!!) Some medications (especially for me tri-cyclic antidepressants they use for all kinds of problems like hives or headaches) make it much worse.
The very old and middle-aged Emily
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I read Hungers Games also and liked it. She did a good job making something interesting happen at a chapter transition to make you keep reading.
I’m shocked you read V for Vendetta since it is rated R. I won’t tell on you though.
I’m reading Crime and Punishment now and am surprised how much I find it intriguing.
But is your list in order of best to worst? I’ll read your #1 book every year if this is an ordered list. If not, tough to pick although I did read your Good Reads reviews on some books I was considering.
Jason, it’s not ordered best to worst. It’s chronologically ordered. Which means nothing to anyone, except that it’s how I’ve kept track of the books I read. Since they’re not rated by the numbers, I usually just give my top choices at the end. Probably if I had to choose ONE book that I would recommend to everyone, it’d be Nothing to Envy. It was really a fascinating book.
I really liked V for Vendetta & have been trying to get into graphic novels.
Have you read anything good about the Yakuza?
Jason, I’ve only read bad things about them. Hope you’re not considering membership.
I am in awe at your list. Going to check out Nothing to Envy this week. Thank you!