Books Read - Fall 2013

17. You: The Owner's Manual by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz (audio book; abridged)
16. The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (audio book)
15. Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald (audio book)
14. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (audio book)
13. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
12. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (audio book)
11. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
10. America Again by Stephen Colbert
9. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
8. Micro by Michael Crichton (audio book)
7. Time Now for the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange by Stuart McLean
6. Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L Cline
5. Phantom by Terry Goodkind (audio book)
4. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr
3. Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
2. 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
1. The Book of Small by Emily Carr

Books Read - Summer 2013

21. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough
20. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
19. Unless by Carol Shields
18. I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side by Michael Oher (audio book)
17. The Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
16. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (audio book)
15. The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
14. Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
13. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
12. Insight City Guides: Seattle
11. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (audio book)
10. Elliott Allagash by Simon Rich (audio book)
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell (audio book)
8. Planet Boy by Stuart McLean (audio book)
7. The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
6. Canada by Richard Ford
5. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker (audio book)
4. The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History by Alan Axelrod
3. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas (audio book)
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (audio book)
1. The Vikings by Yves Cohat

Recognizing

It's really wonderful when you can feel a cool breeze blow through the window into your hot house.  Yay!

Sigh

Tonight I wrote a long entry, about starting a 30 day yoga challenge and being in a downswing.  I wasn't able to save along the way because I didn't have Internet access, and by the time I got home everything had been erased. Alas.
I don't have the energy to rewrite it, so I think I'll just go play some more Snoopy Roller Coaster.

Books Read - Spring 2013

15. Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca's Cuisine by Simone Beck
14. Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation by Michael Agar
13. The Partner by John Grisham
12. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
11. French Women Don't Get Fat by Mureille Guiliano
10. Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke
9. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
7. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
6. Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong
5. The Wisdom of the Shire by Noble Smith
4. Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar
3. Travels by Michael Crichton
2. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
1. Here's Looking at Euclid by Alex Bellos

Books Read - Winter 2013

18. Frontiers of Heaven by Stanley Stewart
17. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
16. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks
15. Berlitz Handbook: China
14. Bad Habits by Dave Barry
13. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
12. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
11. China's First Emperor and his Terracotta Warriors by Frances Wood
10. Silas Marner by George Eliot
9. Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
8. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
7. China A to Z by May-lee Chai and W Chai
6. Sophie's Choice by William Styron (book club selection)
5. National Geographic Traveler: China
4. The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson (audio book)
3. The Fearless Gourmet: Decoding Menus from Around the World by Norman Kolpas
2. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
1. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (audio book)