With apologies to the GOTO statement, the recomendation below is truly harmful.
PAT CONROY ?!?!!?!
The flanking books I can see, but Pat Conroy? I admit that I once read “Prince of Tides,” but I was on vacation at a house with a limited library. Pat Conroy v. Danielle Steele; Conroy wins that one.
But how did Amazon find out? A less than discreet relative perhaps….
(ps. Check out the review snippet from Wapo in the second image)
From the list below I would highly recommend: Pollan’s In Defense of Food and Friedman’s The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed
Page count for March: 1,545 (49.84/day)
The list of books read in 2008 struggled its way to 66, I’m aiming for 100 in 2009.
2009 totals: 19 books, 5,159 pages, 57.32/day, on pace for 76 books, behind 6 books.
Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed
Page count for February: 1,697 (60.61/day)
The list of books read in 2008 struggled its way to 66, I’m aiming for 100 in 2009. That Stephen Pinker book did me in this month, 634 end notes; took me 2 weeks to ingest it all.
2009 totals: 12 books, 3,614 pages, 61.25/day, on pace for 72 books, behind: 4 2/3 books. (If I’m seriously considering reading Don Quiotxe, I’m in big trouble on the 100 books front….)
(And yes, I did a power surge yesterday to finish the month with > 3 books so it wouldn’t look too lame.)
Updated: Forgot I read Seth Godin’s “Tribes”
Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed
Page count for January: 1,917 (61.84/day)
The list of books read in 2008 struggled its way to 66, I’m aiming for 100 in 2009.
Thanks to my Mom for seeding the 2009 reading queue with a nice selection of books.
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Have you read more than six of these books?
I found this list on Laura K’s blog.
In David Wienberger’s “Everything is Miscellaneous“, he points out that Sam Anderson “maintains that the bottom of your queue of movies to rent from Netflix.com is ‘the person you want to be—Eraserhead, the eight-hour BBC Bleakhouse, the complete Wender Herzog—while the top is the person you actually are: Wedding Crashers, Scary Movie 4, The Bridges of Madison County.”
Lo and behold, “Bleakhouse” and “Ulyseses” are at the bottom of the queue and of the books I’ve actually read? Charlottes Web? The Bell Jar?—I must have stopped reading at thirteen, wearing a black turtleneck sweater and listening to Morrisey.
And I only loved three of the nineteen (Les Miserable, Catch-22, and a Confederacy of Dunces), wonder if I’d love a higher proportion of the books I indend to read.
A fun bloggy game, here’s what you do:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list on your own blog.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller Continue reading
The Economist has a review of C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan’s new book, “The New Age of Innovation” [wc] [site] as well as Charles Leadbeater’s “We-Think” [site]. C. K. Prahalad has written for SMR in the past, (his 2003 article “The New Frontier of Experience Innovation” is featured in this edition of the Wall St. Journal, Business Insight Special Report—available as a free download until September 22, 2008),
“We-Think” should make a nice follow up to my recent reading of “Everything is Miscellaneous“, and “The Wisdom of Crowds“.
I know, I know the Surowiecki book is 4 years old and I should have read it sooner! Reading it now though, I see direct correlations to Dan Arielly’s recent work in “Predictably Irrational“. Not sure I would have made the connection had I read Surowiecki 4 years ago; maybe its OK to mix things up once in a while
