Books
I love to read, and will read basically anything that’s recommended to me. In 2010 I decided that each year I wanted to make a point to read more books than I had the year before – and any books I re-read do not count toward this goal (although I may consider amending this rule in the future). I’m keeping track of all the new books I read each year on this page for any readers who might be interested.
I am also including a link to my GoodReads profile, which lists all the books I’ve read in the last few of years. I think I only started recording them when we moved to Charleston in 2006, but I added some others I had read shortly before I started keeping an official record.
If you want my thoughts/opinions on a specific book, feel free to let me know!
Book Lists:
2009 Books
2010 Books
2011 Books:
**Recommended Reading
- Passion India
- A Lucky Child
- Ape House
- Body Double
- World Without End **
- The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
- Vanish
- The Mephisto Club
- Rival to the Queen
- The September Society
- City of Bones **
- City of Ashes **
- City of Glass **
- City of Fallen Angels
- Pale Demon
- In the Garden of Beasts **
- The Distant Hours
- Dead Reckoning
- The 6th Target
- The Keepsake
- 7th Heaven
- The Jefferson Key
- Operation Mincemeat **
- Altar of Eden
- The Devil Colony
- Forgotten Fatherland
- The List **
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman **
- Oryx and Crake
- The Prague Cemetery
- Clockwork Prince
Quotes:
“How strange that I feel so much more a part of the world so far from the world that I have known”
— Jeffery Hantover (The Jewel Trader of Pegu)
“Being slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any given context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast; if tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos”
– Carlo Petrini (quoted in ‘In Praise of Slowness’)
“…few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later – no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget – we will return.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)
