january 2011

oh my god it's been a long time since i updated this so the dates will be alllllllll wrong and i've been playing this game on my kindle lately so i haven't read much.

robert l. wolke - what einstein told his cook: kitchen science explained [22-16]
james frey - million little pieces [21-24] (again)
upton sinclair - the jungle [25-]
margaret atwood - alias grace [26-29] (again)
meg wolitzer - the wife [30-] (again)


the fighter [8], despicable me [21], easy a [21], no strings attached [22], brick [28], salt [29], doubt [30]

december 2010

bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything [28-8]
best american short stories of 2008 [6-18]
jeffrey moussaieff masson, ausan mccarthy - when elephants weep [11-21]
robert l. wolke - what einstein told his cook: kitchen science explained [22-16]

i'm sure i watched others, but...
tron (1982, )tron (2010) [18]

possible to read?

more yes-
mary roach - bonk
michael pollan - botany of desire
jonathan bloom - american wasteland
oliver sacks - the man who mistook his wife for a hat
Matt Ridley - "the red queen"
Michael Shermer - "why people believe weird things"
jeremy butterfield - damp squid
rob gifford - china road
david gilmore - the film club

maybes -
Jonah Lehrer - how we decide
Paul Hoffman - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Simon Singh - Fermat's Enigma (the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem)
Berton Roueche - The Medical Detectives (epidemiology)
Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
E. O. Wilson - On Human Nature (Darwinian models to societal systems)
Carolyn de la Pena - Empty Pleasures
the zurau aphorisms of franz kafka
Frederick Kaufman - A Short History of the American Stomach
Robb Walsh - Sex, Death & Oysters
Andrew Coe - Chop Suey

Dirk Wittenborn - parmakon

cynthia ozick - virility

Manny Howard - My empire of dirt

november 2010

best american essays of 2004 [27-9]
richard p. feynman - the pleasure of finding things out [22-12]
aj jacobs - the year of living biblically [9-15]
jennifer ackerman - sex, sleep, eat, drink, dream [16-25]
jennifer niven - ada blackjack [20-27]
bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything [28-]

october 2010

matthew chapman - trials of the monkey: an accidental memoir [24-8]
best american short stories of 2001 [8-12]
clair messud - the emperor's children [12-16]
heinrich harrer - seven years in tibet [17-21]
richard p. feynman - the pleasure of finding things out [22-]
ruth reichl - garlic and sapphires [24-26]
best american essays of 2004 [27-]

september 2010

tracy kidder - mountains beyond mountains [25-2]

augusten burroughs - wolf at the table [2-3]

j maarten troost - getting stoned with savages [3-8]
mary roach - spook [7-12]

best ameican non-required reading 2002 [10-14]
simone de beauvoir - a very easy death [14-16]
matthew chapman - trials of the monkey [24-]
best american travel writing of 2004 [15-29]