my favorite 2011 readings
malcolm gladwell - the tipping point [march]
steven rinella - the scavenger's guide to haute cuisine [may]
peter hessler - river town [december]
peter nichols - a voyage for madmen [december]
and movies of note
the fighter, doubt, gold rush, kate!, red balloon, harakiri, bridesmaids, tangled, the debt, inception, the wettest country (screener),
12.30.2011
12.09.2011
december 2011
one weird side effect of getting a smart phone is that i read books less. not because i'm on my phone playing games or whatever, but because i'm constantly reading new articles and stuff. i'm also following a bunch of science feeds on twitter so that doesn't help!
...and of course, as soon as i say i'm not reading much, i go and read a shit ton. lol. i think the science stuff was just too heavy, so i've switched off onto some lighter reading.
richard dawkins - the selfish gene [9/27-]
the adventures of theodore roosevelt [10/31-]
the best american science writing of 2004 [19-9]
sloane crosley - i was told there'd be cake [12-14]
peter hessler - river town [15-20]
ruth reichl - tender at the bone [20-22]
peter nichols - a voyage for madmen [22-25]
anne fadiman - the spirit catches you and you fall down [26-]
mission impossible [25], sherlock holmes 2 [27], girl with the dragon tattoo [27]
...and of course, as soon as i say i'm not reading much, i go and read a shit ton. lol. i think the science stuff was just too heavy, so i've switched off onto some lighter reading.
richard dawkins - the selfish gene [9/27-]
the adventures of theodore roosevelt [10/31-]
the best american science writing of 2004 [19-9]
sloane crosley - i was told there'd be cake [12-14]
peter hessler - river town [15-20]
ruth reichl - tender at the bone [20-22]
peter nichols - a voyage for madmen [22-25]
anne fadiman - the spirit catches you and you fall down [26-]
mission impossible [25], sherlock holmes 2 [27], girl with the dragon tattoo [27]
11.08.2011
11.05.2011
november 2011
richard dawkins - the selfish gene [9/27-]
the adventures of theodore roosevelt [31-]
the best american science writing of 2004 [19-]
lincoln lawyer [4], rear window [19], twilight [24]
the adventures of theodore roosevelt [31-]
the best american science writing of 2004 [19-]
lincoln lawyer [4], rear window [19], twilight [24]
10.25.2011
long time
holy shit, i can't believe i've been posting here for five years. that's a lot of books!!!
looking thru my posts tho, i noticed that my taste in reading has really changed. before college i read almost exclusively fiction. i want to say i only read fiction, but i don't know everything i read so... then i started reading memoirs, and i still love a good travel memoir. in 2007, science and history stuff creep in. then starting in mid 2010, i started reading almost exclusively non-fiction.
today i rarely read fiction. i think fiction gets tiring after a while. there are only so many stories, you know? (i think 7, tho sometimes i think only 3) and also, there are so many good books out there, so why would i want to read the same thing over and over? i have limited time (and budget!), so i should learn something, no? which is why i love reading science stuff now.
i do sometimes feel like i'm missing out tho. i haven't read any of the harry potters, twilights, or steig larsson books (girl with the dragon tattoo...)... the last fictional series i read was dan brown's da vinci code stuff (which isn't really a series, cause it's only two books). harry potter is interesting tho. those were pretty big even when i was in high school yet i've always resisted reading them. someone once accused me of being an elitist when i said i didn't want to read it cause it was written for children and kids' books tend not to have much character development. but i stand by that. and while harry potter might be different (each one is like 500 pages long after all), i'm not interested in fantasy. i stopped reading that genre in junior high. ...and no, i'm not saying that fantasy is only for kids and i'm too mature for it now. but for me, fantasy was a phase, and i have since moved on. but i also don't read horror anymore. in high school i pretty much completed stephen king's line of books and since then i've no interest in him or the genre.
anyway, i wonder what genre i'll move onto next? this year, thanks to a friend, i started reading straight history (robert k. massie books about the russian rulers) but i don't think that's for me. too many names and places and times to get mixed up. i also read a couple food memoirs this year which i am still really interested in. i've been wanting to read michael pollan but i haven't been able to find any of his books used and for really cheap. ...but that's a post for a different time.
looking thru my posts tho, i noticed that my taste in reading has really changed. before college i read almost exclusively fiction. i want to say i only read fiction, but i don't know everything i read so... then i started reading memoirs, and i still love a good travel memoir. in 2007, science and history stuff creep in. then starting in mid 2010, i started reading almost exclusively non-fiction.
today i rarely read fiction. i think fiction gets tiring after a while. there are only so many stories, you know? (i think 7, tho sometimes i think only 3) and also, there are so many good books out there, so why would i want to read the same thing over and over? i have limited time (and budget!), so i should learn something, no? which is why i love reading science stuff now.
i do sometimes feel like i'm missing out tho. i haven't read any of the harry potters, twilights, or steig larsson books (girl with the dragon tattoo...)... the last fictional series i read was dan brown's da vinci code stuff (which isn't really a series, cause it's only two books). harry potter is interesting tho. those were pretty big even when i was in high school yet i've always resisted reading them. someone once accused me of being an elitist when i said i didn't want to read it cause it was written for children and kids' books tend not to have much character development. but i stand by that. and while harry potter might be different (each one is like 500 pages long after all), i'm not interested in fantasy. i stopped reading that genre in junior high. ...and no, i'm not saying that fantasy is only for kids and i'm too mature for it now. but for me, fantasy was a phase, and i have since moved on. but i also don't read horror anymore. in high school i pretty much completed stephen king's line of books and since then i've no interest in him or the genre.
anyway, i wonder what genre i'll move onto next? this year, thanks to a friend, i started reading straight history (robert k. massie books about the russian rulers) but i don't think that's for me. too many names and places and times to get mixed up. i also read a couple food memoirs this year which i am still really interested in. i've been wanting to read michael pollan but i haven't been able to find any of his books used and for really cheap. ...but that's a post for a different time.
10.09.2011
october 2011
richard dawkins - the selfish gene [27-]
short shorts: an anthology of the shortest stories [28-6]
christopher cokinos - hope is the thing with feathers [7-18]
the best american science writing 2003 [19-29]
the adventures of theodore roosevelt [31-]
adjustment bureau [12-13], the thing [15], igmar bergman - wild strawberries (1957) [22], woody allen - whatever works (2009) [22], last chance harvey (2008) [23], incendies [28]
short shorts: an anthology of the shortest stories [28-6]
christopher cokinos - hope is the thing with feathers [7-18]
the best american science writing 2003 [19-29]
the adventures of theodore roosevelt [31-]
adjustment bureau [12-13], the thing [15], igmar bergman - wild strawberries (1957) [22], woody allen - whatever works (2009) [22], last chance harvey (2008) [23], incendies [28]
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