Posting temporarily from San Francisco while recovering from treatment for stage 2 breast cancer.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Books I Read

Currently Reading

On Mexican Time, Tony Cohan

Knowing God, Mary A Kassian

Conspiracy of Kindness, Steve Sjogren

Magnificent Obsession, Anne Graham Lotz

Daily Light for Every Day with Anne Graham Lotz

2010
1. The Help, Kathryn Stockette

2. Say You're One of Them, Uwen Akpan

3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby

4. Push, Sapphire (adult content)

5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne

6. Fusion, Nelson Searcy

7. Middlesex, Jeffry Eugenides

8. Launch, Nelson Searcy

9. Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas

10. Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenneger

11. Life of Pi, Yann Martel

12. Blue Shoe, Anne Lamont

2009
* indicates favorites

1. Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi*

2. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (read my review)

3. The Memory Keepers Daughter, Kim Edwards*

4. No More Hurting, Gwen Purdie

5. Au Revoir: Running Away From Home at Fifty by Mary Moody*

6. Swimming in the Congo, Margaret Meyer

7. Emily Ever After, Ann Dayton and May Vanderbilt

8. Churched, Matthew Paul Turner

9. Margin, Richard Swenson*

10. The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, Terry Ryan

11. The Best American Short Stories, 2008, Salman Rushdie, Editor

12. Living on the Margins, Women Writers on Breast Cancer

13. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx*

14. The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner

15. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier*

16. Breast Cancer, Let Me Check My Schedule, Peggy McCarthy and Jo An Loren, Editors

17. Survival through Laughter, Shiera Henderson, David Hall

18. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama

19. A Deeper Kind of Calm, Linda Dillow

20. Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz

21. On the Anvil, Max Lucado

22. The Guernsy Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Anne Schaffer and Annie Barrows**

23. Wish You Well, David Baldacci

24. Mozart's Sister, Nancy Moser*

25. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See**

26. The Soloist, Steve Lopez

27. Dewey, The Small-Town Cat Who Touched the World. Vicki Myron with Bret Witter*

28. UpLift, Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors, Barbara Delinsky

29. A Gentle Thunder, Max Lucado

30. Never Let Me Go, Isiguro Kazuo

31. The Seat Beside Me, Nancy Moser

32. Miss Perfect, Jane Porter

33. Flirting with Forty, Jane Porter

34. I Grew Up Little, Patsy Clairmont

35. Spiritual Direction, Henri Nouwen*

36. The Gift of Pain, Paul Brand and Phillip Yancy

37. The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama

38. Adam, Henri Nouwen**

39. Losing Normal, Heather Cheney, Sally Spencer, Pattie Zylka

40. After Dark, Haruki, Murakami

41. Redemption, Karen Kingsbury

42. Remember, Karen Kingsbury

43. Return, Karen Kingsbury

44. Rejoice, Karen Kingsbury

45. Arranged Marriage, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

46. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

47. Reunion, Karen Kingsbury

48. Mexican Enough, Stephanie Elizondo Griest*
49. Wife of the Gods, Kwei Quartey

50. Into The Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea

51. Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni*

52. Honestly, Sheila Walsh*

53. Devotions for a Sensational Life, Patsy Clairmont, etc

54. Slumdog Millionaire, Vikus Swarup*

55. House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

56. Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing and Havana, Stephanie Elizondo Griest*

57. Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult*

58. God's Most Precious Jewels are Crystallized Tears, Barbara Johnson

59. Short Girls, Bich Minh Nguyen

60. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See

61. The Multi-Site Church Revolution, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird

62. The Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose**

63. The Angels Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

64. The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther

65. A Glass of Water, Jimmy Santiago Baca



Recent Favorites
1. When Life and Beliefs Collide, Carolyn Custis James

2. The Savage is my Kinsman, Elizabeth Eliot

3. Into the Wild, John Krakauer (review)

4. Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden

5. The Enemy Within, Kris Lundgaard


Books I Abandoned
1. The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera (sooo boring)

2. The Five Sisters: The Langhorns of Virginia by James Fox (too many historical details and not enough about clothes and shoes)


Want to Read/Own
1. Hungry Woman in Paris, Josefina Lopez