Monday, January 1, 2024

Books Of 2024

 

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  1. Knight's Redemption by Sherilee Gray
  2. The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
  3. Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
  4. Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
  5. Dragon's Captive by Kara Lockharte
  6. Awakened Lust by Kat T. Scott
  7. Trail Of The Lost by Andrea Lankford
  8. Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin
  9. It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
  10. Life In Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin
  11. Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed *
  12. The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
  13. Three Fires by Denise Mina
  14. White Women by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
  15. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  16. Spies by Calder Walton
  17. All The Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce
  18. The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh
  19. Period by Kate Clancy
  20. Data Baby by Susannah Breslin
  21. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
  22. The Surviving Sky by Kritika Rao
  23. Anna O by Matthew Blake
  24. Searching For Savanna by Mona Gable
  25. Wade In The Water by Nyani Nkrumah
  26. The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank
  27. Life On Other Planets by Aomawa Shields
  28. His Sub by Ellis O. Day
  29. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem by Laurie Notaro *
  30. Skin by Kathe Koja
  31. Hot And Bothered by Jancee Dunn
  32. Blood by Dr. Jen Gunter
  33. His Name Is Killian by Ella Adamian
  34. Lost In The Moment And Found by Seanan McGuire
  35. Mislaid In Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire
  36. Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
  37. Bluegate Fields by Anne Perry
  38. Wheat Belly by William Davis
  39. Falling Awake by Jon Kabat- Zinn
  40. Untangled by Koshin Paley Ellison
  41. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  42. Spare by Prince Harry
  43. How To Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less by Nicholas Boothman
  44. Radically Happy by Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon*
  45. You: Staying Young by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz
  46. True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
  47. How Not To Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
  48. Learning To Love Midlife by Chip Conley
  49. The Spark Factor by Molly Maloof
  50. Drunk-ish by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
  51. I Never Thought Of It That Way by Monica Guzman
  52. What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic by Annie Kotowicz
  53. Sorry For The Inconvenience by Farah Naz Rishi
  54. Aries by Gemma James
  55. Taurus by Gemma James
  56. Gemini by Gemma James
  57. Cancer by Gemma James
  58. Leo by Gemma James
  59. Autistic State Of Mind by Kayla Francis
  60. Virgo by Gemma James
  61. Adult Autism Support Guide by Maxine Kelly
  62. Fluent In 3 Months by Benny Lewis
  63. Staring At The Sun: Overcoming The Terror of Death by Irvin Yalom
  64. Hello Sleep by Jade Wu
  65. Untangled by Lisa Damour
  66. Young Forever by Mark Hyman
  67. Be The Sea by Clara Ward
  68. Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse
  69. No Time To Panic by Matt Gutman
  70. The Master by Kresley Cole
  71. The Joy Of Costco by David and Susan Schwartz
  72. Weird by Olga Khazan


Friday, March 10, 2023

Books Of 2023

 

  1. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
  2. City Of Incurable Women by Maud Casey
  3. The Maid and The Orcs by Finley Fenn (reread)
  4. The Seven Levels Of Intimacy by Matthew Kelly*
  5. The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz*
  6. Tangled In Tinsel by Trilina Pucci-
  7. Innocence by Dean Koontz*
  8. Cruel Paradise by JT Geissinger-
  9. The Self-Healing Mind by Gregory Scott Brown*
  10. The Red by Tiffany Reisz+
  11. Training In Tenderness by Dzigar Kongtrul
  12. The Institute by Stephen King
  13. Awake Where You Are by Martin Aylward*
  14. Used by Leann Ryans
  15. Hallowed Hookup by Crissy Larson
  16. Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum*
  17. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
  18. Crave To Conquer by Zoey Ellis
  19. Forbidden Deviant Games by Lucy Smoke
  20. Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
  21. The Time Paradox by Philip Zombardo and John Boyd
  22. Devoted by Dean Koontz
  23. The Prisoner by B. A. Paris
  24. If Your Mouth Could Talk by Dr. Kami Hoss
  25. The Taking by Dean Koontz
  26. The Lies Of The Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
  27. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities By Michael Schellenberger+
  28. The End of The World Is Just The Beginning by Peter Zeihan*
  29. The Beauty And The Orcs by Finley Fenn
  30. The New Hire by Ellis O Day
  31. The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
  32. Midlife Bites by Jen Mann
  33. All That Is Wicked by Kate Winkler Dawson
  34. The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
  35. Invasion by Luke Harding
  36. Coming Undone: A Memoir by Terri White
  37. Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
  38. Lost In The Valley Of Death by Harley Rustad
  39. The Stolen Year by Anya Kamenetz
  40. Elsewhere by Dean Koontz*
  41. I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  42. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
  43. The Butcher and The Wren by Alaina Urquhart
  44. A Bend In The Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
  45. Intuitive Fasting by Will Cole
  46. The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
  47. Toxic Superfoods by Sally K Norton
  48. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
  49. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  50. A  Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  51. Sarah Plain And Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
  52. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J K Rowling
  53. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling
  54. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
  55. Wonder by R J Palacio
  56. Men In Bed by Barbara Keesling
  57. The Memory Of Animals by Claire Fuller
  58. The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
  59. World's Best Spicy Food by Lonely Planet
  60. Next Level by Stacy T Sims*
  61. The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng*
  62. Dune Shacks of Provincetown by Jane Paradise
  63. Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
  64. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake*
  65. The Born Again Runner by Pete Magill
  66. The Revivalists by Christopher M Hood
  67. Fast Like A Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz
  68. Heart To Heart by H.H. The Dalai Lama
  69. Haven by Emma Donoghue
  70. Slenderman by Kathleen Hale
  71. Meet Me In Another Life by Catriona Silvey
  72. The Hanging City by Charlie Holmberg
  73. Bakhita by Veronique Olmi*
  74. After Death by Dean Koontz
  75. The 12 Hour Walk by Colin O'Brady
  76. Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
  77. Viruses: A Natural History by Marilyn J. Roossinck
  78. Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
  79. The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
  80. Pandora's Gamble by Alison Young
  81. Haunted San Jose by Elizabeth Kile
  82. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz
  83. Cosmogenesis by Brian Thomas Swimme*
  84. The High Sierras: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson*
  85. The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
  86. The Immunity Solution by Leo Nissola
  87. The Source Field Investigations by David Wilcock
  88. Upgrade by Blake Crouch
  89. Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
  90. Becoming Free Indeed by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
  91. Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
  92. Always Hungry? by David Ludwig MD, PhD
  93. Plays Well With Others by Eric Barker
  94. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
  95. The Future by Naomi Alderman
  96. Fool Proof by Tess Wilkonson-Ryan

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Books Of 2022

 


I set a goal of 120 books on Goodreads, but I'll be happy to beat last year's 24 books. 

  1. Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
  2. War by Laura Thalassa
  3. Famine by Laura Thalassa
  4. Death by Laura Thalassa
  5. Cruel King by Rina Kent -
  6. Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins
  7. Ashes of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins
  8. Ruins of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins
  9. Born to Be Bound by Addison Cain
  10. Fighting Destiny by Amelia Hutchins-
  11. Born to Be Broken by Addison Cain
  12. Reborn by Addison Cain
  13. Stolen by Addison Cain
  14. Corrupted by Addison Cain
  15. Brutal Mate by Lee Savino
  16. Ruthless Surrender by Zoe Blake
  17. All These Pieces of Me by C. E. Kilgore
  18. Primal Possession by Tabitha Black
  19. The Mistwalker by Regine Abel
  20. Gild by Raven Kennedy
  21. Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
  22. The Queen of All That Dies by Laura Thalassa
  23. The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  24. Obey: Lesson One by Raven Jayne
  25. Tempt: Lesson Two by Raven Jayne
  26. Take: Lesson Three by Raven Jayne
  27. Submit: Lesson Four by Raven Jayne
  28. Offer: Lesson Five by Raven Jayne
  29. Play: Lesson Six by Raven Jayne
  30. Trust: Lesson Seven by Raven Jayne
  31. Break: Lesson Eight by Raven Jayne
  32. Master: Lesson Nine by Raven Jayne
  33. Choose: Lesson Ten by Raven Jayne
  34. Vanilla To Kinky: The Beginner's Guide To  BDSM and Kink by Jonathan Wolf
  35. Saints Of The Syndicate: The Syndicate #1 by Natalie Nicole
  36. A Psychological Approach To D/s Relationships by Alexander M. Basil
  37. Velocities by Kathe Koja
  38. This Love Hurts by Nikita
  39. Quicksilver by Dean Koontz
  40. BDSM: The Ultimate Handbook For The Dom And Sub: Training For The More Experienced Players by Richard Welps
  41. Reminders Of Him by Colleen Hoover
  42. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  43. Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas
  44. The Menopause Manifesto by Jennifer Gunter
  45. Cheat Sheets For Life by Ayesha Ratnayake
  46. A Ruin Of Roses by K F Breene
  47. How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  48. The Extinction Trials by A. G. Riddle
  49. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
  50. The Lady And The Orc by Finley Fenn
  51. The Heiress And The Orc by Finley Fenn
  52. The Mind Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
  53. Hell House by Richard Matheson
  54. I Hear You by Michael Sorensen
  55. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals The Secrets Of The Universe by Steven Strogatz
  56. The Librarian and The Orc by Finley Fenn
  57. The Duchess and The Orc by Finley Fenn
  58. The Midwife And The Orc by Finley Fenn
  59. Sex Positive Talks To Have With Kids by Melissa Pintor Carnagey
  60. The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality by Malcolm and Simone Collins
  61. The Maid And The Orcs by Finley Fenn
  62. The Mage's Match by Finley Fenn
  63. Cold City by Cathy McSporran
  64. Orc's Toy by Celeste King
  65. Sight by Nathan Sellers
  66. My Evil Mother: A Short Story by Margaret Atwood
  67. Crash by Drew Jordan
  68. Hide by Drew Jordan
  69. The Myths Of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
  70. Expose by Drew Jordan
  71. The Maid by Nita Prose
  72. Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami
  73. Beautifully Cruel by J T Geissinger
  74. The New Normal  by Jennifer Ashton
  75. Rescued By The Orc Chieftain by Celeste King
  76. What To Eat When You Want To Get Pregnant by Nicole Avena
  77. Her Soul To Take by Harley Laroux
  78. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
  79. Fox & I by Catherine Raven
  80. Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora
  81. Ritual Wellness CBD by Blair Lauren Brown
  82. You Can't F*ck Up Your Kids by Lindsay Powers
  83. Tempted: Slave Queen of The Underworld by Kay Allison
  84. Den of Monsters by Avery Song
  85. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  86. The One by John Marrs
  87. The Fifth Doll by Charlie Holmberg
  88. All Joy And No Fun by Jennifer Senior
  89. How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
  90. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
  91. Buttons And Lace by Penelope Sky
  92. The Book Of Longings by Sue Monk Kid
  93. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
  94. The Other Emily by Dean Koontz
  95. Jackpot by Michael Mechanic
  96. The Perishing by Natashia Deon
  97. The Little Book Of Hygge by Meik Wiking
  98. Artemis by Andy Weir
  99. Amateur Hour by Kimberly Harrington
  100. Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg
  101. Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
  102. Awake At 3am by Suzannah Neufeld
  103. Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
  104. My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura
  105. Cribsheet: A Data Driven Guide To Better, More Relaxed Parenting From Birth To Preschool by Emily Oster
  106. The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
  107. Trejo by Danny Trejo
  108. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey
  109. Legends Of The North Cascades by Jonathan Evison
  110. Humans by Brandon Stanton
  111. Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
  112. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
  113. Rabbits by Terry Miles
  114. The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller
  115. The Book Of Accidents by Check Wendig
  116. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
  117. The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell
  118. Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
  119. Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
  120. Viral: The Search For The Origin of COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley
  121. Taken By The Demon Lord by Ember Cross
  122. Owned By The Demon Lord by Ember Cross
  123. Pestilence by Laura Thalassa (reread)
  124. War by Laura Thalassa (reread)
  125. Famine by Laura Thalassa (reread)
  126. Death by Laura Thalassa (reread)
  127. You Feel It Just Below The Ribs by Janina Mattheson and Jeffrey Cranor
  128. A Soul To Keep by Opal Reyne
  129. Alpha's Moon by Rene Rose and Lee Savino 
  130. Does It Hurt by H.D. Carlton
  131. Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer
  132. Everything After by Jill Santopolo
  133. Eat Fat, Get Thin by Mark Hyman
  134. Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
  135. Brutal Claim by Lee Savino
  136. You'll Never Believe What Happened To Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
  137. Surviving The White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
  138. Rexor by Ella Maven
  139. It Could Happen Here by Jonathan Greenblatt
  140. Fridge Love by Kristen Hong
  141. Finding Their Omega by Mina Carter
  142. My Brutal Alpha by Jupiter Belle
  143. Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall
  144. Road of Bones by Christopher Golden
  145. Personal Effects: What Recovering The Dead Teaches Me About Caring For The Living by Robert A. Jensen
  146. Woke Racism by John McWhorter
  147. My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
  148. Master of Sin by Sienna Snow
  149. The Governess and the Orc by Finley Fenn
  150. The CIA Insider's Guide To Disappearing and Living Off the Grid by John Kiriakou
  151. The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy*

Monday, February 8, 2021

Books Of 2021



  1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  2. The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson 
  3. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami *
  4. The Visitors by Catherine Burns
  5. The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  6. Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
  7. You Cannot Die by Ian Currie *
  8. The Cipher by Kathe Koja
  9. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
  10. City Of Ash And Red by Hye-Young Pyun
  11. Extremities by Kathe Koja
  12. Weaveworld by Clive Barker*
  13. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
  14. Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
  15. Breath by James Nestor
  16. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
  17. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  18. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
  19. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
  20. Kiya: Hope Of The Pharoah by Katie Hamstead
  21. Kiya: Mother Of A King by Katie Hamstead
  22. Kiya: Rise Of A New Dynasty
  23. Recursion by Blake Crouch
  24. Bed Stuy by Jerry McGill
  25. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Friday, January 3, 2020

Books Of 2020



2019 beat 2018 by 3 books! (66 books in 2019!) Let's keep this going...


  1. The Girls by Emma Cline
  2. The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  3. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  4. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  5. The Dinner by Herman Koch
  6. Verity by Colleen Hoover
  7. The Ten Loves Of Mr. Nishimo by Kawakami Hiromi
  8. Delay Don't Deny by Gin Stephens
  9. The Obesity Code by Jason Fung
  10. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
  11. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
  12. Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson
  13. The Physics of God by Joseph Selbie *
  14. Black History In Its Own Words by Ronald Wimberly
  15. Defining Moments In Black History by Dick Gregory
  16. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  17. Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Books Of 2019

Well, 2018 was one of my best years for book reading yet! Let's see if I can keep up the trend and beat 2018's record!



  1. The Troop by Nick Cutter
  2. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
  3. The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn
  4. Peach by Emma Glass
  5. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  6. Elevation by Stephen King
  7. The Stranger In The Woods by Michael Finkel
  8. Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
  9. I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
  10. The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
  11. The Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
  12. Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  13. The Witch Elm by Tana French
  14. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  15. Bedfellow by Jeremy Shipp
  16. The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
  17. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  18. In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
  19. A Taste For Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
  20. Finding Freedom by Jarvis Jay Masters
  21. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
  22. The Death Of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Westaway
  23. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  24. The Atrocities by Jeremy Shipp
  25. The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay
  26. Ecstasy by Mary Sharrat
  27. We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
  28. My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
  29. The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Lieber
  30. Last Tango In Cyberspace by Steven Kotler
  31. The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang
  32. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
  33. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  34. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
  35. Moonwalking With Einstein by Josh Foer
  36. The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
  37. The Poppy War by R. R. Kuang
  38. Remind Me Again What Happened by Joanna Luloff
  39. The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
  40. Sadness, Love, Openness: The Buddhist Path of Joy by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
  41. The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick by Gene Stone
  42. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
  43. We Went To The Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach
  44. The Seven Or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
  45. In Another Time by Jillian Cantor
  46. The Complete Guide To Fasting by Dr. Jason Fung
  47. Perfecting Patience by H.H. The Dalai Lama
  48. Brain Maker by David Perlmutter
  49. Grain Brain by David Perlmutter
  50. Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements by Thomas Yuschak
  51. The Rending and The Nest by Kaethe Schwehn
  52. Periodic Fasting by Cristian Vlad Zot
  53. Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
  54. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
  55. I'm Just Happy To Be Here by Janelle Hantchett
  56. Quantum Consciousness by Peter Smith
  57. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
  58. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
  59. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Marukami
  60. Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
  61. A Kingdom Of Dreams by Judith McNaught
  62. The Elephant In The Room by Tommy Tomlinson
  63. Love Poems For Married People by John Kenney
  64. Anyone by Charles Soule
  65. The Little Blue Kite by Mark Z. Danielewski
  66. The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Books Of 2018


  1. Netherspace by Andy Lane and Nigel Foster
  2. Nest by Terry Goodkind
  3. Leonard by William Shatner
  4. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
  5. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
  6. Ramses The Damned: The Passion Of Cleopatra by Anne Rice and Christopher Rice
  7. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  8. Oh Crap, Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki
  9. Never Get Angry Again by David J. Lieberman
  10. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
  11. Icefall by John All
  12. Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy Kress
  13. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
  14. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
  15. The End Times: New Information For Personal Peace (Kryon #1) by Lee Carroll
  16. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch*
  17. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
  18. We Are Water by Wally Lamb
  19. The Bear by Claire Cameron
  20. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt*
  21. Rethinking School by Susan Wise Bauer
  22. Homeschooling FAQs: 101 Questions Every Homeschooling Parent Should Ask by Tamra Orr
  23. An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
  24. Love and Death In The Sunshine State by Cutter Wood
  25. Some Hell by Patrick Nathan
  26. The Outsider by Stephen King
  27. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
  28. Surviving Death: Evidence Of The Afterlife by Leslie Kean
  29. The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
  30. Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House by Michael Wolff
  31. Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
  32. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
  33. Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
  34. The Book of M by Peng Shepard
  35. And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman
  36. Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit Of Zen by Shunryu Suzuki
  37. The Substitute by Nicole Lundrigan 
  38. The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch
  39. All The Ugly And Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood
  40. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
  41. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
  42. The Blind by A.F. Brady
  43. Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda
  44. Lie To Me by J.T. Ellison
  45. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
  46. The Passage by Justin Cronin
  47. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
  48. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  49. I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
  50. My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry
  51. I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
  52. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
  53. Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris
  54. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  55. The Vegetarian by Han King
  56. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
  57. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
  58. A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
  59. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret and My Search For The Real Me by Paul Fronczak
  60. More Than This by Patrick Ness
  61. Find Me Gone by Sarah Meuleman
  62. Waiting For Eden by Elliot Ackerman
  63. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Books Of 2017




  1. What's Going On In There: How The Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years Of Life by Lise Eliot Ph.D.
  2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  3. Undress Me In The Temple Of Heaven by Susan Gilman
  4. Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
  5. The Beauty Of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
  6. The Wonder by Emma  Donaghue
  7. The Gloaming by Melanie Finn 
  8. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 
  9. The Happiest Toddler On The Block by Harvey Karp 
  10. The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho 
  11. The Attachment Connection by Ruth Newton
  12. The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille 
  13. Papillon by Henri Charriere *
  14. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskins
  15. Don't Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon
  16. The Wanderers by Meg Howry 
  17. I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb 
  18. Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo 
  19. On Living by Kerry Egan 
  20. The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood *
  21. All Our Wrong Tomorrows by Elan Mastai 
  22. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  23. The Shadow Of What Was Lost by James Islington
  24. The Other Me by Saskia Sarginson
  25. The Delight of Being Ordinary by Roland Merullo
  26. Teaching Montessori In the Home: The Preschool Years by Elizabeth Hainstock
  27. The Tourist by Robert Dickinson
  28. Beartown by Fredrik Backman
  29. The Heart Of Henry Quantum by Pepper Harding
  30. Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History by Karen Blumenthal
  31. The Removers by Andrew Meredith
  32. 10% Human by Alanna Collen
  33. The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas *
  34. Halls Of Law by V. M. Escalada
  35. Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
  36. I Will Find You by Joanna Connors
  37. The Case For Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman
  38. Master Professor by Tara Sue Me
  39. The Spontaneous Fulfillment Of Desire by Deepak Chopra

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Books of 2016



  1. "And The Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini *
  2. "Main Street Vegan" by Victoria Moran
  3. "Cows" by Matthew Stokoe
  4. "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell
  5. "One And Only: The Freedom of Having An Only Child" by Lauren Sandler
  6. "The Sound Of Glass" by Karen White
  7. "Adultery" by Paulo Coelho
  8. "Where Or When" by Anita Shreve
  9. "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts *
  10. "Sweetness In The Belly" by Camilla Gibbs
  11. "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  12. "Alice" by Christina Henry
  13. "My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman *
  14. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
  15. "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane" by Neil Gaiman
  16. "The Light Between Oceans" by M. L. Stedman
  17. "May We Be Forgiven" by A.M. Homes
  18. "The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster
  19. "Spook" by Mary Roach
  20. "The Husband's Secret" by Liane Moriarty
  21. "Method 15/33" by Shannon Kirk
  22. "They Left Us Everything" by Plum Johnson
  23. "Adeline" by Norah Vincent
  24. "Looking For Alaska" by John Green
  25. "Wool" by Hugh Howey
  26. "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman

Monday, March 9, 2015

Books Of 2015


  1. "Mindful Birthing" by Nancy Bardacke
  2. "City Of Veils" by Zoe Ferraris
  3. "Miss New India" by Bharati Mukherjee
  4. "One Amazing Thing" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  5. "Rooftops of Tehran" by Mahbod Seraji*
  6. "The Cuban Missile Crisis" by Charles River Editors

Friday, July 11, 2014

hellogoodbye


because I had to do something
(my little love)
 I am writing this for you

a memory
of an ephemeral spark
too subtle to remain

you are loved 
(my little love)
forever 

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Books Of 2014

 
In 2013 I managed to read 26 books, which was 2 less than in 2012. It was definitely a very busy year with our wedding (June 3rd 2013), out of town house guests, my brother's wedding (September 1st 2013, even though we only attended through Skype) and our 3 week long honeymoon. This SHOULD be a quieter year, so here's hoping I can at least hit 50 books for 2014.

  1. "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
  2. "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
  3. "Still Life With Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins
  4. "Born To Run" by Christopher McDougall
  5. "The Mango Season" by Amulya Malladi
  6. "Serving Crazy With Curry" by Amulya Malladi
  7. "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
  8. "The Eye Of The World" by Robert Jordan
  9. "The Great Hunt" by Robert Jordan
  10. "The Dragon Reborn" by Robert Jordan
  11. "The Shadow Rising" by Robert Jordan
  12. "The Fires Of Heaven" by Robert Jordan
  13. "Brida" by Paulo Coelho
  14. "The State Of Me" by Nasim Marie Jafry
  15. "Handpicked" by Siew Siang Tay
  16. "How They Were Found" by Matt Bell
  17. "Looking For Salvation At The Dairy Queen" by Susan Gregg Gilmore
  18. "Apathy And Other Small Victories" by Paul Neilan
  19. "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Amy Tan
  20. "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin
  21. "The Glass Demon" by Helen Grant
  22. "Glamorama" by Bret Easton Ellis
  23. "Breastfeeding Made Simple" by Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
  24. "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousefzai *
  25. "A Brief History of Everything" by Ken Wilbur *
  26. "I Am Not Spock" by Leonard Nimoy

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

La Vita Nuova

"In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life."

- Dante Alighieri



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Books Of 2013


Only 28 books read last year, but it was a busy year with 2 moves, getting engaged, a trip to Hawaii and all the other things. Here's hoping I can hit at least 60 this year!
  1. "50 Shades Of Grey" by E. L. James
  2. "50 Shades Darker" by E. L. James
  3. "50 Shades Freed" by E. L. James
  4. "The Seat Of The Soul" by Gary Zukav
  5. "Beyond The Quantum" by Michael Talbot
  6. "Essence Of The Heart Sutra" by The Dalai Lama
  7. "Memoirs Of A Geisha" by Arthur Golden
  8. "To Die For" by Sandra Byrd
  9. "Breath By Breath" by Larry Rosenberg
  10. "The World We Found" by Thrity Umrigar
  11. "Fidelity" by Thich Nhat Hanh
  12. "Blink of an Eye" by Ted Dekker *
  13. "Bonk" by Mary Roach
  14. "The Land Of Decoration" by GraceMcCleen
  15. "The Shack" by Wm. Paul Young *
  16. "Beyond Madison Avenue" by  Denice Fernandez (62 pages, but it counts!!)
  17. "Mutant Message Down Under" by Marlo Morgan
  18. "Have A Little Faith" by Mitch Albom
  19. "Threats" by Amelia Gray
  20. "Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life" by Karen Armstrong
  21. "Tiger Hills" by Sarita Mandanna
  22. "The Consumerist Manifesto" by Charles J. Seldan
  23. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  24. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
  25. "City of Bones" by Michael Connelly
  26. "The Gun Seller" by Hugh Laurie

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

11 Years Of Reading!

2002 - 39 books
2003 - 17 books
2004 - 47 books
2005 - 13 books
2006 - 53 books
2007 - 51 books
2008 - 44 books
2009 - 29 books
2010 - 88 books
2011 - 55 books
2012 - 28 books

464 books read in 11 years. Not too bad.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Books of 2012

55 books last year. But one of them was over 1000 pages! This year's goal will still be 60.

  1. "Four Past Midni'ght" by Stephen King
  2. "Open To Desire" by Mark Epstein
  3. "Power Talking" by George R. Walther
  4. "Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho
  5. "The Seer Of Egypt" by Pauline Gedge
  6. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
  7. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
  8. "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
  9. "Mockingjay"  by Suzanne Collins
  10. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith
  11. "Your Brain: The Missing Manual" by Matthew MacDonald
  12. "Tomorrow's God" by Neale Donald Walsch *
  13. "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King *
  14. "Transition" by Iain M. Banks
  15. "The Innkeeper" by John Piper
  16. "Limitless Mind" by Russell Targ
  17. "Precision Nirvana" by Dean H. Shapiro
  18. "Sudden Awakening" by Eli Jaxon-Bear
  19. "Gardens of Water" by Alan Drew
  20. "This Book Will Save Your Life" by A. M. Homes
  21. "Life Expectancy" by Dean Koontz
  22. "The Sound And The Fury" by William Faulkner
  23. "Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis
  24. "The Taking" by Dean Koontz
  25. "The Intimates" by Ralph Sassone
  26. "Island Beneath The Sea" by Isabel Allende
  27. "2013! The Beginning Is Here" ed. by Jim Young
  28. "Zen Physics" by David Darling *

Saturday, January 7, 2012

2011 In Review

  • Laguna Clara
  • Santa Clara
  • San Jose
  • West Park
  • Max
  • Crystal
  • Quitting smoking
  • The Ji's
  • BS at the Denver airport and in the plane
  • San Francisco, Niagara Falls, The Rockies, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, State College, Santa Cruz, Pebble Beach
  • Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
  • My mom and Rollie
  • Janice
  • Napa, American Canyon, Calistoga
  • Wine tasting in a castle 
  • Old Faithful geyser
  • Petrified Forest
  • Kindle for my birthday
  • Little angel Sara Jane
  • cops
  • Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Reno
  • Chris and Robi
  • Yosemite National Park
  • Hiking
  • Sore feet
  • Camelbaks
  • My Dad
  • San Francisco, Santa Cruz
  • Sam
  • San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego
  • Reno for Christmas
  • Kindle for P for xmas
  • New year's eve at home

Friday, January 14, 2011

The Reality Of The Forgotten

Some days it is better to not go back into that past in your head. It's better not to reminisce or go over the material things and words from before.

You only end up remembering things you wish you hadn't.

The reality of the forgotten is a much much better place.

"Remembering is only a new form of suffering."
Charles Baudelaire  

Monday, January 10, 2011

What I Want Out Of Life



In order for one to get or have what one wants, first one must actually know what one wants. So I will here delineate what I truly want from this life.
  • to be happy
  • to be more involved in Buddhism
  • to be a better person
  • to be truly loved by my partner
  • to be healthy
  • to quit smoking
  • to travel the world
  • my son to be happy and successful
  • to have more knowledge
  • to make my partner happy in the ways that I am able
  • for my partner to find something he can make money at so he doesn't have to work so hard or so often, freeing his time so he can pursue the interests and desires of his heart
  • to realize my purpose
  • to connect with my partner on a spiritual level
  • to find the core of peace within myself
  • to truly forgive those I haven't
  • to find joy in writing again

Monday, January 3, 2011

Books of 2011


I far surpassed my goal of 60 books last year (I read 88 books!!). This year I will keep my goal of 60 (while keeping my sights at 89) and see what happens.
  1. "The Grapes Of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
  2. "The Twice Born" by Pauline Gedge *
  3. "The Walk" by Richard Paul Evans *
  4. "The Unnamed" by Joshua Ferris
  5. "The Right Decision" by James Stein (what a stupid book)
  6. "The Case Of The Midwife Toad" by Arthur Koestler
  7. "The Unheard Cry For Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
  8. "The Great Wall Of China and Other Short Works" by Franz Kafka
  9. "Empress" by Shan Sa
  10. "Turtle Moon" by Alice Hoffman
  11. "The Eyes Of The Dragon" by Stephen King (read also sometime in the 80's) *
  12. "Illusions" by Richard Bach
  13. "Sacrament" by Clive Barker *
  14. "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
  15. "Teach Yourself Postmodernism" by Glenn Ward
  16. "Transcendental Meditation" by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (discusses benefits but not enough about technique)
  17. "Breathless" by Dean Koontz *
  18. "Some Girls" by Jillian Lauren
  19. "Music For Torching" by A. M. Homes
  20. "For You Mom, Finally" by Ruth Reichel
  21. "2 States: The Story Of My Marriage" by Chetan Bhagat
  22. "Love In A Headscarf" by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed *
  23. "Dexter Is Delicious" by Jeff Lindsay
  24. "The Measure Of Madness" by Cheryl Paradis
  25. "What is God?" by Jacob Needleman *
  26. "The Genius In All Of Us" by David Shenk
  27. "Escape From The Land Of Snows" by Stephan Talty
  28. "The Path To Love" by Deepak Chopra
  29. "The Cross Gardener" by Jason F. Wright *
  30. "Room" by Emma Donoghue *
  31. "A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard
  32. "Sold" by Patricia McCormick
  33. "Burned Alive" by Souad
  34. "I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced" by Nujood Ali
  35. "Medium Raw" by Anthony Bourdain
  36. "Look For Me" by Edeet Ravel
  37. "S'Mother" by Adam Chester
  38. "F My Life" by Maxime Valette
  39. "Before I Go To Sleep" by S. J. Watson
  40. "The Crowning Glory Of Calla Lily Ponder" by Rebecca Wells
  41. "The Husband" by Dean Koontz
  42. "By The Light Of The Moon" by Dean Koontz **
  43. "Relentless" by Dean Koontz
  44. "What The Night Knows" by Dean Koontz
  45. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
  46. "Every Time We Say Goodbye" by Jamie Zeppa
  47. "Teachings Of The Heart" by Tae Heng Se Nim
  48. "Healing Anger" by The Dalai Lama
  49. "It's Easier Than You Think" by Sylvia Boorstein
  50. "The Geography Of Thought" by Richard E. Nisbett
  51. "What The Buddha Taught" by Walpola Rahula
  52. "The Passion Test" by Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
  53. "The Voice Of The Night" by Dean Koontz
  54. "Under The Dome" by Stephen King (1074 pages!)
  55. "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz