Booklist 2011-
This is the list of books I’m reading or have read.
- 13 May 2012: Laughing Man, T.M. Wright.
- 11 May 2012: Strange Seed, T. M. Wright.
- 6 May 2012: The Scarlet Plague, Jack London.
- 2 May 2012: The Nephew, James Purdy.
- 24 Apr 2012: Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, Meghan Daum.
- 1 Apr 2012: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins.
- 26 Mar 2012: 1001, Jason Grote.
- 13 Mar 2012: The Chicagoan 1.
- 3 Feb 2012: Simon: The Genius in my Basement, Alexander Masters.
- 28 Jan 2012: Malcolm, James Purdy.
- 22 Jan 2012: In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman, William J. Cook.
- 18 Jan 2012: Freedom, Jonathan Franzen.
- 24 Dec 2011: High Low In-Between, Imraan Coovadia.
- 18 Dec 2011: Color of Darkness, James Purdy.
- 21 Nov 2011: The Big Short, Michael Lewis.
- 22 Sep 2011: The Chairs Are Where The People Go, Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti.
- 10 Sep 2011: Zone One, Colson Whitehead.
- 20 Aug 2011: The Magician King, Lev Grossman.
- 31 Jul 2011: Girls to the Front, Sara Marcus.
- 18 Jul 2011: The Uses of Enchantment, Heidi Julavits.
- 19 June 2011: A Well-Paid Slave, Brad Snyder.
- 8 June 2011: The Invisible Line, Daniel Sharfstein.
- 7 May 2011: Live At The Apollo, Douglas Wolk.
- 6 May 2011: Indecision, Benjamin Kunkel.
- 5 Apr 2011: China Welcomes You, Tom Scocca.
- 19 Mar 2011: Ignatz, Monica Youn.
- 14 Feb 2011:101 Things I Learned in Fashion School, Alfredo Cabrera.
- 3 Feb 2011: Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.
- 19 Jan 2011: The Bedwetter, Sarah Silverman.
- 10 Jan 2011: Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh.
- 5 Jan 2011: Mad Travelers, Ian Hacking.
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How did you find Bedwetter ? I heard about the book but couldn’t bring myself to buy it, there doesn’t seem to be anything remotely interesting about her childhood other than she was a bedwetter and suffered from depression.
By the way do you read any Malcolm Gladwell books ? I’d be interested to know your opinion on his books, especially ‘Outliers’.
About 90th percentile funniness in the “books by standup comics” genre. I got it from the library. Re Gladwell: big fan of “Tipping Point,” which I think has a lot of subsurface math in it, have not read his other books but have liked many of his NYer articles.
How did you like Pattern Recognition? I quite enjoyed it, but I must say I preferred his subsequent book, Spook Country. Have you tried that one out for size?
Not bad. I felt he set up a big mystery which seemed like it would be hard to resolve in a satisfying way, then resolved it in an only partially satisfying way.
How on earth did you find “China Welcomes You” ? Even Amazon doesn’t have it in stock yet.
Friends with the author!
You appear to have entered a time loop! Maybe I’ll try reading Freedom and see if the same thing happens to me…
Fixed, you silly person.