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[sageandsea]

I'm thinking 50 books won't happen this year either, but I heard on the radio today that 1 in 4 people haven't read a SINGLE BOOK in the last year. I'm doing a little better than that.


1. Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden
2. The Folk Keeper; Franny Billingsley
3. Harry Potter 5; JK Rowling
4. Everything You Pretend to Know ... But Are Afraid Someone Will Ask; Lynette Padwa
5. Take a Thief; Mercedes Lackey
6. Trapp Family Singers; Maria Augusta Trapp
7. A Child's Garden of Grass; Dick and Jack
8. Death's Acre; Dr. Bill Bass and John Jefferson
9. A Little House Sampler; Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
10. Sell With Soul; Jennifer Allen
11. Stiff: A Curious History of Human Cadavers; Mary Roach
12. HP4
13. HP5
14. Dragonflight
15. Dragonquest
16. The White Dragon
17 & 18. HP7.
19. Stardust; Neil Gaiman.


20. The Hot Zone; Richard Preston

Scary. Now I know where Stephen King got the idea for Captain Trips, baby. Ebola flu, doesn't that sound fun? And it's already been here once!

21. Typhoid Mary; Anthony Bourdain

The really cool thing about this short and sweet little story is that I can hear AB talking.

22. Mapping the World of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Exploration of the Bestselling Fantasy Series of All Time; Mercedes Lackey, editor

Two of the essays delved so far into fanfiction rather than critical review that I didn't bother to read them, but the rest were actually interesting.

Comments

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

how was Stiff? Was thinking about picking that up...

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

It was pretty good. It starts out "The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken..."
and that first chapter was hysterical to me, because I've been on the ordering side of things like this (thankfully not human heads, but I know where you can get eyeballs and any number of non-human cadavers). The rest of the book was interesting, but by the end her little asides got annoying rather than funny.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

I heard on the radio today that 1 in 4 people haven't read a SINGLE BOOK in the last year.

That makes me want to cry.

I'm almost done with Public Radio: Behind the Voices if you'd like my copy once I'm done. It's been a fun read but doesn't hold much rereading value for me.

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! It's tempting, but I have SO many other books on my pile - go ahead and release it into the wild.

[cheekyassmonkey.livejournal.com]

i heard that on the radio this morning, too. very sad.

ebola is so awesome. i haven't read 'hot zone' yet, but i do have a decent collection of books on infectious disease. i love that stuff :)

i think i am the only person that truly can't stomach anthony bourdain. saw a piece on nova last night about typhoid mary, and he was one of the interviewees (and i wondered why) ... he seems to be extremely sympathetic to her, and critical of the public health system. she was a threat to public health if she cooked, which she refused to stop doing, and though treatments and cures were right around the corner, i think the public health system was justifiably alarmed (though they were certainly lacking in any compassion).

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I had known that was going to be on, I definitely would have watched it! AB is sympathetic to her, although he does say that what she did was undefendable.

I'm not going to re-read Hot Zone, and it's falling apart, but you're welcome to have it if you want just a reading copy.

[cheekyassmonkey.livejournal.com]

thanks, but i know i'll need my own copy. they are books i keep forever ;)

the book i was trying to think of earlier was "the coming plague" by laurie garrett. quite a tome, but full of great info. if you're interested in reading more in the vein of epidemiology, you're welcome to check out my books :)

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) The Coming Plague is one I'll probably have to add to the list!