"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"--Groucho Marx
"A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us."--Franz Kafka
"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a
whole new life." --Christopher Morley
Here's What I've Been Reading--
Summer 2010:
&Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
&Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
&The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
&Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill
&The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner
&Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol
&Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
Spring semester 2010:
&The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
&The Help by Kathryn Stockett
&Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
&The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
&The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
&Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
&The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
&Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
&Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramego
&Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (re-read this)
&Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
&Home Boy by H. M. Naqvi
Fall semester 2009:
&The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
&Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
&It Must've Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten
Summer 2009:
&Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
&Lowboy by John Wray
&The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
&Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
&Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout