Books I've Read
The Books (since late October 2005)
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell, by John Crawford. 8.5/10.0
Spanking The Donkey, by Matt Taibbi 7.0/10.0
Little Children by Tom Perotta. 9.0/10.0
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon. 7.0/10.0
The Business by Iain Banks. 5.5/10.0
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. 8.5/10.0
The Patriots Club by Christopher Reich. 5.5/10.0
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman. 6.5/10.0
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. 8.5/10.0
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. 9.0/10.0
Fatherland by Robert Harris. 7.0/10.0
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle. 5.0/10.0
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller. 6.0/10.0
The Best American Sports Writing 2005 by Mike Lupica (guest editor). 7.0/10.0
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. 8.0/10.0
Look At Me, by Jennifer Egan. Rating: 8.0/10.0
I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, by Margaret Cho. Rating: 5.0/10.0
The Los Angeles Diaries, by James Brown. Rating: 7.5/10.0
Who's Your Caddy? by Rick Reilly. Rating: 7.5/10.0
Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami. Rating: 9.5/10.0
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller. Rating: Did Not Finish.
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, by Josh Braff. Rating: 6.5/10.0
The Devil In The White City, by Erik Larson. Rating: 7.5/10.0
Lucky Girls, by Nell Freudenberger. Rating: Did Not Finish
Love Monkey, by Kyle Smith. Rating: 7.0/10.0
The Fruit Of Stone, by Mark Spragg. Rating: 8.0/10.0
The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl. Rating: 8.0/10.0
Crashing the Gate, by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Jerome Armstrong. Rating: 7.0/10.0
Three Junes, by Julia Glass. Rating: 8.5/10.0
Freedomland, by Richard Price. Rating: 7.0/10.0
Fraud: Essays, by David Rakoff. Rating: Did Not Finish
Lost Lake, by Phillip Margolin. Rating: 5.0/10.0
House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Rating: 8.0/10.0
The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connolly. Rating: 7.0/10.0
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Rating: 8.5/10.0
Fantasyland, by Sam Walker. Rating: 8.5/10.0
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion. Rating: 7.5/10.0
What's This Page All About?
Because I'm a geek, I keep a list of the books I've read. And because I'm an uber-geek, I actually put this into Excel. (I know.) The goal is to document what books I've read, I suppose, so that I don't re-read books, and also to potentially look back and reflect about those books at some hypothetical point in the future.
But, given that I'm now writing here fairly regularly, it made sense to incorporate small reviews into this journal/blog/whatever, and see how that works. This page should reside on the right side of the page as a permanent link...and below will be links to the various books I read along the way. If, you know, I'm not as lazy as history suggests I am.
