I've read many books that are ho-hum and I've decided life is too short. So my new rule is to only read something recommended by someone else. I also want to start keeping track of the books I've read. I'd love to have a widget on the side of my blog that I could use to keep track. Does anyone know of one?
So far in 2008 I've read
1. The Everything Guide to Raising a One-year-old: From Personality And Behavior to Nutrition And Health--a Complete Handbook by BrianOrr & Donna Raskin -given to me by my MIL
2. Love Walked In by Marissa De Los Santos- sent to me by Merritt
3. A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans- found on my MIL's bookshelf
In the middle of:
1. Getting Things Done by David Allen- recommended by PF blogger The Simple Dollar
2. Cracking the Communication Code by Emerson Eggerichs- recommended by a lady at MOPS
On my bedside table
1. From One Child to Two by Judy Dunn-sent to me by my insurance company
2. Atlas Shrugged- recommended by ???
I have an excel spreadsheet (I am married to Jonathan) listing books that have been recommended to me by people. I keep it and then when I'm finishing my books, I look up books on my library's website and have them sent to my local library where I go pick them up. I *heart* my library!
If you have any recommendations of great books to read, I'll add them to my list.
2. Love Walked In by Marissa De Los Santos- sent to me by Merritt
3. A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans- found on my MIL's bookshelf
In the middle of:
1. Getting Things Done by David Allen- recommended by PF blogger The Simple Dollar
2. Cracking the Communication Code by Emerson Eggerichs- recommended by a lady at MOPS
On my bedside table
1. From One Child to Two by Judy Dunn-sent to me by my insurance company
2. Atlas Shrugged- recommended by ???
I have an excel spreadsheet (I am married to Jonathan) listing books that have been recommended to me by people. I keep it and then when I'm finishing my books, I look up books on my library's website and have them sent to my local library where I go pick them up. I *heart* my library!
If you have any recommendations of great books to read, I'll add them to my list.
10 comments:
+ Memoirs of a Geisha - really cool book! I saw the movie and wasn't that impressed, but the book is really cool and you really get an insight into Japanese culture.
+ Safely Home - Randy Alcorn - Really cool book!
+ Kite Runner
+ A Thousand Splendid Suns - Written by the same author as Kite Runner - Danette liked it better, but I liked kite runner better... but it's good :)
Do you like military/action books? If so, then I'll write you a couple more suggestions... but if you don't then I won't waste my time :) haha!
I've read some pretty boring books lately (pickings are slim on the Edge house shelf) :) I'll let you konw when I read a good one though!
Wow, you are a bookworm. I just can't do that. I really don't remember the last time I read a whole book...probably when I was pregnant with T$.
If you find out you're having a boy, then I've heard Bringing Up Boys is a must. I plan to read it...better get started now!
I can recommend a few good media guides for you to read - and an accounting textbook.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - did you read that?
I read Memoirs of a Geisha tooa nd was fascinated....but the movie coudn't keep me interested either!! I am with Danette- I liked A Thousand Splendid Suns better. Kite Runner is coming out as a movie this year- I wonder how it will adapt.
I will add Safely Home and i do like military/action books so recommend! Were you the one who got me into Ted Dekker? I still haven't read his trilogy.
One month from now we can find out if I need to read Bringing Up Boys!!!
I think I've started How to Win Friends a couple times but I don't think I've ever finished it.
There is a trilogy of religious fiction books that were so fun - about 3 young best friends (BFFs as you would say!) and how their lives change after college. The first one is called "She's All That" - and the collection is called "The Spa Girls". The second one is "A Girl's Best Friend" and the last one is "Calm, Cool, and Adjusted". They are hilarious and super fun! Put them at the top of your list! :)
Well, I've read a lot of David Baldacci lately - he writes good military action books ;)
"Last Man Standing" is good and right now I'm reading "The Camel Club" and it's really good too :)
Yeah, I"m a Ted Dekker fan :) I think the trilogy is kinda weird - but definitely interesting... have you read his book "Obessed"? That oneis quite interesting... He wrote a book with Frank Peretti and it's not very good - I definitely don't recommend it...
you should also implement a rule that if you try to read something and you don't like it after 50 pages, STOP. You can always come back to it later if it's a classic that you really do want to read (like Moby Dick or something), but I've discovered that there's no better way to keep you from reading than to be in the middle of a book you're not into. Even if someone else recommended it.
I should do the spreadsheet thing. The pad in my purse with things to read is out of control.
Let me know if you find a book list thing. I'd like to do that, too... I am going to work on that today, actually.
I read Bringing Up Boys and rolled my eyes through lots of it, to be honest - some parts are really good, but overall the advice is somewhat inconsistent. I'm all for embracing what makes a son a son, though - so try it out if you have it or can get it from the library or something.
Erin- got it. Thanks for the recommendation! I wonder if my library will have those?
SAR- I think I borrowed a David Baldacci book from Linda P- you might want to see if they have any good books you can read. They may have given them all away or left them in Cali though. I'd send you good books but I'm too cheap- not to send them I'd pay for that- I'm too cheap to buy them. I just get them at the library but then I have to give them back.
Erin G- I heard if you are under 50, give a book 50 pages. If you are over 50, subtract a page for every year above 50. So if you are 75, you only give a book 25 pages. I thought it was because as you get older you have less time so you don't want to waste it on a mediocre book but evidently its because as you mature as a reader, you get a better idea of what you like and dislike. I don't have a problem putting down a fiction book that hasn't grabbed me but I still haven't learned that with nonfiction.
Kellie, I subscribe to the Daily Dose at Powell's website. Also, the staff picks are great. You can get a list of the 100 best books of the year on the New York Times website.
You can try! I've seen them lots of places lately. You should read Wild at Heart by John Eldridge too, especially if Grant turns out to really be a Grant.
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