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[wasabi_poptart]

In the past ten years, you could probably count the total number of books I managed to read on the fingers of one hand, but lately it seems I've finally gotten over any residual trauma of grad school (I had to read a book a night for two and half years--NO LIE) and resumed reading again for pleasure, just like I did before it became my job.

So far this year I've read:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Fool
The Professor and the Madman
The Graveyard Book

Four books doesn't seem like a lot (one of them being a kid's book, even), but it's an average of one a month.

I also got about halfway through Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, but I think maybe it will mean more to me after I've been and I will know first-hand what he's talking about.

Next up: A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson, which was recommended by my neurologist ... I figure a brain doctor, of all people, would know a good book when he read it.

Comments

[kazoogrrl.livejournal.com]

Bryson's A Walk in the Woods was awesome too, I was alternately laughing my ass off and seriously sad during it. Right now I'm reading The Geography of Bliss and really enjoying it.

[sarahmarvelous.livejournal.com]

That's nothing to sneeze at, considering how thick the first book is! Did you like the Professor & the Madman? I used to shelve the language & grammar section at Borders and was always intrigued by it, but never picked it up.

[lapinetrose.livejournal.com]

Any hearty recommendations? I need a few good books.

[pot-t-mouth.livejournal.com]

Especially a sexy brain doctor!
I like Bill Bryson. Don't listen to him on tape though, he sounds disturbingly like Malkovitch.

[sgda.livejournal.com]

LOVED A Short History of Nearly Everything. It makes you feel so smart.

[hannahchan.livejournal.com]

Did you like The Professor and the Madman? I read "The Meaning of Everything," so it seems sort of weird to read his other one on essentially the same subject. Still, I've heard it's good.