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2009 in Books

Submitted by alycia on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 21:06

Made a few upgrades to the site (with help) today, one of which was a space on the side here to record what I'm reading. I'm hoping to make this a daily update; it's one of my goals along with other resolutions of 2010 pertaining to schedules, productivity and health/happiness. You can read all of the reading-related posts now at: http://alycia.brokenja.ws/readinglog

To kick off the new module, here's what I read in 2009. 34 books. Helped along greatly by a longer commute. Recommended reads are starred.

Next Wave Cultures/ed. Anita Harris
What It Is/Lynda Barry
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Audio Book)/David Sedaris
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design/Faith Lavine
**You Can't Win/Jack Black
Clutch/Invincible Summer split #11
Zine Yearbook #9
The Crossing/Cormac McCarthy
The Red Leather Diary/Lilly Koppel
Aya/Marguerite Abouet
Jamilti & Other Stories/Rutu Modan
Aya of Yop City/Marguerite Abouet
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name/Audre Lorde
Dogs and Water/Anders Nilsen
Funeral of the Heart/Leah Hayes
Cities of the Plain/Cormac McCarthy
Xtra Tuf/Moe Bowstern
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?/Lorrie Moore
The Quitter/Harvey Pekar
As the World Burns/Derrick Jensen
Anger/Thich Naht Hahn
Island of the Blue Dolphins/Scott O'Dell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle/Barbara Kinsolver
Everything is Illuminated/Jonathan Safran Foer
Birds of America/Lorrie Moore
The Death and Life of Great American Cities/Jane Jacobs (finally finished this!)
*How to be Idle/Tom Hodgkinson
*Teaching to Transgress/bell hooks
Bel Canto/Ann Patchett
Her Fearful Symmetry/Audrey Niffenegger
The Freedom Manifesto/Tom Hodgkinson
How to Write a Lot/Paul Silvia
All About Love/bell hooks
*Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women/Victoria Law
*Unbought and Unbossed/Shirley Chisholm

Here's hoping that 2010 is full of satisfying, awakening and enlightening reads!

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Daily Reading Log

February 3, 2012

  • More Murakami, still in small bits.

February 2, 2012

  • After seeing someone reading the new Murakami on a train platform yesterday (and seeing that they were further along than I am--after a month of reading and not reading it), I lugged it along on my commute.

February 1, 2012

  • Started LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, traveling from work to school.

January 30, 2012

  • "Pictures will be graded on sincerity and evidence of time spent using up your crayons." (If only all art teachers were this straightforward.)
  • More of The Marriage Plot. Probably will finish it today and look into more Eugenides.

January 29, 2012

  • The Marriage Plot. Sympathizing with Leonard perhaps too much, from multiple perspectives.

January 28, 2012

  • More of The Marriage Plot

January 27, 2012

  • The Marriage Plot

January 26, 2012

  • Started The Marriage Plot, and am really, almost guiltily enjoying it.
  • Watched this crazy PBS show where they dissect a sperm whale because of just finishing Moby Dick. Although probably not as gory as a whale ship, it's really the real thing--watch out!
  • Realized that Moby Dick is the original Animals Being Dicks:*


*Or maybe that should be Animals being (Moby) Dicks?... Now somebody's gotta make a GIF...

January 25, 2012

  • Finished Moby Dick. Wow.

January 24, 2012

  • Articles and passages for a bibliography
  • Just a bit more of 1Q84

January 23, 2012

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, through many there be who have tried it."*

(you couldn't tell our tale on a flea either--working on chapter XVIII)

January 22, 2011

  • More Melville.

January 21, 2012

  • Moby Dick on the train. Pulling out the tome made a fellow train traveler jump at the chance to discuss the book (he thought that the first and last 100 pages were amazing, but didn't like the parts in between, and wished me luck with getting through the rest of it. I'm in the 600's and not worried about finishing it, but I am wondering when that damn white whale will show up).
  • "Street Books: Anatomy of a Street Library" zine. Totally amazing! Check out Street Books!
  • This is Why I'll Never be an Adult

January 19-20, 2012

  • A tiny bit of Moby Dick, but stress city.

January 18, 2012

Official reaching-the-limits day. Read things, can't remember what.

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