Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Books I read and mentioned here in 2006

January
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (for about the 6th time)
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom
Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
Thief of Happiness by Bonnie Friedman
Rising Tide by John Barry

February
33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
PS, I love you by Cynthia Ahern
Chasing Daylight (How my forthcoming Death transformed My Life) by Eugene O'Kelly


March
Spinning Straw into Gold by Joanna Gould - Myth, religion and the transformations that women make during the various stages of their lives.
The way of Stretching
The sociopath next door by Martha Stout, PhD


APRIL
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May
Changing for Good by James Prochaska
The Book of Color by Sally Melville
The watercolorist's essential notebook: Landscapes


June
The Work by Byron Katie
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Stumbling on Happiness by David Gilbert


August
Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
ALL of the Spencer Novels by Robert B. Parker.

September
All of the Jesse Stone Novels by Robert B. Parker

October
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

November
Gone Baby Gone, Dennis LaHane

December


This isn't all of them. I certainly BOUGHT more books than this. Borders things we're stockholders.
Well, I didn't have a real goal of keeping track.
Happy reading.

And here's a quote from The Schopenhauer Cure that I liked enough to write down:


Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, everyone in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so beautiful, but is more instructive because it enables one to see how the threads are connected together


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey :wave:

Loved the artist's way. Nice selection of reading material you have planned. How come you buy the books rather than going to the library? Most library systems have an online component and you can just submit a search for a book you want to read and they will loan the book from another library and have it waiting at the front desk for you, if they don't happen to have it in your local library. Miss you on the threads.
Hugs,
Meadow

Dana S. Whitney said...

Hi, Meadow... actually those are the books from LAST year. :-). I don't plan what I read. And I sort of promoted myself from library user to book buyer. An indulgence. Like buying raspberries out of season.