Read and Listened to: July - December 2009

This particular compilation is in chronological order (not reverse). That means that the first one in each category is the one I read first during the time period.

Books read, July – December 2009

College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril

Rabbit, run by John Updikere Nicola Kraus

Here in the world by Victoria Lancelotta

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Opportunity for Leadership: Full and Informed Participation by Mark Winston

My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme

Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn [found at an airport]

L. A. Candy by Lauren Conrad

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer Twilight #2

Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education [sic] and the Public Good by Ed D'Angelo

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

Words that work: It's not what you say, it's what people hear by [Dr.] Frank Luntz
Work-related reading assignment

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer Twilight #3

Breaking dawn by Stephanie Meyer Twilight #4

Life among the Lutherans by Garrison Keillor

Street gang : the complete history of Sesame Street by Michael Davis

Books listened to, July – December 2009

Crusader's cross by James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton

Not another bad date by Rachel Gibson, read by Nicole Poole

Night Listener by Armistead Maupin, read by the author

Luke's story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, read by Robertson Dean

Do gentlemen really prefer blondes?: bodies, brains, and behavior-- the science behind sex, love, and attraction by Jena Pincott, read by Laural Merlington

The day I ate whatever I wanted: [and other small acts of liberation] by Elizabeth Berg, read by the author

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell, read by Carrington MacDuffie

Nature girl by Carl Hiaasen, read by Lee Adams

I like you: hospitality under the influence by Amy Sedaris, read by the author

Behind the scenes at the museum by Kate Atkinson, read by Susan Jameson

Blood and thunder: an epic of the American West by Hampton Sides, read by Don Leslie

John Cleese at the Beeb by John Cleese

A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill, read by Jonathan Davis

This just in by Bob Schieffer

Man gone down by Michael Thomas, read by Beresford Bennett

The irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington by Jennet Conant, read by Simon Prebble

Quentins by Maeve Binchy, read by Terry Donnelly

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters Performed by Patrick Fraley with Edward Asner and a cast of 50; music composed by Kenni and performed with Joshua Zucker

The unnatural history of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell, read by Scott Sowers

Only dad by Alan Titchmarsh, read by the author

The lovely bones by Alice Sebold, read by Alyssa Bresnahan

First, break all the rules: what the world's greatest managers do differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, read by Richard Rohan

Rabbit is rich by John Updike, read by Arthur Morey

Rabbit at rest by John Updike, read by Arthur Morey

Rabbit remembered by John Updike, read by Arthur Morey