Read and Listened to 2012

Here is the list for the whole year of 2012. Note that since I moved to Baton Rouge in  July, and therefore stopped commuting such a long distance, I have taken out the sidebar for books listened to. While it seems like I should have more time, that does not seem so, for some reason. I also am now on a distribution list from major publisher, and am getting a fair number of ARC's (Advance Readers Copies) of books about to be published. That constitutes most of my hard copy reading.

So, here it goes! As in the past, there are in reverse chronological order (since that is how they appear on the sidebar).

Books 2012

Naples Declared: A walk around the bay by Benjamin TaylorARC

City of Women: A Novel by David R. Gillham ARC

The Yard: A Novel by Alex Grecian ARC

Grimus: a novel by Salman Rushdie

A Good American by Alex George ARC

No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel ARC

The Republic of Pirates: Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down by Collin Woodard

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye

The Wednesday Letters: A Novel by Jason F. Wright

The Invisible Ones: A Novel by Stef Penney ARC

The Nook 2012

Fifty Shades Freed E L James

Fifty Shades Darker E L James

Fifty Shades of Grey E L James

Impaired: A Nurse's Story of Addiction and Recovery by Patricia Holloran

Tantrika : Traveling the Road of Divine Love by Asra Nomani

Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery by Bill Clegg

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg

Living Oprah : My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk by Robyn Okrant

Hunger Games (Trilogy) Suzanne Collins

The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
We actually bought this by mistake, but I decided to read it anyway.

The 100 Thing challenge : How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul by Dave Bruno

Riding in the shadows of saints : A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail by Jana Richman

I'm off then : Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling

The Addict : One Patient, One Doctor, One Year by Michael Stein

Whip smart : A Memoir by Melissa Febos

My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir by Noelle Hancock

Recently Listened to

Walt Disney: The triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, read by Arthur Morey

chapter and hearse by Catherine Aird, read by Bruce Montague

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, read by Simon Vance

The Art of Presence by Eckhart Tolle

Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich, read by C. J. Critts

Lots of NPR on both WWNO and WRKF
Neither station covers my whole trip. I also sometimes listen to NPR Now on Sirius XM

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes [radio dramatization] by Arthur Conan Doyle, a BBC Radio 4 full cast dramatization
[Vol. 1. A scandal in Bohemia -- The red-headed league -- A case of identity -- The Boscombe Valley mystery]

The shack by William P. Young, read by Roger Mueller

Secrets of the Great Investors: Money Managers and Mutual Funds read by Louis Rukeyser
A patron complained that the title and description did not match the contents. He is right. This should be called "A Brief History of America's Banking System."

Books Read in 2011

End of the calendar year is often a time for reflection. This year it seems like I read less than usual (and I can't quite put my finger on why.) I have also listened to more radio and fewer books. A part of that my be related to the rearrangement of the collection at MPOW from an accession number arrangement to Dewey. Here is the list. (It is in reverse chronological order, since I just cut and pasted from the side bar where I keep track.) Note that this is a full year list, not a half year like some prior lists.

Books Read (paper)

1. The Chalk Girl by Carol O'Connell ARC
2. The Invisible Ones: A Novel by Stef Penney ARC
3. Grimus: a novel by Salman Rushdie
4. If Jack's in Love: A Novel by Stephen Wetta ARC
5. Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman ARC
6. Too Far by Rich Shapero ARC
7. Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941-1978 by Michael Gorman
8. Delirious New Orleans: Maifesto for an Extraordinary American City by Stephen Verderber
9. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
10. The Weird Sisters: a novel by Eleanor Brown
11. The girls from Ames: a story of women and a forty-year friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow
12. Doing social media so it matters: a librarian's guide by Laura Solomon
13. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel by Beth Hoffman
14. Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
15. Room: A novel by Emma Donoghue
16. The Glory Wind by Valerie Sherrard a review copy
17. The Rievers by William Faulkner

I had been planing to read Water for elephants by Sara Gruen in paper, but I wound up listening to it.

Read on the Nook

1. Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
2. A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio by Bob Edwards
3. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956 by Wayne Wiegand
   Advance PDF copy for review in Public Libraries
   

Recorded books/Listening

Lots of NPR on both WWNO and WRKF
Neither station covers my whole trip. I also sometimes listen to NPR Now on Sirius XM

1. All the king's men by Robert Penn Warren, read by Michael Emerson
2. Play Dirty by Sandra Brown, read by Victor Slezak
3. Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke, read by Suzanne Toren
4. Lies and the lying liars who tell them: [a fair and balanced look at the right] by Al Franken, read by the author
5. Car talk: doesn't anyone screen these calls?: calls about animals and cars
6. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, read by Robert Whitfield
7. Various speaker disks to select a speaker for an upcoming even
8. 'Tis by Frank McCourt, read by the author
9. Islam : a short history by Karen Armstrong read by Richard M. Davidson
10. Water for elephants: a novel by Sara Gruen, read by David LeDoux and John Randolph Jones
11. Remarkable creatures by Tracy Chevalier, read by Charlotte Parry and Susan Lyons
12. The necklace: thirteen women and the experiment that formed their lives by Cheryl Jarvis, read by Pam Ward
13. Attack poodles and other media mutants: the looting of the news in a time of terror by James Wolcott read by Dennis Boutsikaris
14. Executive privilege by Phillip Margolin, read by Jonathan Davis
15. My year of meats by Ruth L. Ozeki, read by Anna Fields
16. Stonehenge: [a novel of 2000 BC] by Bernard Cornwell, read by Sean Barrett
17. My life as a fake by Peter Carey, read by Susan Lyons
18. Smoke by John Ed Bradley, read by Christopher Hurt

Read and Listened to: July - December 2010

You will note a continuing pattern (if you look at my prior lists), more listened to, and fewer read. Somehow my time for reading is being gobbled up by other activities, while my commute continues to let me listen to many titles.

So, without further ado, here is the list as cut and pasted from the sidebar:

Books read:

1. The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
2. The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection by Michael Ruhlman
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
4. The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
5. Save the Last Bullet for Yourself: A Soldier of Fortune in the Balkans and Somalia by Rob Krott [A review here]
6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner [Did not finish]
7. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell
8. The year before the flood : a story of New Orleans by Ned Sublette
9. Folly by Marthe Jocelyn a review copy

Books listened to:

1. A venetian affair by Andrea di Robilant, read by Paul Hecht with Lisette Lecat and Jeff Woodman
2. White coolies by Betty Jeffrey, read by Beverley Dunn
3. Benjamin Franklin: an American life by Walter Isaacson, read by by Nelson Runger
4. Sima's undergarments for women by Ilana Stanger-Ross, read by Vanessa Hart
5. Call me Ted [sound recording] by Ted Turner with Bill Burke, read by Ted Turner with Ted stories read by Nick Sullivan ... [et al.]; featuring a conversation between Wolf Blitzer and Ted Turner
6. The inimitable Jeeves. Vol. 1 by P.G. Wodehouse, read by Martin Jarvis
7. Full circle by Michael Palin, read by the author
8. The witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, read by Mary Beth Hurt
9. The daughter of time by Josephine Tey, read Derek Jacobi
10. A wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle, read by the author
11. A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole, read by Barrett Whitener
12. One dangerous lady by Jane Stanton Hitchcock, read by Barbara Rosenblat
13. The devil's advocates: [greatest closing arguments in criminal law] by Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell, read by full cast
14. Things I overheard while talking to myself by Alan Alda, read by the author
15. Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell, read by Scott Sowers
16. Peak by Roland Smith, read by Ramon de Ocampo
17. "Hello", lied the agent: and other bullshit you hear as a Hollywood TV writer by Ian Gurvitz, read by the author
18. Rocket men: the epic story of the first men on the moon by Craig Nelson, read by Richard McGonagle
19. Secret confessions of the Applewood PTA by Ellen Meister, read by Lisa Kudrow
    Stone cold by Robert B. Parker, read by Robert Forster
20. Mates, dates and portobello princesses by Cathy Hopkins, read by Melissa Eccleston
21. Committed: a skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert, read by the author

Read and Listened to: January - June 2010

OK, I am lazy this time. The list is in reverse chronological order. And it is first books, then audiobooks.....

Books read, January - June 2010

In the Sanctuary of the Outcasts by Neil White
for the East Baton Rouge One Book/One Community

The world that made New Orleans : from Spanish silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

Hungry Town: A Culinary History of New Orleans: The City Where Food Is Almost Everything by Tom Fitzmorris

Thelonious Monk: the life and times of an American original by Robin D. G. Kelley

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

Nadirs = (Niederungen) by Herta Müller
translated and with an afterword by Sieglinde Lug

Corporate Diversity: Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy, 1940 - 1970 by Andres Janser, Barbara Junod, Karin Gimmi, R. Roger Remington, Yvonne Zimmerman
I did not actually read the whole book, merely browsed and sampled. There are some great, classic graphic designs featured.

The passport by Herta Müller translated by Martin Chalmers

Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon
[A 1988 reprint by Pelican Press of the 1950 reprint of the 1928 original. Christmas gift.]

Letter to My Daughter: A Novel by George Bishop
Advance Reader's Edition

Listened to:

There's a (slight) chance I might be going to Hell: [a novel of sewer pipes, pageant queens, and big trouble] by Laurie Notaro, read by Susan Denaker

The Traveler: [a novel] by John Twelve Hawks, read by Scott Brick

The Associate by John Grisham, read by Erik Singer

No way to treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley, read by Grover Gardner

Searching for paradise in Parker, PA by Kris Radish, read by Barbara McCulloh

Inside Drucker's brain byJeffrey A. Krames, read by Sean Pratt

Buyology : truth and lies about why we buy by Martin Lindstrom

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, read by Brian Emerson

Genghis: bones of the hills by Conn Iggulden, read by Richard Ferrone

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis, read by Anthony Heald

Thelonious Monk by Thelonious Monk, Legacy (2000) To accompany reading a biography of Monk

Monk alone: the complete Columbia solo studio recordings of Thelonious Monk by Thelonious Monk, Columbia/Legacy (1998) To accompany reading a biography of Monk

The complete Blue Note recordings by Thelonious Monk, Blue Note (1994) To accompany reading a biography of Monk

The Humbling by Philip Roth, read by Dick Hill

Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, read by Martin Jarvis

The prince of tides by Pat Conroy read by Frank Muller

Googled: the end of the world as we know it by Ken Auletta, read by Jim Bond

Celebrated cases of Judge Dee: [an authentic eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel] translated by Robert van Gulik, read by Mark Bramhall with Lorna Raver & Stefan Rudnicki

Breach of faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city by Jed Horne, read by Andrew L. Barnes

The last Dickens: [a novel] by Matthew Pearl, read by Paul Michael

Handle with care by Jodi Picoult, read by a full cast (Celeste Ciulla, Jessica Almasy, Jim Colby, Charlotte Perry, Alma Cuervo, Cassandra Morris)

While my sister sleeps by Barbara Delinsky, read by Cassandra Campbell

The dart league king by Keith Lee Morris, read by Nick Landrum

Football genius: a novel by Tim Green, read by Tim Green and the Full Cast family

Body movers. 2 bodies for the price of 1 by Stephanie Bond, read by Cassandra Campbell

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Robert Ian Mackenzie

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