favorite non-fiction books

Non-fiction - not in order of preference
1. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
2. Life at the Bottom - Theodore Dalrymple
3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
4. Developing a Written Voice - Dona Hickey
5. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
6. Alice Bay Cookbook - Julie Rosseau
7. First They Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Loung Ung
8. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
9. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
10. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
11. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Annie Fadiman
12. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer
13. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
14. Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey - Alison Wearing
15. Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last - John Gottman
16. The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier - Bruce Barcott
17. Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish - Sue Bender
18. Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul - John Eldredge
19. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea - Sebastian Junger
20. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - Erik Larson
21. A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
22. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynn Truss

favorite fiction books

Fiction - not in order of preference
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Mind Body Problem - Rebecca Goldstein
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
4. Peace Like a River - Lief Enger
5. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
6. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
7. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
8. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
10. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
11. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
12. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
13. Watership Down - Richard Adams
14. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
15. Beowulf - Seamus Heany
16. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
17. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
19. The Living - Annie Dilliad
20. Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
21. Byzantium - Stephen Lawhead
22. Ishmael: An Adventure of Mind and Spirit - Daniel Quinn
23. Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
24. The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
25. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
26. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
27. Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
28. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
29. Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas
30. Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
31. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

privacy

I haven't been blogging, as I am torn between these two: sharing what is happening and maybe getting some help and support versus protecting my children's privacy.  So, I have made a new blog.  If you would like to read it, please post a comment here or send me an email, and I'll send the address to you.

I'll be moving all the old TMI posts over to the new blog, so don't be surprised if a post that was here disappears and/or the new blog shows old material.  

Handle with Care

I just finished reading Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. It was okay.  She writes well and the story was interesting, but I am weary of her themes. Awkward moral conundrum involving reproduction paired with a love/hate sister relationship and ending with a funeral.  Wasn't her last one just like this one?