So it has been a really long time since I have written anything on here. I figure the best way to start is to go back to the ole bread 'n butter and put up my final list of what I read while I was deployed to Iraq and in the year since I got back.; I think I may try to expand this list to every book that I've read, or that I can at least remember reading.
I read two incredible books books: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, and JR Moerhringer's The Tender Bar. Cold Mountain was REALLY good too; much better than the stupid movie.
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend them. And Joan Didion is from Sacramento and went to CK McClatchey High School (Do you think that they even know she went there? Idiots.)
I'll start writing real things again this upcoming week...
Douglas Adams
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
-Life, the Universe and Everything
-So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
-Mostly Harmless
Mitch Albom
-Tuesdays With Morrie
L. Frank Baum
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Erma Bombeck
-The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
-Aunt Erma's Cope Book
T. Coraghessan Boyle
-The Road to Wellville
Geraldine Brooks
-Year of Wonders
-March
Dan Brown
-The Da Vinci Code
John Buchan
-The Thirty-Nine Steps
Caleb Carr
-The Alienist
-The Angel of Darkness
Willa Cather
-My Antonia
Michael Chabon
-Summerland
Agatha Christie
-After The Funeral
Joseph Conrad
-Heart of Darkness
-The Secret Sharer
Joan Didion
*The Year of Magical Thinking
William Pene du Bois
-The Twenty-One Balloons
Jeffrey Eugenides
-The Virgin Suicides
John Feinstein
-Season On The Brink
F. Scott Fitzgerald
*The Great Gatsby
Ian Fleming
-The Spy Who Loved Me
*Moonraker
Charles Frazier
*Cold Mountain
Sue Grafton
-"A" is for Alibi
*"B" is for Burgler
John Grisham
-Skipping Christmas
-The Brethren
*The Last Juror
Nathaniel Hawthorne
-The House of the Seven Gables
Robert A. Heinlein
-Starship Troopers
Nick Hornby
*Fever Pitch
*How To Be Good
Sue Monk Kidd
*The Secret Life of Bees
Stephen King
-Different Seasons
Louis L'Amour
*The First Fast Draw
Elmore Leonard
-The Big Bounce
*Freaky Deaky
Alice McDermott
-Charming Billy
J.R. Moerhringer
*The Tender Bar
Christopher Paolini
*Eragon
James Patterson
-The Thomas Berryman Number
-Along Came A Spider (Alex Cross #1)
-Kiss The Girls (Alex Cross #2)
-Jack and Jill (Alex Cross #3)
-Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross #4)
-Pop Goes The Weasel (Alex Cross #5)
-Roses Are Red (Alex Cross #6)
-Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross #7)
-Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross #8)
-The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross #9)
-London Bridges (Alex Cross #10)
*Mary, Mary (Alex Cross #11)
*Cross (Alex Cross #12)
Daniel Pearl
*The Dante Club
Joe Queenan
-Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler: Celluloid Tirades and Escapades
J.K. Rowling
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7)
Robert Scheer
*Playing President
Michael Shaara
*The Killer Angels
Jane Smiley
*A Thousand Acres
Robert Louis Stevenson
*Kidnapped
H.G. Wells
-The Time Machine
Oscar Wilde
*The Picture of Dorian Gray
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
-The Shadow of the Wind
