Books I've read so far this year...
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nekosenseiI finished another one during the car ride to and from Cleveland...
1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen.
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
12. Fray by Joss Whedon
13. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
14. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
17. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
18. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
19. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
20. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
21. The Doll's House, Dream Country, and Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
22. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama -- As most of your already know, Obama has a white mother from Kansas and his father was a foreign student from Kenya. In this book, Barack Obama talks about growing up with his mother and maternal grandparents in Hawaii. Later, his mother remarries and relocates the family to Indonesia. In fifth grade, Obama comes back to the United States and is enrolled in a preparatory school. Later, he went to school in Los Angeles and New York. After college, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago where he tried to bring about changes in the Altgeld housing project and in the South Side in general. In the last section of his book, he describes his trip to Kenya before entering Harvard Law School. There, he learns more about the father he met one time (who, unfortunately, is deceased) and the extended family he never met. Throughout the book, Obama talks about his Kenyan father and his attempts to understand his racial identity.
On a personal note, I'm still leaning more towards Obama than Hillary for the primaries. Although he's a relative newcomer to Washington, he strikes me as being rational and very intelligent. Also, I think the fact that he lived overseas (Indonesia) as a child also counts in his favor and it probably gives him a better perspective on how the rest of the world lives...and it seems to me that this is something we desperately need in a leader right about now. It's still too early to make any final decisions, and I'm going to have to read more about where he stands on other issues...
1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen.
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
12. Fray by Joss Whedon
13. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
14. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
17. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
18. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
19. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
20. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
21. The Doll's House, Dream Country, and Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
22. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama -- As most of your already know, Obama has a white mother from Kansas and his father was a foreign student from Kenya. In this book, Barack Obama talks about growing up with his mother and maternal grandparents in Hawaii. Later, his mother remarries and relocates the family to Indonesia. In fifth grade, Obama comes back to the United States and is enrolled in a preparatory school. Later, he went to school in Los Angeles and New York. After college, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago where he tried to bring about changes in the Altgeld housing project and in the South Side in general. In the last section of his book, he describes his trip to Kenya before entering Harvard Law School. There, he learns more about the father he met one time (who, unfortunately, is deceased) and the extended family he never met. Throughout the book, Obama talks about his Kenyan father and his attempts to understand his racial identity.
On a personal note, I'm still leaning more towards Obama than Hillary for the primaries. Although he's a relative newcomer to Washington, he strikes me as being rational and very intelligent. Also, I think the fact that he lived overseas (Indonesia) as a child also counts in his favor and it probably gives him a better perspective on how the rest of the world lives...and it seems to me that this is something we desperately need in a leader right about now. It's still too early to make any final decisions, and I'm going to have to read more about where he stands on other issues...
