Books I've read so far this year...

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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
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. A Game of You and Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman
25. Brief Lives, Worlds' End, The Kindly Ones, and The Wake by Neil Gaiman

26. Into the Forest by Jean Hegland -- This was yet another novel I found in the book discussion section of the library. Because of a war fought overseas and disease, the American infrastructure and, eventually, society, falls apart. The electricity and then the phones stop working. Then, gasoline becomes unavailable, bringing transportation of people and goods to a standstill. Two sisters, who live in a house on the edge of a state forest twenty miles away from the nearest town, have to learn to survive using the garden, the forest, and the few odds and ends that they have at home. Overall, it is a good book, and it oftentimes makes me wonder if, were the system of supply and demand to break down leaving grocery stores bare, how many of us would be resourceful or fortunate enough to survive.

Oh...the one part that wasn't good at all was the chapter in which one sister felt up the other. I know it gets kind of lonely in 'dere 'da woods, but your sister? Please! This is literature. Some guys might be turned on by that sort of thing, but please spare the rest of us the fan service! Bad Hegland! Bad! No cookie for you!

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Yeah, I could never be that lonely. Ew.