What I've Been Reading

June 2010
   The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
   The Good Earth (audio), Pearl S. Buck
   The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
   The Race – Extreme Sailing and its Ultimate Event, Tim Zimmermann

May 2010
   The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein

December 2009 & April 2010
   Nada -- working on boat (and lots of New Yorkers in the US)

November 2009
   Fastnet, Force 10, John Rousmaniere

October 2009
   You Can’t Blow Home Again, Herb Payson
   The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh  

September 2009
   Baby Proof, Emily Giffin
   The Fourth Hand, John Irving
   Eat Pray Love, Elizbeth Gilbert
   A World of My Own, Robin Knox-Johnston
   Fatu Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl

August 2009
   The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
   Lone Voyager – The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard
      Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester, Joseph E. Garland

July 2009
   The Shipping News ,Annie Proulx
   Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky

June 2009
   The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Chapters 1-5
   Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
   Fatal Storm – The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race, Rob Mundle

May 2009
   The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
   Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen

April 2009
   The Deadly Sunshade, Phoebe Atwood Taylor
   Evolution’s Captain – The Dark Fate of the Man
     Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World, Peter Nichols

March 2009
   Captain James Cook - A Biography, Richard Hough
   Command a King’s Ship, Alexander Kent
   Morality For Beautiful Girls
      (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #3), Alexander McCall Smith
   Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder

February 2009
   Over the Edge of the World, Laurence Bergreen
   The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult

January 2009
   Albatross, Deborah Scaling Kiley

September 2008 - December 2008
   Grayson, Lynn ? (I list this but I actually couldn't finish it because it was so bad)
   No other books; most of the time catching up on sailing and
     scuba magazines and The New Yorker

August 2008
   Wordstruck - A Memoir, Robert MacNeil
   Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
   Passage to Juneau, Jonathan Raban

July 2008
   Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
   Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
   Stuntology, Sam Bartlett
   The Big Book of Stuntology, Sam Bartlett
   Life Is So Good, George Dawson & Richard Glaubman

June 2008
   The Whisper of the River, Ferrol Sams
   Wicked, Gregory Maguire
   Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Gary Kinder
   The Mystery of Easter Island, Katherine Routledge

May 2008
   Until I Find You, John Irving
   Treason’s Harbour, Patrick O’Brian
   A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

April 2008
   In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
   Code Zero, Ken Follett
   Intrusions, Ursula Hegi

March 2008
   Galapágos: A Natural History Guide, Pierre Constant
   Einstein In Love, Dennis Overbye
   The Voyage of the Beagle (just the Galápagos chapter), Charles Darwin
   Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin --- READ THIS BOOK!
   Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O’Brian
   The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

February 2008
   The Kalahari Typing School for Men (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #4), Alexander McCall Smith
   The Full Cupboard of Life (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #5), Alexander McCall Smith
   Zero (Audiobook), Charles Seife

January 2008
   The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough

December 2007
   A Policy of Kindness, The Dalai Lama
   Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
   "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", Richard P. Feynman

November 2007
   Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

October 2007
   Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowlings

September 2007
   The Laws, Connie Palman

August 2007
   Middlemarch, George Eliot

July 2007
   Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

June 2007
   Straight on till Morning, Mary S. Lovell
   The Pirate Coast, Richard Zacks
   Soul Music (audio), Terry Pratchett
   Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald

May 2007
   The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
   Tamata and the Alliance, Bernard Moitessier
   Tricky Business, Dave Barry
   Rescue in the Pacific, Tony Farrington
   Homeland and Other Stories, Barbara Kingsolver
   The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith 
   Common Sense, Thomas Paine 
   Reluctant Cook, Janet Gibb

April 2007
   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers

March 2007
   Men at Arms (Audio), Terry Pratchett
   Lords & Ladies (Audio), Terry Pratchett
   The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
   Alone Through the Roaring Forties, Vito Dumas

February 2007
   Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis De Bernières

October 2006 - February 2006
   ---

August 2006
   Native Tongue, Carl Hiaasen

July 2006
   The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
   Stormy Weather, Carl Hiassen

June 2006
   West With the Night, Beryl Markham
   Loitering with Intent, Muriel Sparks
   Aftermath, Farley Mowat

May 2006
   Going Postal (Audio), Terry Pratchett
   Moitessier: A Sailing Legend, Jean-Michel Barrault

April 2006
   Holiday on Ice, David Sedaris
   A Dog’s Life, Ann Martin
   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

March 2006
   Carry Me Across the Water, Ethan Canin

February 2006
   The Mountains of California, John Muir

January 2006
   Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

December 2005
   ---

October - November 2005
   One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez
   Godforsaken Sea, Derek Lundy
   The Lost Country, Bill Bryson

September 2005
   1984, George Orwell
   Death of an Expert Witness, P.D. James

August 2005
   The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

July 2005
   Sex Lives of Cannibals, van Troost (?)
   Ishmael

What Alene's Been Reading

June 2010
   Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
   Lone Voyager, Joseph E. Garland
   Lords & Ladies (audio), Terry Pratchett
   Atonement, Ian McEwan

May 2010
   The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
   Haschen, Maribeth Boelts (children's book in German)

April 2010
   The World According to Garp, John Irving

February - March 2010
   none - working on boat

January 2010
   Plain Truth, Jodi Piccoult

December 2009
   The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
   Half-Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
   Angels, Marian Keyes

November 2009
   Evolution's Captain, Peter Nichols
   The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
   Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen

October 2009
   You Can't Blow Home Again, Herb Payson
   How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez

September 2009
   Small Gods (audio), Terry Pratchett
   Fatu-Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl
   The Deadly Sunshade, Phoebe Atwood Taylor
   At First Sight, Nicholas Sparks
   Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

August 2009
   Middlemarch, George Elliot
   Reaper Man (audio), Terry Pratchett

July 2009
   Morality for Beautiful Women, Alexander McCall Smith
   Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

June 2009
   That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx
   Mountains Upon Mountains, Tracy Kidder
   Seaworthy, T.R. Pearson

 May 2009
   Baby Proof, Emily Giffin
   Captain James Cook -  A Biography, Richard Hough
   The Beast, Walter Dean Myers

April 2009
   Moving Pictures (audio), Terry Pratchett
   Until I Find You, John Irving
   Tamata & the Alliance, Bernard Moitessier

March 2009
   Guards! Guards! (audio), Terry Pratchett
   A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
   The Water In Between, Kevin Patterson
   Pyramids (audio), Terry Pratchett

February 2009
   Coral Reef Fishes, Ewald Lieske & Robert Myers
   Suite Francaise, Irène Némirovsky
   Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
   The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult

January 2009
   The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
   The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin

December 2008
   In the Company of Dolphins, Irwin Shaw
   The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
   Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Lisa See
   The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
   Grayson, Lynn ?

November 2008
   Night, Elie Wiesel
   A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
   Nilo & the Tortoise, Ted Lewin

October 2008
   An Equal Music, Vikram Seth

September 2008
   What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard P. Feynman

August 2008
   Carry Me Across Water, Ethan Canin
   Wordstruck, Robt McNeil

July 2008
   Music & Silence, Rose Tremain
   Wicked, Gregory Maguire
   Sourcery (audio), Terry Pratchett

June 2008
   Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
   Equal Rites (audio), Terry Pratchett
   Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks

May 2008
   Witches Abroad (audio), Terry Pratchett
   The Wind in the River, Ferrol Sams
   Wyrd Sisters (audio), Terry Pratchett
   The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
   The Light Fantastic (audio), Terry Pratchett
   The Mystery of Easter Island, Katherine Routledge
   Four Souls, Louise Erdrich

April 2008
   31 Dream Street, Lisa Jewell
   Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
   True Believer, Nicholas Sparks
   The Honk & Holler Opening Soon, Billie Letts
   Moitessier: A Sailing Legend, Jean-Michel Barrault

March 2008
   The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
   The Pirate Coast, Richard Zacks
   The Sad Truth About Happiness, Anne Giardini

February 2008
   Homeland & Other Stories, B. Kingsolver
   The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
   My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
   State of Fear, Michael Crichton
   Move to Strike, Parri O'Shaughnessy
   The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith

January 2008
  Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel

December 2007
   The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
   Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett
   I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson

November 2007
   Small Wonders, B. Kingsolver
   Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle
   Trouble in Paradise, Robert B. Parker

October 2007
   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
   A Swiftly Tilting Planet, M. L'Engle

September 2007
   Bailey's Cafe, Gloria Naylor
   Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
   A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle Aug 07
   Intrusions, Ursula Hegi

July 2007
   Albatross, Deborah Scaling Kiley & Meg Noonan
   The Laws, Connie Palman
   The Guardian, Nicholas Sparks

June 2007
   Life Is So Good, George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
   The Darwin Conspiracy, John Darnton
   Zorro, Isabel Allende
   Around the World in Eighty Days (audio), Jules Verne

May 2007
   The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman
   Hank Zipzer and the Day of the Iguana, Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
   Over the Edge of the World, Laurence Bergreen

April 2007
   The Color of Water, James McBride
   Nights of Rain and Stars, Maeve Binchy
   Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
   Rescue in the Pacific, Tony Farrington

March 2007
   The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
   The Time Traveler's Wife (audio), Audrey Niffenegger
   Xenophobia (audio), Orson Scott Card
   The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

February 2007
   Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
   The Water In Between, Kevin Patterson

December 2006
   Women Sailors & Sailor's Women, David Cordingly
   Harry Potter #5, J.K. Rowling
   Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow

November 2006
   Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
   Lay That Trumpet In My Hands,

October 2006
   The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
   Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver

What Alene and I Have Been Reading
(We usually have something we read aloud each night)

June 2010
   All of my books except Cyber.kdz (ADR made me... for her birthday)
   Gezani & the Tricky Baboon, Valanga Khoza
   Bully for the Beast!, Kathleen Stevens
   How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death, Peter Gossage
   Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour, Eve Bunting
   Grappling w/the Grumblies, Deborah Miller
   French Primers:
     Ce Que J'Aime, Eileen Ryder
     Le Pouissin Jaune, Eileen Ryder
     Le Soleil, Lesley Anne Ivory
     Les Animaux, Nathalie Bélineau, Jack Delaroche
   Seahorse, Chris Butterworth
   24 Robbers, Audrey Wood

May 2010
   Ernest the Fierce Mouse, Amy & Philip Rowe
   I Was a Class 2 Werewolf, Daniel Pinkwater
   When Pigs Fly, Valerie Coulman
   Hit the Ball Duck, Jez Alboroug
   Neptune's Nursery, Kim Michelle Toft & Allan Sheather
   Audrey of the Outback, Christine Harris

March 2010
   Babar: fier d'Isabelle -Laurent de Brunhoff
   Jules a une Petite Soeur, Christian Lamblin
   Cher Père Noël, Jeanne Ashbé
   Aboie, Georges! -Jules Feiffer
   Short stories by Mark Twain:
     -The Office Bore
     -Johnny Greer
     -The Great Beef Contract
     -The Case of George Fisher
     -Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
     -The Judge's "Spirited Woman"
     -Information Wanted
     -Some Learned Fables
     -My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
     -A Fashion Item
     -Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
     -A Fine Old Man
     -Science vs. Luck
     -The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
     -The Widow's Protest
     -Mr Bloke's Item

February 2010
   Short stories by Mark Twain:
     -My Watch, An Instructive Little Tale
     -Political Economy
     -Journalism in Tennessee
     -Story of the Bad Little Boy
     -Story of the Good Little Boy
     -A Couple of Poems by Twain & Moore
     -Niagara
     -Answers to Correspondents
     -To Raise Poultry
     -Experiences of the McWilliamses w/Membranous Croup
     -My First Literary Venture
     -How the Author was Sold in Newark
   The Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum
   Joyeux Noël Didou, Yves Got

January 2010
   The Jumping Frog (In English, Then in French. Then Clawed Back into a
     Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unrenumeated Toil), Mark Twain

November 2009
   Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney

October 2009
   Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane

July 2009
   Ginger Pye (Aloud) Eleanor Estes

June 2009
   All of BB's books (Alene's insistence)
   Happy Birthday to You, Dr. Seuss

May 2009
   The Boy Who Saved Baseball, John H. Ritter

April 2009
   Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell

March 2009
   The Spiderwick Chronicles #5, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
      (note: this series started OK, but it was severly lame by the time it ended)
   The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told, Edited by Christopher Caswell

February 2009
   The Spiderwick Chronicles #2, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
   The Spiderwick Chronicles #3, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
   The Spiderwick Chronicles #4, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

January 2009
   Junie B. Jones & her Big Fat Mouth, Barbara Parks
   The Spiderwick Chronicles #1, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

September 2008
   The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told, Edited by Christopher Caswell

August 2008
  Stone Fox, John Reynolds Gardiner

July 2008
   The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Washington Irving

June 2008
   War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

March 2008
   The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom

February 2008
   The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

December 2007
   Call Down the Moon, Myra Cohn Livingston
   Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater

November 2007
   The Good Day Mice, Carol Beach York

October 2007
   Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowlings
   (the last third we read aloud)

September 2007
   ---

August 2007
   The Last Word and Other Stories, Graham Greene

July 2007
   Ellen Tebbits, Beverly Cleary
   Shipwrecked Sailor..., Gabriel Garcia Marquez

June 2007
   Happy Birthday to You, Dr. Seuss
   The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   Ellen Tebbits, Beverly Clearly

May 2007
   The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

April 2007
   The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron

March 2007
   Einstein's Refrigerator, Steve Silverman

January 2007
    Clementine, Sarah Pennypacker

October 2006
    A Collection of Adventure/Travel Stories that we forgot the title of.

July 2006
    The Kindness of Strangers, Anthology

June 2006
    Peep-Larrsons Go Sailing, Edith Unnerstaad

May 2006
    Caught By the Sea, Gary Paulsen

April 2006
    Illusions, Richard Bach

December 2006
    All of my books except Cyber.kdz
    (She made me)