2008

I just cannot stop, can I? haha. I was looking through my journal and noticed that I had kept a list of books I read this past summer. And I can look at old syllabi to find out which books I read in my classes. I am a total nerd, I am fully aware of this fact, haha.

the Favorites:

The Vampire Lestat  Anne Rice

The Queen of the Damned  Anne Rice

Dead Until Dark  Charlaine Harris

The Thirteenth Tale  Diane Setterfield

New Moon  Stephenie Meyer

A Wolf at the Table  Augusten Burroughs

The Omnivore's Dilemma  Michael Pollan

Living Dead in Dallas  Charlaine Harris

Eclipse  Stephenie Meyer

Club Dead  Charlaine Harris

Dead to the World  Charlaine Harris

People of the Book  Geraldine Brooks

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil  John Berendt

Dead as a Doornail  Charlaine Harris

The Shadow of the Wind  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure  Shawn Decker

the Good/Average ones:

Garden Spells  Sarah Addison Allen

HeartSick  Chelsea Cain

The Story of French  Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow

The Society of S  Susan Hubbard

The $64 Tomato  William Alexander

Sex With Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry & Revenge  Eleanor Herman

the "Engh" ones:

Fat Girl  Judith Moore

Bleedout  Joan Brady

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself  Young-Ha Kim

texts for Classes:

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers  Mary Roach +++++

Life After Life  Raymond A. Moody, Jr 

Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, & Human Mortality  David Wendell Moller 

50 Facts That Should Change the World  Jessica Williams

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction  Adam Jones 

Night  Elie Wiesel 

Burglars on the Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-Ins  Richard T. Wright

Why Crime Rates Fell  John E. Conklin

In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula & Vampires  Radu Florescu

Vampire Lore  Jan Louis Perkowski 

Dracula  Bram Stoker

Alright, so 36 books. Not too shabby I would say. And there are likely a couple more left unmentioned simply because I cannot remember back to the beginning of 2008. Noticing the titles, yes, I do have a fondness for vampire stories of all kinds, and then ended up taking a class on Dracula and Slavic Culture, so lots of Vampirey titles. Hopefully I can beat that number this year!