September started with a heat wave and the ache of leaving home. School is back in session and I feel like I am trying to rein in wild horses. Here’s what I managed to read in this crazy, crazy month.
- World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow ~ yeah, yeah. Not on the original September list. So sue me.
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh ~ really wild book. I discovered tow movies I want to see thanks to this book.
- A Good Enough Parent by Bruno Bettelheim ~ indepth psychobabble (good for all those parents who realllly want to analyze their kids).
- Far Side of Paradise: a Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Arthur Mizner ~ fascinating and funny.
- The Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing ~ this one tricked me because when I first picked it up I thought it was going to be biographical nonfiction!
- The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie ~ this should be a movie!
- Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell ~ technically I didn’t finish this one in time so it will be on the list again!
For LibraryThing’s Early Review program:
- Emily Post by Laura Claridge ~ I have to admit, I wasn’t into this as much as I thought I would be.
- Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland ~ I’m still struggling with the review for this one!
- The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy ~ Having forgot my last September challenge book, I tore through this one. My original plan was to save it for October but I couldn’t…it was that good.
For the hell of it:
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: a memoir by Haruki Murakami ~ totally off my Challenge radar, but I had to read it. It came highly, highly recommended so I jumped off the Challenge train and read about running. Totally worth it.
- Under the Neon ~ a crazy book about the homeless who live in the storm drains underneath Vegas.
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch ~ another book that came highly recommended. Sad, though!
Other than the books, it was a month for seeing good, good friends. Two friends from Colorado (haven’t seen them in four years!), a Rebecca Correia show (and 4.8 mi run with her!), the Big E with Jypsie and traffic, a good long conversation with one of my oldest and bestest friends in the whole wide world, and, and, and, a visit from my elusive, always on the go, friend SPB. I even got to have dinner with him! How lucky am I?
**personal note: thanks to everyone who helped me through this month. I’m out of the woods.
~*LunaSea*~ 