Sunday, August 31, 2008

Books I've Read Recently...

Books I've recently finished (15 hour long plane flights allow for plenty of time to read!):

  • Wolves of the Crescent Moon, by Yousef al-Mohaimeed -- not very memorable
  • Girls of Riyadh: A Novel, by Rajaa Alsanea -- a Saudi version of Sex and the City
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum -- the first in the Wizard of Oz series, these are very quick reads, and very enjoyable, I'm slowly making my way through them
  • Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, by L. Frank Baum
  • The Emerald City of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
  • Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
  • The Road to Oz, by L. Frank Baum
  • Bangkok 8, by John Burdett (mystery) -- murder mystery set in Bangkok, couldn't put it down, had to make sure the Kindle was charged before Tropical Storm Fay hit Jacksonville so I could finish this if the electricity went out
  • Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet, by Elliott Hester -- along the same lines as the Prep-School Mommy Handler, Chef, Waiter first-person memoirs; probably not the best reading material immediately prior to getting on a 15-hour long flight, but I really enjoyed it
  • Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freething Dog, by Ted Kerasote -- excellent memoir of life with a dog, interspersed with information about dogs, their history, their descendence from wolves, have tissue at hand for the end of the book
  • This Charming Man, by Marian Keyes -- good novel, not as light-hearted as her earlier books, she seems to be digging deeper into emotional territory
  • What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, by Thomas Frank -- interesting discussion of how Kansas went from being on the leading edge of anything new and "liberal" to one of the most "conservative" places in the United States

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