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