books of 2011

Resolution 2012: one book a week

  1. Frankenstein
  2. If on winter’s night a traveler
  3. fault lines
  4. the lightness of being
  5. fathers and sons
  6. russian literature: an introduction
  7. lies my teacher told me
  8. chaos in the solar system
  9. a doll’s house
  10. enemy of the people
  11. night to remember
  12. why does e = mc^2? 
  13. a wizard of mars
  14. the crying of lot 49

30 day shred: 


day 1: [x]
day 2: [x] oh god everything burns 
day 3: [x]
day 4: [x] things stopped burning! 
day 5: [x] should stop cheating on pushups 


resolution 2011: one book a week
(and dumb 6 word summaries that only i would understand or care about)

  1. super sad true love story (+the metamorphosis)
  2. thousand cranes
  3. notes from underground
  4. galapagos - kurt vonnegut
  5. the thousand autumns of jacob de zoet - david mitchell
  6. philosophy of the arts - gordon graham
  7. fates worse than death - kurt vonnegut
  8. the nature of consciousness - alan watts
  9. the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
  10. poetics - aristotle
  11. rosencrantz and guildenstern - tom stoppard
  12. cosmos - carl sagan 
  13. the little book of economics
  14. grapes of wrath
  15. predictably irrational (dan ariely)
  16. brainiac (ken jennings)
  17. the most human human (brian christian)
  18. one day in the life of ivan denisovitch (solzhenitsyn)
  19. the lost books of the odyssey
  20. the sibyl
  21. life of pi
  22. the unbearable lightness of being
  23. the immortal life of henrietta lacks
  24. an artist of the floating world
  25. the science of consciousness
  26. the fall
  27. the dharma bums
  28. cloud atlas
  29. the master of go
  30. extremely loud and incredibly close
  31. on writing the perfect college application essay
  32. how to read literature like a professor
  33. the fountainhead
  34. 101 things I learned in architecture school
  35. john dies at the end
  36. as i lay dying
  37. 19Q4
  38. the marriage plot
  39. meditations on first philosophy
  40. a short history of nearly everything
  41. brave new world
  42. fahrenheit 451
  43. just my type
  44. the brief wondrous life of oscar wao

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october 2010:

the awakening (kate chopin)
do androids dream of electric sheep? philip k. dick.
the disappearing spoon (sam kean)
from cosmos to chaos
siddhartha (herman hesse)
the housekeeper and the professor (yoku ogawa)

november:

gourmet rhapsody
narrow road to the interior
waiting for godot
blasphemy
the disappearing spoon

december:

snow country
super sad true love story
the great gatsby
the metamorphosis
the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

resolution 2011:

  1. super sad true love story (+the metamorphosis)