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llcoolvadSo I had a few days. Went out to the Happy Valley, hung out with Suzanne, saw Thomas Dolby (squee!) and saw (and smelled) a corpse flower in bloom (peeyew), and had butterflies flittering around my head (eek!), and ate good BBQ (nom!). Drove home, hung out with Patrick, saw John Carter (yay! pretty people doing fun things). Spent the rest of the weekend mostly doing not much, mostly choresy things. Mom is letting me help her sort her mounds of papers, so I took advantage and did some of that on Monday. Feel like I'm fighting something off right now, so I've been a little low-energy this last couple of days. And that's about it.
Mostly I am posting this because I neglected to post my books list last time and it was the end of the month, so here 'tis...
Books Read 2012
JAN
1. The Fifth Witness, Michael Connelly
2. Deception, Jonathan Kellerman (library kindle)
3. Eleven, Patricia Reilly Giff (library kindle)
4. The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen (audio)
5. Dead Sleep, Greg Iles (audio)
FEB
6. Alone, Lisa Gardner (audio)
7. Gideon's Sword, Preston, Child
8. The Zero Game, Brad Meltzer
9. Taken, Robert Crais
10 Dead Wood, Danin Amore
11. L.A. Outlaws, T. Jefferson Parker
MAR
12. Half-Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir, Jennette Fulda: So she never says just how she lost the weight. Like, there's no dieting tips or "don't eat this" advice, but she started at around the same weight I did at my maximum and she's lost about 200 pounds by some method. She's amusing, and mostly talks about things she was thinking while she was losing. I can relate to a lot of it. She was in her early 20s, though, so I can't relate to all of it.
13. Pronto, Elmore Leonard (first Raylan Givens): Big fun. I love the tv series "Justified" more than is seemly, so it makes sense that I'd give the books a try. I prefer the series, frankly, as the character is a little more competent and a bit funnier, but his roots are definitely here. Clever plotting and pretty quick pace.
14. Paranoia, Joseph Finder: I have no idea how I picked this up. Probably an Amazon $1.99 sale or a freebie. I have a bunch of those littering my kindle, and I read this one. It was ok. Corporate espionage, but mostly a guy goes to work every day and occasionally lies to people. Not bad, set in the high tech world of around 2003 so a little dated. Characters not too finely drawn, too broad.
15. Riding the Rap, Elmore Leonard (second Raylan Givens): See above.
16. Why We Get Fat, Gary Taubes: Hint — it's carbs. Don't eat 'em, you will be loads healthier and lose tons of weight. Do eat 'em, you'll get fat and probably get cancer, diabetes, etc. Extremly well-researched, fact-filled accounting of the weight loss thinking and research over the last 200 years. Another hint: up until 1970s it was all "stop eating carbs". Something changed, then it was all low fat. He argues the low fat people are completely wrong. Controversial!
I didn't make it through an audio book in March. I'm in the middle of two, and one is depressing but sort of compelling but still depressing (Ann Patchett's State of Wonder), and the other is just ridiculously long (Stephen King's 11-22-63). Maybe I'll pick up a third this month and see if I can bang one out.
Mostly I am posting this because I neglected to post my books list last time and it was the end of the month, so here 'tis...
Books Read 2012
JAN
1. The Fifth Witness, Michael Connelly
2. Deception, Jonathan Kellerman (library kindle)
3. Eleven, Patricia Reilly Giff (library kindle)
4. The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen (audio)
5. Dead Sleep, Greg Iles (audio)
FEB
6. Alone, Lisa Gardner (audio)
7. Gideon's Sword, Preston, Child
8. The Zero Game, Brad Meltzer
9. Taken, Robert Crais
10 Dead Wood, Danin Amore
11. L.A. Outlaws, T. Jefferson Parker
MAR
12. Half-Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir, Jennette Fulda: So she never says just how she lost the weight. Like, there's no dieting tips or "don't eat this" advice, but she started at around the same weight I did at my maximum and she's lost about 200 pounds by some method. She's amusing, and mostly talks about things she was thinking while she was losing. I can relate to a lot of it. She was in her early 20s, though, so I can't relate to all of it.
13. Pronto, Elmore Leonard (first Raylan Givens): Big fun. I love the tv series "Justified" more than is seemly, so it makes sense that I'd give the books a try. I prefer the series, frankly, as the character is a little more competent and a bit funnier, but his roots are definitely here. Clever plotting and pretty quick pace.
14. Paranoia, Joseph Finder: I have no idea how I picked this up. Probably an Amazon $1.99 sale or a freebie. I have a bunch of those littering my kindle, and I read this one. It was ok. Corporate espionage, but mostly a guy goes to work every day and occasionally lies to people. Not bad, set in the high tech world of around 2003 so a little dated. Characters not too finely drawn, too broad.
15. Riding the Rap, Elmore Leonard (second Raylan Givens): See above.
16. Why We Get Fat, Gary Taubes: Hint — it's carbs. Don't eat 'em, you will be loads healthier and lose tons of weight. Do eat 'em, you'll get fat and probably get cancer, diabetes, etc. Extremly well-researched, fact-filled accounting of the weight loss thinking and research over the last 200 years. Another hint: up until 1970s it was all "stop eating carbs". Something changed, then it was all low fat. He argues the low fat people are completely wrong. Controversial!
I didn't make it through an audio book in March. I'm in the middle of two, and one is depressing but sort of compelling but still depressing (Ann Patchett's State of Wonder), and the other is just ridiculously long (Stephen King's 11-22-63). Maybe I'll pick up a third this month and see if I can bang one out.
