A Cat Nap

So, I’m a big reader. I love to snuggle up with a good book. I read many different books: fiction, science and technology, history, parenting, biography, finance, self-help, and memoirs. I’ve often wanted to keep a list and some comments on the books I read, and I think this blog is a great place to do so. So I’m going to write some blog posts about books, and I’ve created a tag to label them. But I also made this page, so that one can easily see an overview of the books I’ve commented on and read.

Current reading:

The Successful Business Plan, 4th Edition: Secrets and Strategies, by Rhonda Abrams

Read: May-June 2008.

Past readings:

Some of these don’t have active links yet, because I have not yet made a post about them. I’ve listed them here anyhow, as a list of those books that I’ve read and loved.

• Vampire Hunter D Manga Volume 1, by Hideyuki Kikuchi (Author) and Saiko Takaki (Artist)
  • Read: April 2008
• Who’s Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology, by Linley Erin Hall
  • Read: December 2007 - January 2008
  • I highly recommend this for anyone interested in learning more about what the current challenges facing women in STEM fields are. For people involved in it now I’d like to think that they would have already noticed many of these things, but then I am very aware of them and not everyone pays as much attention. I would have loved to have read this when I was still an undergrad, it would have been a one-stop shop for the information I’ve cultivated over the past 3 or 4 years of immersion as a women in undergraduate and then graduate science education. With knowledge comes the ability to plan and to work around or to even, gasp, change the way things are.
    
• Complete Book of Quilting, by Maggi McCormick Gordon
  • Read: December 2007.
• Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities, by Alexandra Robbins
  • Read: November 2007.
• The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Read: October - November 2007.
• Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers, by Mary Ann Mason
  • Read: November 2007.
  • It’s mentioned in this post.
• The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve, by Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George
  • Read: October 2007.
• My ‘Dam Life: Three Years in Holland, by Sean Condon
  • Read: September 2007.
• Good Night, Sleep Tight: The Sleep Lady’s Gentle Guide to Helping Your Child Go to Sleep , Stay Asleep, And Wake Up Happy, by Kim West and Joanne Kenen
  • Read: August 2007.
• His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass), by Philip Pullman
  • Read: August 2007.
• Neuromancer, by William Gibson
  • Read: July 2007.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7), by J. K. Rowling
  • Read: July 2007 .
  • I loved it!
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6), by J. K. Rowling
  • Reread: July 2007.
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5), by J. K. Rowling
  • Reread: July 2007.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4), by J. K. Rowling
  • Reread/skimmed: July 2007.
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3), by J. K. Rowling
  • Reread: July 2007.
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2), by J. K. Rowling
  • Reread: July 2007.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1), by J. K. Rowling
  • Reread: July 2007.
• The Nest Newlywed Handbook: An Owner’s Manual for Modern Married Life, by Carley Roney
  • Read: July 2007.
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman
  • Read: June 2007.
• Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion, edited by Dale McGowan
  • Read: June 2007.
  • Read the post.
• I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, by Bill Bryson
  • Read: June 2007.
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
  • Read: April-May 2007
  • Read the post.
  • This book is one of the best books I have ever read. I strongly recommend you check it out!
• Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D., by Robert Peters
  • Read: October 2006
  • I can’t recommend this enough, as I did in this post.
    
• Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It, by Andrea Buchanan
  • Read: May 2006
  • Read the post.
• It’s a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters, by Andrea Buchanan
  • Read: May 2006
  • Read the post.
• It’s a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, by Andrea Buchanan
  • Read: May 2006
  • Read the post.
• The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It, by Susan Maushart
  • Read: April 2006