The Reading List

I have been rather busy recently. Working 11, 12, and 13 hour days, and keeping your home, clothes, and self clean without running water leaves little time for writing blog posts. All of the free time that I have enjoyed, I have made sure to spend reading (because it makes me happy). So here is a lazy blog post, a list of all the books I have read thus far this year....

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My Bondage and My Freedom – Frederick Douglas (tremendous)
Getting Stoned with Savages – J. Maarten Troost
A Concise History of the Rehoboth Basters
Giving – Bill Clinton
Desert Notes - Barry Lopez
The Inferno - Dante
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
The Aeneid - Virgil
Papillon – Henri Charriere
The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
Carry on Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse (delightful)
It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
The Reader – Bernard Schlick (overrated)
Mozambique – I forget who wrote this travel book
Three short novels by Herman Melville (Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy
Budd)
Nichomachean Ethics - Aristotle
The Truth: With Jokes – Al Franken
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Don’t Run, Whatever You Do: My Adventures as an African Safari Guide – Peter Allison
Profiles of the Future – Arthur C. Clarke
Harry Potter #1 – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #2 – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #3 – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #4 – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #5 – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #6 – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #7 – J.K. Rowling (you may infer that I liked these books)
Messiah – Gore Vidal
Different Seasons – Stephen King (This book contains "Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption")
Over the Top – Joel Don Humphreys (the absurd Sly Stallone star vehicle in which he plays an arm-wrestling truck driver trying to reconcile with the son he left at a young age, was apparently actually based on this book)
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room – Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

I plan on putting more effort into my post next week!