I was then wondering how it was possible that I've read all those books, when I didn't even remember the list. So here's some fun numbers.
There are 16 books on the list. (1 of the books on the list is a series with 13 books in it. If you include that series, it's 28 books.)
I've read 8 of the 16 books. (If you include the 13 book series as part of the percentage, I've read 20 of 28 books, and my percentage read jumps up to 71%.)
5 of those 8 were purchased for me by friends and family who love me.
1 of them I was already reading when the list was made.
1 of them I found at the library and remembered that it had been recommended.
1 of them I borrowed from my brother.
And of the 8 I've read, I've LOVED 5 of them, liked 2, and disliked 1.
So, thank you to those who bought me books that I enjoyed. And thanks, in general, to people who recommend books to me. I love books.
Lastly, here's a plug for goodreads. It's like Facebook for books and I love it!
The list, with ones I've read in blue, and who recommended it in ( )s:
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Mom)
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (Chad)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Kendra)
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Josh)
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (Justin)
Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoevsky (Collin)
Maus part 1 by Spiegelman (Justin)
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Collin)
Anna Karina by Leo Tolstoy (Katie & Dad)A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Justin)
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Bushman (Dad)
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Katie)
Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erikson (Justin)The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (Justin)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Julianne)
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (me)
4 comments:
I recommended Crime & Punishment? I retract that recommendation. It's a classic so I suppose you can justify it, and I did like it, but there's a reason I didn't send it out with that huge stack before.
I'd also like to submit negative recommendations for The Alchemist (hated it), Blink (half as good as Outliers), and Maus (hated it).
Justin might have recommended Crime & Punishment and then you backed it.
Blink was recommended to me before Outliers was even published, so that's fair. I loved Outliers, so I'm likely to read Blink. Maus and The Alchemist, I'm not so sure.
If you want another Gladwell, I'd still do Tipping Point over Blink. Personally, I'd rather have the unknown than the known mediocre.
It's a deal. If I read another Gladwell, it'll be Tipping Point over Blink.
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