John Brinckerhoff Clements

2010-08: Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley
2010-08: The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope
2010-07: Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
2010-07: Born To Run, Christopher McDougall -- Chapter 25 was quite good
2010-06: Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
2010-05: Everything and More, David Foster Wallace -- entertaining though filled with small mistakes
2010-04: Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2010-03: Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut -- it's been too long since I read any Kurt Vonnegut
2010-03: Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby -- Light and sweet
2010-02: Physics for Future Presidents, Richard Muller -- entertaining, edifying, and light.
2009-11: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery -- a really affectionate and wonderful book.
2009-10: The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins -- edifying and meaty and occasionally shrill
2009-09: The Dain Curse, Dashiell Hammett -- much better than I'd remembered it.
2009-08: The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler -- many thanks, Jack Williams.
2009-08: One Man's Meat, E.B. White -- a lovely look at a time that's getting further and further away.
2009-08: The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
2009-06: Travels with Charlie, John Steinbeck
2008-10: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie -- can't say much about this book in nine words
2008-08: Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte -- Grr! That Darn Heathcliff!
2008-08: The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
2008-06: The Golden Compass -- thanks, David!
2008-04: The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon -- this book's atmosphere got _really_ glued on to me. Kind of scary.
Umm... I've read lots of books in here, like.. hmmm.
2007-09: Strange Angel, George Pendle -- a great biography of Jack Parsons, whom I'd never heard of either.
2007-08: Five Skies, Ron Carlson -- a lovely book.
2007-08: The Bafut Beagles, Gerald Durell
2007-08: The Road, Cormac McCarthy -- very quick, very compelling, VERY depressing.
2007-05: Freedom Evolves, Daniel Dennett -- fantastic, but then I think I agreed already.
2007-05: Assembling California, John McPhee -- I'm still trying to read enough geology to impress Anika.
2007-04: Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain -- a super fast read, very entertaining and pretty superficial.
2006-07: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Lauren Slater
2006-06: Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home , Judith Larner Lowry
2006-06: Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards, Sara Stein
2005-10: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman, edited by Michelle Feynman
2005-09: Introduction to Water in California, David Carle -- fascinating!
2005-09: Bicycle: the History, David Herlihy
2005-07: The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
2005-06: Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth -- transporting, but not in the normal sense
2005-06: Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner -- very entertaining but short and superficial
2005-06: The Big House, George Howe Colt -- this book has cost me many thousands of dollars.
2005-05: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami -- he takes you to a mysterious world.
2005-04: Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2005-03: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
2005-01: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire -- very moving
2005-01: Traveling Mercies, Annie Lamott -- inspirational
2005-01: A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
2004-12: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson (read approx. 19 times this week)
2004-11: Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett
2004-09: No Way to Treat a First Lady, Christopher Buckley
2004-08: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
2004-08: The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2004-06: The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, Michael Brower & Warren Leon
2004-05: <i>The Metaphysical Club</i>, Louis Menand
2004-04: <i>Straight Man</i>, Richard Russo