My Reading List

Oprah has posted her summer reading list. It is a list of 25 books. She also has another list of 10 more books. I suppose someone who doesn't do much else could read 25 books in a summer; it would be a little more than 2 books a week. I'll be happy if I finish one or two books this summer.

Below is my book list I hope to finish in the next few years (in no particular order)

• Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
• World Without End - Ken Follett
• Jazz - Toni Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austin
• Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
• Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
• Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts
• In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
  
• The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
• We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
• The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
• While I Was Gone - Sue Miller
• Switch - Bill Bayer
  

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Girls Like Us

Just finished a great book, Girls Like Us, by Sheila Weller. The girls are Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King; their lives, loves and music. Brings back lots of memories for anyone who grew up in the 60's & 70's and listened to their music. I lived in an apartment in Southern California with three other high school friends. We worked, went to college and partied! What's wonderful is that we are still in contact. The place was named Kilnhouse after the Fleetwood Mac album. Those were my Chelsea mornings. Now I listen to my MP3 player and talk to my friends on Facebook, I recycle and look at food labels for fat and sugar content. Who knew?