4 posts tagged “to_read”

great story on npr, and other tidbits...

Mar 16, 2007
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Great story on NPR Morning Edition about the Iraq National Library and Archives. The head of the Library says "his library seems like a small beacon of light in the dark." I love hearing great stories like this. =)

In other news, it's ALA Election Day! Don't forget to vote!

And for my TBR news, I finished Bibliophilia, loved it, and moved on to Diary.

nmrt, zoo library, bookmooch in sl, and a book list...

Mar 4, 2007
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Just a few updates from the week:

I was appointed to the ALA NMRT Web Committee beginning at Annual! I'm SO excited!

I started my volunteer position at the St. Louis Zoo Library on Saturday. It was fun! I think I'll really enjoy this experience.

BookMooch had their first gathering at BookMooch's Second Life place this afternoon. It was a blast! Good food, good times. They'll be meeting every Sunday at 11 PST, if anyone else wants to come!

And a book list... I was automatically tagged by reading the post at Literary Cache.

Look at the list of books below: * Bold the ones you’ve read * Italicize the ones you want to read * Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. If you are reading this (and haven't participated yet), tag, you’re it!

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) [A friend recommended this one to me, I promise I'll get around to it!]
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) [my favorite book as a child!]
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

adding more to the tbr list...

Jan 5, 2007
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Work:
^Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country - William Greider [recommended by my boss =)]
^The Simplicity Survival Handbook - Bill Jensen
^Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World - Debra A. Dinnocenzo & Richard B. Swegan

This is probably one of the best [worst?] things about working in a library. I get to shelve all of the returned books, and therefore have time to peruse our collection and find some really neat stuff in the midst of ALL that economic stuff. [I only say worst because my To Be Read list grows almost daily...]

Oh, and I bought a couple of books on my first list: Girl's Guide to Witchcraft and The Case of the Missing Books. Call me crazy, but I'm so into all this library stuff that I'm reading fiction about librarians in my free time. [Still working on Bibliophilia!]

what I plan to read in 2007...

Dec 30, 2006
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Here's what I plan to read in the coming year. This will probably change quite frequently. I've divided it by category: personal, for work, for school, and for my business. [If it has a * then I don't own it yet, and a ^ means I have it checked out from my library!]

Personal
Bibliophilia: A Novella And Stories - Michael Griffith (currently reading)
*A Fairly Honourable Defeat - Iris Murdoch
*The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery - Ian Sansom
*Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
*Girl's Guide to Witchcraft - Mindy Klasky
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
We the Living - Ayn Rand