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Eleven

1.  Floss.

No, wait.  That was last year.

Instead of resolutions this year, I decided to list eleven books I want to read during 2011.  This isn’t in any particular order (or any type of organizational system at all, really).

I’m feeling the need to spend more quality time with my books.  As much as I love the Internet, I feel that my brain has become too easily distractable, if not a little mooshy around the edges.

All links go to the book’s amazon.com page

  1. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Michael Foucault)
  2. Landscape and Memory (Simon Schama)
  3. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
  4. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (Hubert Dreyfus)
  5. A Briefer History of Time (Stephen Hawking)1
  6. The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature (H.P. Lovecraft)
  7. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
  8. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War (Charles Bracelen Flood)
  9. The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose (T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Raney) 2
  10. Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s American (Laura Shapiro)
  11. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan)
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  1. I’ve started Hawking’s book twice before, and it made my head hurt.  I’m willing to give it another go, since I feel brain cells dying off by the thousands these days.  This, and Nos. 6 and 9, will be the most difficult for me. [↩]
  2. A review on the amazon page states that The Waste Land has “a high degree of allusive difficulty.”  No sh*t, Sherlock.  That’s why I bought the annotated version without blinking.  I seriously doubt the little paperback from my English major days in college would help me navigate it alone. [↩]

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