Books I read in 2011 (in the order seen in the above image):
The Wrong Place by Brecht Evans
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Life, On the Line by Grant Achatz
Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Love in a Dish and Other Stories by MFK Fisher
Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
Bossypants by Tina Fey
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Friday Night Lights by Henry Bissinger
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
I read more books in a span of a week than I had in month(s) towards the end of the year. Reading Friday Night Lights, it being such an easy read, and me being in Calgary and not wanting to touch a computer (my body is in pain and I want to improve my odds on not getting arthritis) - it created a momentum and routine that made it more conducive to reading. Albeit, the books I read after Friday Night Lights aren’t necessarily literature heavy weights, but it sure felt good to be okay with passing time by just reading a book (a thing I find harder and harder to do these days).
I hope this year will hold more of those moments for me.
Fingers crossed 2012!
