Now that I have time...

I am going to read for myself more! I'm finally going to go pay my library fines and check out some non-required reading material. Here is my tenative list:

(update - ones bolded I have finished)

The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

What If I had Never Tried It, Valentino Rossi

The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella

In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, Susanna Clarke

Leap of Faith, Queen Noor of Jordan

Lucrezia Borgia, Sarah Bradford

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran, Azadeh Moaveni

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards

The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder, Noah Oppenheim

People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Screw-tape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Master Butcher's Singing Club, Louise Erdrich

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

My Antonia by Willa Cather

There are 25 books here, some classics and some new ones, hopefully I can get them all done this year.

My Buddy and Me!

Look who I met last week!! We're BFF now. Excuse the slightly greasy hair on both of us - it was hot in that room! Go Team Vilsack!