JHENIFER PABILLANO

Books Read in 2005 (An Incomplete List)

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This is a repost of a list I made in 2005. The list is incomplete because the website I was maintaining at the time disappeared and I lost interest in tracking things. But here is what I had up to that point in June/July/August, and then some entries from November.

The preamble stays almost the same as last year’s list—I can read pretty fast, and I thought it might be interesting to track what I’ve been reading all year. ‘Cept this year, I think I’m going to throw magazines onto the list on top of the books. I’m curious as to what my long-form media diet really looks like.

Note on June 5: Sorry, I’m dropping this magazine thing. I read too many of them and I keep forgetting to keep track. So, books only from now on.

So here’s what I’ve been reading since the beginning of the year:


    January 12, 2005

  1. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – David Allen


    January 15, 2005

  2. Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris


    January 16, 2005

  3. Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
  4. Souvenir of Canada 2 – Douglas Coupland


    January 19, 2005

  5. Entertainment Weekly Issue #802 (Jan 21, 2005)


    January 23, 2005

  6. O the Oprah Magazine (February 2005 issue)


    January 26, 2005

  7. Chocky – John Wyndham
  8. Entertainment Weekly Issue #803 (Jan 28, 2005)


    January 27, 2005

  9. Girls in Pants – Ann Brashares


    January 29, 2005

  10. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho


    February 1, 2005

  11. Entertainment Weekly Issue #804/805


    February 8, 2005

  12. Entertainment Weekly Issue #806


    February 14, 2005

  13. Namely Vancouver – Tom Snyders & Jennifer O’Rourke


    Somewhere in February & March 2005

  14. Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynn Truss
  15. Wired’s February issue (Satellite radio)
  16. Wired’s March issue (Hybrid cars!)
  17. Oprah’s February issue (uh, the love & hearts issue?)
  18. Oprah’s March issue (Something about eating well)
  19. Fast Company’s March issue (Extreme jobs)
  20. Geist’s March issue (Scrabble players)
  21. Vanity Fair (Russian models on the cover)
  22. Bust (Amy Sedaris on cover)
  23. Facts & Arguments: Selected Essays from the Globe & Mail – Moira Dann, ed.
  24. Abortion and American politics – Barbara Hinkson Craig and David M. O’Brien.
  25. Abortion: Between freedom and necessity – Janet Hadley
  26. The pro-life/choice debate – Mark Y. Herring
  27. Abortion politics: private morality and public policy – Frederick S. Jaffe, Barbara L. Lindheim, and Philip R. Lee
  28. No neutral ground: abortion politics in an age of absolutes – Karen O’Connor
  29. Abortion politics, women’s movements, and the democratic state: a comparative study of state feminism – Dorothy McBride Stetson, ed.
  30. The Story of the BC Electric Railway Company – Henry Ewert
  31. Vein Magazine (with a weird blue thing on the cover)
  32. Maisonneuve magazine (the March issue with a black cover)
  33. Saturday Night magazine (March, with Michael Bublé on the front)


    Somewhere in April & May 2005

  34. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  35. Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
  36. Shadow of the Hegemon – Orson Scott Card
  37. Shadow Puppets – Orson Scott Card
  38. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
  39. Other People’s Marriages – Shane Watson
  40. Wildly Sophisticated – Nicole Williams
  41. Bad Heir Day – Wendy Holden
  42. I’m The One That I Want – Margaret Cho
  43. A Deadly Game of Magic – Joan Lowery Nixon
  44. What Should I Do With My Life? – Po Bronson
  45. The Art and Craft of Feature Writing – William E. Blundell
  46. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  47. Hard News – Seth Mnookin
  48. Easy Living – Terrence Conran
  49. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  50. Notes from a Big Country – Bill Bryson
  51. Speaking with the Angel – edited by Nick Hornby
  52. Things You Should Know – A.M. Homes
  53. Terry – Douglas Coupland
  54. It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be – Paul Arden


    Somewhere in June, July, & August

  55. Until I Find You – John Irving
  56. The Rotters Club – Jonathan Coe
  57. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
  58. 9th and 13th – Jonathan Coe
  59. The Closed Circle – Jonathan Coe
  60. The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe
  61. The Dwarves of Death – Jonathan Coe
  62. Wine Genius
  63. Kitchen Genius
  64. Cocktail Genius
  65. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  66. The House on the Strand – Daphne du Maurier
  67. White Teeth – Zadie Smith (reread)
  68. About a Boy – Nick Hornby (reread)


    Scattered throughout winter

  69. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
  70. Shadow of the Giant – Orson Scott Card
  71. The Creative Habit – Twyla Tharp
  72. Family Fortunes – Leonore Davidoff & Catherine Hall (Nov 6-16)
  73. Fantastic Beasts (Nov 23)
  74. Harry Potter 1-6 (Nov 19-30)


 

 

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