Now with Title!: The Book List

I initially posted without a title. Good thing, too, because it gives me a ready-made title now documenting my neglect–I don’t have to think harder for a title because, frankly, my brain refuses to at the moment.

In my quest to finish Don Quixote, I’ve ended up finishing another book. Can you tell how dedicated I am? This time around, it’s Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America nosing its way past Cervantes. On a recent business trip, I honestly did put effort into reading the adventures of our beloved knight errant, and I made a nice dent into what I have yet to read while waiting in the airport for my delayed flight (four hours, dude). However, when I’m reading on my way to work in the morning, The Express tends to garner my attention a bit more, which is a bit disheartening since it’s just a bunch of AP bulletins slapped together as far as I can tell (though there is some decent local coverage on events and a funny round-up of pithy blog quotes–that’s how it differs from that paragon of journalism, The Michigan Daily). Point is, I’m like Bart Simpson: I can’t promise I’ll try to finish Don Quixote. But I’ll try to try. Onto the book list:

Finished:

1) The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
2) Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
3) Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
4) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
5) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6) Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
7) The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
8) Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
9) Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
10) The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Re-read:

1) Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Currently Reading:

1) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Translation by Edith Grossman)

Waiting To Be Read (Already Purchased, Got as Gifts, Borrowed from My Boyfriend, or Otherwise Accessible without the Use of Funds, But Not an Assurance That I Will Read These Before I Buy More Books):

1) Lost for Words: Hidden History of Oxford English Dictionary by Lynda Mugglestone
2) Whose Bible Is It?: A History of the Scripture through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan
3) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich