Book Log for 2008

1) Harris, Charlaine “Dead Until Dark” (Re-read)
2) Harris, Charlaine “Living Dead in Dallas” (Re-read)
3) Harris, Charlaine “Club Dead” (Re-read)
4) Harris, Charlaine “Dead to the World” (Re-read)
5) Harris, Charlaine “Dead as a Doornail”
6) Harris, Charlaine “Definitely Dead”
7) Genzmer, Herbert; Sybille Kershner; and Christian Schutz “Great Disasters in History”
8) Wagner, Holly “God Chicks: Living Life as a 21st Century Woman”
9) Reynolds, R.D. and Blade Braxton “The Wrestlecrap Book of Lists!”
10) Jackson, Guida M. “Women Who Ruled: A Biographical Encylopedia”
11) Edwards, Anne “Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret”
12) Gould, Lewis L. “Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans”
13) Witcover, Jules “Party of the People: A History of the Democrats”
14) George, Margaret “Helen of Troy”
15) DeFrank, Thomas M. “Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford”
16) Hibbert, Christopher “The House of Medici: It’s Rise and Fall”
17) Fellure, Jacob M. “The Everything Middle East Book: The Nations, Their Histories, and Their Conflicts”
18) Jordan, Hamilton “Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency”
19) Smith, Hannah Whitall “The God of All Comfort”
20) Fraser, Antonia “Mary Queen of Scots”
21) Tyldesley, Joyce “Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra”
22) Sebold, Alice “The Almost Moon A Novel”
23) Reynolds, R.D. and Bryan Alvarez “Wrestlecrap and Figure Four Weekly Present: The Death of WCW”
24) Goodwin, Doris Kearns “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys”
25) Josephus “The New Complete Works of Josephus” (Revised and Expanded Edition) Translated by William Whiston, Commentary by Paul L. Maier
26) Carr, Matthew “The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism”
27) Davis, Kenneth C. “Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned”
28) Elliott, Dave; C.J. Henderson and R. Allen Leider “A Field Guide to Monsters”
29) The Bathroom Readers’ Hysterical Institute “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again”
30) Satrapi, Marjane “Persepolis The Story of a Childhood”
31) Riley, Andy “The Book of Bunny Suicides”
32) Riley, Andy “Return of the Bunny Suicides”
33) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Early Centuries” (Re-read)
34) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Apogee”
35) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Decline and Fall”
36) Jericho, Chris “A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex”
37) Gibbs, Nancy and Michael Duffy “The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House”
38) Wiseman, Jay “SM 101 A Realistic Introduction” (Second Edition)
39) Pahlavi, Farah “An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah A Memoir”
40) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor “The Idiot”
41) Pilcher, Tim “E: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy”
42) Oram, Richard “The Kings & Queens of Scotland”
43) Skal, David J. “The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror”
44) Loverro, Thom (with Paul Heyman, Tazz and Tommy Dreamer) “The Rise and Fall of ECW Extreme Championship Wrestling”
45) Talbot, David “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years”
46) Laurie, Greg “The Great Compromise”
47) Reagan, Ronald “The Reagan Diaries” (Edited by Douglas Brinkley)
48) Knecht, Robert “The Valois: Kings of France 1328 – 1589”
49) Osgood, Charles “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidental Campaign Trail”
50) Cronin, Mike “Irish History for Dummies”
51) Hurnard, Hannah “Hinds’ Feet on High Places”
52) Busby, Horace “The Thirty-First of March An Imtimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson’s Final Days in Office”
53) Tolkien, J.R.R. “The Lord of the Rings” (The three books in one, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers”, “The Return of the King”.)
54) Prasso, Sheridan “The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient”
55) Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House”
56) Weir, Alison “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”
57) Perrottet, Tony “Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped”
58) McQueen, Keven “Kentucky Book of the Dead”
59) Timberg, Robert “John McCain: An American Odyssey”
60) Gold, Claudia “Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great”
61) Riggs, Charlie “Learning to Walk With God”
62) Brokaw, Tom “Boom! Talking About the Sixties”
63) Sa, Shan “Empress” (A Novel)
64) Morgan, Michele “Simple Wicca”
65) Husain, Shahrukh “The Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legends”
66) Felzenberg, Alvin S. “The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game”
67) May, Antoinette “Pilate’s Wife” (Novel)


Beneath the cut is my book log for 2008. 67 books in total, which puts me under last year's total of 89, but it's because I had more long books to read. Comments, questions and opinions are welcome. ^_^

I had a nice Christmas. Me, my folks, my sister, her son, my cousin, his wife and their sons came over for dinner and presents. Not that it matters but I received:

3 Nutcrackers (one a prince on a rocking horse, one of the Rat King from the Nutcracker, and a Chicago Cubs one - not any particular cubbie, just one with the uniform, bat, mitt, etc.)
The Triple H DVD, and 2008 Night of Champions DVD (which I hadn't asked for, but it does have Katie Lea vs MJ on it so its good)
A couple of books..one on the Hapsburgs, a historical novel "The Tsarina's Daughter" by Carolly Erickson, and one about Empress Charlotte of Mexico (also a Hapsburg by marriage).
WWE Raw vs Smackdown 08 for Nintendo DS
Three tops, one featuring a very nicely done picture of Triple H in grey on black material.

And...

A Nintendo Wii!

Plus the games Wii Sports (came with it), the Godfather Blackhand Edition, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Paper Mario and SD! vs Raw 09.

This is the first time I've ever thought a machine was smarter than me, but by golly this thing is. I've got it connected to the internet, managed to connect it to my TV (not all that hard actually), already made my Mii, DLed the Nintendo Station and played some rounds of Tennis & Bowling.

So! Anyone else who has a Wii and wants to Wii with me, I'd love to Wii with you. :D (Providing we have the same games...I'm still so clueless about some of these things, I just know there's a way to play with people who're some distance away from me. Whoo hoo!)

Plus this thing plays Gamecube games. I think the only one I'd be interested in though is the Godzilla game me and Aldous played so I'll have to look for that one.

I'm still not sure how to get Wii points so I can buy some of the older games they offer on the Wii Channel.

But honestly I've been down, mostly because I miss Andrew..it'll be a year this Thursday. I'm lonely and prone to crying this last month. Plus there's been so much death these last few months. Mostly a few of our established patients (a lot of them Dr Weiss' patients - which he noticed), but Jan's mom died last week (a coworker I'm particularly fond of) to top it off.

I'm so sick of death. I'm glad 2008 is over. Except for two bright spots (Becky and Aldous' wedding, and Obama's win), this year has sucked big time. I'm glad to see it end. I really hope 2009 is better.