2006 Media Recap
Sunday, January 21st, 2007 12:22 pmLooking back over my 2006 entries tagged "books" and "movies," I see I had an interesting looking year, but my review writing is not really reflective of how I spend my down time.
That’s the published year in review. The 2007 reading list includes last year’s unfinished or untouched stuff, a couple of poets and a teen-aged wizard’s final chapter.
If You Want to Write (A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit) by Brenda Ueland
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Flight Into Danger by E. K. Barber
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by JK Rowling
Wicked (The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) by Gregory Maguire
The Cohousing Handbook by Chris Hansen (at this point, not likely to ever be my lifestyle, but still interesting)
And Italian Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis which jumped to the front of the list and is currently underway since I liberated it from![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bzdchris’s bookshelf last weekend. What? Cookbooks are always going to beat out everything else.
I’ve already finished Heat by Bill Buford (currently on the second pass) which I highly recommend to anyone who has an interest in food, cooking, restaurants, Mario Batali, Italy, or if you just love the sound of the Italian language (we’ve got it in audio format, read by Buford, and he does a great job of the telling and reading). Bill thought he wanted to learn about professional cooking, the underbelly of the restaurant industry, so he indentured himself to Batali, learned tons of stuff along the way, and finally realized that his mission all along had been to learn about real food, real cooking, the kind of stuff you only get from the current holder of generations’ of wisdom, not the stuff you get from three-star restaurants. Love it.
That’s the published year in review. The 2007 reading list includes last year’s unfinished or untouched stuff, a couple of poets and a teen-aged wizard’s final chapter.
If You Want to Write (A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit) by Brenda Ueland
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Flight Into Danger by E. K. Barber
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by JK Rowling
Wicked (The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) by Gregory Maguire
The Cohousing Handbook by Chris Hansen (at this point, not likely to ever be my lifestyle, but still interesting)
And Italian Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis which jumped to the front of the list and is currently underway since I liberated it from
bzdchris’s bookshelf last weekend. What? Cookbooks are always going to beat out everything else. I’ve already finished Heat by Bill Buford (currently on the second pass) which I highly recommend to anyone who has an interest in food, cooking, restaurants, Mario Batali, Italy, or if you just love the sound of the Italian language (we’ve got it in audio format, read by Buford, and he does a great job of the telling and reading). Bill thought he wanted to learn about professional cooking, the underbelly of the restaurant industry, so he indentured himself to Batali, learned tons of stuff along the way, and finally realized that his mission all along had been to learn about real food, real cooking, the kind of stuff you only get from the current holder of generations’ of wisdom, not the stuff you get from three-star restaurants. Love it.
