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2012 Reading List

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January

1. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison (1/4)
2. The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (1/10)

2011 Reading List

2010-12-30T23:05:00.001-08:00

Good Reads profile
2010 List

January
[Maya born 1/3]
1. Your Amazing Newborn by Phyllis H Klaus (1/27)

February
2. The Nursing Mother's Companion by Kathleen Huggins (2/1)
3. The Best American Short Stories 2003 edited by Walter Mosley (2/3)
4. Room by Emma Donoghue (2/6)
5. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich (2/8)
6. ♥ Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly (2/9)
7. Tender Hooks: Poems by Beth Ann Fennelly (2/10)
8. Life is So Good by George Dawson (2/14) (bookclub)
9. Sleeping Through the Night by Jodi A Mindell (2/16)
10. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (2/22)
11. The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp (2/25)
12. King Baby: Poems by Lia Purpura (2/27)
13. Your Baby's First Year by the Academy of American Pediatrics (2/28)

March
14. Plot (Grove Press Poetry Series) by Claudia Rankine (3/1)
15. Sin Eater: Poems by William Reichard (3/2)
16. Find the Girl: Poems by Lightsey Darst (3/3)
17. Dreaming Man, Face Down: Poems by Mark Conway (3/4)
18. On Speaking Terms: Poems by Connie Wanek (3/4)
19. Infancy by Tiffany Field (3/7)
20. Bandanna: An Opera in Two Acts and a Prologue by Paul Muldoon (3/13)
21. Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck (3/14)
22. All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang (3/16) (bookclub)
23. Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood edited by Donya Currie Arias and Hildie S Block (3/18)
24. The 90 Minute Baby Sleep Program by Holly Moore (3/21)
25. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (3/22)
26. kinesthesia: poems by Stephanie Johnson (3/24)
27. ♥ The Resurrection Trade: Poems by Leslie Adrienne Miller (3/25)
28. Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood by Naomi Wolf (3/27)

April
29. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (4/5)
30. The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson (4/6)
31. Deepstep Come Shining: Poems by C.D. Wright (4/10)
32. That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx (4/12) (bookclub)
33. Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler (4/15)
34. Waiting for my Clothes: Poems by Leanne O'Sullivan (4/16)
35. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (4/18)
36. Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman (4/19)
37. Getting Stoned With Savages by J Maarten Troost (4/27)
38. Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems by Adrienne Rich (4/28)

May
39. Fever Dream by Preston & Child (5/2)
40. Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein (5/5)
41. Hecate Lochia: Poems by Hoa Nguyen (5/11)
42. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (5/17)
43. Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival by Alison Wright (5/18)
44. Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen (5/20)
45. Brendan Wolf by Brian Malloy (5/22)
46. The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy (5/27)
47. Bossypants by Tina Fey (5/31) (bookclub)

June
48. Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy (6/1)
49. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl (6/8)
50. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara (6/11)
51. The End by Salvatore Scibona (6/12)
52. Ice Cold by Tess Gerritson (6/14)
53. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (6/19)
54. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini (6/20)
55. Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro (6/23)
56. The Family Bed by Tine Thevenin (6/28)
57. Free Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy (6/30)

July
58. Sign with Your Baby by Dr Joseph Garcia (7/2)
59. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (7/4)
60. Bringing Up Baby: Three Steps to Making Good Decisions in Your Child's First Years by Lerner & Dombro (7/5)
61. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (7/6) (re-read)
62. Rescue by Anita Shreve (7/7) (audio)
63. Baby's First Skills by Miriam Stoppard (7/8)
64. It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather B Armstrong (7/9)
65. How We Are Hungry: Stories by Dave Eggers (7/10)
66. The Sinks: Poems by Ryan Walsh (7/11)
67. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman (7/14)
68. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (7/15)
69. Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read by Bernice Cullinan (7/16)
70. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (7/18)
71. The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis (7/19)
72. The Wilding by Benjamin Percy (7/21) (bookclub)
73. The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell (7/25)
74. The Postpartum Husband (7/31)

August
75. Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs (8/1)
n/a The Wonder of Babies: The World Through the Eyes of a Child by Karen Henrich (8/1)
76. Your Baby is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby by Kevin Nugent (8/2)
77. The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum (8/3) (audio)
78. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (8/6)
79. Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson (8/17)
80. Typical American by Gish Jen (8/18)
81. The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers by Jack Newman (8/21)
82. Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey (8/22)
83. Your Child at Play: Birth to Age Five by Marilyn Segal (8/23)
84. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (8/29) (bookclub)
85. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs (8/30) (audio)
86. Bright from the Start: The Simple, Science-Based Way to Nurture Your Baby's Developing Mind, Birth to Age 3 by Jill Stamm (8/31)

September
87. Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love by Linda Acredolo (9/1)
88. Strong for Potatoes by Cynthia Thayer (9/3)
89. Garner by Kristin Allio (9/5)
90. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (9/7)
91. In the Woods by Tana French (9/11)
92. The Swordfish Tooth: Poems by Cynthia Zarin (9/13)
93. Taboo: Poems by Yusef Komonyakaa (9/14)
94. Broken April by Ismail Kadare (9/16)
95. School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (9/17)
96. Reading Magic by Mem Fox (9/18)
97. We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11 by Tram Nguyen (9/19)
98. Just Kids by Patti Smith (9/24)
99. ♥ Chinoiserie by Karen Rigby (9/25)
100. The Best American Short Stories 2009 ed. Alice Sebold (9/27)
101. Save Me by Lisa Scottoline (9/29) (audio)

October
102. Other People: Poems by Peter Campion (10/2)
103. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (10/3)
104. The Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (10/6)
105. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas (10/10) (audio)
106. What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?: Poems by Arlene Kim (10/14)
107. She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel (10/16)
108. A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior by Norman Herschkowitz (10/17)
109. Two Kisses for Maddy by Matt Logelin (10/18)
110. The Attachment Parenting Book by Dr Sears (10/20)
111. The Blessing: A Memoir by Gregory Orr (10/22) (bookclub)
112. The Lions: Poems by Peter Campion (10/28)
113. War by Sebastian Junger (10/30) (audio)

November
114. Road Work Ahead: Poems by Raymond Luczak (11/1)
115. Escape by Carolyn Jessop (11/6) (audio)
116. Superbaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years by Jenn Berman (11/10)
117. Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto (11/11)
118. Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily by Gioia Timpanelli (11/16)
119. What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Babies Use to Express Their Feelings by Paul Holinger (11/17)
120. World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler (11/19)
121. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan (11/21) (bookclub)
+ transcript of my father's musical, Searching for Romeo
122. Sunday Tertulia by Lori Marie Carlson (11/25)
123. Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This (11/27)

December
124. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (12/2) (audio)
125. The Gathering by Anne Enright (12/3)
126. I Remember by Joe Brainerd (12/3)
127. Mother to Mother by Sindwe Magona (12/7)
128. Graceful Parenting: Simple Advice for Raising a Gentle and Loving Child by Eve M. Dreyfus (12/12)
129. Peony in Love by Lisa See (12/14)
130. 365 TV-free Activities You Can Do With Your Child by Steve Bennett (12/15)
131. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman (12/16) (audio)
132. Your Child at Play: One to Two Years by Marilyn Segal (12/18)
133. Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (12/19)
134. Crossing State Lines: An American Renga ed. Carol Muske-Dukes (12/20)
135. Mercury by Ariana Reins (12/23)
136. Riprap and Cold Mountain: Poems by Gary Snyder (12/26)
137. The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm by Nancy Farmer (12/27)
138. Baby Signs by Linda Acredolo (12/28)
139. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (12/30)

+ my father's musical manuscript and editing my manuscript (working title: Little Pine)

♥ = Favorites

state parks visited

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Minnesota State Park DNR Map

Upcoming:
- Satakah State Park (May 2010)

- Interstate (October 2009)
- Nerstrand Big Woods (June 2009)
- William O'Brien (August 2008)
- Jay Cooke (June 2008)
- Afton (May 2008)
- Frontenac (June 2007)

2010 Reading List

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Good Reads profile

January
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (1/2)
2. Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo (1/3)
3. Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (1/8)
4. * Cooling Time by CD Wright (1/11)
5. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1/13)
- Photographs by Eudora Welty (1/14)
6. * My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habeggger (1/15)
7. Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet by Paula Bennett (1/17)
8. * School of the Arts: Poems by Mark Doty (1/18)
9. Open Me Carefully: The Intimate Letters of Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Dickinson (1/21)
10. * The Last Clear Narrative: Poems by Rachel Zucker (1/22)
11. Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler (1/22)
12. * The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1/23) (re-read; bookclub)
13. No Impact Man by Colin Beavan (1/27)
14. Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (1/28) (audio)
15. Night-Sea: Poems by Rachel Moritz (1/29)
16. Green Barbarians by Ellen Sandbeck (1/29)
17. Project X by Jim Shepard (1/30)

February
18. Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein (2/1)
19. Crossing the Moon by Paulette Bates Alden (2/4)
20. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2/6)
21. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (2/8)
22. Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof (2/8)
23. A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston (2/9)
24. Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler (2/10)
25. Selected Poems by George Oppen (2/11) (school)
26. PCOS: A Woman's Guide to Dealing with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (2/14)
27. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (2/15)
28. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg (2/16) (audio)
29. Crush: Poems by Richard Siken (2/17)
30. Selected Poems by Denise Levertov (2/18) (school)
31. Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by Robin Marantz Henig (2/21)
32. Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers & Writers on Tattoos (2/22) (bookclub)
33. Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities (2/24)
34. A Wave: Poems by John Ashbery (2/25) (school)

March
35. The Birth House (3/2)
36. Averno: Poems by Louise Gluck (3/4) (school)
37. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama (3/6) (audio)
38. Child of Mine: Writers on the First Year of Motherhood (3/7)
39. Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates (3/8)
40. Tiger's Daughter by Bharata Mukherjee (3/11)
41. The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (3/13)
42. So Far From God by Ana Castillo (3/15)
43. Plainsong by Kent Haruf (3/16)
44. Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd + Ann Kidd Taylor (3/18) (audio)
45. Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm (3/20) (bookclub)
46. The Wife of Winter: Poems by Michael Dennis Browne (3/27)
47. Mommy Wars: Stay at Home Moms and Career Moms Face Off. etc (3/28)
48. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (3/29)
49. Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies (3/30)
50. Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg (3/31) (audio)

April
51. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (4/1)
52. Figure Studies: Poems by Claudia Emerson (4/2)
53. Smoke from the Fires: Poems by Michael Dennis Browne (4/3)
54. You Won't Remember This: Poems by Michael Dennis Browne (4/4)
55. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (4/5)
56. Things I Can't Tell You: Poems by Michael Dennis Browne (4/7)
57. Unrest: Poems by Joanna Rawson (4/8)
58. Body Painting: Poems by Jane Hillberry (4/9)
59. Humanimal, a project for future children by Bhanu Kapil (4/10)
60. The Sister: a novel of Emily Dickinson by Paola Kaufmann (4/12)
61. Magical Thinking by August Burroughs (4/14)
62. The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett (4/15) (audio)
63: Flow: the Cultural Story of Menstruation (4/16) (bookclub)
64. A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson (4/18)
65. The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor (4/20)
66. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (4/23) (audio)
67. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles (4/24)
68. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (4/26)

May
69. The Body is Water by Julie Schumacher (5/10)
70. Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo (5/11)
71. Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth by Randi Hutter Epstein (5/12)
72. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova (5/13) (audio)
73. Descendant: Poems by Marianne Boruch (5/20)
74. Until I Find You by John Irving (5/21)
75. Bewitched Playground: Poems by David Rivard (5/22)
76. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (5/24) (bookclub)
77. The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter (5/25)
78. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende (5/27)
79. * Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport (5/30)
80. Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (5/31)

June
81. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (6/1)
82. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (6/2)
83. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse (6/3)
84. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labrinyth (6/7)
85. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian (6/8)
86. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Demigod Files (6/8)
87. * Push by Sapphire (6/9)
88. The Keening by A. LaFaye (6/10)
89. Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (6/11)
90. Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (6/12)
91. My Life in Orange by Tim Guest (6/13)
92. N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto (6/14)
93. Little Bee by Chris Cleave (6/15)
94. The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz (6/16)
95. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (6/20)
96. In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark (6/21)
97. The Night Villa by Carol Goodman (6/22) (audio)
98. The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo (6/23)
99. Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen (6/24)
100. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (6/27)

July
101. Waterborne: Poems by Linda Gregerson (7/3)
102. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (7/5)
103. Magnetic North by Linda Gregerson (7/6)
104. Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett (7/8)
105. The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle (7/10)
106. Wise Poison: Poems by David Rivard (7/11)
107. * The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep: Poems by Linda Gregerson (7/11)
108. * Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (7/12)
109. Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses: Poems by Alberto Rios (7/13)
110. Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto (7/13)
111. Ace of Cakes by Duff Goldman (7/14)
112. The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body: Poems by Alberto Rios (7/17)
113. Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers (7/19)
114. Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life by Raymond Mungo (7/20)
115. The Lime Orchard Woman: Poems by Alberto Rios (7/21)
116. The Theater of Night: Poems by Alberto Rios (7/21)
117. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier (7/22) (audio)
118. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry by Kenneth Koch (7/22)
119. Cortege: Poems by Carl Phillips (7/23)
120. Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry ed. Billy Collins (7/26)
121. A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger (7/27) (audio)
122. Not Yet Feathers: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life by Lola Haskins (7/28) (taught)
123. A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates (7/29) (audio)
124. Tea: Poems by DA Powell (7/29)
125. Cocktails: Poems by DA Powell (7/30)

August
126. World's End by TC Boyle (8/2)
127. Wild Ginger by Anchee Min (8/4)
128. Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee (8/6)
129. Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers by Amy Sutherland (8/8)
130. Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 by Carl Phillips (8/12)
131. Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods: Poems by Paula Bohince (8/13)
132. * Bird Eating Bird: Poems by Kristin Naca (8/14)
133. Mister Skylight: Poems by Ed Skoog (8/15)
134. Temper: Poems by Beth Bachmann (8/15)
135. The Road to Wellville by TC Boyle (8/16)
136. Wait for Me, I'm Gone: Poems by Amy Holman (8/17)
137. Please: Poems by Jericho Brown (8/17)
138. Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food by Gene Baur (8/18)
139. * Juvenilia: Poems by Ken Chen (8/19)
140. Turbulence: A Novel by Jia Pingwa (8/29)
141. A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (8/31)

September
142. What to Expect When You Are Expecting (9/1)
143. The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song by Ellen Bryant Voigt (9/2)
144. 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day edited by Billy Collins (9/3)
145. Pleasure Dome: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komonyakaa (9/4)
146. Morning Poems by Robert Bly (9/4)
147. What Have I Ever Lost By Dying: Poems by Robert Bly (9/5)
148. The Insanity of Empire: Poems Against the Iraq War by Robert Bly (9/5)
149. Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems by Robert Bly (9/6)
150. Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (9/7)
151. Blackbird and Wolf: Poems by Henri Cole (9/8)
152. The End of the Alphabet: Poems by Claudia Rankine (9/8)
153. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir (9/9) (audio)
154. Face: Poems by Sherman Alexie (9/10)
155. Dread: Poems by Ai (9/11)
156. The Cow: Poems by Ariana Reines (9/12)
157. The Good Body by Eve Ensler (9/13)
158. Wind in a Box: Poems by Terrance Hayes (9/14) (school)
159. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosney (9/23) (audio)
160. Ina May Gaskin's Guide to Childbirth (9/29)

October
161. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer (10/4)
162. * We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (10/6) (re-read) (bookclub)
163. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (10/7)
164. Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin (10/8) (audio)
165. Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto (10/10)
166. The Iliad by Homer, trans. Lattimore (10/11) (school)
167. Chronic: Poems by DA Powell (10/11) (taught)
168. Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato (10/15)
169. After the Plague: Stories by TC Boyle (10/17)
170. Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min (10/20)
171. By Myself: An Autobiography by DA Powell and David Trinidad (10/21)
173. The Multicultibohosideshow by Alexs D Pate (10/23)
174. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (10/24)
175. Native Guard: Poems by Natasha Tretheway (10/25) (taught)
176. My Life, The Early Years, Part I by Bill Clinton (10/26) (audio)
177. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (10/27)
178. Greed: Poems by Ai (10/30)
179. The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity by Jutta Richter (10/31)

November
180. Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates (11/1)
181. * The Country Between Us: Poems by Carolyn Forche (11/2) (re-read) (taught)
182. Here, Bullet: Poets by Brian Turner (11/3) (re-read) (taught)
183. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (11/4)
184. The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates (11/5)
185. Caught by Harlan Coben (11/6)
186. Sorry, Tree: Poems by Eileen Myles (11/7)
187. * Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger (11/8) (bookclub)
188. Words for Empty and Words for Full: Poems by Bob Hicok (11/9) (school)
189. Practical Water: Poems by Brenda Hillman (11/9) (school)
190. The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (11/10)
191. * Little Boat: Poems by Jean Valentine (11/11)
192. * This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich (11/14)
193. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (11/15)
194. My Life, The Presidential Years, Part II by Bill Clinton (11/16) (audio)
195. Thousand Pieces of Gold by RuthAnne Lum McCunn (11/17)
196. One Stick Song: Poems by Sherman Alexie (11/19)
197. My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer (11/20)
198. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (11/21) (audio)
199. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (11/21)
200. Sapogonia by Ana Castillo (11/22)
201. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (11/23) (audio)
202. Unmentionables: Poems by Beth Ann Fennelly (11/24)
203. Cold Water Memory: Poems by Greg Watson (11/25)
204. Things You Will Never See Again: Poems by Greg Watson (11/25)
205. The Hole in the Wall by Lisa Rowe Fraustino (11/26)
206. Foreign Wife Elegy: Poems by Yuko Taniguchi (11/26)
207. Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (11/27)
208. The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillio (11/28)
209. The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery (11/30)

December
210. Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles by Kira Henehan (12/3)
211. Vestments by John Reimringer (12/6)
212. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (12/7) (audio)
213. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thaddeus Carhart (12/7)
214. Thirst: Stories by Ken Kalfus (12/8)
215. Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (12/10)
216. Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (12/11)
217. Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by BH Fairchild (12/12)
218. The Odyssey by Homer; translation by Robert Fagles (12/13) (re-read) (school)
219. * Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees: Poems by Julianna Baggott (12/14)
220. Away by Amy Bloom (audio) (12/14)
221: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (12/15)
222. Having a Baby, Naturally: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Peggy O'Mara (12/16)
223. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (12/21) (audio)

224. Drood by Dan Simmons (12/22) (bookclub)
225. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (12/28)
226. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (12/29)
227. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (12/30)
228. Husband-Coached Childbirth: the Bradley Method by Robert A Bradley (12/31)

+ 3 manuscripts during thesis seminar and editing my own chapbook, The Recent History of Middle Sand Lake

* = favorites

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2008-07-29T13:21:00.000-07:00

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE:
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Last Life by Claire Messud
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- if on a winter's night a traveler... by Italo Calvino
- Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Going to Meet the Man: Stories by James Baldwin
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Valencia by Michelle Tea
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Pope Joan by Donna Norfolk Cross
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

POETRY:
- The Wellspring by Sharon Olds (& all other books by Sharon Olds)
- Music for Landing Planes By by Eireann Lorsung
- American Primitive by Mary Oliver
- Coming Back to the Body by Joyce Sutphen
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
- The Curator of Silence by Jude Nutter
- The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche
- Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
- The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
- The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda
- Connecting the Dots by Maxine Kumin
- Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
- Skirt Full of Black by Sun Yung Shin
- Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
- The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich
- Eating the Honey of Words by Robert Bly
- 100 Selected Poems by ee cummings
- Festival Bone by Karen Rigby
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- My Life by Lyn Hejinian
- Killing Floor by Ai
- Rose by Li-Young Lee
- In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland
- American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander

MEMOIR:
- Liar's Club and Cherry by Mary Karr
- The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
- An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
- The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

OTHER NON-FICTION:
- Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
- Grayson by Lynn Cox
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- What is Found There: Essays on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich

DRAMA:
- Wit by Margaret Edson
- The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
- The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
- Angels in American, Parts I & II by Tony Kushner
- Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terence McNally

CLASSICS:
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- William Shakespeare's plays (in particular, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- A Doll's House by Ibsen
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Beowulf
- Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Washington Square by Henry James
- Medea by Euripides

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2008-07-27T17:40:00.001-07:00

FILM:
- Amelie
- The Anniversary Party
- Antonia's Line
- Babel
- Brokeback Mountain
- Crash
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Garden State
- High Art
- Hotel Rwanda
- Il Postino
- In America
- Kikujiro
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Life is Beautiful
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Lives of Others
- Lost in Translation
- Ma Vie En Rose
- Margot at the Wedding
- Maria Full of Grace
- Memento
- Monsoon Wedding
- The Savages
- Sex and Lucia
- The Squid and the Whale
- A Very Long Engagement
- Volver
- Whale Rider

TELEVISION
- The Office
- Planet Earth
- Sex and the City
- Six Feet Under
- The West Wing

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2008-07-19T09:58:00.000-07:00

Me + Carolyn Forche

Me + Sharon Olds

Minnesota Poetry Resources
- Anderson Center
- Banfill Locke Center for the Arts
- Coffee House Press
- Gendun Editions
- Graywolf Press
- Holy Cow! Press
- Intermedia Arts / SASE
- League of Minnesota Poets
- Loft Literary Center
- Milkweed Editions
- MNartists.org
- Minnesota Book Arts
- Minnesota State Arts Board
- Open Book
- Powderhorn Writers Festival
- Red Dragonfly Press
- Split Rock Arts
- Sutton Hoo
- U of MN Split Rock Arts
- Yes Press

Writing Retreats
- * Alliance of Artist Communities
- Anderson Center
- Hedgebrook
- MacDowell Colony
- Millay Colony
- Soapstone
- Spring Creek
- Vermont Studio Center
- Yaddo

Writing Workshops
- * Shaw Guides to Writing Conferences
- Bread Loaf
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
- Napa Valley Writers' Conference
- New York Summer Writers Institute
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival
- Split Rock Arts
- Squaw Valley
- Tin House
- Under the Volcano

Online Resources
- Academy of American Poets
- American Life in Poetry
- AWP
- Friends of William Stafford
- Library of Congress poetry page
- Links to Poetry Presses
- Modern American Poetry
- New Pages
- Norton Poets
- Poetry Archive
- Poetry Daily
- Poetry.org
- Poetry Foundation
- Poetry Kit
- Poetry Society (UK)
- Poetry Society (US)
- Poets & Writers
- Poets Against the War
- Web del Sol
- Winning Writers

Grants
- A Room of Her Own Foundation
- Bush Foundation
- Center for Career Development
- Fund for Women Artists
- Jerome Foundation
- McKnight Foundation
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Puffin Foundation

Reading
- music for landing planes by by Eireann Lorsung
- Festival Bone by Karen Rigby
- Savage Machinery by Karen Rigby
- Donner: A Passing by Shana Youngdahl

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2008-07-18T12:31:00.000-07:00

:: friendy faces ::
kelly
christian
emily
chris
nikki
chelsea
beth
angie
michelle
annie
mike
kate
mandy

:: poet friends ::
collective
eireann
jen
stephanie
shana
bria
jonene
teresa

:: reading ::
materials for a time machine
webster's daily
rag and bone
writing sisu

my topography
sweet | salty
sunday school rebel
blue poppy

:: viewing ::
3191
abby try again
camilla engman
daily coyote
flossy-p
full instrumental
hei, astrid
hrsj
mayfly
mischievous meg
port2port
simply breakfast
simply photo
the glass doorknob
the habit of being
unruly things
gracia
(+) louise
lisa's musings
shanna murray
little yellowbird

:: making ::
minecreations
orangette
soulemama

:: style ::
wikstenmade
uniform studio
shaybelle
assemblage
blood orange
tiffanyinthetrees

:: joint effort ::
call + response
pasta sisters forever
morling workshop
forche workshop
:: passwords needed ::
the countdown
a literature of our own