Read more books

I know I’m horrible!! I started a new book last night but will hopefully be done today or tomorrow. I started reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. It’s a very short book. Today I’m off to the library to see what they have in philosophical reads because I want to isolate myself for a week and just read a bunch of essays/texts on philosophy and get myself better acquainted with the subject. I will update when I get back :D

1. Guns, Germs and Steele * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
2. Collapse * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
3. The Third Chimpanzee * Jared Diamond -> (Reading)
4. After the Ice: Global Human History -> (unread)
5. Warpped Passages * Lisa Randall -> (Reading)
6. Fingerprints of the Gods * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
7. Mars Mystery * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
8. Basic Philisophical Readings -> (unread)
9. Catch-22 * Joseph Keller -> (Reading)
10. The Hole in the Universe * K. C. Cole -> (Reading)
11. America Alone * Mark Steyn -> (Reading)
12. The End of Food * Patrick Thawick (sp) -> (Reading)

Ok, well the list definitely needs to be revamped!! Some of those I don’t even care to read anymore :s

1. The Third Chimpanzee * Jared Diamon -> (Still not finished)
2. The Hole in the Universe * K. C. Cole -> (Reading)
3. Survivor * Chuck Palhaniuk -> (Reading)
4. The Game * Neil Strauss -> (Reading)
5. American Gods * Neil Gaiman -> (Reading)
6. America Alone * Mark Steyn -> (Reading)
7. Warped Passages * Lisa Randall -> (Reading)

I think that’s the list of my current reads. Hopefully in a couple days I can have that list knocked down a bit seeing as how a few of those books have only a chapter or so left, that I just can’t bring myself around to finishing.

Well, I’ve started reading more books, but so far my problem is finishing them!! I’ve got so many books that I’ve started but I just lose interest just over half way in. I need to find a way to keep that momentum going straight through till the end!

Ok, so several months later (around 3) here is a new update:

1. Guns, Germs and Steele * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
2. Collapse * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
3. The Third Chimpanzee * Jared Diamond -> (Reading)
4. After the Ice: Global Human History -> (unread)
5. Warpped Passages * Lisa Randall -> (Reading)
6. Fingerprints of the Gods * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
7. Mars Mystery * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
8. Basic Philisophical Readings -> (unread)
9. Catch-22 * Joseph Keller -> (Reading)
10. The Hole in the Universe * K. C. Cole -> (Reading)
11. America Alone * Mark Steyn -> (Reading)
12. The End of Food * Patrick Thawick (sp) -> (Reading)

The books that I have read recently:

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife * Audrey Niffengger
2. Memoirs of a Geisha * Arthur Golden
3. Foods that Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer through diet
4. Japanese Women don’t get Old or Fat * Naomi Moriyama
5. The Tipping Point * Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Four Agreements * Don Miguel
7. Steppenwolf * Hermann Hesse
8. Eats, Shoots & Leaves * Lynn Truss
9. Fast Food Nation * Eric Schlosser
10. The 100-Mile Diet * Alison and James
11. Blink * Malcolm Gladwell

Once again, my list of books TOO read grows larger and larger :( I really need to get back into reading ones that I have started a while ago and have never finished :S

1. Guns, Germs and Steele * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
2. Collapse * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
3. The Third Chimpanzee * Jared Diamond -> (Reading)
4. After the Ice: Global Human History -> (unread)
5. Warpped Passages * Lisa Randall -> (Reading)
6. Fingerprints of the Gods * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
7. Mars Mystery * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
8. Basic Philisophical Readings -> (unread)
9. Catch-22 * Joseph Keller -> (Reading)
10. The Hole in the Universe * K. C. Cole -> (Reading)

The books that I have read recently:

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife * Audrey Niffengger
2. Memoirs of a Geisha * Arthur Golden
3. Foods that Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer through diet
4. Japanese Women don’t get Old or Fat * Naomi Moriyama
5. The Tipping Point * Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Four Agreements * Don Miguel
7. Steppenwolf * Hermann Hesse
8. Eats, Shoots & Leaves * Lynn Truss

Bwahahahahah, my list is now down to 10!!! Usually I just replace a book with a new one I have acquired, but I haven’t acquired any new books in the past week lol,

Must… read… quickly…. lol

1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves * Lynn Truss -> (Reading)
2. Guns, Germs and Steele * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
3. Collapse * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
4. The Third Chimpanzee * Jared Diamond -> (Reading)
5. After the Ice: Global Human History -> (unread)
6. Warpped Passages * Lisa Randall -> (Reading)
7. Fingerprints of the Gods * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
8. Mars Mystery * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
9. Basic Philisophical Readings -> (unread)
10. Catch-22 * Joseph Keller -> (Reading)
11. The Hole in the Universe * K. C. Cole -> (Reading)

The books that I have read recently:

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife * Audrey Niffengger
2. Memoirs of a Geisha * Arthur Golden
3. Foods that Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer through diet
4. Japanese Women don’t get Old or Fat * Naomi Moriyama
5. The Tipping Point * Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Four Agreements * Don Miguel
7. Steppenwolf * Hermann Hesse

Exciting stuff!! I’m hoping to be done Eats, shoots and leaves by tomorrow at the latest :D I wonder how long till I have conquered my mini list!!?? :D:D

I feel like such a looser because reading excites me :S

So here are my lists updated:

Books to read:

1. Steppenwolf * Hermann Hesse -> (Reading)
2. Guns, Germs and Steele * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
3. Collapse * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
4. The Third Chimpanzee * Jared Diamond -> (unread)
5. After the Ice: Global Human History -> (unread)
6. Warpped Passages * Lisa Randall -> (Reading)
7. Fingerprints of the Gods * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
8. Mars Mystery * Graham Handcock -> (unread)
9. Basic Philisophical Readings -> (unread)
10. Catch-22 * Joseph Keller -> (Reading)
11. The hole in the universe * K. C. Cole -> (Reading)

The books that I have read recently:

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife * Audrey Niffengger
2. Memoirs of a Geisha * Arthur Golden
3. Foods that Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer through diet
4. Japanese Women don’t get Old or Fat * Naomi Moriyama
5. The Tipping Point * Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Four Agreements * Don Miguel

My cousin gave me one of the ‘self-help’ books and I finished reading it the other day. it’s called ‘the four agreements’ by don miguel. It was pretty good and I really liked it. I had been spending lots of time knitting/quilting so reading that book got me back into reading before bed and now I’m back into Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse and I’m passed the midway point now. I must say the first little bit of the book was terribly difficult to understand but now it’s going along quite smoothly and I will hopefully be done within the next couple days so that I can start on a new book :D

I thought this book would be a breeze to read since it doesn’t seem very long, but I was horribly mislead. I’m finding this book very difficult to understand. It was written in the 1920s in German and the language makes it a little difficult to understand. As in the word order is confusing and so is the grammar. I just read a sentence that had 5 commas! (And there wasn’t a list of things, as in oranges, apples, bananas, ... ,). Also the ideas expressed in it take time to digest and seeing as how the language is hard to disipher, the book and it’s ideas become difficult as well. But I am managing to read 3-5 pages per sitting. Not alot of progress in my opinion, however, I shall persever! :D