Booklist

I'm trying to remember all the books I've read. Here is the list so far.


2011

Them: Adventures with Extremists
Tim Gunn's Golden Rules
Holidays on Ice

2010-2006

Fear of Flying
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - College
I Am Not Myself These Days
Push
The Lovely Bones
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the
Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
The Secret Life of Bees
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2006-2003

Ninteen Eighty-Four
Brave New World
Jane Eyre
Book of Joe
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Of Mice and Men
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness
The Awakening
Candide
God-Shaped Hole
The Tutor
Speak
I Am the Cheese
Whirligig
Cold Sassy Tree
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1: Charmed Life / The Lives of Christopher Chant
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 2: The Magicians of Caprona / Witch Week
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Year of the Griffin
Fire and Hemlock
The Time of the Ghost
Fahrenheit 451
Romeo and Juliet
Feed
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Catcher in the Rye
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Crucible
A Raisin in the Sun
Night
The Halloween Tree
From the Dust Returned
Stranger in a Strange Land
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Freak The Mighty
Ella Enchanted

2003-1988?

The Outsiders
The Giver
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Number the Stars
Hatchet
Where the Red Fern Grows
A Wrinkle in Time
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
Catherine, Called Birdy
My Brother Sam Is Dead
The World's Best Fairy Tales

If anyone remembers me recommending a book that isn't on this list, please let me know. If any of my English teachers read this and wonder why Metamorphosis or whatever isn't on this list, I'm willing to say I may have used Spark-notes.

This Week In Herstory

On the job front:
This week, I've interviewed with a high-end department store and a hotel in Minneapolis. I received an email from an art school about a position in their art store. I've met up with a woman from a temp agency about finding an office job. I need to call another agency and register with them. And today, I received a phone call from an office supply store about a specialized sales job. However, I don't know if the job at the office supply store will meet my salary requirements.

I really want the job at the hotel. I think it will be a great opportunity for a career in hospitality. What I like most is that the hotel brand has hotels all over downtown, so I can find open positions within a number of hotels while staying with the same company. I sent a thank you letter this afternoon to the manager. It's important to me to seem eager for the position. Because, well, I am.

On the home front:
Minneapolis is awesome. I really like the city. I feel like anything is possible, and I can do anything I want here. I'm also getting a big head, because my price of living is so cheap. I can walk almost anywhere, and once I get a job I will be getting a bus pass. That will open up a whole world of "what next."

On the Jared front:
Jared took a job with Swiss Valley about an hour from town. It's not super high paying, but there is a very real opportunity for promotion. We're both very excited.

On the Netflix queue:
We're watching Lost, Psych, Veronica Mars and a lot of random movies (some starring John Cleese). I've found a lot of humor in telling Jared that "the thing [he] hates most about Lost is that [he] doesn't hate it." We've been spending our afternoons exploring the city and our nights watching TV.

On the shore front:
Jared and I realized we don't have any goals to save for tonight at dinner. I really want to go to Disney World, so I'm looking into that. It's a real possibility. Jared wants to spend some time in south Florida not at Disney World too. I don't know why he'd want to do that. All I think about is Mickey Ears with my name on them and 186 foot castles.