What I am reading

This year I decided that I wouldn't read as much as last year, but as I am almost done with my 12th book of the year, maybe I have the inability to keep that promise. Last year I read 24 books.

Book number 12 is the Great Gatsby, which I have never read before. I feel like everyone read this in high school as well as the Scarlet Letter and the Grapes of Wrath, which I have also never read. I am reading it now because I am excited to see the Baz Lurhmann 3D spectacular spectacular! that is coming out on x-mas. Hopefully my parents small town will be ready for it.

I also just finished Blink by Malcolm Gladwell which is a book about intuition, thinking and snap judgments. Although the examples are super interesting in general I found it to be biased.

Before that was Galileo's Daughter which has been very popular in the book club circles. I found it to be more about him than her and thought it should have really been called "The Cursed Family Galilee", but no one asked me. I  think that this should be supplemental to the book click here which is her work and letters digitized.

If you are interested in what I am reading you can "friend" me on goodreads. Which is social networking for book nerds. It is an addiction. If you have a goodreads account send me your email address to eyemheer2@gmail.com. If not and you are an avid reader you should get an account.  It isn't as annoying or intrusive as facebook.

Also, I just learned about this new profession that started in England called bibliotherapy where a patient describes how they are feeling and the bibliotherapist prescribes books to them to improve their well being. I might give it a go.