I finish one book for every 10 or so I start. It takes a lot for me to finish a book. However, for those I finish, I thoroughly enjoy them and some I read in two days, they are that good. Here's a list of books I've read since I started tracking. If I read it, I loved it. I plan to read the rest of Millenium and Hunger Games someday but I burned out on the first ones, even though they were great.
In no particular order.
Spoiler:
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
Wellington, Chrissie
Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
Sey, Jennifer
Qualifying For Kona: The Road To Ironman Triathlon World Championship In Hawaii
Britt, Raymond
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
Holland, Julie
In a Single Bound: Losing My Leg, Finding Myself, and Training for Life
Reinertsen, Sarah
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Armstrong, Lance
Open
Agassi, Andre
Becoming an Ironman: First Encounters with the Ultimate Endurance Event
Thom, Kara Douglass *
Staying The Course: A Runner's Toughest Race
Beardsley, Dick
My First 100 Marathons: 2,620 Miles With An Obsessive Runner
Horowitz, Jeff
Unthinkable: The True Story about the First Double Amputee to Complete the World-Famous Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon
Rigsby, Scott
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Collins, Suzanne
The Long Run: One Man's Attempt to Regain His Athletic Career-And His Life-by Running the New York City Marathon
Long, Matt
The Book Thief
Zusak, Markus
Can't Swim, Can't Ride, Can't Run: From Common Man to Ironman
Holgate, Andy
Once a Runner
Jr., John L. Parker
The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness
Reed, Pam
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Karnazes, Dean
You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Triathlon
Steinberg, Jacques
Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon
Brant, John
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
Larsson, Stieg
I'm Here To Win: A World Champion's Advice for Peak Performance
McCormack, Chris
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen, & the Greatest Race Ever Run
Fitzgerald, Matt
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
McDougall, Christopher
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
Ryan, Jeff
Here's some books I started and couldn't finish along with a bit on why I didn't finish them:
Spoiler:
A Million Little Pieces
Frey, James (have tried to get into it many times but like Positively False by Floyd Landis once I know a "biography" is a lie I can't get into it).
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Hornbacher, Marya (about 70% done, I guess I'll go back to it in pieces now and then)
A Few Degrees from Hell: The 2003 Badwater Ultramarathon
Ludwig, Scott (I love reading about the race and I'm about 60% into it but it was too slow going)
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Feldman, Deborah * (although I plan to try again... 14 days check out are you kidding me? And a trip got in the way (it's a hold book right now so I couldn't time when I got it)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Ehrenreich, Barbara (have gotten about 30% into it and I really enjoy the subject)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca * (I just can't get into it, and I really want to)
To the Edge: A Man, Death Valley, and the Mystery of Endurance
Johnson, Kirk (highly recommended by someone who has done the race but his writing style is very vague and wispy, i.e. the sky and the stars and the wind).
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
Welsome, Eileen (and I LOVE book on experiments... got a bit into it)
Moloka'i
Brennert, Alan (got about 70% into it before I ran out of stream)
I DO love reading and once a book has me, it has me. The problem is finding a book that gets me. I soooo want to read a book right now and have problems finding a good one
I tend to like medical fiction, psychological thrillers, and courtroom dramas. Some of my favorite movies were Matrix 1 and The Butterfly Effect. Big into Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, and Tess Gerritsen, although I haven't been able to get into their books lately. Can't get into Stephen King (read Bag of Bones... eh... read Thinner, did like it).
06-25-12, 02:11 AM
