Monday, July 28, 2008

Brutus' Backslap

I, for no better reason than apathy, declined to tabulate my pages read in my last post on books until the 'year' had passed. When I found that I was a mere 41 pages short of 20,000 pages for the year, I felt betrayed...by myself.
like Brutus backslapping himself.
And so for this next reading year from September 6th, 2007 to September 5th, 2008, I shall include the running total of pages along with books. My goal is to surpass last year. A difficulty might be that last year I vagabonded and thus had plenty of time to read, while this year I am in school, looking for a job, performing a job, and possibly getting an internship. So the odds are low, but you can't limbo without the bar low either. Again, these are only books that I read in their entirety, cover-to-cover, as any good author would want their reader(s) to do.
And now,
the list....
Books Read: 49 Pages Read: 15950
Fallin' Into Athens
1. Diminished Democracy by Theda Skocpol 366pg
2. The War for Muslim Minds by Gilles Kepel 295pg
3. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 272pg
4. Public Personnel Administration: Problems & Prospects 4th ed. by Steven Hays and Richard Kearney 398pg
5. The New Public Personnel Administration by Nigro, Nigro, and Kellough 362pg
6. A Voice for Nonprofits by Jeffrey Berry and David Arons 219pg
7. Nonprofits and Government by Elizabeth Boris and Eugene Steuerle 395pg
8. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism(20th anniv. ed) by Daniel Bell 397pg
9. Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen 382pg
10. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 301pg
11. Prayer & the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance by Donald Miller 291pg
12. Toward an End to Hunger in America by Peter Eisinger 188pg
13. Food for the Hungry: The Reluctant Society by Judith Segal 91pg
14. Beyond Party: The Know-Nothing Movement by Mark Voss-Hubbard 262pg
15. Snow by Orhan Pamuk 463pg
16. The Four Loves by CS Lewis 141pg
17. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers 214pg
18. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart 344pg

Spring Ends Athens
19. A Billion Bootstraps by Phil Smith & Eric Thurman 238pg
20. Microfinance Handbook by Joanna Ledgerwood 302pg
21. Microfinance: Evolution, Achievements, & Challenges ed. Malcolm Harper 182pg
22. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 412pg
23. God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead 449pg
24. Finance and Poverty by Maria Carpio 176pg
25. The Economics of Microfinance by Armendariz de Aghion & Morduch 346pg
26. The Commercialization of Microfinance eds. Deborah Drake & Elisabeth Rhyne 320pg
27. Impact Analysis for Program Evaluation by Lawrence Mohr 311pg

The Center of Summer is Carter
28. Contemporary Latin America by Ronaldo Munck 260pg
29. The White Nile by Alan Moorehead 431pg
30. It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong 289pg
31. Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions eds. Gordon Mace, Jean-Phillipe Therien & Paul Haslem 317pg
32. Facing the Congo by Jeffrey Tayler 286pg
33. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 400pg
34. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 973pg
35. Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World has Failed by Thomas Dichter 317pg
36. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin 352pg
37. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen 447pg
38. The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith 753pg
39. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu 228pg
40. The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild 331pg
41. Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul by Michael Reid 399pg
42. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins  328pg
43. The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning  235pg
44. The Princess Bride by William Golding  283pg
45. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter  222pg
46. Quarterlife Crisis by Robbins & Wilner  198pg
47. The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta  368pg
48. The Great Divorce by CS Lewis 160pg
49. Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far!) by Dave Barry  256pg