Books completed 2009





photo by Ember Rilleau

1. Learned Optimism-Martin Seligman
2. Everything is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Song Man-Will Hodgkinson
4. The Optimistic Child- Martin Seligman
5. The Art of Possibility- Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
6. Getting things done (reread)- David Allen
7. So long, See you tomorrow (reread)-William Maxwell
8. Down at the Docks-Rory Gallagher
9. Not Just Anywhere-Marsha McCabe
10. Happiness-Mathieu Ricard
11. Wind, sand and stars-St. Exupery
12. Peace is Every Step-Thich Nhat Hanh
13. Finding Flow-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
14. The money book for the Young Fabulous and Broke-Suze Orman
15. The Sweet LIfe in Paris-David Lebovitz
16. Siddhartha-Herman Hesse
17. Never eat alone-Keith Ferrazzi
18. 4 Hour Work Week (reread)-Tim Ferriss

My reviews in brief:
completely worth your time: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16
eh: 3, 4, 15
nah: 13, 17
grain of salt/open mind+eyes: 5, 18

There were 3 or 4 books I started and did not finish. A couple sucked and a couple I recognize as good, but not currently appropriate.

Fiction/Literature-5
NonFiction-13
Ratio 2.6/1

2010 is the year of Fiction.

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