Books I Read Last Year

Some people keep reading lists for the previous year, and I didn’t do that, so herrre we go:

- William Shatner - Up Till Now. William Shatner is a hilarious guy :D I enjoyed finding out about his life.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin - We. The first of its kind, but way poetic. I dunno, I wouldn’t read it again.
- Stephenie Meyer - The Twilight Saga. DON’T REMIND ME. GOD. ~SPARKLES~
- Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything. It was interesting at first, but either the continuing talk about geology and other stuff I don’t like, or the narrator’s voice just got annoying. I listened to most of it.
- Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz. Interesting :D Except for the middle part. The Middle Ages were never my cup of tea :(
- Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers. I enjoyed it. It made me want to join the army :P Apparently the movie is insultingly different.
- Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake. I loved loved loved this book :) I enjoyed the theme and the characters. So I went on to try…
- Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale. The feminist overtones was a little too much. I have no idea how it ends and I don’t much care!!!
- Bard D. Ehrman - Misquoting Jesus. This book is about looking at the bible critically, and comparing ancient bible manuscripts and speculating why they are so different. It raised a lot of good points.
- Ray Bradbury - Martian Chronicles. It’s very good, and I would say better than Fahrenheit 451. YEAH I WENT THERE.
- Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dude, whatever, Buster and his Friendly Friends is not a tragic cut made by the movie. Everything about this cult classic is fairly average, but electric animals are an interesting idea.
- Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness. I enjoyed the second half. I don’t usually go for books that require an appendix (I don’t think the book does, but certainly the overarching universe LeGuin wrote in this series), but I got into it eventually. It does take a while to get to.
- Jonathan Lethem - Gun, With Occasional Music. Mehhhhhhhhh.
- Neil Gaiman - Stardust. I preferred the movie, but the book had a lot of interesting stuff too :)
- Michael E. Gerber - The E-Myth. WHY did I read the end of this book! It turned from a cool book with a lot of business ideas to some sort of love story with a client of his. Ummmmmm. Actually, they weren’t in love. He just kept bringing her up and then wrote a letter to her at the end. I pretended they were secret lovers~!
- Jack Welch - Winning. CANDOR! CANDOR CANDOR CANDOR. Or should I say “candah” Mr. Welch?
- Michael Smolensky - Body Clock Guide to Better Health. READ IT! Very important to everyone’s health.

I think I read some other ones, which I obviously neglected to put in this list. But wow, I read a lot, actually. 20 books (Twilight Saga is four) in a year? WOW.

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