The Beantown Bloggery

Read any good books lately?  I recently read Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and liked it so much I just started reading The Handmaiden's Tale.  It's a little ironic because I hated The Blind Assassin. 

I'm also reading two books on waste water treatment plants - don't ask, it's for work - anyone out there want to school me on the finer points of MBR systems?  But I digress.  I recently got an email about what we as a city are reading.  Here's the list

Non-fiction

1. True Compass: A Memoir, Edward M. Kennedy
2. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin
4. Have a Little Faith: A True Story, Mitch Albom
5. When the Game Was Ours, Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson Jr., and Jackie MacMullan
6. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
7. The Yankee Years, Joe Torre
8. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
9. Guinness World Records 2010, Guinness World Records
10. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
2. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
3. I, Alex Cross, James Patterson
4. Under the Dome, Stephen King
5. The Associate, John Grisham
6. Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
7. The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks
8. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
9. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
10. The Host, Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer is that Twilight lady, right?  That's one book I won't be reading.  There was one night that I was suffering from a bit of insomnia so I turned on the TV and ended up watching Twilight at like 4am on HBO.  Let me get one thing straight, instead of catching on fire in sunlight, her vampires sparkle?  No thanks. 

Click (here) for a link to the see what other cities are reading.