Reading in the Basement
Keeping track of all my books with selected mini-reviews.
2009
Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Marley Movie Tie-in Edition: A Dog Like No Other
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story
The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir
Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, No 2)
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Commencement (Vintage Contemporaries)
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita
That Old Cape Magic: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir
Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader’s Circle)
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City
2010
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery
Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader’s Circle)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce
Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Half Baked: The Story of My Nerves, My Newborn, and How We Both Learned to Breathe
You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know
Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family, and Finding Yourself