2012 was an interesting one for books. The year started with some great reads in both English and Spanish and then surprisingly our free reading time became almost non-existant as books for grad school were thrown at us as well as all of the delightful stories that get put into the mix as elementary school teachers. We did squeeze out a few pleasurable reads after the school year began, but the book consumption rates that we enjoyed while living in Costa Rica are no longer.
Chris threw himself at Vonnegut whenever he had a spare moment and we perused the bookshelves at Goodwill to pick up anything that wasn't already in our collection. That being said, his favorite read of the year was not by Vonnegut but instead by McDougall. His number one for 2012 was Born to Run.
In my attempt to escape from our grad school readings I got sucked into The Hunger Games after our professor let me borrow them. I also revisited numerous old favorites and found some treasures on our own bookshelves that had been rescued from numerous yard sales over the summer and then forgotten about. My favorite read of the year though came from the Peace Corps library - Worldwalk topped my list in 2012.
A summary of what was read:
Non-fiction: 13 (Chris - 12, Tarah - 9)
Spanish: 11 (Chris - 5, Tarah - 9)
Fiction (English only): 26 (Chris - 15, Tarah - 17)
Total Books Read: 50 (Chris - 32, Tarah - 35)
And the list:
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Alexie (C&T)
|
Lorna Doone - Blackmore (T)
|
Educational Foundations** - Canestrati (C&T)
|
Maggie, Una Chica de la Calle* - Crane (T&C)
|
Catching Fire - Collins (T)
|
The Hunger Games - Collins (T)
|
Mockingjay - Collins (T)
|
The Witches - Dahl (T)
|
El Dia de la Venganza* - Daniels (T)
|
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe (C&T)
|
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Díaz (C&T)
|
Captivating** - Eldridge (T)
|
El Gran Gatsby* - Fitzgerald (C&T)
|
First on the Rope - Frison-Roche (C)
|
Hoja de Aire* - Gutierrez (C)
|
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway (C)
|
The Murder Room - James (T)
|
The Dharma Bums - Kerouac (C&T)
|
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard (C)
|
Prodigal Summer - Kingsolver (T)
|
Where Men Win Glory **- Krakauer (C&T)
|
A Sand County Almanac** - Leopold (C&T)
|
Mere Christianity** - Lewis (T&C)
|
Call of the Wild - London (C)
|
Young Men and Fire** - Maclean (C)
|
Siempre dama de honor* - Marsh (T)
|
Dynamic Social Studies for the Constructivist Classroom** - Maxim (T&C)
|
Atrapados en el Ayer* - McCusker (T)
|
Born to Run** - McDougall (T&C)
|
Un Magnate Aventurero* - McMahon (T)
|
Moby Dick - Melville (C)
|
Worldwalk** - Newman (C&T)
|
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte* - Quiroga (C)
|
Limon Blues* - Rossi (T)
|
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger (C&T)
|
The Bookseller of Kabul** - Seierstad (T&C)
|
Juevos Verdes con Jamon* - Seuss (C&T)
|
The Confusion - Stephenson (T)
|
Quicksilver - Stephenson (T)
|
Tormenta Silenciosa* - Stevens (T)
|
Ana Karenina - Tolstoy (T)
|
Language Arts: Patterns of Practice** - Tompkins (T&C)
|
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain (C&T)
|
The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890** - Utley (C)
|
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut Jr. (C&T)
|
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut (C)
Deadeye Dick - Vonnegut (C)
|
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater - Vonnegut (C)
Hocus Pocus - Vonnegut (C)
|
Teaching in the Real World** - Zukergood (C&T)
|
* Spanish
|
** Nonfiction
|
No comments:
Post a Comment