I do read books, too!

Since I have a take-home final to write this weekend, I am obviously procrastinating. :) As you've noticed, I've been talking a lot about TV shows and movies I've watched lately. I hardly ever talk about books, though. Which is partly because I'm in grad school and so most of the books I read are NOT FOR FUN.

But just for kicks, I thought I'd do one of those "books I've read this year" lists, and I was a little surprised at how many fun books I managed to squeeze in. This is everything I've read thus far in 2010, roughly in chronological order:

1. Luncheon of the Boating Party, Susan Vreeland
2. Skeletons at the Feast, Chris Bohjalian
3. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
4. Total Lobbying, Anthony Nownes
5. Congress: The Electoral Connection, David Mayhew
6. Congress and Its Members, Roger Davidson and Walter Oleszek
7. Congress Behaving Badly: The Rise of Partisanship and Incivility and the Death of Public Trust, Sunil Ahuja
8. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing American and How to Get It Back on Track, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
9. Congress Reconsidered, Lawrence Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer
10. Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress, Barbara Sinclair
11. So Damn Much Money, Robert Kaiser
12. The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America, Robert Brownstein
13. Changes, Jim Butcher
14. Almost Home, Pam Jenoff
15. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
16. Broken Paradise, Cecilia Samartin
17. Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government - and How We Take It Back, David Sirota

Plus scores of articles, essays, and reports on various topics for class.