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Nov 30, 2007
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Carole Yeaman
About My Library
This listing includes all books either owned or borrowed; since joining LT Oct.'07 - (or owned but weeded). All are finally tagged (however roughly). The "collections" section [recently discovered] is not nearly finished. I do enjoy well-written fiction, but with all the exciting things happening and being discovered in the world - my reading is heavily on the side of non-fiction. Especially psychology, brain-research, & biography.
Books I've read have been rated. Except for the older books, those with no stars are, alas, on the many tbr shelves.

* - No one should have to read this book. ( I rarely finish a "one star" book)
** - This book has minor redeeming features such as being an author's early work, having some useful information, or being funny. Potboiler.
*** - Run of the mill. Not quite a potboiler. It held some fascinating element; or I was too tired to be challenged by a good book.
**** - It's very good. Sometimes even a favorite.
***** - It changed my life or it changed my thinking or it deeply touched my heart or it bowled me over with the excellence of the writing.
About Me

Retired librarian. (in Ottawa, Ontario) Still the everlasting challenge of "So Many Books, So Little Time" -- anyone got any good tips as to how to balance reading time among: (1) Enews (2) magazines (3) books --(a) fiction (b) non-fiction ?

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Kanata, Ontario, Canada (home of the Ottawa Senators)
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The English Townsman: as he was and is by Thomas Burke
Picturing the Past: Through the Eyes of Reconstruction Artists by Brian Davison
Truth, dare or promise: girls growing up in the fifties by Liz Heron, ed.
What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation [accogrip?] by Charles Murray
Wales: Castles and Historic Places (Regional & City Guides) by David M. Robinson & Roger S. Thomas
The Better Brain Book by David Perlmutter
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 7th Series (Writers at Work) by Paris Review
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Pocketbook Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams (One Hour of Wisdom) by Deepak Chopra
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted by Daniel G. Amen
Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD by Daniel G. Amen
Claire's Head by Catherine Bush
Exit lines by Joan Barfoot
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography by Alexandra Popoff
The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
Arguably: Selected Essays [KOBO] by Christopher Hitchens
Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
Learning to Talk: Short Stories by Hilary Mantel
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Meditations to Change Your Brain (AUDIO) by Rick Hanson
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom (AUDIO) by Rick Hanson
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind by Roger Walsh
Mad Men: The Untold History of Television [KOBO] by Kathleen Olmstead
A Multitude of Sins (KOBO) by Richard. FORD
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
The Afterlife: A Memoir by Donald Antrim
Dr. Atkins' age-defying diet (KOBO) by Robert C. Atkins
THE FAMILY THAT COULDN'T SLEEP [WISHLIST] by D.T. Max
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (KOBO) by Michael Lewis
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
Windows 8 For Seniors For Dummies by Mark Justice Hinton
You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture) (KOBO) by Douglas Coupland
The Cat's Table (KOBO) by Michael Ondaatje
The Year of the Flood (KOBO) by Margaret Atwood
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism (KOBO) by Joel Yanofsky
MacroWikinomics (KOBO) by Anthony D. Williams Don Tapscott
The Aftermath (KOBO) by Rhidian Brook
David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure (AUDIO) by David Sedaris
Random family : love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx (KINDLE) by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
What the Dog Ate (KINDLE) by Jackie Bouchard
The Lion Seeker (KINDLE) by Kenneth Bonert
The Best American Essays 2014 (KINDLE) by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty (KINDLE) by Elaine Ambrose
Want Not (KINDLE) by Jonathan Miles
Our Fathers (KOBO) by Andrew O'Hagan
Voluptuous Pleasure: (KOBO) The Truth About the Writing Life (Department of Narrative Studies) by Marianne Apostolides
Every Day Is a Holiday (KINDLE) by George Mahood
Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir by Plum Johnson
Handle with Care (KOBO): A Novel by Jodi Picoult
And There Was Light (KOBO) : Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran
The Journey Prize Stories 25 (KOBO) by Various
A Fraction of the Whole (KOBO) by Steve Toltz
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
You Could Be Home By Now (KINDLE) by Tracy Manaster
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel by Gore Vidal
The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder
Everything Is Perfect When You're A Liar by Kelly Oxford
Strength of Conviction by Tom Mulcair
Infinite Jest (KINDLE) by David Foster Wallace
The Pale King (KINDLE) by David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (KINDLE) by David Foster Wallace
Daughter of Earth and Water:(KINDLE) A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Noel Gerson
Roosevelt (KINDLE) by Brett Harper
American Heritage History of the Presidents (KINDLE) by Michael R. Beschloss
In Short Measures:(KINDLE) Three Novellas by Michael Ruhlman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Patrons (KINDLE) by Daniella Brodsky
Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story (KINDLE) by David Payne
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Fire (Northwest Passage Book 4)(KINDLE) by John A. Heldt
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: (KINDLE) A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Dementia, Ma and Me (KINDLE) by Phyllida Law
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (KINDLE & HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (KINDLE) by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Reading Group by Patrick Sauer
A line made by walking (KINDLE) by Sara Baume
Spill simmer falter wither (KINDLE) by Sara Baume
Lost Connections: (KINDLE) Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (KINDLE) by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Bina: A Novel in Warnings (AUDIO) by Anakana Schofield
Berg (KINDLE) by Ann Quin
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (AUDIO) by Patricia Lockwood
The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality (AUDIO) by Don Lincoln
The Origin of Others (KINDLE) (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison
To the Woman: (AUDIO) An Audible Original by Scarlett Curtis
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (Audio) by Julie Andrews
Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Good Morning, Monster (K): A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery (KINDLE) by Catherine Gildiner
A Promised Land (K & Aud) by Barack Obama
Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More(K) by Janet Mock
The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Articles, Speeches, Travel Sketches & Letters (Illustrated): Including ... Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Sketches by Boz… by Charles Dickens
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
101 Essays by Briana Wiest
The Palace Papers:(K) Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown
The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford by Marion Crawford
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All About Me!: (kindle) My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks
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