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Books Read 2006

Re-(re-re-)reads are marked with an ®.

Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman with Robert Uhlig

Nineteen Eighty-Four ® (post)
George Orwell

Cabin at Singing River: Building a Home in the Wilderness
Chris Czajkowski

Shattered: Life with M.E.
Dr. Lynn Michell

Adam Bede (post)
George Eliot

The Picture of Dorian Gray (post)
Oscar Wilde

Pride and Prejudice ®
Jane Austen

Genesis & Exodus (NRSV)
God, Moses, et al.

The Paradox of Choice (post)
Barry Schwartz

The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution (post)
Fredrick Hahn, Michael R. Eades, Mary Dan Eades

Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (post)
Christopher Calderhead

The Virginian (post)
Owen Wister

The Lavender Garden: Beautiful Varieties to Grow and Gather
Robert Kourik

The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code (post)
Carl E. Olson & Sandra Miesel

Emma ®
Jane Austen

Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography (post)
Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (post)
Muriel Spark

Persuasion ®
Jane Austen

Woodswoman
Anne LaBastille

A Loeb Classical Library Reader (post)
(Harvard University)

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (post)
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

What Jane Austen Ate and What Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox-Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England (post)
Daniel Pool

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary [Unabridged Audio]
Simon Winchester

Sense and Sensibility ®
Jane Austen

Flush (post)
Virginia Woolf

Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake
Anne Labastille

The Island of Dr. Moreau (post)
H.G. Wells

An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (post)
Nancy Klein Maguire

Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe (post)
Nicholas Crane

The Cloister Walk (half)
Kathleen Norris

The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean Auel

Me: Stories of My Life (post)
Katharine Hepburn

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana

The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
Scott Hahn

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Jennifer Niven

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    Papermaking, bookbinding, calligraphy, printing, illustration...everything that goes into making fine books.
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    "A website dedicated to typography and its history."
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    "Internationally recognized as the preeminent magazine for calligraphers and lettering artists..."
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    "Women have been involved in printing and the making of books ever since these crafts were first developed. Even before the advent of movable type, there was a strong tradition of women producing manuscripts in western European religious houses."

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