Wednesday, January 2, 2008

'007 Books

2007 was filled with all kinds of stuff that kept us busy- working, having a baby, moving, traveling, school- but we both still love to read. Here are lists of some books that we read to fill in the gaps.

Dani-
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter 5 Harry Potter 6 Harry Potter 7
Resurrection: The struggle for a new Russia
Morality for Beautiful Girls (Ladies Detective Agency)
Persuasion
Push Not the River
Three Cups of Tea
Kiterunner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
John Adams
A Year of Wonders
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Pregnancy books (x 523)
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
The Chosen
The Gifts My Father Gave Me
Fitness books- a constant stream


Brady-
Mayflower
Consciousness Explained
Voltaire's Bastards
The Idea of History
Godel, Escher, Bach
James Madison
The Stranger
1776
Breaking the Spell
A Brief History of Time
Team of Rivals
Meditations
Gorgias & Timeaus
The Dip
Leadership and Self-Deception
Notes from Underground
Concept of Nature
Red Rabbit
I am a Strange Loop
The Origin of Species
The God Delusion
Research articles that just kept coming (these are not quite all of them for just one class)




Liam-
Noisy Farm Animals
Hurry, Santa!
Wheels on the Bus
Things That Make Noise




The awards go to..... (that's a drum roll you hear)
Dani- Three Cups of Tea- Most Inspiring
Resurrection- Best Researched/Written
Pride and Prejudice- Best Tried and True Chick Novel

Brady- Meditations- Chilled Ideas
Consciousness Explained- Right Book at the Right Time
Mayflower- Gettin' at the Roots

Biggest surprise- Brady read a book with 'rabbit' in the title, and Dani did not.
Next to read- Dani: War and Peace (in progress)
Brady: Dorian Gray

8 comments:

Jenny said...

Hooray for reading! Check you guys out.

Anonymous said...

ive been trying to compile my best of 07 reading list as well. i'll have to add some of your titles to my book list for 08! troy and i listened to an audio version of twilight on our trip back from utah. i was a bit let down but i think it was due largely in part to the cheeseball lady that read it (she works for nickelodeon. go figure.) did you like the series? should i read the second book? slightly unrelated... have you read any of carson mccullers books?
xo
janell

Anonymous said...

i am inpressed with the list of books, i will never catch up with you.
liam is just too cute.
love grandma m

Jeff said...

So, my question is, did Brady meet his monthly page goal?

Brady said...

jeff- when averaged across all months, the goal was met (barely). this year, the goal's been reduced to 150/month (now that I actually have to be productive and go to school and publish and all of that). any books on your list that ought to be on mine??

Anonymous said...

It's fun to hear of all your accomplishments and know that you are happy in what you are doing--so many worthwhile things. We love you and think of you often. I'd like to be one who is holding Liam and spoiling him just a little. He is so adorable!
Love, Grandma Flinders
Grandpa loves the blog too.

Anonymous said...

Where is the Standard Works and the Teaching of the Prophets in your lists? They get my vote for most inspirational....

Can't wait to see y'all next week, it should be nice and warm for you...Go Cowboys! Keith

the firths said...

Keith- should have put those up too. I guess this was our secular list. Under most life changing, most inspiring, and most read, we've got the Standard Works and last year's Ensign articles.