About Me
- Cindy
- Mother of eleven-year-old daughter, wife, loyal friend, editor, pie baker, book worm, ski bum, cancer survivor, general optimist, homebody
What I'm reading
Catherine the Great, Robert Massie
What I've read
- 2012
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
- The Lemon Table, Julian Barnes
- 2011
- The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
- Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
- Black, White, Other, Joan Steinau Lester
- The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom
- The Yacoubian Building, Alaa Al Aswany
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ranson Riggs
- The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
- Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
- A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
- The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
- An Unequal Music, Seth Virkam
- Q Road, Bonnie Jo Campbell
- City of Thieves, David Benioff
- Nightwoods: A Novel, Charles Frazier
- The Fall, Simon Mawer
- The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
- The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Emma Donoghue
- Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
- Zoli: A Novel, Colum McCann
- When the Killing's Done, T.C. Boyle
- Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman
- The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli
- The Empty Family, Colin Toibin
- The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch
- Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
- Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
- Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
- Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
- The Book Thief, Mark Zusak
- Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
- 2010
- Room, Emma Donoghue
- Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
- Great House, Nicole Krauss
- A Good Fall, Ha Jin
- The Land of Green Plums, Herta Muller
- I'd Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman
- Strangers at the Feast, Jennifer Vanderbes
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson
- Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, David Mitchell
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Gilman
- The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
- The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
- Family Trust, Ward Just
- Red Hook Road, Ayelet Waldman
- Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy Burden
- The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell
- Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
- The Surrendered, Chang Rae-Lee
- Naked, David Sedaris
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Steig Larsson
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
- Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
- Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
- Little Bee, Chris Cleave
- Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
- Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey
- The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
- The Women, T.C. Boyle
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
- We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
- ______
- 2009
- Let the World Spin, Colum McCann
- American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- Home, Marilynne Robinson
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
- House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
- And Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
- The Well and the Mine, Gin Phillips
- Drown, Junot Diaz
- The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
- Talk Talk, T.C. Boyle
- Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
- The End of Faith, Sam Harris
- ______
- 2008
- Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
- The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther
- The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
- Shadows of a Childhood, Elisabeth Gille
- I Was Told There Would Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
- Fire in the Blood, Irene Nemirovsky
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
- On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
- Run, Ann Patchett
- The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton
- The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf
- Washington Square, Henry James
- The Gathering, Anne Enright
- Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
- Riven Rock, T.C. Boyle
- Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
- The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
- Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
- The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
- Aloft, Chang-Rae Lee
- Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
- ______
- 2007
- An Unfinished Season, Ward Just
- Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
- Everyman, Philip Roth
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
- Saturday, Ian McEwan
- Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- Man Walks Into a Room, Nicole Krauss
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
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