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Reading list

I passed a happy hour in the local bookstore browsing through all the fiction from A to Z, and have been getting a few recommendations. Here's my new to-read list:
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (book club)
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater
Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions by Read Montague
Family Planning by Karan Mahajan
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy*
The Position by Meg Wolitzer
Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
Slam by Nick Hornby
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

* I could have sworn I read this book years ago, and I can't count how many times I've left it untouched on bookshelves thinking I had already read it.

I haven't gotten to the library for a while, so I am currently rereading I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson. I read this when it came out and must have liked it because it's still on my shelf, but it is pissing me off to no end. It's supposed to be about the plight of the working mother, but I just can't dredge up a lot of sympathy for this woman. She has a job she loves, a saintly husband and two adoring kids, AND a full-time nanny. Most of her problems seem to stem from being a bitch to everyone and being paranoid about other people thinking she's a good mother. This one is going in the garage sale/giveaway pile.

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on January 31, 2009 (boomark / email).