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Post-bar reading list

I read my last non-law book at the beginning of May. I don't remember what it was, but I do remember thinking, "This is it. No more pleasure reading until after the bar."

On a mini-vacation with CT, I bought three books. I rarely buy books (except for K), but I was feeling indulgent. There was one I was particularly excited to read. But even though I've been bringing it everywhere with me, I haven't opened it yet. Somehow it feels daunting to start reading for fun again after so long.

Here's my post-bar reading list:
The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot by Chip Brantley
Something Missing by Matthew Dicks
How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day by Lee Meriwether
The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

And some holdovers from my previous list:
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
Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The books I did manage to read from my previous list were not that exciting, for the most part. American Wife was an interesting fictionalized look at Laura Bush, and was about as sympathetic to George W. as a liberal can get. The Dissident was well-written but slow-moving and sort of odd in that I was never sure whether the "twist" at the end was supposed to be a twist or whether you were supposed to know it all along. The Position had such an intriguing premise -- parents write wildly successful Joy of Sex type book starring themselves, what happens to the family? -- but turned out to be your typical divorce/dysfunction book.

One of these days I will get over my fear and start the pluot book.

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).