Mar
09
2010
10MillionWords: February Round-Up
So I am a little bit late with this round-up. Truth be told, I just plain forgot about it. I’ll add it to my calendar so I am a bit more timely with my March round-up.
There were 9 books added to the list of bestsellers in February, 7 in the first two weeks and just 2 over the course of the next two weeks. That offered me a bit of a respite which I (typically) did not use as well as I should have. Nevertheless…
Here are the books I reviewed this month:
- Evidence of the Afterlife by Jeffrey Long
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
- The Politician by Andrew Young
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
- Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa
- Staying True by Jenny Sanford
- Courting Disaster by Marc Thiessen
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O’Reilly
- Willie Mays by James Hirsch
Three of those books I purchased in hardcover while the rest I read on my Kindle.
The only two I have yet to review are:
- Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber
- Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
If all goes well, I will have reviews of both of those by the end of the week. And then, for the first time in my life, I will be all caught up.
In terms of categories those books fall into, it goes something like this (remembering that categories are often quite difficult to define):
- Biography (5) – Just Kids, I Am Ozzy, Staying True, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Willie Mays
- Politics (3) – Courting Disaster, The Politician, Intellectuals and Society
- Business (1) – Drive
- Health (1) – Making Rounds with Oscar
- Medicine (1) – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Religion (1) – Evidence of the Afterlife
Unless I miss my guess, biography and politics are going to prove the dominant forces on the list this year.
And already we are a week into March and the reading continues…