Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2014 Book Review

I'd wanted to read 40 books in 2014 - and ended up reading 50, thanks in large part to books-on-tape (AKA the commuter's saving grace) and a newfound Agatha Christie obsession. It was a good year!

Abani, Chris - GraceLand 
Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog*
Bardugo, Leigh - Ruin and Rising
Barnes, Jonathan - The Somnambulist
Barry, Max - Company 
Brown, Pierce - Red Rising 
Castle, Richard - Heat Rises* 
Christie, Agatha - And Then There Were None* 
Christie, Agatha - Appointment with Death* 
Christie, Agatha - Crooked House* 
Christie, Agatha - Endless Night*
Christie, Agatha - Murder at the Vicarage*
Christie, Agatha - Murder on the Orient Express*
Christie, Agatha - The Body in the Library* 
Christie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles* 
Christie, Agatha - The Pale Horse*
Cleave, Chris - Little Bee* 
Connolly, John - The Book of Lost Things
Donally, Claire - The Big Kitty 
Eckel, Sara - It's Not You 
Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage Plot* 
Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl
Gabaldon, Diana - Dragonfly in Amber* 
Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander* 
Gabaldon, Diana - Voyager
Gaiman, Neil - The Ocean at the End of the Lane 
Green, John - The Fault in Our Stars* 
Greenwood, Kerry - Cocaine Blues* 
Hirahara, Naomi - Summer of the Big Bachi
Hyman, Mark - The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet 
Jamison, Leslie - The Empathy Exams: Essays 
Moore, Christopher - Fool* 
Nicholls, David - Us*
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife* 
O'Connor, Joseph - Redemption Falls* 
Orlean, Susan - The Orchid Thief
Potzsch, Oliver - The Dark Monk
Quick, Matthew - The Good Luck of Right Now
Rilke, Rainer Maria - Letters to a Young Poet
Saunders, George - CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Semple, Maria - Where'd You Go, Bernadette* 
Sestero, Greg - The Disaster Artist
Shteyngart, Gary - Absurdistan*
Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 
Smith, Jennifer - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight 
Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch* 
Thomas, Dylan - Under Milk Wood*
Thomas, Rob - The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
Wolitzer, Meg - The Interestings*
Yoshimoto, Banana - N.P.
 
*Audio Book
 
Total: 50

GoodReads Challenge

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Top Hat Happy

Sometimes, I wake up feeling so good it can only be explained through the work of Fred Astaire:








Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Work Life

Sometimes I think I must be the luckiest girl in the world. I have a great job on a great show and a lot of my coworkers are my friends. And, then I'm even luckier because my dad does fun things like this to the company photo:

Can you find me?
The show is on hiatus now -- back January 9, 2015 -- but we finished Season 12 off right, with a wrap party with a photobooth!

I have great (and good looking!) coworkers.