Introduction

Welcome to my blog! At the beginning of 2012 I set out to read and review 52 books that would improve my literacy and understanding. It's now the end of October and I'm 27 books deep. Yes, I'm way behind so this year is looking more like a warm-up. 

I've numbered the reviews I have posted so far (and continue to post) in the order I read them in case you're wandering. 

I also encourage you to comment on my reviews and start a discussion on books you may have read so that I (and anyone else who reads it) might learn something new. 

My book list for 2012:

1.    Black Dogs – Ian McEwan (Dec 19)

2.    The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan (Dec 21)

3.    A Saturday – Ian McEwan (Dec 29)

4.    Amsterdam – Ian McEwan (Dec 31)

5.    Why Evolution is True – Jerry Coyne (Jan 11)

6.    Fear of physics – by Lawrence M. Krauss (Jan 18)

7.    The Reluctant Mr. Darwin – David Quammen (Jan 23)

8.    Gen*e*sis – by Robert Hazen (Feb 6)

9.    Lucky Jim – by Kingsley Amis (Feb 1)

10.  Death by Black Hole – by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Feb 20)

11.  Buddha's Brain – by Rick Hanson (Mar 2)

12.  Losing Faith in Faith – by Dan Barker (Mar 8)

13.  The looming tower – by Lawrence Wright (Mar 24)

14.  A Voyage to Arcturus – by David Lindsay (Apr 15)

15.  Good Natured – by Frans de Waal (May 11)

16.  Fahrenheit 451 – by Ray Bradbury (May 17)

17.  The Great Gatsby – by F. Scott Fitzgerald (May 22)

18.  The Call of the Wild – by Jack London (May 24)

19.  The Second Plane – by Martin Amis (May 26)

20.  Into Thin Air – by Jon Krakuaer (May 29)

21.  The End of Illness – by David Agus (June 15)

22.  Where Men Win Glory – by Jon Krakuaer (June 28)

23.  Thus spoke Zarathustra – by Frederich Nietzche (July 6)
24.  Magnificent Obsession – by Lloyd C. Douglas (July 29)
25.  Netherland – by Joseph O’Neill (September 15)
26.  Talent is Overrated – by Geoff Colvin (September 27)
27.  Terror and Liberalism – by Paul Berman (October 19)