Prelude to A Book: Jun 28, 2009

Books I've read in 2009

-- What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
-- The Football Fan's Manifesto, by Michael Tunison
-- Eating the Dinosaur, by Chuck Klosterman
-- Brothers Karamozov, by Fyodore Dostoevsky
-- The Book of Basketball, by Bill Simmons
-- The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
-- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodore Dostoevsky
-- American Lion, by Jon Meacham
-- Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
-- Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand
-- As They See 'Em, by Bruce Webber
-- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
-- Winston Churchill, by John Keegan
-- Boys Will Be Boys, by Jeff Pearlman
-- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
-- Bowls, polls and tattered souls, by Stewart Mandel
-- How to Rig an Election, by Allan Raymond
-- The Breaks of the Game, by David Halberstam
-- Southern Storm, by Noah Andre Trudeau
-- The Watchmen, by Alan Moore
-- Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
-- Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman
-- Me of Little Faith, by Lewis Black
-- Have a Nice Day, a tale of blood and sweatsocks, by Mick Foley
-- Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express, by Robert Gallagher
-- Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin
-- Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Books I've read in 2008 (24)

-- God in the White House, by Randall Balmer
-- Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
-- The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
-- Bearing the Cross, by David J. Garrow
-- Bringing Down the House, by Ben Mezrich
-- 1776, by David McCullough
-- Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger
-- Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama
-- Ball Four, by Jim Bouton
-- Can I Keep My Jersey, by Paul Shirley
-- What Happened, By Scott McClellan
-- Against All Enemies, by Richard A. Clarke
-- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
-- The Great Derangement, by Matt Taibbi
-- I May Not Get There With You, the true Martin Luther King, Jr., by Michael Eric Dyson.
-- '77, Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age, by Terry Frei
-- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin
-- The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
-- Hatemail from Cheerleaders, by Rick Reilly
-- The Kings of New York, by Michael Weinreb
-- Turning of the Tide, by Don Yeager
-- The Second Civil War, by Ronald Brownstein
-- The Last Shot, by Darcy Frey
-- I am America (and so can you)!, by Stephen Colbert

This weekend we took Jacob to a local water park and celebrated our 10th Anniversary. It was a wonderful weekend filled with wonderful weather. Here are some pics.