2011 Year In Review: Books I Read (or Reading)

Books I read this year:

1. Effective Fundraising
2. Starbucks Experience
3. Life Makeovers
4. Zen by the Brush
5. Collaboration
6. The Eco Chick Guide to Life
7. Damn Why Didn't I write That?
8. Twenties Girl
9. How to Speak Like a Pro
10. The Family of Woman
11. Iowa 24/7
12. Quite Moments Devotional Journal
13. Mini Shopaholic
14. The Fashionista Files
15. A Year of Creativity
16. The Fashion Book
17. In Style Instant Style
18. Easter Ideals
19. Wherever You Go There you Are
20. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
21. Great Gifts in 30 Minutes or Less
22. Adobe Classroom in a Book-Flash
23. Adobe Classroom in a Book-Dreamweaver
24. Looking Up 
25. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
26. 101 Ways to Say Merry Christmas
27. Vital Friends
28. Crucial Conversations
29. Crucial Confrontations
30. The Influencer
31. How to Say It
32. The Artist's Way
33. My First Business Book of Ethics
34. My First Business Book of Etiquette
35. The NOW Revolution

Books on my Kindle:

1. Learn Absolute French
2. The New Oxford Dictionary
3. Barron's French English Dictionary
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
5. The Art of War
6. The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Pain
7. Don't Die DragonFly
8. Serial
9. Top Thought Leaders Share their Best Innovation Ideas
10. Predictable Magic: Unleash the Power of Design Strategy to Transform Your Business
11. Do you Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company
12. Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Charge
13. Invisible Forces and Powerful Beleifs
14. Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of your Professional and Personal Life
15. Selling to Big Companies
16. CK-12 Advanced Probability and Statistics
17. Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom (Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture)
18. The Counte of Monte Christo
19. Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
20. Write for Life, Revised and Updated: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit through Journal Writing
21. Kaplan Technical Writing: A Writing Resource for Technical Writers at ALL Levels
22. Apples are Square: Thinking Differently about Leadership
23. Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Penalty Defense Lawyer
24. Sharp Grammar: Building Better Grammar Skills
25. Circle of Friends: Cookbook-25 Meatloaf Recipes
26. 25 Languages Phrase Book: German, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, etc.
27. Fools Rush In
28. The World Set Free
29. How to Speak Like a Pro
30. Oxford Dictionary of English
31. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
32. Pride and Prejudice
33. War and Peace

Books I am Reading Right Now on my Kindle:

1. Peace from Broken Pieces
2. Sun Stand Still
3. Chiczofrennia: Crazy is an Art Form
4. Safe Haven
5. Social Media Marketing
6. How to Say It at Work
7. Three Weeks with my Brother
8. The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends, etc
9. How to Say It: Grantwriting
10. Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet
11. The Right Brain Business Plan
12. Poke the Box

In 2011 I read or am finishing up to 80 books.

Challenge for 2012 is 100books.

I also just found a load of books in boxes that I will be putting up on shelves today, so who knows what kind of things will peak my reading desire. A blog I found recently through another friend mentions why you should be with women who read. I found it very cute and agreed with everything they said. Read this little blog post and I think you will agree.

Date a Girl Who Reads 

Quotes from the Blog...Click on the Link to READ the whole post and be amazed...

Date a girl who reads. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants.She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street.It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book.Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.If you find a girl who reads, keep her close.You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.