Books of the Year
Jason Farago
It's almost June. If you worry you have accomplished little in 2011 so far, do not read any of the following, more or less recently published:
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Year of Living Like Jesus: My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do
Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk
365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy
A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for 'The One'
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple
The Calculus Diaries: A Year Discovering How Maths Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
An Afternoon in Summer: My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything, and Finally Falling in Love
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day
Give It Up! My Year of Learning to Live Better
Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping
A Year without ‘Made in China’: One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy
A Life Stripped Bare: My Year of Trying to Live Ethically
A Year Without Underwear: Exploring the World on a Bicycle
Talking to Zeus: My Year in a Greek Garden
365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
The Beauty Experiment: How I Skipped the Lipstick, Cut My Hair, Forgot Fashion, and Faced the World without Concealer for a Year... and Made Over My Life
The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
Comments
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26 May 2011
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2:28pm
cappio
says:
However could you have missed Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex?
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26 May 2011
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4:02pm
alex
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Addendum:
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27 May 2011
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4:52pm
Bob Beck
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"Meta, or, My Year of Years: My Year Spent Reading All The 'My Year Spent...' Books."
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27 May 2011
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6:29pm
cappio
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Actually, that was a blog: http://myyearofeverything.tumblr.com/.
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27 May 2011
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7:08pm
Bob Beck
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cappio
... well, I'll be jiggered (as someone said in the latest LRB). Another reminder, as if I needed it, that it's as hard to produce satire as to have an original idea.
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13 June 2011
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4:52am
cappio
says:
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Bob Beck
I only know about these books because I once thought about writing one--about reading all of Shakespeare in a year. When I realized how overdone--and silly--the genre is, as this post demonstrates, I decided just to
Read moreAndy McBean, A Year on the Bog: 1 man, 1 stopwatch, 12 months, 273 toilets (Southbank Publishing)
Evidently Chastened finished the poor guy off.
In truth I hadn't realized "Chastened" was a real book. I'd taken that title for a joke, and a good one at that.
blog about Shakespeare.