{"id":372,"date":"2006-01-03T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:03","slug":"2005-book-log-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"2005 Book Log In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual Round up…<\/p>\n


\nJanuary<\/b>
\n1. The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World<\/i> by A.J. Jacobs<\/p>\n

March<\/b>
\n2. Made In America: My Story<\/i> by Sam Walton<\/p>\n

3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West<\/i> by Gregory Maguire<\/p>\n

4. How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God<\/i> by Michael Shermer, 2nd Edition<\/p>\n

April<\/b>
\n5. America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction<\/i> by the Daily Show Writers<\/p>\n

6. The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/i> by Audrey Niffenegger<\/p>\n

7. Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal<\/i> by Christopher Moore<\/p>\n

May<\/b>
\n8. The Cartoon History of the Universe II<\/i> by Larry Gonick<\/p>\n

9. The Confusion: Volume II of the Baroque Cycle<\/i> by Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n

June<\/b><\/p>\n

10. System of the World: Volume 3 of the Baroque Cycle<\/i> by Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n

July<\/b>
\n11. Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of “Can’t Miss” Investment Strategies<\/i> by Aswath Damodaran<\/p>\n

August<\/b>
\n12. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/i> by J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n

September<\/b>
\n13. The Shakespeare Miscellany<\/i> by David Crystal and Ben Crystal<\/p>\n

14. Gravity’s Rainbow<\/i> by Thomas Pynchon<\/strike> (59 pages, then abandoned)<\/p>\n

14. The Science of Good & Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow The Golden Rule<\/i> by Michael Shermer<\/p>\n

October<\/b>
\n15. Foucalt’s Pendulum<\/i> by Umberto Eco<\/p>\n

November<\/b>
\n16. The Truth (with Jokes)<\/i> by Al Franken<\/p>\n

17. How To Buy A Business<\/i> by Richard A. Joseph, Anna M. Nekoranec, Carl H. Steffens<\/p>\n

18. What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business, Second Edition: Real Life Startup Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs<\/i> by Jan Norman.<\/p>\n

19. The Small Business Valuation Book<\/i> by Lawrence W. Tuller<\/p>\n

December<\/b>
\n20. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005<\/i> Edited by Dave Eggers, Introduction by Beck<\/p>\n

21. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell<\/i> by Susanna Clarke<\/p>\n

22. The Slightly Cloudy Patriot<\/i> by Sarah Vowell<\/p>\n

The Books Not Journaled<\/b>
\n23. McSweeneys 15
\n24. McSweeneys 16
\n25. McSweeneys 17
\n26. McSweeneys 18
\n27. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America<\/i> by Barbara Ehrenreich
\n28. Something Rotten<\/i> by Jasper Fforde<\/p>\n

The Christmas Haul: On the Reading Stand<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n