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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known around the web as Eglentyne. I am a writer in Texas. I like my beer and my chocolate bitter and my pens pointy.

This blog is one of my hobbies. I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and procrastinate. I have too many hobbies and don’t sleep enough. Around here I talk about whatever is on my mind, mostly reading and writing, but if you hang out long enough, some knitting is bound to show up.

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    These are books I’ve finished reading in 2011. Titles are linked to any comments I’ve made about the books elsewhere on my pages.

    January

    Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do created by Samantha Ettus

    Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 

     

    February

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Daisy Miller by Henry James

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

     

    March

    The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

    The Chocolate War by Richard Cormier

    Gossamer by Lois Lowry

    The Fall by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

    Decoded by Jay-Z

    Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin 

     

    April

    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

    Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper

    Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped by Ian Spector

    1001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: the Ultimate Bathroom Reader by Cary McNeal

    No Sneakers at the Office: A Practical Handbook for the Business World by Adam T. Scholl

    The Walk by Richard Paul Evans

    Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

    The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen 

     

    May

    Ben & Me: from Temperance to Humility, stumbling through Ben Franklin’s thirteen virtues, one unvirtuous day at a time by Cameron Gunn

    A Discovery of Witches: A Novel by Deborah Harkness

    Do the Work by Steven Pressfield

    13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

    On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow: A “What’s Happening to My Body?” Book for Younger Boys by Lynda Madaras

     

    June

    Summerland by Michael Chabon

    What’s Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle with Nick and Chava Castro

    How to Write a Dirty Story by Susie Bright

    Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 

     

    July

    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

    The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

    Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

    House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

    The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

    The Good Neighbors: Book One, Kin by Holly Black & Ted Naifeh

    The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

     

    August

    The Poison Eaters by Holly Black

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

    Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

    Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

    Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

    Ida B … And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan

     

    September

    Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

    Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

     

    October

    Snowdrops by A. D. Miller

    It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley

    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud by Jonathan Safran Foer 

     

    November

    The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

    Buying Prescription Drugs Online: Avoiding a Prescription for Disaster by Kate J. Chase

     

    December

    The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The Good Parts Version Abridged by William Godlaman

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

    Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

    All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy