Many Many Days: The Book List...What We Read

The Goal? Many Books.

The Ratings? First some background...we packed well for a very long trip. We gave up many important things like any attractive clothing or non-orthopedic shoes. However, Claire showed up with 7 toiletry bags. Yes 7. And they were large. She maintained that she had dramatically reduced her supplies, and all these things were necessary. Needless to say, by the second day of carrying them around, Claire decided to re-assess. In tribute to her adorable and baffling neurosis, our book rating system is a measurement of how many toiletry bags a given book is worth...Enjoy.

# One Toiletry Bag
## Two Toiletry Bags
### Three Toiletry Bags
#### Four Toiletry Bags

Start Date: April 14, 2006. F

For the most part, both Lara and Claire read each book. There are occasional exceptions, but what's the point in carrying around a whole book if only one of us reads it?

1. How Did I Get Here? (De Angelis) #
2. White Noise (DeLillo) ###
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer) ####
5. The Razor's Edge (Maugham) ###

6. Four Letters of Love (Niall) #

7. Moon Tiger (Lively) ####
8. Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger) ###
9. Not a Hazardous Sport (Barley) ##
10. Save Karyn (Bosnak) ####
11. Mexican Days (Cohen) ###
12. Fresh Air Fiend (Theroux) ####
13. Insider's Guide to Flying (Fodor's) #
14. Anatomy of Illness (Cousins) #
15. Superfoods ##
16. Running from Safety #
17. Around the World in 80 Dates (Cox) ###
18. Travels with a Briefcase #
19. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) ####
20. Such a Long Journey (Mistry) ##
21. The Ten Principles #
22. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ##
23. Letters to a Young Doctor (Selzer) #
24. The Executioner's Song (Mailer) ###
25. Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder) ####
26. Hotel Honolulu (Theroux) ###
27. The Spiral Staircase (Armstrong) ##
28. Handbook for the Soul #
29. The Bible - El Nuevo Testamento (Claire says it is not appropriate to rate the Bible on the toiletry bag scale)
30. A Year in Provence (Mayle) #
31. Hopscotch (Cortazar) ###
32. Danzinger's Adventures: From Miami to Kabul (Danzinger) ##
33. Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) ##
34. Rules of the Wild (Marciano) ####
35. Light on Snow (Shreve) #
36. Husbands (Parks) #
37. Paris to the Moon (Gopnik) ###
38. Notes on a Scandal (Heller) ##
39. Daybreak into Darkness (Bogarde) ##.5
40. Country Girls (O'Brien) #
41. Vanishing Acts (Picoult) ##
42. The Full Montezuma (Moore) ##
43. Four Blonds (Bushnell) ##
44. The Tipping Point (Gladwell) ###
45. Amor Recuperado #
46. Back When We Were Grown-Ups (Tyler) ##
47. I am Charlotte Simmons (Wolfe) ###
48. Death at La Fenice #
49. The Glass Castle (Walls) ##
50. Un Curso de Amor (Gattuso) ##
51. Mrs. Kimball (?) ##
52. A Year in Provence (Mayle) ##
53. Confessions of Max Tivoli (Greer) ###
54. How To Be Good (Hornby) ###
55. How Opal Meht (sic) Got Kiss (sic) Got Wild and Got Life (sic) #
56. Big Trouble (Barry) #
57. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters (Robinson) ###
58. The Food of Love (Capella) #
59. The Floating Book (Lovric) ##
60. To The Lighthouse (Woolf) ####
61. The Glass Palace (Ghosh) ####
62. The Lost Trumpet (Glassic Gibbon) ###
63. Baggage (Barr) ##
64. A Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie) ##
65. Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)###
66. Freakonomics (Leavitt) ###
67. Blink (Gladwell) ###
68. Beyond the Sky and the Earth (Zeppa) ####
69. Duplicate Keys (Smiley) ##
70. Life of Pi (Martel) ##.5
71. Angels and Demons (Brown) #
72. Baggage (Barr) ##
73. Sons and Lovers (Lawrence) ###
74. Beyond the Earth and Sky (Zeppa) ####
75. Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) ####
76. Duplicate Keys (Smiley) ##.5
77. Ariel's Gift (Wagner) ###
78. An Unexpected Light (Elliott) ##.5
79. The Life You've Always Wanted #



These are pictures of Books. Some of them include a pictures of us, reading said books. One picture, with only a beach in the background, we credit to a soon-to-be Hawaiian doctor. In another picture, we are doing bad things with a book. But it was moldy. Here you go!