Ima on (and off) the Bima: Real-Life Jewish Parenting: Overheard in the Dining Room at Camp

Books I've Read in 2009

The Girl from Foreign by Sadia Shepard*
The American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter*/**
Bonk by Mary Roach*
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy*
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows*
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver*
The 6 o'clock Scramble by Aviva Goldfarb*
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh*
As A Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg (technically a re-read but I think there's a 10 year statute of limitations on that)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield*
3 Willows by Anne Brashares*/**
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
The Spare Room by Helen Garner*
Daemon by Daniel Suarez*
Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn*
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert*
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz*
All Other Nights by Dara Horn
The Lost Quilter by Jennifer Chivaerini*
The Guardian by Julius Lester*
The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square by Rosina Lippi*
Food Matters by Mark Bittman*
My Jesus Year by Benyamin Cohen*
Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center*
The Creative Family by Amanda Blake Soule*
City of Thieves by David Benioff*
Because I Said So edited by Kate Moses & Camille Peri*
The First & Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich by Howard Reich
World Made By Hand by James Kunstler
Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling*
Snapshots by Michal Govrin
The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix**
Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman by Gary Morgenstein
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (okay this was a re-read. But how could I see the movie and then not re-read the book?)
The Defector by Daniel Silva
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan*
True Colors by Kristin Hannah*
Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
After the Train by Gloria Whelan */**
Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli*
Drawing in the Dust by Zoe Klein*
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau*
Rashi's Daughters Book 3 by Maggie Anton
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich (kindle)
Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman*
Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman*
Sane Woman's Guide to Raising a Large Family by Mary Ostyn*
Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin*
Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Table for Eight by Meagan Francis
Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson**
The Summer Kitchen by Karen Weinreb*
Bending Toward the Sun by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian*
Looking for Anne of Green Gables by Irene Gammel*
The Last Ember by Daniel Levin*
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld */**
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins **
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins**
The Best Old Movies for Families by Ty Burr*
Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by Francine Prose*
Connected: Surprising Power of Social Networks by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler*
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman (kindle)

*=Library Books
**=Young Adult Books

Camper: you know what, camp is like a more-fun orphanage. Except at the end we go home. Oh, and we get mail from our parents. So I guess it's not really an orphanage.

Oy!