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Books 2007

Readings in 2007
  1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (3/31/07)****
  2. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (4/16/07) ****
  3. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (5/7/07) ***
  4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (5/21/07) ****
  5. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (6/12/07) ****
  6. Michelangelo (Art in Hand) by Alexandra Gromlin (6/14/07)
  7. Ragtime by E.L Doctorow (6/21/07) ****
  8. Confessions by Saint Augustine (7/9/07) ***
  9. Sphere by Michael Crichton (7/16/07) ***
  10. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke (7/24/07) **
  11. Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (7/30/07) ***
  12. Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (8/14/07) ***
  13. Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) by Hermann Hesse ***
  14. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (8/24/07) ****
  15. 'salem's Lot by Stephen King (9/5/07) ***
  16. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy (9/22/07) ***
  17. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (10/5/07) ***
  18. Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (11/2/07) **
  19. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler (11/21/07) **

Reference Books, Guide Books, Text Books

  1. The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp

Books on Tapes; The Teaching Company (TTC)

  1. The Concertos by Robert Greenberg (01/11/07) ***
  2. Great Masters: Brahms--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (01/17/07) ****
  3. Great Masters: Tchaikovsky--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (01/25/07) ****
  4. Great Masters: Mahler--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (02/06/07) ****
  5. Operas of Mozart by Robert Greenberg (03/02/07) ***
  6. Great Masters: Stravinsky--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (5/29/07) ****
  7. The Italian Renaissance by Kenneth Bartlett (7/16/07) ***
  8. Comedy Through the Ages by Seth Lerer (8/28/07) ***
  9. Theories of Human Development by Malcolm Watson (9/17/07) ****
  10. Detective Fiction: The Killer, The Detective, & Their World by Huston (9/22/07) ***
  11. Biological Anthropology: An Evolutoinary Perspective by Barbara King (10/15/07) ***
  12. Energy and Climate by Richard Wolfson (10/28/07) ****
  13. Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality by Robert Sapolsky (11/18/07) ****
  14. History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century by Timothy Taylor (11/29/07)

Movies on big screen

  1. Children of Men - 1/5/07
  2. Letters from Iwo Jima - 1/13/07
  3. Babel - 1/19/07
  4. Notes on a Scandal - 1/26/07
  5. Volver - 2/2/07
  6. Dreamgirls - 2/7/07
  7. The Last King of Scotland - 3/3/07
  8. 28 Weeks Later - 5/18/07