Midlife Roadtripper: The Onion

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Stalking Intructions

My middle son sent me this. Too funny. Oh, how I love The Onion.

Road Trip

The present -- Onward! The Midlife Roadtripper continues the journey of the Midlife Jobhunter. I'm not quite certain if I'm still midlife, but I don't care. That's my name.

The beginning -- Accompanied by a stale resume in an even staler economic era, Midlife Jobhunter is a road trip toward the rediscovery of my own talents, abilities, gathered knowledge. Oh, yes, and the search for gainful employment. As I dust off my filing cabinet in search of the secondary high school English teaching certificate that expired 24 years ago, I embark on an adventure. I can’t look at it any differently than that, or it will overwhelm me.

2010 Hammock Reading

The Help - Kathryn Stockett
A Novel Bookstore - Laurence Cosse
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
Sarah's Garden - Kelly Long
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Night - Elie Weisel
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
Father of the Rain - Lily King
On the Divinity of Second Chances - Kaya McLaren
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - Sophie Kinsella
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
of Bees and Mists - Erick Setiawan
The Vintage Caper - Peter Mayle
But Not For Long - Michelle Wildgen
Good Things I Wish You - A. Manette Ansay
The Bridge Of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Happiness Sold Separately - Lolly Winston
The Road to Cana - Anne Rice
Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos
The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins
Freakonomics - Levitt and Dubner
The Family Man - Elinor Lipman
The Speckled Monster - Jennifer Lee Carrell
Songs Without Words - Ann Packer
The Cottagers -Marshall N. Klimasewiski
The Story Sisters - Alice Hoffman
The condition - Jennifer Haigh
To Have and To Hold - Jane Green
Three Cups of Tea One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo
The Echo of the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
Five Queens's Road - Sorayya Khan
Olive Kittridge - Elizabeth Strout
City of Thieves - David Benioff

2009 Dock Reading

Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
"A" is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Back on the Career Track - Cohen and Rabin
Going Back to Work - A Survival Guide for Comeback Moms - Quigley and Kaufman
Kissing The Gunner's Daughter - Ruth Rendell
Booked To Die - John Dunning
The Comeback - Emma Gilbey Keller
South of Broad - Pat Conroy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
So Brave, Young and Handsome - Leif Enger
A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell
Body Surfing - Anita Shreve
The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
We Are All Welcome Here - Elizabeth Berg
**Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich
The Galton Case - Ross McDonald
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
**The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Escape - Carolyn Jessop
**Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
***The Sweetest Dream - Doris Lessing
**What's So Amazing About Grace? - Philip Yancey
The Unlikely Lavender Queen - Jeannie Ralston
**The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
**Kitchen Confidential - Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
*A Song I Knew by Heart - Bret Lott
***The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer
***Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
A Dog Year - Jon Katz
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
**Best American Short Stories 2006 - Ann Patchett, Editor
**Breakable You - Brian Morton
**Best American Essays 2006 - Lauren Slater, Editor

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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