forgo daily

Read to the baby:

• The Emperor’s Egg
  
• Goodnight Moon
  
• Barnyard Dance!
  
• I Love You, Stinky Face
  
• Belly Button Book!
  
• Farmer Annie’s Garden
  
• Fifteen Animals!
  And many more! … And now she’s born!

In progress

• Art of Acting, Stella Adler
• Movie Speak, ?, 8/3/2011
• Acting: The First Six Lessons, Richard Boleslavsky, 2011,

Completed

• Running of the Bulls (Book Two in the Fifth Avenue Series), Christopher Smith, Feb/2012, 03/01/2012
• Another Bitter Actor, ?, 10/20/2011, ?/?/2012
• Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality, Laura Jana, 7/30/2011, 2011
• The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success, Joel Greenblatt, 7/25/2011, Finished 8/4/2011
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, Apr/2011, Finished 2011
  
• Tuesdays with Morrie, 6/22/2011, Finished 7/6 /2011
• Acting for Film, Michael Caine, 6/29/2011, Finished 7/5/2011
• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin, Apr/2011, Finished 6/1/2011
• Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Peggy Vincent, 3/15/2011, Finished Apr/2011
• Children of the Mind, Orson Scott Card, 3/6/2011, Finished 3/15/2011
• Pushed, Jennifer Block, Feb/2011, Finished 3/6/2011
• The ONLY Investment Guide You’ll EVER Need, Andrew Tobias, Jan/2011, Finished Feb/2011
• Xenocide, Orson Scott Card, Dec/2010, Finished Feb/2011
• The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson, 7/30/2010, Finished Jan/2011
• The Little Book that Beats the Market, Joel Greenblatt, 12/19/2010, Dec/2010
• Born to Run, Christopher McDougall, 12/9/2010, Finished 12/19/2010
• Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card, Nov/2010, Finished 12/5/2010
• Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, 11/3/2010, Finished Nov/2010
• Agile Project Management with Scrum, Ken Schwaber, Oct/2010, Finished 11/3/2010
• Agile Software Development with Scrum, Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, Sep/2010, Finished Oct/2010
• The Road Ahead, Bill Gates, Jul/2010, Finished 9/9/2010
• Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Aug/2010, Finished 8/25/2010
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 7/12/2010, Finished 8/10/2010
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, 7/11/2010, Finished 7/26/2010
• Profit from the Core, Chris Zook, May/2010, Finished 6/9/2010
• Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play, Mahan Khalsa / Randy Illig, Jan/2010, Finished May/2010
• Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini, Aug/2009, Finished May/2010
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith, Feb/2010, Finished Mar/2010
• How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In, Jim Collins, 10/21/2009, Finished 12/6/2009
• The Wager: a Play in Three Acts, Mark Medoff, Nov/2009, Finished Nov/2009
• Angels in America, Tony Kushner, Sep/2009, Finished Oct/2009
• A Practical Handbook for the Actor, Melissa Bruder, 8/25/2009, Finished Aug/2009
• Sanford Meisner on Acting, Sanford Meisner, 8/17/2009, Finished 8/25/2009
• The New Complete Siberian Husky, Michael Jennings, 5/13/2009, Finished Q2 2009
• Raising a Champion: A Beginner’s Guide to Showing Dogs, A. Meredith John; Carole L. Richards, 04/22/2009, Finished Q2 2009
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni, 04/16/2009, Finished Q2 2009
• Show Me! A Dog-Showing Primer, D. Caroline Coile, Feb 2009, Finished 04/19/2009
• 11 Things You Absolutely Need to Know About Selling Your Business, John Dini & Carlos Zubillaga, Dec 2008, Finished 04/15/2009
• Good to Great, Jim Collins, Mar 2009, Finished 04/15/2009
• Hire with your Head, Lou Adler, Feb 2009, Finished Feb 2009
• The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber, Oct/2008, Finished Dec/2008
• Business Valuation Bluebook, Nov 2008, Finished 11/30/2008
• The Shining, Stephen King, Nov 2008, Finished 11/17/2008
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen, Oct 2008, Finished 11/4/2008
• The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman, Sep 2008, Finished Oct/2008
• Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey A. Moore, Started ???, Finished 10/8/2008
• Mastering the The Rockefeller Habits, Verne Harnish, August 2008, Finished Sep/2008
• The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman, Aug 2008, Finished Sep/2008
• The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman, July-Aug 2008, Finished 8/24/2008
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Aug 2008, Finished 8/16/2008
• Moyers on Democracy, Bill Moyers, June-Aug 2008, Finished 8/3/2008
• Funny Money, Andrew Tobias, June 2008, Finished
• The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama, June 2008, Finished
• Day Hiker’s Handbook, Michael Lanza, May 2008, Finished
• Born standing up, Steve Martin, May 2008, Finished
• God’s Debris, Scott Adams, April 2008, Finished
• The Five Tempatations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni, April 2008, Finished
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan, March 2008, Finished
• The King of Torts, John Grisham, 2007, Finished

Started and stopped

• On the Technique of Acting, Michael Chekhov, Sep/2009, In progress
• Leaders Count, Lawrence H. Kaufman, Nov/2008, In progress
• Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Oct/2008, In progress
• The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz, In progress
• Authentic Leadership, Bill George, In progress

Completed prior to tracking

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, ?, Finished
• Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1), Jim Butcher, ?, Finished
• Duma Key, Stephen King, ?, Finished
• Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, ?, Finished
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, 20061129, n/a
• Airport, Arthur Hailey, 20061126, n/a
• Velocity of Money, Stephen Rhodes, ?, ?

Notes from select books

In Defense of Food

• • Eat Food
    • Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food
    • Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, c) more than five in number, or that include d) high-fructose corn syrup
    • Avoid food products that make health claims
    • Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
    • Get out of the supermarket whenever possible
  • Mostly plants
    • Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
    • You are what what you eat eats too
    • If you have the space, buy a freezer
    • Eat like an omnivore
    • Eat well-grown food from healthy soils
    • Eat wild foods when you can
    • Be the kind of person who takes supplements
    • Eat more like the French. Or the Italians. Or the Japanese. Or the Indians. Or the Greeks.
    • Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism
    • Don’t look for the magic bullet in the traditional diet
    • Have a glass of wine with dinner
  • Not too much
    • Pay more, eat less
    • Eat meals
    • Do all your eating at a table
    • Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does
    • Try not to eat alone
    • Consult your gut
    • Eat slowly
    • Cook and, if you can, plant a garden