Books I mention:

• An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake by Tom Horton
• Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, edited by John Biewen
• Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production by Jonathan Kern
• The Polysyllabic Spree and Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
• The Best American Travel Writing 2010 by Bill Buford
• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
• The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger

Bloggers I tip my hat to:

• Greg at The New Dork Review of Books
• Carrie at nomadreader
• Rich Rennicks