Monday, November 10, 2008
a partial list of what i've been reading this year
Booklist 2008
1 Playing for Pizza. Grisham (didn’t finish)
4 Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle oops double counted so that’s 3 less
5 The Third Girl, Agatha Cristie.
6 Double or Nothing
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
link
7 Marooned in space, a math geek's true story.
10: On the Make: Bill Clinton in Arkansas. Good of kind.
9 The History of the Irish Race. Seumas MacManus. 1921, so is it public domain?
I guess so, Google has it scanned online. Wonderful so far. It's already April, so I might not get to 50 books this year.
Boy Clinton: I'd misplaced this last year and hadn't finished it, so I have it open now while reading other things.
8. Hannibal Rising. Hannibal Lecter comes of age. Excellent book. I've seen silence of the lambs - saw it in Tom Jennings' hotel room at Computer Priviacy and Freedom 2, in 1992 - in which Hannibal is the bad guy, but in this book you learn how he became who he is and why. I'm not sure if he's the protagonist or antogonist, hero or anti-hero, but one tends to root for him.
7. The Enormous Egg. 1954. Kid's book about a boy and his dinosaur, set in Freedom New Hampshire, which is a crossroads with a gas a station and an inn, where I stayed when my sister got married. Good book. Rescued from a dumpster.
6. A Boy's Fortune Horatio Alger Jr. Good triumphs over evil.
5. They Call her Lady Bird. 1964. Bio of Mrs. LBJ. Shallow, but good.
2,3,4. Neal Stephenson, the Baroque Cycle. Liked it. About 2500 pages.
1. A history of the English Language. Slow going, but informative.
So that’s 14, not 17
18 Doctorow's Little Brother
19 Which Lie Did I Tell? William Goldman.
20 Game of Kings
21 Jarod Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel
22 Wodehouse On Crime
23 Barbara Bush, a Memoir
24 Symptoms of Withdrawal, Christopher Kennedy Lawford
25 Anathem, Stephenson
26 Deviance textbook
27 4 ways to forgiveness, Ursula Le Guin
28 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
29 Tom's Town: the Pendergast machine
30 A margaret atwood, should be here somewhere...
31 My uncle Bob Stewart's memories of growing up on a ranch, with illustrations.
32 100 Decisive Battles
33 The Labours of Hercules, Agatha Cristie
34 The Voltairine DeCleyre Reader
I picked up Hannibal by Thomas Harris, but I've already read it. Maybe it was on last years list?
35 black coffee, novel based on agatha cristie play. the novel adaptation is by a guy who played the apparentvillain bad guy in the stage play years ago.
36 bridget jones diary
37 the return of jeeves
38 jeeves in the morning
Seize the Day- Saul Bellow - didn't get past the introduction so won't count this one.
39. Openly Bob.
40. Confessions of a Muckraker. Jack Anderson, about Drew Pearson, very good.
41. All too Human, George Stephanopoulos, about Clinton, not bad
42. Masters of Deceit, J Edgar Hoover, about communism, just started so far.
so 15 days to read 8 books.
so this is a partial list, but even so it’s less than 50.
Booklist 2008
1 Playing for Pizza. Grisham (didn’t finish)
4 Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle oops double counted so that’s 3 less
5 The Third Girl, Agatha Cristie.
6 Double or Nothing
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
link
7 Marooned in space, a math geek's true story.
10: On the Make: Bill Clinton in Arkansas. Good of kind.
9 The History of the Irish Race. Seumas MacManus. 1921, so is it public domain?
I guess so, Google has it scanned online. Wonderful so far. It's already April, so I might not get to 50 books this year.
Boy Clinton: I'd misplaced this last year and hadn't finished it, so I have it open now while reading other things.
8. Hannibal Rising. Hannibal Lecter comes of age. Excellent book. I've seen silence of the lambs - saw it in Tom Jennings' hotel room at Computer Priviacy and Freedom 2, in 1992 - in which Hannibal is the bad guy, but in this book you learn how he became who he is and why. I'm not sure if he's the protagonist or antogonist, hero or anti-hero, but one tends to root for him.
7. The Enormous Egg. 1954. Kid's book about a boy and his dinosaur, set in Freedom New Hampshire, which is a crossroads with a gas a station and an inn, where I stayed when my sister got married. Good book. Rescued from a dumpster.
6. A Boy's Fortune Horatio Alger Jr. Good triumphs over evil.
5. They Call her Lady Bird. 1964. Bio of Mrs. LBJ. Shallow, but good.
2,3,4. Neal Stephenson, the Baroque Cycle. Liked it. About 2500 pages.
1. A history of the English Language. Slow going, but informative.
So that’s 14, not 17
18 Doctorow's Little Brother
19 Which Lie Did I Tell? William Goldman.
20 Game of Kings
21 Jarod Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel
22 Wodehouse On Crime
23 Barbara Bush, a Memoir
24 Symptoms of Withdrawal, Christopher Kennedy Lawford
25 Anathem, Stephenson
26 Deviance textbook
27 4 ways to forgiveness, Ursula Le Guin
28 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
29 Tom's Town: the Pendergast machine
30 A margaret atwood, should be here somewhere...
31 My uncle Bob Stewart's memories of growing up on a ranch, with illustrations.
32 100 Decisive Battles
33 The Labours of Hercules, Agatha Cristie
34 The Voltairine DeCleyre Reader
I picked up Hannibal by Thomas Harris, but I've already read it. Maybe it was on last years list?
35 black coffee, novel based on agatha cristie play. the novel adaptation is by a guy who played the apparent
36 bridget jones diary
37 the return of jeeves
38 jeeves in the morning
Seize the Day- Saul Bellow - didn't get past the introduction so won't count this one.
39. Openly Bob.
40. Confessions of a Muckraker. Jack Anderson, about Drew Pearson, very good.
41. All too Human, George Stephanopoulos, about Clinton, not bad
42. Masters of Deceit, J Edgar Hoover, about communism, just started so far.
so 15 days to read 8 books.
so this is a partial list, but even so it’s less than 50.
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