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Clearing the Backlog
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:22 pmI have a disturbingly long list of books that I'd like to own. This year, I'm working on cutting it down as much as I can, just starting at the top of the list and working my way down. Unfortunately, some of the books have been on the list long enough that they're no longer available; of the ten at the top of the list as of yesterday, five were available only secondhand. (For the moment, I'm transferring such books to a different list, which I'll also start pruning at some point.)
Anyway, I placed an order with Amazon last night for the other five: Roger K. Newman's Hugo Black: A Biography; J. E. Gordon's The New Science of Strong Materials, or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor; Andrew Bacevich's The New American Militarism; Hugh Brogan's The Penguin History of the USA; and Wendy Lesser's The Genius of Language.
That last one looks particularly interesting. It contains the thoughts of fifteen English-language writers whose native tongue was not English, from Joseph Conrad to Amy Tan, on the influence of their mother tongues on their writing. I've been looking forward to reading the Gordon book for a while now too.
Should be fun.
Anyway, I placed an order with Amazon last night for the other five: Roger K. Newman's Hugo Black: A Biography; J. E. Gordon's The New Science of Strong Materials, or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor; Andrew Bacevich's The New American Militarism; Hugh Brogan's The Penguin History of the USA; and Wendy Lesser's The Genius of Language.
That last one looks particularly interesting. It contains the thoughts of fifteen English-language writers whose native tongue was not English, from Joseph Conrad to Amy Tan, on the influence of their mother tongues on their writing. I've been looking forward to reading the Gordon book for a while now too.
Should be fun.
