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I went over to Borders today to pick up a Christmas present. Naturally, I bought some stuff for myself.
I may have gone overboard: well over $200...
The haul:
Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. (I really want Before the Storm, about the Goldwater movement; this is sort of a sequel to that.)
Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. (Looks interesting, and I'm willing to accept a certain amount of revisionism - but I can't forget the fate of the last Abbasid caliph.)
Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea. (I bought this on a recommendation by Sybil Vane; she describes it better than I would.)
Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power. (I read his The New American Militarism earlier this year and was rather impressed, and I've heard good things about this one as well.)
Jim Butcher, Death Masks and Captain's Fury, the next volumes in the Dresden Files and Codex Alera series respectively.
Eric Flint, 1634: The Baltic War. (I can't find the one set in Bavaria, dang it.)
Janet Evanovich, Seven Up. (Mind candy, yum.)
David Weber, Honor Among Enemies. (I'll probably stop reading the Honor books eventually, but they haven't worn out their welcome yet.)
Steve Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis. (This series isn't, I think, as good as the Nantucket trilogy, but completism makes its demands.)
Roberta Meluch, The Sagittarius Command. (I still can't buy the original conceit, but I like the Merrimack people, so I'm sticking with this series.)
Robert Heinlein, Starman Jones. (A childhood favorite, as I recall, probably because of the 3-D chess. I suspect my memory is unreliable....)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. (It's about time I read it, I suppose.)
Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist. (How could I not buy a book with that title?)
I also picked up a couple of CDs: a "Greatest Hits" album from Heart which, remarkably, includes none of the songs I already have, and (save the brickbats, please) a Bread anthology. (If nothing else, I'd like to have the original version of "If", to wipe the memory of Dolly Parton's cover from my mind.)
Oh, yes - if you were wondering, I did buy the Christmas present.
I may have gone overboard: well over $200...
The haul:
Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. (I really want Before the Storm, about the Goldwater movement; this is sort of a sequel to that.)
Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. (Looks interesting, and I'm willing to accept a certain amount of revisionism - but I can't forget the fate of the last Abbasid caliph.)
Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea. (I bought this on a recommendation by Sybil Vane; she describes it better than I would.)
Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power. (I read his The New American Militarism earlier this year and was rather impressed, and I've heard good things about this one as well.)
Jim Butcher, Death Masks and Captain's Fury, the next volumes in the Dresden Files and Codex Alera series respectively.
Eric Flint, 1634: The Baltic War. (I can't find the one set in Bavaria, dang it.)
Janet Evanovich, Seven Up. (Mind candy, yum.)
David Weber, Honor Among Enemies. (I'll probably stop reading the Honor books eventually, but they haven't worn out their welcome yet.)
Steve Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis. (This series isn't, I think, as good as the Nantucket trilogy, but completism makes its demands.)
Roberta Meluch, The Sagittarius Command. (I still can't buy the original conceit, but I like the Merrimack people, so I'm sticking with this series.)
Robert Heinlein, Starman Jones. (A childhood favorite, as I recall, probably because of the 3-D chess. I suspect my memory is unreliable....)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. (It's about time I read it, I suppose.)
Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist. (How could I not buy a book with that title?)
I also picked up a couple of CDs: a "Greatest Hits" album from Heart which, remarkably, includes none of the songs I already have, and (save the brickbats, please) a Bread anthology. (If nothing else, I'd like to have the original version of "If", to wipe the memory of Dolly Parton's cover from my mind.)
Oh, yes - if you were wondering, I did buy the Christmas present.
