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stoutfellow) wrote2007-08-06 08:43 am
stoutfellow) wrote2007-08-06 08:43 am
Resolutions...
One of my resolutions this year was to read more books than I bought. Until last week, I was staying ahead by a narrow margin.
I blew that one all to hell this week, buying no less than twenty-nine books. The full damages are under the cut.
Janet Evanovich, Three To Get Deadly; L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Jim Butcher, Storm Front; H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man; Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World; Selina Rosen (ed), Bubbas of the Apocalypse; Laura Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh; Eric Flint, 1812: The Rivers of War; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; Andre Norton, Janus and Gods and Androids; Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion; C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born; Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten; Barbara Hambly, Fever Season; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres; William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land and Other Perilous Romances; Eric Frank Russell, Major Ingredients; Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins; Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time; Vernor Vinge, Tatja Grimm's World and Rainbow's End; Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora; Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon; Nanny Ogg's Cookbook; Peter Beagle, The Line Between; R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels.
The Winchester is the only nonfiction, unless Nanny Ogg's Cookbook can be counted as such.
I blew that one all to hell this week, buying no less than twenty-nine books. The full damages are under the cut.
Janet Evanovich, Three To Get Deadly; L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Jim Butcher, Storm Front; H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man; Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World; Selina Rosen (ed), Bubbas of the Apocalypse; Laura Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh; Eric Flint, 1812: The Rivers of War; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; Andre Norton, Janus and Gods and Androids; Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion; C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born; Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten; Barbara Hambly, Fever Season; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres; William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land and Other Perilous Romances; Eric Frank Russell, Major Ingredients; Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins; Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time; Vernor Vinge, Tatja Grimm's World and Rainbow's End; Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora; Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon; Nanny Ogg's Cookbook; Peter Beagle, The Line Between; R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels.
The Winchester is the only nonfiction, unless Nanny Ogg's Cookbook can be counted as such.
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I've read several of the above:
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon;
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The first of his that I read was The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060931809). I found it fascinating. Then read Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060838590), The Meaning of Everything (The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/019517500X), and Crack...
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