To Be Read List
I've finally started keeping this written down. At least, the portions that I can take time to write down are going to be written down ...
- East
of Eden by John
Steinbeck
- I read the Reader's Digest Condensed Version (an excerpt) and was impressed.
Tim Harris caught me and chewed me out. He says I have to read the full novel,
but he won't loan me his because I'll get chocolate on it. I hope someone
gives me a copy of my own for Christmas.
-
- I have just discovered that there are three Christopher Moore books I haven't read:
- Ishtar
& Tammuz
- Santa
& Pete (audio book)
- and one non-fiction history book: Trench
Fever
"Exasperated with the emphasis most war literature places on the officers
and political leaders, Moore set out to trace the wartime experiences of one
man - one personal history among the 6,000,000 voiceless ranks of Britons
in uniform. He chose Private Walter Butterworth, 5th Battalion, Leicestershire
Regiment, an obscure infantryman in a disparaged outfit of amateurs that somehow
managed to win one of the greatest battles of history - who also happened
to be Moore's grandfather."
Actually in my physical TBR stack:
The
Closing of the American Mind by Allan
Bloom
which My Wesley has just finished reading. There are a handful of books
that Wes reads in their entirety. I gotta read this one. If I follow my lifelong
habit and go on to read related and possibly dissenting books, I will probably
read Mortimer Adler, Reforming
Education : The Opening of the American Mind. I may even end up reading
William Buckley, Jr. Beyond
Cheering and Bashing : New Perspectives on the Closing of the American Mind.
The
Habits of Highly Deceptive Media by Norman
Solomon
"Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream Media" sounds useful. Look for a review
on this in the next book issue of Real Change.
Woman
on the Edge of Time by Marge
Piercy
which sounds like an SF novel dealing with mental health issues and feminism,
nicely left-wing radical. (I'm working on it! I'm working on it! See comments
on He, She and It)
Moved from ToBeRead to Read:
- Wizard
and Glass by Stephen King
- My favorite Stephen King novels were the Gunslinger series, and a fellow
Book Barn reader gave this a thumbs up, especially mentioning "attention to
detail". It bore out all my fondest expectations. Stephen King himself regards
this as his "meta-story," and I am looking forward to the next installment.
- He,
She and It by Marge Piercy.
- I noticed this book in the library and it looked like my sort of thing.
Recently, the subject of golems came up on one of my book discussion lists
and a fellow member commented on my posting of the story of Rabbi Loew and
the Golem of Prague that that was much like the sub-plot of Marge Piercy's
novel. So I was hooked. I did enjoy the book, although I became impatient
with it at times. Marge Piercy's poetry is sparse and clean; her prose resembles
the broad, rich, slow expanse of a great river delta. It's worth reading,
but probably not if you like action novels.
- Island
of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher
Moore
- I have now read all of Christopher Moore's books in print in the U.S.:
- I have just discovered, however, that there are two Christopher Moore novels
available only in the U.K.:
- ...and one non-fiction history book, available also in the U.S.: Trench
Fever
- "Exasperated with the emphasis most war literature places on the officers
and political leaders, Moore set out to trace the wartime experiences of one
man - one personal history among the 6,000,000 voiceless ranks of Britons
in uniform. He chose Private Walter Butterworth, 5th Battalion, Leicestershire
Regiment, an obscure infantryman in a disparaged outfit of amateurs that somehow
managed to win one of the greatest battles of history - who also happened
to be Moore's grandfather."
- The
Science of Discworld
- The link is to amazon.co.uk, which has many more Terry
Pratchett books.
- Also read:
- The
Path of Daggers; and the Wheel of Time reference companion to the
series by Robert Jordan
-
My
Wish List