Reading List

Stuff i'm reading or read:

Title	Author	Why	Started	Completed
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)		Mirabelka, Delia	26 May 2010
Harry Potter 5	Rowling		May 2010	25 May 2010
Harry Potter 4	Rowling		April 2010	May 2010
The Warlord's Son		saw it at Bookpeople	29 March 2010	April 2010
Harry Potter 3	Rowling		Mar 2010	Mar 2010
Harry Potter 2	Rowling		Mar 2010	Mar 2010
Harry Potter 1	Rowling		Mar 2010	Mar 2010
Hopscotch	Julio Cortazar	Mirabelka	3 Jan 2010
Maus: A Survivor's Tale	Art Spiegelman	been meaning to for years	28 Dec 2009	30 Dec 2009
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World	Trevor Paglen	boingboing.net	24 Dec 2009	27 Dec 2009
The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger	multiple reinterant vectors	15 Nov 2009?	23 Dec 2009
All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy	multiple reinterant vectors	25 Oct 2009	1 Dec 2009
Torture Taxi On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights	Trevor Paglen, A. C. Thompson	boingboing.net	30 Sep 2009	6 Oct 2009
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal	Jared Diamond	Kulak	20 May 2009	08 Nov 2009
The Seven Daughters of Eve	Bryan Sykes	ran across it in Wikipedia	July 2009	July 2009
The Meme Machine		random Internet stuff	? Aug 2009	-
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior		ran across it when buying The Meme Machine	Sept 2009	-
Ubersleep	Pure Doxyk	looking up how to cooking brown rice -> Steve Pavlina -> Wikipedia -> polyphasic sleep	21 Sept 2009	-
The Life You Can Save	Peter Singer	heard about it on NPR	01 Apr 2009	-
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas	Tom Robbinson	various sources	? Jul 2009	3 Aug 2009
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	various sources	14 May 2009	09 Jun 2009
Mathematicians in Love	Rudy Rucker	BookPeople	May? 2009	May? 2009
Practical Demonkeeping	Christopher Moore	Cz	27 Apr 2009	28 Apr 2009
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story	Christopher Moore	Cz	17 Apr 2009	18 Apr 2009
Tao of Chaos	Katya Walter	noticed it at Casa de Luz	6 Feb 2009	-
Water for Elephants		Cz loaned it to me.	31 Jan 2009	6 Feb 2009
Just a Couple of Days	Tony Vigorito	Mom mentioned Vigorito was gonna be signing books at Book People. i missed that, but picked up a couple of copies.	14 Dec 2008	19 Jan 2009
When You Are Engulfed in Flames	David Sedaris	Bill from the Draughthouse started to hand it to me, and said, "Have you read this yet? You can borrow it -- it's a bar book." Then, before he handed it to me, he opened it, flipped through for a few moments, found a page, read for a minute, laughed, closed the book and handed it over.	1 Dec 2008
Demon Box	Ken Kesey	saw it at Half Price when i was getting jmike's bday present.	7 Oct 2008	1 Dec 2008
Discipline	Paco Ahlgren	I have no idea where i got this book. It was on my bookshelf, and i was sick with food poisoning, and wanted something to distract me. It's another example of Synchronicity i guess.	3 Oct 2008	6 Oct 2008
Lost on Planet China	K. Maarten Troost	Liked the others, saw it in Book People	14? Sep 2008	25? Sep 2008
Synchronicity An Acausal Connecting Principal	C. G. Jung	hmm... Well, we can start with Jung's forward to the the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. And then there's my preoccupation with the (apparent) Fundamental Interconnection of All Things (as manifest by the so-called "coincidences...") And i guess i like the album by the Police, too. (Though not as much as Regatta de Blanc.)	26 Aug 2008
Getting Stoned with Savages	J. Maarten Troost	Delia	24 Aug 2008	26 Aug 2008
The Sex Lives of Cannibals	J. Maarten Troost	Delia	20 Aug 2008	24 Aug 2008
The Last Light of the Sun	Guy Gavriel Kay	Liked his earlier stuff	14 Aug 2008	19 Aug 2008
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut	bought it used at Left Bank Books in Hanover, NH	6 Aug 2008	12 Aug 2008
The Island at the Center of the World	Russell Shorto	loan from Dad	19 June 2008	2 Aug 2008
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break	Stephen Sherrill	bought it used at Left Bank Books in Hanover, NH; liked the title.	1 Aug 2008	2 Aug 2008
The Man Who Loved China	Simon Winchester	gift from Moux	16 June 2008	12 July 2008
Canone Inverso	Paolo Maurensic	gift from Moux?	?	13 June 2008
Terror	Dan Simmmons	gift from Demetri	?	4 June 2008
Pale Fire	Nabakov	Les	?	put it down. wasn't doing it for me.
The Secret Lives of Cowboys	Tom Groneberg	present.	?	~1 May 2008
The Neon Bible	John Kennedy Toole	Pam loaned it to me.	?	12 Apr 2008
Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut	Pam loaned it to me.	?	~2 Apr 2008
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World	Samantha Power	Interview with the author on The World, and an Indepedent Lens program on PBS. I know a little bit about Sergio Vieira de Mello, and admire him more than just about anyone else i can think of.	?	25 Mar 2008
Prometheus Rising	Robert Anton Wilson	Boerner	?	~25 Feb. 2008
National Electrical Code 2002	National Fire Protection Association	Remodeling my house	?	-
Interpreting the National Electrical Code 2002	Truman C Surbrook	Remodeling my house	?	-
Renovation, 3rd edition	Michael W. Litchfield	Remodeling my house	?	-
The Eye of the World	Robert Jordan	Mairi	?	8 Dec. 2007
Collapse	Jared Diamond	present from Mairi	?	28 Oct. 2007
David Suzuki: The Autobiography	David Suzuki	present from Mom	?	21 Oct. 2007
The Good Men	Charmaine Craig	Secret Files of tde Inquisition (see also Inquisition Productions	?	August? 2007
Chindi	Jack McDevitt	present from Aunt Barbara	?	1 May 2007
The Character of Cats	Stpehen Budiansky	BookPeople sale.	?	3 Apr. 2007
IBM and the Holocaust	Edwin Black	referenced in Tde Corporation	?	29 Aug. 2006
A Feast for Crows	George R.R. Martin	hooked	?	19 July 2006
The Drawing of the Dark	Tim Powers	Peoples	?	29 August 2005
Wild Cards (VII)	edited by George R.R. Martin	Hooked, (Gonzalez)	?	August 2005
Wild Cards (VI)	edited by George R.R. Martin	Hooked, (Gonzalez)	?	August 2005
Wild Cards (V)	edited by George R.R. Martin	Hooked, (Gonzalez)	?	August 2005
Wild Cards (IV)	edited by George R.R. Martin	Hooked, (Gonzalez)	?	July 2005
Wild Cards (III)	edited by George R.R. Martin	Hooked, (Gonzalez)	?	July 2005
Wild Cards (II)	edited by George R.R. Martin	addicted	?	June 2005
Wild Cards (I)	edited by George R.R. Martin	Gonzalez	?	June 2005
The Darkest Road	Guy Gavriel Kay	Samoht	?	March 2005
The Wandering Fire	Guy Gavriel Kay	Samoht	?	March 2005
The Summer Tree	Guy Gavriel Kay	Samoht	?	February 2005
The Bourne Identity	Robert Ludlum	the movie, Mairi.	?	Aug 2004
The Amber Spyglass	Philip Pullman	addicted	?	April 2004
Trainspotting	Irvine Welsh	insomnia (and it was handy); i liked the movie	?	-
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien	J. R. R. Tolkien	Mairi	?	-
i six nonlectures	e e cummings	Mairi	?	-
The Subtle Knife	Philip Pullman	addicted	?	March 2004
The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman	Mairi	?	March 2004
Civilwarland in Bad Decline	George Saunders	Kulak	?	-
The Girl witd the Curious Hair	David Foster Wallace	liked the otder stuff of his that i read.	?	?
The Botany of Desire	Michael Pollan	NPR, Markus	?	23 June 2003
Dreaming War	Gore Vidal	WALD	?	5 May 2003
The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Briggs	Rilke	Kulak	?	-
Speaking witg the Angel	Nick Hornby	Delia	?	25 Feb 2003
The Tao of Pooh	Benjamin Hoff	just felt like reading it again.	?	13 Feb 2003
The Magus of Java	Kosta Danaos	Mom	?	19 Feb 2003
On Love	Alain de Boton	Kulak	?	31 Dec 2002
The Color of Magic	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	25 Dec 2002
Pastoralia	George Saunders	Kulak	?	31 Nov 2002
Equal Rites	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	6 Dec 2002
Inspector Imanishi Investigates	by Seicho Matsumoto	Peoples	?	4 Dec 2002
Naked	David Sedaris	Kulak	?	Nov 2002
Archer's Goon	Diana Wynne Jones	Peoples	?	Nov 2002
Men at Arms	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	7 November 2002
A Storm of Swords	George R.R. Martin	Addicted	?	16 Oct 2002
A Clash of Kings	George R.R. Martin	Addicted	?	5 October 2002
Game of Thrones	George R.R. Martin	Yoakum, Kulak, and Peoples	?	28 September 2002
Soul Music	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	Sept 2002
Reaper Man	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	August 2002
Interesting Times	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	July 2002
Heart of the Comet	David Brin Gregory Benford	Aunt Barbara?	?	July 2002
Catastrophe	David Keys	Looked Interesting	?	July 2002
Pyramids	Terry Pratchett	Liked the last one	?	July 2002
Small Gods	Terry Pratchett	Peoples	?	July 2002
American Gods	Neil Gaiman	Peoples	?	July 2002
Stardust	Neil Gaiman	Peoples	?	June 2002
My Ishmael	Daniel Quinn	Liked the last one	?	June 2002
Ishmael	Daniel Quinn	Liked the last one	?	May 2002
The Story of B	Daniel Quinn	Cam	?	May 2002
Eight Skilled Gentlemen	Barry Hughart	Liked the last one	?	May 2002
Tea with the Black Dragon	Barry Hughart	Liked the last one	?	April 2002
Bridge of Birds	Barry Hughart	Peoples	?	March 2002
There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden	Leon	NPR	?	This is a fine book (like stream of consciousness sort of tding?), but just not what i'm in the mood for right now, because i'm addicted to a George R.R. Martin series.
Traveling Mercies	Annie Lamott	?	?	Lotsa big G Ghod here. That's not really my bag, and so just put it down.

Stuff i'm interested reading

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