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  Last Books of 2011

  12.31.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Historical Atlas of the Northwest: Maps of Exploration and Discovery Derek Hays The Patron Saint of Liars Ann Patchett The Science Fiction Century ed. David G. Hartwell The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians Peter Heather The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Brief Introduction John Blair Baader-Meinhof: The Inside [...]

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  Books Read

  11.05.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It has been a while since I  have updated this irregular series.  Look away if a long list of books bores you. Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger G.R. Berridge, Maurice Keens-Soper,  T.G. Otte International Politics: A Framework for Analysis K.J. Holsti Conflict and Cooperation: Evolving Theories of International Relations Marc A. Genest The Federalist [...]

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  More Books

  01.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Anathem Neal Stephenson The History of Money Jack Weatherford The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-sixth Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America: 1815-1846 Charles Sellers The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 Daniel Feller What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 Daniel Walker Howe Baseball Between the Numbers The Baseball Prospectus Hunger [...]

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  Bibliothèque

  06.27.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  South America’s Savage Wars of Freedom, 1810-30 Robert Harvey About a Boy Nick Hornby The Road Cormac McCarthy Why Sinatra Matters Pete Hammil Augustine: A Very Short Introduction Henry Chadwick Dead Reign T.A. Pratt The Civilization of the Middle Ages Norman F. Cantor The Soul of Latin America: The Cultural and Political Tradition Howard J. [...]

• Books, Writing

  Into the clouds

  01.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been unable to interest any literary agents in my novel Anti-X.  Perhaps I just don’t know how to write query letters, or else the book is just not right for anyone to represent.  I have had a couple of requests for sample chapters, but nothing more beyond that.  So I am putting the [...]

• Books

  Last Books of the Year

  12.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X & Alex Haley Oishinbo A la Carte: Ramen & Gyoza Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed Michael Kodas One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing Katherine Dunn Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore First Peoples: A [...]

• Books, Technology

  Pfui

  11.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  So for my recent birthday, Mrs The Fyd got me a great present: an iPhone.  This very cleverly turned out to be good for her, since naturally she got one too.  Anyway this thing is absorbing, given the number of apps available.  While browsing through them the other day I saw that there was a [...]

• Books

  Books

  10.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  More books read recently: The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois Ancient Greece Sarah Pomeroy et al. To Make Our World Anew, Vol. II: A History of African Americans from 1880 ed. Robin D. G. Kelley & [...]

• Books

  Books

  09.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Matter by Iain M. Banks Poison Sleep by T.A. Pratt The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Tick-Tock by Dean Koontz To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans to 1880 ed. Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis Race And Revolution by Gary B. Nash

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  Recent Books

  06.28.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Selected Short Stories William Faulkner Watchmen Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons Topics in Contemporary Mathematics Ignacio Bello et al Shadow Divers Robert Kurson The Assassins Joyce Carol Oates The Darkest Evening of the Year Dean Koontz The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service Andrew Meier The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem The Decline [...]

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