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  What I done read since last time

  04.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sawyer’s Internal Auditing: the Practice of Modern Internal Auditing, 5th ed. by Lawrence B. Sawyer, et al.  (I cannot praise too highly this book, and recommend each and every single one of its page to you, yes, all 1,446 of them) Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to your Tank by Lisa Margonnelli Death’s Acre: [...]

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  Now with extra Rhys

  01.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent books read: After Leaving Mr. McKenzie, Jean Rhys Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl, John Colapinto Western Civilization: Volume 1: to 1715, Jackson J. Spielvogel Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester Flat Earth: The [...]

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  Nice in Nice

  01.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The new gadget below left, showing a random sampling from the Library Thing database of the books that I and Mrs The Fyd own, makes me want to visit my own blog just to see what books pop up.   Which, since I could just sit in the basement and randomly pull books off shelves for the [...]

• Books

  Words from the Exit Wound

  12.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Serpent’s Reach, C.J. Cherryh Shooting at Midnight, Greg Rucka The Great Outdoor Fight, Chris Onstad Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys Quartet, Jean Rhys Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica(*) Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolaño The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks   (*)Heartily recommended for fellow veterans of the restaurant business.  I recognized a lot of the [...]

• Books

  Recently Read

  10.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Dreamstone, C.J. Cherryh The Tree of Swords and Jewels, C.J. Cherryh Darwin’s Radio, Greg Bear Post-Mortem, Patricia D. Cornwell Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Jonathan Eig The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, J.N.D. Kelly Old Man’s War, John Scalzi The Damnation Game, Clive Barker The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez [...]

• Books, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Otium sine litteris mors est

  07.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent books read: We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Warden, by Anthony Trollope Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (Modern Library Edition), by Edward Gibbon   Today is muggy and I am logy but I still [...]

• Books

  Fried

  06.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s too hot to think today.  Instead, here’s a list of books I’ve read recently, before my brain was melted: Coltrane, The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff. The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. The Birth of the Republic 1763-89 by Edmund S. Morgan. Reaping the Whirlwind by Nigel Cawthorne. [...]

• Books

  Cette tristesse étrange

  05.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last night I finished reading J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.  In the last few paragraphs I kept repeating “My God, my God” over and over.  I won’t ruin the ending, but suffice to say that I can’t keep it out of my mind this morning.  Devastating stuff, and it’s making for a blue day.  Similar effects, I [...]

• Art, Books

  Two Women

  04.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been reading through  John Updike’s collected early short stories.   From “Snowing in Greenwich Village”, we have this passage: Her face was pale, mottled pink and yellow; this accentuated the Modiglianiesque quality established by her oval blue eyes and her habit of sitting to her full height, her head quizzically tilted and her hands palm [...]

• Books

  No snarky title

  03.04.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The writer Tim Pratt has posted about his son River’s upcoming surgery.  My thoughts are with them.  How horrible for parents to go through something like this so soon in their child’s life (or ever, obviously).  The odds in this case are good but meanwhile the strain is unimaginable to me.  One weeps at how many [...]

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