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amari_zI returned from my weekend away to find five packages waiting for me. Hurrah, right? But it bought home (hehe, get it?) to me that I've been a little--shall we say permissive in my recent book purchasing. So in an effort to change my behavior through those most effective of teachers, shame and guilt, I've decided to make myself compile a list of what I've bought over the last few months. Note that the list does not include manga, which I also buy with great enthusiasm, but somehow seem to lack in time to read . . . .
Anyway, I'm hoping that each time I'm ready to click that buy button at amazon (damn you, amazon prime free trial) I'll make myself review this list. I don't know if it'll stop me, but it's worth a try.
And anyone out there who wants to ridicule me, tell me I'm disturbed, or otherwise let me know they're gawping, please do, it might help. If, on the other hand, you're pshwing, thinking, that's nothing, you should see what I bought, please let me know that as well, because, well, validation of my bad habits is far better than trying to restrain myself . : )
The List (in no order)
Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
John Ellis: His Excellency George Washington
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory 4/07
Paul Fussell: Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War <--read
Paul Fussell: The Boys' Crusade
Robert Graves: Good-Bye To All That 3/15/07
Dava Sobel: The Planets
Wen Spencer: Alien Taste
Philip Caputo: A Rumor of War
Jonathan Philips: The Fourth Crusade
Saira Shah: The Storyteller's Daughter 6/10/07
Stephen Ambrose: Band of Brothers
Jonathan Glover: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Lynne Truss: Talk to the Hand
Richard Bessel: Nazism and War
Wen Spencer: A Brother's Price
Sarah Monette: Melusine
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nuruddin Farah: Links
Lawrence M. Friedman: Law in America
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge: The Company
Louise Levathes: When China Ruled the Sea
Thomas Asbridge: The First Crusade
Yasmina Khadra: The Swallows of Kabul[no longer have it--spilled juice all over it Austria and had to trash it : (]
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Ian Burma: Inventing Japan
Paul Johnson: The Renaissance
Edward Larson: Evolution
Kevin Starr: California
Chang-Rae Lee: Aloft
Ha Jin: War Trash
Anthony Pagden: People and Empires
Frank Kermode: The Age of Shakespeare
Elizabeth Cook: Achilles
Fiona McIntosh: Blood and Memory
Mary Lefkowitz: Greek Gods, Human Lives
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I can find.
And btw, I'm not even reading any of these books right now. I'm rereading the Iliad, which is going to take me a while. So really, no need for more reading material, right? But I really really want this.
Anyway, I'm hoping that each time I'm ready to click that buy button at amazon (damn you, amazon prime free trial) I'll make myself review this list. I don't know if it'll stop me, but it's worth a try.
And anyone out there who wants to ridicule me, tell me I'm disturbed, or otherwise let me know they're gawping, please do, it might help. If, on the other hand, you're pshwing, thinking, that's nothing, you should see what I bought, please let me know that as well, because, well, validation of my bad habits is far better than trying to restrain myself . : )
The List (in no order)
John Ellis: His Excellency George Washington
Dava Sobel: The Planets
Philip Caputo: A Rumor of War
Jonathan Philips: The Fourth Crusade
Richard Bessel: Nazism and War
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nuruddin Farah: Links
Lawrence M. Friedman: Law in America
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge: The Company
Louise Levathes: When China Ruled the Sea
Thomas Asbridge: The First Crusade
Yasmina Khadra: The Swallows of Kabul[no longer have it--spilled juice all over it Austria and had to trash it : (]
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Ian Burma: Inventing Japan
Paul Johnson: The Renaissance
Edward Larson: Evolution
Kevin Starr: California
Chang-Rae Lee: Aloft
Frank Kermode: The Age of Shakespeare
Mary Lefkowitz: Greek Gods, Human Lives
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I can find.
And btw, I'm not even reading any of these books right now. I'm rereading the Iliad, which is going to take me a while. So really, no need for more reading material, right? But I really really want this.
