Friday, January 15, 2010

Things I Am Reading:

"Manx Calendar Customs, " Cyril Ingram Paton
"The Novels of Dashiell Hammett, " Dashiell Hammett


Things I Have Recently Finished:

"Rogue Male, " Geoffrey Household
"Start Where You Are, " Pema Chodron
"The Trolley To Yesterday, " John Bellairs

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Things I Am Reading:

The Complete Saki - Saki (H.H. Munro)
Strategy - B.H. Liddell Hart
The Age of Gold - H.W. Brands
A Crack In the Edge of the World - Simon Winchester
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman - William Lee Miller
Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks - Oakley Hall

Things I Have Recently Finished:

The Road To Oz - L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz- L. Frank Baum
The Patchwork Girl of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Lost Princess of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Hungry Tiger of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Can't tell I've been on an ERB kick, can you?

Things I Am Reading:

The Chessmen of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris

Things I Have Recently Finished:

A Fighting Man of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods Of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan's Quest - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Magnificent - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Escape On Venus - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Carson of Venus - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Russian Fairy Tales - Collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev
Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales - Edited by Claire Booss

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Things I Am Reading:

Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales - Edited by Claire Booss

Things I Have Recently Finished:

Japanese Fairy Tales - Juliet Piggot
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Clumsiest People In Europe, Or: Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide To The Victorian World - Mrs. Mortimer, compiled and edited by Todd Pruzan
Old House Plans - compiled by Laurence Grow
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux

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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Things I Am Reading:

Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux

Things I Have Recently Finished:

The Wonder Clock - Howard Pyle
The Original Boys' Handy Book - Daniel Beard
The Original Girls' Handy Book - Lina and Adelia Belle Beard
Basic Writings - Chuang Tzu, trans. by Burton Watson
Opening The Dragon Gate, The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard - Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, trans. by Thomas Cleary

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Things I Am Reading:

Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Wind, Sand, and Stars - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Opening The Dragon Gate, The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard - Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, trans. by Thomas Cleary
Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux



Things I Have Recently Finished:

Throne of Bones - Brian McNaughton
The Loved Dead - H.P. Lovecraft and Others
The Pan Book of Horror Stories - various authors
The Pan Book of Horror Stories vol. 4 - various authors
Brrrr, Ten Tales To Chill - various authors
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories - Robert Chambers
The Great Black Jockeys - Edward Hotaling
After Big Game in Central Africa - Edouard Foa
Man-Eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats - Jerry Belanger

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Things I Am Reading:

The Yellow Sign and Other Stories - Robert Chambers
Opening The Dragon Gate, The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard - Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, trans. by Thomas Cleary
The Great Black Jockeys - Edward Hotaling
Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats - Jerry Belanger
After Big Game in Central Africa - Edouard Foa
Man-Eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett

Things I Have Recently Finished:

The Weird of the White Wolf (Elric of Melnibone book 3) - Michael Moorcock
The Vanishing Tower (Elric of Melnibone book 4) - Michael Moorcock
The Bane of the Black Sword (Elric of Melnibone book 5) - Michael Moorcock
Endurance - F.A. Worsley
Dragon - Stephen Brust
The Forge and the Crucible, Origins and Structures of Alchemy - Mircea Eliade
Sam and Max, Surfing the Highway - Steve Purcell

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

New "Feature" - Things I Am Reading

Things I Am Reading This Week:

The Weird of the White Wolf (Elric of Melnibone book 3) - Michael Moorcock
Opening The Dragon Gate, The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard - Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, trans. by Thomas Cleary
Endurance - F.A. Worsley
The Great Black Jockeys - Edward Hotaling
Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux
The Forge and the Crucible, Origins and Structures of Alchemy - Mircea Eliade

Things I Have Recently Finished:

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (the chronicles of Conan vol.1) - Robert E. Howard
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard - Robert E. Howard
Schott's Food And Drink Miscellany - Ben Schott
In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
John Paul Jones, Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy - Evan Thomas
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs

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