Books I've Read
Total Found: 52 Displaying 1 - 52
Date Read (from) - 2004-12-05
Date Read (thru) - 2004-01-01
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| Date Read | Rating | Title/Author | Category | Description | Review |
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| 2004-12-05 | Saul and Patsy (Baxter, Charles - 2003) |
Fiction | Read a decent review of this somewhere. | ||
| 2004-12-04 | Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Blum, Arlene - 1980) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Suggested List. An all woman expedition attempts to climb Annapurna with fatal results. Mountain climbing. |
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| 2004-12-04 | R is for Ricochet (Grafton, Sue - 2005) |
Crime/Mystery | Kinsey picks up some rich guy's daughter, Reba, when she is released from prison. | ||
| 2004-12-03 | Whoopie Goldberg Book (Goldberg, Whoopie - 1997) |
Auto/Biography | There may have been another author... | ||
| 2004-12-02 | Never Tear Us Apart (Brockton, Quinn - 2003) |
Fiction | Queer as Folk Novel: Mikey and Brian's first year in college at Allegheny Community College and Carnegie Mellon, respectively. | ||
| 2004-12-01 | Every Nine Seconds (Brockton, Joseph - 2003) |
Fiction | Queer as Folk Novel: Mikey and Brian graduate from high school. | ||
| 2004-11-07 | At Home in France (Barry, Ann - 1996) |
Memoir | Tales of an American and her House Abroad | ||
| 2004-11-07 | Strip City (Burana, Lily - 2001) |
Memoir | A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America | ||
| 2004-11-06 | The Antelope Wife (Erdrich, Louise - 1998) |
Fiction | Cavalry soldier raises an Ojibwa baby. | ||
| 2004-11-05 | The Fourth Star (Brenner, Leslie - 2002) |
Non-fiction | Boring lists of what people were doing in a restaurant kitchen. | ||
| 2004-11-04 | Bungalow: American Restoration Style (Cigliano, Jan - 1998) |
Non-fiction | Uh, a book about bungalows. | ||
| 2004-11-03 | Running with Scissors (Burroughs, Augusten - 2002) |
Memoir | Childhood with crazy family, parents get divorced and he ends up with and even crazier surrogate family. | ||
| 2004-11-02 | Skin and Other Stories (Dahl, Roald - 2000) |
Fiction | A collection of stories. | ||
| 2004-11-01 | Say When (Berg, Elizabeth - 2003) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Bought using a promotional credit long after reading. Griffin tries to ignore the problem when his wife, Ellen, announces that she's having an affair and wants a divorce. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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| 2004-10-04 | Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole (Nielsen, Dr. Jerri - 2001) |
Memoir | Dr. leaves bad marriage and goes to South Pole to work at the scientific station. | ||
| 2004-10-03 | Handmade Books and Cards (Kropper, Jean G.) |
Craft | Books and cards to make. | ||
| 2004-10-02 | Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl, Viktor E. - 1959) |
Non-fiction | Concentration camp survivor writes about his experience and life. | ||
| 2004-10-01 | The Book of Salt (Truong, Monique - 2003) |
Fiction | Vietnamese cook works for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris. | ||
| 2004-09-03 | We Know Where You Live (Taylor, Jean - 1995) |
Crime/Mystery | Another Maggie Garrett Mystery, I think. | ||
| 2004-09-02 | The Necessary Hunger (Revoyr, Nina - 1997) |
GLBT | High school girls, friends, family, basketball rivals. | ||
| 2004-09-01 | The Last of her Lies (Taylor, Jean - 1996) |
Crime/Mystery | A Maggie Garrett Mystery | ||
| 2004-08-04 | Bruised Fruit (Livia, Anna - 1999) |
GLBT | Several stories intertwine. | ||
| 2004-08-03 | Icebreaker (Galindo, Rudy with Eric Marcus - 2002) |
Non-fiction | The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo | ||
| 2004-08-02 | Jorgiann's Amazon canoe trip book. (??) |
Non-fiction | Guy and his son canoe from the US down to South America and the Amazon. | ||
| 2004-08-01 | Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend (Wilkinson, Rosemary - 1996) |
Craft | Many patterns and instructions. | ||
| 2004-07-03 | Big Fish (Wallace, Daniel - 1998) |
Fiction | Inspired the movie. | ||
| 2004-07-02 | Rivers Running Free (Niemi, Judith & Barbara Weiser (editors) - 1997) |
Non-fiction | Stories of Adventerous Women (Bergamot Books) | ||
| 2004-07-01 | Prayer Warriors (Miller, Stuart Howell - 1999) |
Memoir | Gay guy tells of being ostracized from his very religious family. | ||
| 2004-06-03 | The Last River (Balf, Todd - 2000) |
Non-fiction | The Tragic Race for Shangri-La | ||
| 2004-06-02 | Complications (Gawande, Atul - 2002) |
Non-fiction | A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science | ||
| 2004-06-01 | Wife of the Chef (Febbroriello, Courtney - 2003) |
Non-fiction | The True Story of a Restaurant and Romance | ||
| 2004-05-04 | If I Live to Be 100 (Ellis, Neenah - 2002) |
Non-fiction | Lessons From the Centenarians | ||
| 2004-05-03 | The Art of Travel (de Botton, Alain - 2002) |
Non-fiction | Musings about travel. | ||
| 2004-05-02 | A Kangaroo In the Kitchen: And
Other Adventures of an American Family Down Under (Sloan, Ethel - 1978) |
Non-fiction | Tales of living in Australia from an American bigot. This is hopelessly dated. I couldn't stop reading to see the next amazing gaff. Look right for some examples... | ||
| 2004-05-02 | Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey Into Australia (Smith, Rolf - 2000) |
Memoir | Riding a bike all the way around Australia. | ||
| 2004-05-01 | The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum - 1900) |
Fantasy | Uh, it's the Wizard of Oz | ||
| 2004-04-08 | All the Sundays Yet To Come (Bertine, Kathryn - 2003) |
Memoir | What it's like to skate women's Sr's and in the Ice Capades. | ||
| 2004-04-07 | Loose Lips: A Novel (Berlinsky, Claire - 2003) |
Fiction | Huh. I don't remember much about this one. | ||
| 2004-04-04 | The Postman (Brin, David - 1985) |
Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Movie/TV. $2.15 Kindle book. I bought this loooong after reading it. Post-apocalyptic postman. He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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| 2004-04-03 | Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness (Taylor, Michael Ray - 1996) |
Non-fiction | Stories of caving. | ||
| 2004-04-02 | Poker Thief: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Lederer, Katy - 2003) |
Memoir | Totaling up her experiences at the $3-$6 tables, Katy chooses writing over poker, but while studying poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her mother and older siblings' massive accumulation of wealth disappears overnight, with jail looming. | ||
| 2004-04-01 | Facing The Extreme (Kocour, Ruth Anne with Michael Hodgson - 1998) |
Memoir | One Woman's Story Of True Courage And Death-Defying Survival In The Eye Of Mt. McKinley's Worst Storm Ever | ||
| 2004-04-01 | The Empty Copper Sea (MacDonald, John D. - 1978) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. Bought after reading. McGee is hired to find the truth behind the disappearance of Hub Lawless. Is the man accused of murder guilty or the victim of an elaborate hoax? Plus - Trav meets the glorious amazon, Gretel. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
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| 2004-03-03 | Castaway (Irvine, Lucy - 1983) |
Memoir | Hippie-type lady answers ad to be some guy's "wife" for an extended stay on a deserted island. | ||
| 2004-03-02 | Acceptable Risk (Cook, Robin - 1994) |
SciFi | A research scientist discovers a mood-altering, enhancing drug and involves himself and other researchers in a deadly experiment. | ||
| 2004-03-01 | The Diamond Age or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Stephenson, Neal - 1995) |
SciFi | John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. | ||
| 2004-02-03 | The Free Lunch (Robinson, Spider - 2001) |
SciFi | Twelve-year-old Mike tries to hide himself in Dreamworld, but runs into the "Mother Elf," a midget named Annie. Comparing notes, they begin to suspect that Dreamworld is being infiltrated, but by whom? They first suspect "aliens," then agents of Alonzo Haines, proprietor of Dreamworld's spatterpunk rival, Thrillworld. | ||
| 2004-02-02 | The Far Side of the World (O'Brian, Patrick - 1984) |
Fiction | Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for Cape Horn, determined to intercept an American frigate before it can wreak havoc on the British whaling trade. | ||
| 2004-02-01 | OceanSpace: A Novel (Steele, Allen - 2000) |
SciFi | During seven days in June 2011, a crew of scientists working for an oceanic mining corporation plus a few others set out to explore a newly arisen smoker (a hot vent teeming with primordial life) on the ocean floor--with the venture including a side trip to glimpse, hopefully, the strange beast-a sea serpent?-that has almost totaled a crew member's small submarine. | ||
| 2004-01-03 | All Tomorrow's Parties (Gibson, William - 1999) |
SciFi | Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic. | ||
| 2004-01-02 | Burn (Doolittle, Sean - 2003) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Unknown. In California the hills are on fire. Not a good sign for Andrew Kindler, who just came from back east to get away from his past as an arsonist. In fact, almost from the moment he sets foot in his cousin's Santa Monica beach house, the heat starts swirling around him. First there's the cop who thinks Andrew might know something about a murder suspect. Then there's the suspect's beautiful sister, who is willing to pay Andrew $5,000 for the same information. |
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| 2004-01-01 | Master and Commander (O'Brian, Patrick - 1970) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. I bought a Kindle copy. The opening salvo of the Aubrey-Maturin epic, in which the surgeon introduces himself to the captain by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber-music recital. Fortunately for millions of readers, the two quickly make up. |
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