Friday, January 3, 2014

New Year Book List

"If I wanted an education, I would have got a library card." This was said by a friend of mine on his graduation from college.
This is the second part of the easy reading list I started last year.

The Right Stuff--Wolfe
World Lit Only By Fire--Manchester
All The Pretty Horses--McCarthy. Blood Meridian is his best but may be over the top for easy reading.
Joan of Arc--Mark Twain
Disinformation-- Ion Mihai Pacepa and Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak. Not very much fun, not well written, but enlightening.
Parkland--Bugliosi. Very clarifying about the Kennedy assassination.
A Morbid Taste for Bones--The first of the entertaining series by Ellis Peters. A mystery series written as plays.
The Fire Came By--Baxter
What Are People For--Wendell Berry
Bridge On The Drina--Ivo Andrić
To The Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf
Paris Spleen--Baudelaire
The Dubliners--James Joyce
The Black Sea--Ascherson
The Name of the Rose--Eco
The Millionaire Next Door--Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. A little strange. Called the Miser's Manifesto. But very interesting.
My Early Life--Churchill
An American Childhood--Annie Dillard
Miss Lonelyhearts--West
Singing School--Pinsky. A book of and on poetry.
I owe you five.

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