Lunches and a list
I just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions on what to do with my lunchbox. I'm still working on what exactly fits and doesn't fit, and travels well in that sort of container rather than a more traditional one, but I'm certainly eating *much* better.
I have an odd habit of keeping lists of the books I hear other people talking about that sound like they might be interesting. Since we're all feeling reasonably poor right now (or at least, those of us who drive are and those of us who don't are probably cheap bastards anyway), I figured I'd post my list and encourage everyone else to post theirs, and get up a book swap. Of course, given where I tend to get the entries on the list and its almost complete lack of overlap with the readership of this journal, I don't expect to see terribly many books out of it, but it's an interesting exercise to watch how people's lists shift and change as they run into new ideas or concepts they might be interested in. (You can see a number of conversations I was having at any given time as books on certain subjects appear in clumps.) Anyway, no obligations to anyone and certainly don't go *buy* anything, just an early summer decluttering sort of thing.
Do comment on the list and its contents if the spirit moves you. :)
Jay Lake, _Mainspring_ (steampunk)
Michael Z. Williamson
Sarah Monette, _Melusine_ (political fantasy, first in a trilogy)
Nick Mamatas, _Under My Roof_ (YA)
Naomi Kritzer, _Fires of the Faithful_ (fantasy, first in a trilogy)
Fischer (non fiction)
Elizabeth Bear, _Dust_
David Anthony Durham (new author)
Alan Bennett, _The Uncommon Reader_ (possibly YA?)
_Nella Last's War_
Monica Dickens, autobiographical novels
Wayne Curtis, _And a bottle of rum_
Katherine Ashenburg, _The Dirt on Clean_
David Wondrich, _Imbibe_
Galina Khmeleva, _The Gossamer Webs Design Collection_
Alden Amos, _The Big Book of Handspinning_
Naoko Ichida, _Knitted Lace Designs of the Modern Mode_
Jo Walton, _Farthing_ (series, may be second book?)
David Lindley, _Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science_
Ben Macintyre, _Agent Zigzag_
Alan Garner, _Red Shift_
?, _The Origin of the British_
John Connolly, ? (about adaptations of fairy stories?)
?, _Singled Out_ (nonfiction, WW2)
Kathryn Davis, _The Thin Place_
Ariana Franklin, _The Mistress of the Art of Death_
Charlotte Yonge, _Countess Kate_
Owen Jones, _The Grammar of Ornament_ (1856)
Kyoko Mori, _Polite Lies_
Malcolm Jones, _The Secret Middle Ages_
Ian Mortimer, _The Time Travelers' Guide to Medieval England_
David Matthews, _The Making of Middle English_
Simon Winchester, _Crack in the Edge of the World_
Virginia Blanton, _Signs of Devotion_
Jim Steinmeyer, _A Glorious Deception_; _Hiding the Elephant_
Molly Gloss, _The Hearts of Horses_
Carol Emswhiller, _The Secret City_
Angela Carter, _Wise Children_
Rebecca Ore, _Time's Child_ (possibly also _Outlaw School_ and _Gaia's Toys_, otherwise author on those unknown)
Nick Mamatas, _Under My Roof_
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, _The Worst Journey in the World_ (non fiction)
Reviel Netz and William Noel, _The Archimedes Codex_ (non fiction)
Stanley Elkin, _The Magic Kingdom_
Barbara Kingsolver, _Animal, Vegetable, Miracle_ (nonfiction)
Laurie Marks, Elemental Logic series
Timmi Duchamp, Marq'ssan Cycle
Lane Robbins, _Maledicte_
Justina Robson, Quantum Gravity series
Liz Williams, Inspector Chin mysteries
Minister Faust, _From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain_
David Anthony Durham, _Acacia_
Rob Holdstock, Merlin Codex
Ellen Klages, _Portable Childhoods_
Kathleen Ann Goonan, _In War Times_
Guy Gavriel Kay, _Ysabel_
Gregory Frost, _Shadowbridge_
Kelley Eskridge, _Dangerous Space_
_The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville_
Penelope Walton Rogers, _Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England_
Robin McKinley, _Dragonhaven_
Daniel Abraham, _A Shadow in Summer_
Austin Grossman, _Soon I Will Be Invincible_
Jennifer Estep, _Karma Girl_
_The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters_ (ed. Charlotte Mosley, Harper Collins 2007)
Jack Sheffield, _Teacher, Teacher_
Frank Chalk, _It's Your Time You're Wasting_
Angela Thirkell
Paul Collins, _Barnvard's Folly_
Frank Wynne, _I Was Vermeer_
Doris Lessing, _On Cats_
Ed. Leslie Marchand, Byron's letters and journals
Gillian Avery, _The Greatest Gresham_ (YA)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, _Fooled by Randomness_ (nonfiction)
Stewart Brand, _How Buildings Learn_
John Miller, _Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder_
Jennifer Fallon, Tide Lords Trilogy
Trudi Canavan, Black Magician Trilogy
Lily Archer, _The Poison Apples_ (YA)
Susan Deskis, _Beowulf and the Medieval Proverb Tradition_ (nonfic)
Jonathan Phillips (on the Crusades)
Betty Miller, _Farewell Leicester Square_
Julia Fox, _Jane Boleyn_
Judith Krantz, _Scruples_ or _Till We Meet Again_ or _Dazzle_
Drew Gilpin Faust, _This Republic of Suffering_
Elizabeth Barber, _Women's Work_
Donald Bogle (on African American roles in cinema)
Marcus Bull, _Thinking Medieval_
Patricia Briggs, Mercy Thompson series
Barbara Walker, _The Craft of Lace Knitting_ and _The Craft of Cable-Stitch Knitting_
David Quammen, _The Song of the Dodo_
Linda Grant, _The Clothes on Their Backs_
Kerry Greenwood, _Trick or Treat_
Rosemary Sutcliffe
William Mayne?
Philip Larkin?
Sylvia Townsend Warner, (T.H. White bio)
Clemons and Graham, _Introduction to Manuscript Studies_
Derren Brown, _Tricks of the Mind_
Fischer, _Albion's Seed_
Michael Pollan, _In Defense of Food_
Victoria Finlay, _Color_
James Howard Kunstler, _The Long Emergency_
Johann Huizinga, _Homo Ludens_
Richard Klein, _Cigarettes Are Sublime_
Colin McDowell, _The Man of Fashion_
Levy & Mellor, _The Dirty Dozen_
Elizabeth Chadwick?
Alan Wiseman, _The World Without Us_
ed. Simon Garfield, _Our Hidden Lives_, _We Are at War_, _Private Battles_
D. Sheridan, _Wartime Women_
Gwen Raverat, _Period Piece_
Sarah Beth Durst, _Into the Wild_
Henry Petroski, _To Engineer Is Human_
Peter Lamont, _The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick_
Donald Thomas, _The Victorian Underworld_
ed. Joy and Ramsey, _The Postmodern Beowulf_
Hugh Rawson, _Wicked Words_
David Batchelor, _Chromophobia_
Judith Flanders, _The Victorian House_ and _A Circle of Sisters_
Carol Matas, _Turned Away_ (ISBN: 0-439-96946-8)
Kit Pearson trilogy (no other info?)
Christina Hardyment, _Dream Babies_
Bill Hayes, _The Anatomist_
Joan Wolf, _The Edge of Light_
Neil Shubin, _Your Inner Fish_
Robert Rummel-Hudson, _Schuyler's Monster_
Jan Bondeson, _A Medical Cabinet of Curiosities_
Robert K. Massie, _Nicholas and Alexandra_
Bee Wilson, _Swindled_
Alan M. Kraut, _Goldberger's War_
_City of Joy_
Edward Hooper, _The River_
Laurie Garrett, _The Coming Plague_
_The Private World of Georgette Heyer_
I have an odd habit of keeping lists of the books I hear other people talking about that sound like they might be interesting. Since we're all feeling reasonably poor right now (or at least, those of us who drive are and those of us who don't are probably cheap bastards anyway), I figured I'd post my list and encourage everyone else to post theirs, and get up a book swap. Of course, given where I tend to get the entries on the list and its almost complete lack of overlap with the readership of this journal, I don't expect to see terribly many books out of it, but it's an interesting exercise to watch how people's lists shift and change as they run into new ideas or concepts they might be interested in. (You can see a number of conversations I was having at any given time as books on certain subjects appear in clumps.) Anyway, no obligations to anyone and certainly don't go *buy* anything, just an early summer decluttering sort of thing.
Do comment on the list and its contents if the spirit moves you. :)
Jay Lake, _Mainspring_ (steampunk)
Michael Z. Williamson
Sarah Monette, _Melusine_ (political fantasy, first in a trilogy)
Nick Mamatas, _Under My Roof_ (YA)
Naomi Kritzer, _Fires of the Faithful_ (fantasy, first in a trilogy)
Fischer (non fiction)
Elizabeth Bear, _Dust_
David Anthony Durham (new author)
Alan Bennett, _The Uncommon Reader_ (possibly YA?)
_Nella Last's War_
Monica Dickens, autobiographical novels
Wayne Curtis, _And a bottle of rum_
Katherine Ashenburg, _The Dirt on Clean_
David Wondrich, _Imbibe_
Galina Khmeleva, _The Gossamer Webs Design Collection_
Alden Amos, _The Big Book of Handspinning_
Naoko Ichida, _Knitted Lace Designs of the Modern Mode_
Jo Walton, _Farthing_ (series, may be second book?)
David Lindley, _Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science_
Ben Macintyre, _Agent Zigzag_
Alan Garner, _Red Shift_
?, _The Origin of the British_
John Connolly, ? (about adaptations of fairy stories?)
?, _Singled Out_ (nonfiction, WW2)
Kathryn Davis, _The Thin Place_
Ariana Franklin, _The Mistress of the Art of Death_
Charlotte Yonge, _Countess Kate_
Owen Jones, _The Grammar of Ornament_ (1856)
Kyoko Mori, _Polite Lies_
Malcolm Jones, _The Secret Middle Ages_
Ian Mortimer, _The Time Travelers' Guide to Medieval England_
David Matthews, _The Making of Middle English_
Simon Winchester, _Crack in the Edge of the World_
Virginia Blanton, _Signs of Devotion_
Jim Steinmeyer, _A Glorious Deception_; _Hiding the Elephant_
Molly Gloss, _The Hearts of Horses_
Carol Emswhiller, _The Secret City_
Angela Carter, _Wise Children_
Rebecca Ore, _Time's Child_ (possibly also _Outlaw School_ and _Gaia's Toys_, otherwise author on those unknown)
Nick Mamatas, _Under My Roof_
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, _The Worst Journey in the World_ (non fiction)
Reviel Netz and William Noel, _The Archimedes Codex_ (non fiction)
Stanley Elkin, _The Magic Kingdom_
Barbara Kingsolver, _Animal, Vegetable, Miracle_ (nonfiction)
Laurie Marks, Elemental Logic series
Timmi Duchamp, Marq'ssan Cycle
Lane Robbins, _Maledicte_
Justina Robson, Quantum Gravity series
Liz Williams, Inspector Chin mysteries
Minister Faust, _From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain_
David Anthony Durham, _Acacia_
Rob Holdstock, Merlin Codex
Ellen Klages, _Portable Childhoods_
Kathleen Ann Goonan, _In War Times_
Guy Gavriel Kay, _Ysabel_
Gregory Frost, _Shadowbridge_
Kelley Eskridge, _Dangerous Space_
_The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville_
Penelope Walton Rogers, _Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England_
Robin McKinley, _Dragonhaven_
Daniel Abraham, _A Shadow in Summer_
Austin Grossman, _Soon I Will Be Invincible_
Jennifer Estep, _Karma Girl_
_The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters_ (ed. Charlotte Mosley, Harper Collins 2007)
Jack Sheffield, _Teacher, Teacher_
Frank Chalk, _It's Your Time You're Wasting_
Angela Thirkell
Paul Collins, _Barnvard's Folly_
Frank Wynne, _I Was Vermeer_
Doris Lessing, _On Cats_
Ed. Leslie Marchand, Byron's letters and journals
Gillian Avery, _The Greatest Gresham_ (YA)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, _Fooled by Randomness_ (nonfiction)
Stewart Brand, _How Buildings Learn_
John Miller, _Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder_
Jennifer Fallon, Tide Lords Trilogy
Trudi Canavan, Black Magician Trilogy
Lily Archer, _The Poison Apples_ (YA)
Susan Deskis, _Beowulf and the Medieval Proverb Tradition_ (nonfic)
Jonathan Phillips (on the Crusades)
Betty Miller, _Farewell Leicester Square_
Julia Fox, _Jane Boleyn_
Judith Krantz, _Scruples_ or _Till We Meet Again_ or _Dazzle_
Drew Gilpin Faust, _This Republic of Suffering_
Elizabeth Barber, _Women's Work_
Donald Bogle (on African American roles in cinema)
Marcus Bull, _Thinking Medieval_
Patricia Briggs, Mercy Thompson series
Barbara Walker, _The Craft of Lace Knitting_ and _The Craft of Cable-Stitch Knitting_
David Quammen, _The Song of the Dodo_
Linda Grant, _The Clothes on Their Backs_
Kerry Greenwood, _Trick or Treat_
Rosemary Sutcliffe
William Mayne?
Philip Larkin?
Sylvia Townsend Warner, (T.H. White bio)
Clemons and Graham, _Introduction to Manuscript Studies_
Derren Brown, _Tricks of the Mind_
Fischer, _Albion's Seed_
Michael Pollan, _In Defense of Food_
Victoria Finlay, _Color_
James Howard Kunstler, _The Long Emergency_
Johann Huizinga, _Homo Ludens_
Richard Klein, _Cigarettes Are Sublime_
Colin McDowell, _The Man of Fashion_
Levy & Mellor, _The Dirty Dozen_
Elizabeth Chadwick?
Alan Wiseman, _The World Without Us_
ed. Simon Garfield, _Our Hidden Lives_, _We Are at War_, _Private Battles_
D. Sheridan, _Wartime Women_
Gwen Raverat, _Period Piece_
Sarah Beth Durst, _Into the Wild_
Henry Petroski, _To Engineer Is Human_
Peter Lamont, _The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick_
Donald Thomas, _The Victorian Underworld_
ed. Joy and Ramsey, _The Postmodern Beowulf_
Hugh Rawson, _Wicked Words_
David Batchelor, _Chromophobia_
Judith Flanders, _The Victorian House_ and _A Circle of Sisters_
Carol Matas, _Turned Away_ (ISBN: 0-439-96946-8)
Kit Pearson trilogy (no other info?)
Christina Hardyment, _Dream Babies_
Bill Hayes, _The Anatomist_
Joan Wolf, _The Edge of Light_
Neil Shubin, _Your Inner Fish_
Robert Rummel-Hudson, _Schuyler's Monster_
Jan Bondeson, _A Medical Cabinet of Curiosities_
Robert K. Massie, _Nicholas and Alexandra_
Bee Wilson, _Swindled_
Alan M. Kraut, _Goldberger's War_
_City of Joy_
Edward Hooper, _The River_
Laurie Garrett, _The Coming Plague_
_The Private World of Georgette Heyer_