A Book Report on Peter Rabbit...
This year's book list:
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Too Many Cooks * - Rex Stout
The Red Box - Rex Stout
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
The Story of the U.S. Air Force * - Robert D. Loomis
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
Doorways in the Sand * - Roger Zelazny
Some Buried Caesar * - Rex Stout
The Two-Ocean War * - Samuel Eliot Morison
Preludes and Nocturnes * - Neil Gaiman
The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
Deadly Quicksilver Lies * - Glen Cook
Petty Pewter Gods * - Glen Cook
Faded Steel Heat * - Glen Cook
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett
The Syndic - C.M. Kornbluth
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
The Way to Glory - David Drake
Lord Peter * - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Just Play Ball - Joe Garagiola
Fit or Fat - Covert Bailey
The Rubber Band - Rex Stout
Over My Dead Body - Rex Stout
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Jeeves Takes Charge - P.G. Wodehouse
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
Night Passage - Robert B. Parker
The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
Cat's Cradle * - Kurt Vonnegut
Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II - Walter K. Schoeder
Halting State - Charles Stross
Quonset Point Naval Air Station - Gem of the Atlantic - Sean Paul Milligan
Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Black Orchids - Rex Stout
Where There's a Will - Rex Stout
"Bitter End" from Death Times Three - Rex Stout
Fleet of Worlds - Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
The High Crusade * - Poul Anderson
Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball - George Mitchell, et al.
The Hobbit * - J.R.R. Tolkein
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Sharpe's Skirmish - Bernard Cornwell
Asterisked books were rereads.
Wow, I made it to fifty, most likely a new league record for me. Certainly it's the most I've managed to get through by far since I started keeping these lists. I read Sharpe's Skirmish today. It's very short, a novella, but it was a good way to get back into that world after a long time away. Plus I'm also about a quarter of the way through Sharpe's Company.
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Ringo: Books are good.
Grandfather: *Parading's* better.
Ringo: Parading?
Grandfather: [nods eagerly] Parading the streets! Trailing your coat! Bowling along! LIVING!
Ringo: Well, I am living.
Grandfather: You? Living? When was the last time you gave a girl a pink-edged daisy? When did you last embarrass a sheila with your cool, appraising stare?
Ringo: You're a bit old for that sort of chat, aren't you?
Grandfather: Well at least I've got a backlog of memories! All you've got is - THAT BOOK!
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Too Many Cooks * - Rex Stout
The Red Box - Rex Stout
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
The Story of the U.S. Air Force * - Robert D. Loomis
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
Doorways in the Sand * - Roger Zelazny
Some Buried Caesar * - Rex Stout
The Two-Ocean War * - Samuel Eliot Morison
Preludes and Nocturnes * - Neil Gaiman
The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
Deadly Quicksilver Lies * - Glen Cook
Petty Pewter Gods * - Glen Cook
Faded Steel Heat * - Glen Cook
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett
The Syndic - C.M. Kornbluth
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
The Way to Glory - David Drake
Lord Peter * - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Just Play Ball - Joe Garagiola
Fit or Fat - Covert Bailey
The Rubber Band - Rex Stout
Over My Dead Body - Rex Stout
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Jeeves Takes Charge - P.G. Wodehouse
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
Night Passage - Robert B. Parker
The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
Cat's Cradle * - Kurt Vonnegut
Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II - Walter K. Schoeder
Halting State - Charles Stross
Quonset Point Naval Air Station - Gem of the Atlantic - Sean Paul Milligan
Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Black Orchids - Rex Stout
Where There's a Will - Rex Stout
"Bitter End" from Death Times Three - Rex Stout
Fleet of Worlds - Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
The High Crusade * - Poul Anderson
Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball - George Mitchell, et al.
The Hobbit * - J.R.R. Tolkein
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Sharpe's Skirmish - Bernard Cornwell
Asterisked books were rereads.
Wow, I made it to fifty, most likely a new league record for me. Certainly it's the most I've managed to get through by far since I started keeping these lists. I read Sharpe's Skirmish today. It's very short, a novella, but it was a good way to get back into that world after a long time away. Plus I'm also about a quarter of the way through Sharpe's Company.
---
Ringo: Books are good.
Grandfather: *Parading's* better.
Ringo: Parading?
Grandfather: [nods eagerly] Parading the streets! Trailing your coat! Bowling along! LIVING!
Ringo: Well, I am living.
Grandfather: You? Living? When was the last time you gave a girl a pink-edged daisy? When did you last embarrass a sheila with your cool, appraising stare?
Ringo: You're a bit old for that sort of chat, aren't you?
Grandfather: Well at least I've got a backlog of memories! All you've got is - THAT BOOK!