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Read:
Number9Dream by David Mitchell;
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris;
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow;
9Tail Fox by Jon Courtenay Grimwood;
William Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson;
Purchased:
Who Can Save Us Now edited by Owen King and John McNally;
Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst;
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schielfelbein;
Number9Dream by David Mitchell;
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright;
My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare by Jess Winfield;
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One Fearful Yelow Eye by John D. MacDonald;
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau;
American Pastoral by Philip Roth;
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman;
Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald;
Purchased:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz;
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen;
On Beauty by Zadie Smith;
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris;
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III;
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin;
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Read:
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria;
Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald;
The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich;
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama;
Purchased:
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau;
Pale Gray For Guilt by John D. MacDonald;
One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald;
Bright Orange For The Shroud by John D. MacDonald;
The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams;
The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick;
Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald;
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria;
The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich;
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Read:
How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen;
Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. Macdonald;
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert;
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall;
Purchased:
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama;
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming;
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut;
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow;
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell;
Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. Macdonald;
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan;
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen;
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller;
How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen;
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Read:
Full Circle by Michael Palin
The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
Purchased:
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald
The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Read:
The Worthy: A Ghost's Story by Will Clarke
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
A Purple Place For Dying by John D. McDonald
Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
Duma Key by Stephen King
Purchased:
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
Full Circle by Michael Palin
Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
A Purple Place For Dying by John D. McDonald
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
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Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr.
Con Ed by Matthew Klein
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Purchased:
Duma Key by Stephen King
Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr.
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Guilt Trip by Ben Rehder
The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith
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Read:
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Buck Fever by Ben Rehder
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald
Purchased:
The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston
The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis
Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
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Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse by Jonathan Selwood
The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliot
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman
Purchased:
The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse by Jonathan Selwood
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Just One Thing edited by John F. Mauldin
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
Deep Blue Good-by by John D. Macdonald
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
On Writing by Stephen King
Purchased:
Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Deep Blue Good-by by John D. Macdonald
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
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Read:
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson;
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman;
Not Enough Indians by Harry Shearer;
Stiff by Mary Roach;
Purchased:
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson;
Not Enough Indians by Harry Shearer;
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant;
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose;
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Read:
The Dip by Seth Godin;
Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen;
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Purchased:
The Dip by Seth Godin;
Spaceman Blues: A Love Song by Brian Francis Slattery;
Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo;
The Chess Machine by Robert Lohr;
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann;
Life of Pi by Yann Martel;
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling;
Mission to America by Walter Kirn;
The Long Road Home by Martha Raddatz;
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore;
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds;
Purchased:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling;
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman;
Brasyl by Ian McDonald;
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami;
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Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris;
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen;
Einstein by Walter Isaacson;
The Color of a Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn;
Winkie by Clifford Chase;
Purchased:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak;
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami;
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland;
The Road by Cormac McCarthy;
Buck Fever by Ben Rehder;
Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris;
Stiff by Mary Roach;
The Color of a Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn;
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas by Davy Rothbart;
Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn;
The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliott;
One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding;
The Ethical Assassin by David Liss;
White Noise by Don DeLillo;
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes;
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan;
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett;
Zoology by Ben Dolnick;
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson;
Con Ed by Matthew Klein;
The Devil's Wind by Richard Rayner;
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz;
Zod Wallop (hc) by William Browning Spencer;
Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald;
The Worthy by Will Clarke;
Black Swan Green (hc) by David Mitchell;
The Gravedigger by Peter Grandbois;
The Thin Place (hc) by Kathryn Davis;
Where 3 Roads Meet by John Barth;
Paradise Travel by Jorge Franco;
King Dork by Frank Portman;
Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald;
The Shadow of the Wind (hc) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon;
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (hc) by J.K. Rowling;
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds;
The Long Road Home by Martha Raddatz;
Winkie by Clifford Chase;
* (hc) indicates that I already had the book in another format (i.e. audio or paperback)
This month's vast quantity of newly acquired books is largely thanks to Literacy Austin's annual BookFest. Jenny and I love BookFest!
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It's time to start writing again. I figure this will mostly be about books and entertainment.
