Just this morning (early in the AM) I finished reading the 600th book since beginning to track such things way back in the middle of 2015. Now you can see, perhaps, just why I was so anxious to get the analysis of the previous hundred books out the door; I knew that the next hundred …
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Analysis: The 5th Hundred Books
Well, I’ve owed y’all some analysis of the last hundred books read for some time now—just over a hundred days, by my count. I can only plead that I’ve been busy with work and stuff, the stuff being a silly NaNoWriMo project, but I have also been reading at a freakishly breakneck pace since I …
Monday Book Report: Wacko of Delight vs. Wacko in a Whiter Shade of Vile
I Read It So You Don’t Have To Dept. My Opinions: Incest and Illegitimacy, by Alfred JordanThe Negro and the World Crisis, by Charles Lee Magne Sincerity is a casualty of this Ironic Age. We now are surprised to contemplate that perhaps some advocate of this or that position actually believes the things he or …
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Book List: 500 Books
As I told you over a month ago, I recently reading book #500 in my reading records since I began tracking back in June of 2015. When I announced this milestone, I promised both an analysis for the last hundred books read and a listing of the books themselves. This post is in fulfillment of …
Monday Book Report: Wingman
Wingman, by Manus Pinkwater The 3rd book I’ve read in the past week to make me cry. Too short to write too much about, save to say that Daniel Pinkwater (yes, he used his middle name as his first on this book) is an author who can tell a heartwarming tale I can believe in, …
600 Books (not really)
This book made me cry for democracy. In both the transitive and intransitive senses. Since I first began tracking my reading after getting all of my books catalogued in a database a little over five years ago, I have treated comics and graphic novels almost as bastard stepchildren, not counting them fully in my ‘Books …
Monday Book Report: R Is For Rocket
R Is For Rocket, by Ray Bradbury The short story collection R Is For Rocket is designed to appeal to young adults (our current nomenclature for children who read), especially young boys growing up in the dawn of the Space Age. Reading it now made this once-young man cry several times, both for the limpid …
Monday Book Report: 3 Civic Voices from the Crepuscule of the Before Time
I Read It So You Don’t Have To Dept. How to Overthrow the Government, by Arianna HuffingtonShrub, by Molly Ivins & Lou DuboseStupid White Men, by Michael Moore I have said before that reading political works years after their publication is an instructional exercise. The intervening years make plainer the ingrained biases of both the …
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500 Books
I have finally finished reading my 500th book since I started tracking such data back in June of 2015. This half-millennium mark was crossed by the completion of the sociological study of consumer habits of the lower-class project dwellers in Manhattan, The Poor Pay More. I received this book in error thinking instead to receive …
Monday Book Report: The Lies That Bind
The Lies That Bind, by Kate Carlisle (A Bibliophile Mystery, #3 in the series) Kate Carlisle is no Raymond Chandler, and her book—The Lies That Bind—is an affront to his project of raising mystery fiction to the level of literature. If anything, the author of this, the third in the series of so-called ‘Bibliophile Mysteries’, …