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2 Please verify that no one else has posted while you were preparing your post.

3. The title of the book cited must have one word, at least, which is the same as a word in the previous title.

4. The repeated word in the new title must be other than an article ("a", "an", or "the").

5. The repeated word must be spelled exactly as the word was spelled in the previous title. E.g., "prune" is not the same word as "prunes", and "loyal" is not the same word as "loyalty."

6. The repeated word must be in the title as shown on the title page of the book--not, e.g., part of the series name unless such is part of the title as shown on the title page.

7. A hyphenated word is one word, not two: e.g., "thunder-clouds"; and if used must be repeated in full, not in part only.

8. If you have read the book it would be informative that you so indicate and tell when you read it, if you can.

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Life and death of the salt marsh by John Teal.

My post:

Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 4, 2009, 10:45am.

My Life by Fidel Castro

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading by Robert Demaria Jr.

Russian Reading and Conversation by Nicholas Maltzoff

used as a textbook in college

The Year Of Reading Proust - Phyllis Rose (read 2002)

Horse and Buggy Days on Old Cape Cod Reminiscences of the Town of Barnstable By an 83 Year Old Native by Hattie Blossom Fritze.

On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by
Katheirne Anne Porter

The Pale Indian by Robert Arthur Alexie.

I, too, limit myself to books I've read or have on my TBR shelves.

Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America by Theodora Kroeber

read several times in days of yore.

The Wild Palms by William Faulkner

The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Basis of Southern Politics, by Raymond Arsenault (read 18 Jun 1995)

2760 The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Basis of Southern Politics, by Raymond Arsenault (read 18 Jun 1995) Davis was born May 6, 1862, in Rocky Comfort (now called Foreman), Arkansas, was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1900, 1902,and 1904, and Senator for the term beginning Mar 4, 1907, and reelected in 1912, and died Jan 2, 1913. This is a really excellent book, and it very straightforwardly tells of the subject's strengths and weaknesses. He was a demagogue but one has to admire his skill in pandering to Arkansans' weaknesses. He was a great campaigner, and each of his governor races is of high interest. He was a flop in the Senate, where he was looked on as a buffoon, and was relatively inactive. His use of race was on a par with Tillman and Vardaman. This is a most excellent, a real scholarly work, and I fail to see how it could be improved. Its footnotes are excellent, and refer to books I would like to read but even today have not.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul by John Eldredge

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 4, 2009, 4:05pm.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness by Stephen R. Donaldson

read some years ago - excellent series.

Madness in Society by Georg Rosen

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Charles Mackay.

Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati. Great fun to read.

Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot - read in high school

Needful Things by Stephen King

In Celebration Of Small Things - Sharon Cadwallader (read 1978)

The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The House of Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Salem witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of the seven gables by Enders A. Robinson.

Alciphron : or, The minute philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion by George Berkeley

The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, by Michael Mott (read 31 Jul 1987)

Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel

Murder in the Dog Days by P.M. Carlson

fun series about a female statistician who solves crimes. really!

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 5, 2009, 8:57am.

Walking the dog by Charles Davis, an Early Reviewer book.

The Dog beneath the Skin by
W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Books and Authors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Author's name not provided

Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach (read 2009)

The Great Safari: the Lives of George and Joy Adamson by Adrian House

The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates by Richard D. Estes.

The African witch by Joyce Cary

Witch World by Andre Norton

The Master of the World by Jules Verne

I read this some years ago; impressive at the time, but I donʻt remember much of it.

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Eisenhower: Allied Supreme Commander
by Carlo dʻEste

Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment by Stephen E. Ambrose - in my TBR pile

The Protestant Establishment; Aristocracy and Caste in America by E. Digby Balztell

a book owned by my wife; I did more than scan it, but less than read it through, in the 60s.

The right people;: A portrait of the American social establishment by Stephen Birmingham.

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

The Right to Privacy by Caroline Kennedy

Tales and Sketches by the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by Benjamin Disraeli

Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hauʻofa

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood by Laurie Notaro

Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl; read last summer

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn

My Mother, Myself by Nancy Friday

Are You my Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
by Tom Stoppard

Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing by Thich Nhat Hanh

*playing off of "are" in case it's difficult to tell.

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas

The new novelist's magazine : or, entertaining library of pleasing and instructive histories, adventures, tales, romances and other agreeable and exemplary little novels by William Dodd

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 6, 2009, 9:11am.

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel by Jane Smiley

The Adventures of Wu; the life cycle of
a ( Beijing) Man by H. Y. Lowe

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 15, 2009, 2:30pm.

A busted bibliophile and his books; being a most delectable history of the diverting adventures of that renowned book-collector, A. Edward Newton, of Daylesford in Pennsylvania, esquire; the 1st and only ed. with all the original errours by George H. Sargent

I'm playing off of the word "Adventures," which had an extra space in its spelling in the title above.

In my title, please treat the hyphenated word, "book-collector" as one word. That was how it was spelled in the title in 1928.

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 6, 2009, 10:50am.

Original Fire; Selected and New Poems
by Louise Erdrich

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Form, Function, Fire: A Guide to Appreciating Japanese Ceramics.

The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Fine and Important Japanese Books and Manuscripts - October 7, 1988 by Christie's

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 6, 2009, 2:38pm.

A Fine Italian Hand by Eric Wright

The Devil's Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow on my TBR pile

The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula Leguin

The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker from the TBR stack.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Read many years ago.

Make Way for Lucia by E. F. Benson

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 6, 2009, 3:38pm.

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: the Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of our Time by Michael Brooks

In small things forgotten : the archaeology of early American life by James Deetz. From Plymouth Plantation, right up the road from here.

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson which is also on the TBR list.

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles harvey; a gem of a book

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon by Alex Kershaw

Sketches of the life of William Stuart: The first and most celebrated counterfeiter of Connecticut by William Stuart. A 2nd-hand find.

Stuart Little by E. B. White - not sure why I've never read this. My copy actually belongs to my daughters - not sure either of them have read it.

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

I haven't gotten around to reading this one--I know it's depressing.

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

amazing book. listened to it a few years ago. my mother badgered me about it for years but i wouldn't listen.

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (read 22 Oct 1966) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1966) (National Book Award biography prize for 1966)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Shall Fall by Hans Habe

Fall of House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Sorry double post...

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 7, 2009, 5:38am.

Prairie Populist: The Life and Times of Usher L. Burdick, by Edward C. Blackorby (read 14 Feb 2005)

Elota's story : the life and times of a Solomon Islands big man by Elota.

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

The Marks of an Educated Man by Albert Edward Wiggam

Nature, Man, and Woman by Alan Watts

Crazy Horse, The Strange Man of the Oglalas, a biography by Mari Sandoz - Read this in 2008 and totally loved it.

The Strange Cse of Edward Gorey by
Alexander Theroux

The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II by Nina Shandler. On my wish list.

Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman - read it this year, very creative!

House by Tracy Kidder

Story House by Timothy Taylor

The most beautiful house in the world by Witold Rybczynski, a favorite author.

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
I'm reading this right now.

At the Back of the North Wind
by George MacDonald

Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - sorry could not resist :)

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle - read a million years ago

The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss

Jesus Christ for Today by William Barclay

The shingle style today : or, The historian's revenge by Vincent Scully, professor of architecture at Yale.

THe Revenge of Gaia: Earthʻs Clilmate Crisis
by James Lovelock

The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 8, 2009, 3:03am.

The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter (read 19 Feb 1956)

I am ignoring, as required by the rules, #122 since it does not correctly respond to #121--as does this posting

The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Wallace Stegner

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 8, 2009, 7:27am.

A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler; Magnificent collection of short stories

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 8, 2009, 7:29am.

Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

The Temperance Speaker; Or The Good Templars' Reciter by Professor Duncan

The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Christian
Speaker, Age 45 3/4 by Adrian Plass

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Indian and the White Man in Connecticut (First Encounter) by Chandler Whipple.

A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy by Gordon Gibson. Read earlier this year.

The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson. On the TBR shelves.

Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford

A report of some proceedings on the commission of Oyer and terminer and goal delivery : for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases by Sir Michael Foster

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 8, 2009, 12:32pm.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Tales by Washington Irving -

can't get the touchstone to work

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 8, 2009, 12:52pm.

The Golden Treasury of Wonderful Fairy Tales an anthology. My favorite book when I was little.

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Touchstone not working.

Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble

O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King

Rome and Jerusalem: the Clash of Ancient
Civilzations by Martin Goodman

Papermaking : The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft by Dard Hunter

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 8, 2009, 4:35pm.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask by David Reuben

Is Your Volkswagen a Sex Symbol? by Jean Rosenbaum - my daughter got this at a garage sale this summer -- I don't know why.

The literary symbol by William York Tindall. Always a sign of an old English major.

Stranger Shores: Literary Essays
by J.M. Coetzee

A Stranger in Burracombe by Lilian Harry. Read in November 2008.

The Stranger of Galilee; Meditations on the
Life of Our Lord by Reginald White

A Stranger to Myself The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944, by Willy Peter Reese Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (read 15 Nov 2007)

Here is your war by Ernie Pyle.

There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz

Bless the Beasts and the Children by Glendon Swarthout.

The Children of Hurin by J. R. R. Tolkien. In my TBR pile

Lucretia, or the Children of Night
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Night Spirits by Ila Bussidor. Heartbreaking true story of the forced relocation of the Sayisi Dene in Manitoba.

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Read this in the 1950s, in the original 1930s edition. The publishers later saw fit to change it to a more straightforward chronology (they said Fizgerald always wondered why it was a comparative failure, and that must have been because of the involved, Conradian-type chronology.) But the chronology of the original didnʻt bother me. The original version is now probably hard to get hold of

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 9, 2009, 3:05pm.

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

The Bone People by Kerry Hulme

Games People Play by Eric Berne

The Play Goes on; a Memoir
by Neil Simon

Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson

Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul
by {Irwin Stambler

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The Ice Man Cometh by Eugene OʻNeill

The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

The Story of Art; with 384 Illustrations
by E.H. Gombrich

Have owned this for some years; one of my "view" art books. I havenʻt read it fromo cover to cover; prety much a reference book for me.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

edit to fix touchstone

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 9, 2009, 6:50pm.

The Story of Dr. Wassell by James Hilton

Story of Serapina by Anne H. White

Ernest Hemingway: a Life Story
by Carlos Baker

Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon

My Life In France by Julia Child. Just read this last month.

Joan, Maid of France by
J. Christopher Herold

Maid of Honor by Charlotte MacLeod

Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

A Sense of Honor, by James Webb (read 20 Mar 2001)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 10, 2009, 6:38am.

An Examination of Dr Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, Dr Beattie's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, and Dr Oswald's Appeal to Common Sense in behalf of Religion, etc by Joseph Priestly

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 10, 2009, 8:33am.

The American language;: An inquiry into the development of English in the United States, by H.L. Mencken.

American Shaolin by Matthew Polly

The American Historian's Raw Materials: An Address at the Dedication of the William L. Clements Library of Americana, June 15, 1923 by J. Franklin Jameson

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 10, 2009, 2:34pm.

Samson Agonistes; the Poem and Materials for Analysis by John Milton

Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience by Erving Goffman

a most interesting book for its time and field (sociology, 1986).

The Rebel: an Essay on Man in Revolt
by Albert Camus

Man in the Wilderness: A novel of the Great Missouri Wilderness in 1825 by W. Michael Gear

The Great American Novel
b y Clyde Brion Davis*

*This novel was around in 2nd hand stores, long before Phililp Roth used the same title. I assume both usages are tongue-in-cheek and are citing G. A. N. as a cliche phrase.

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

this was my first encounter with George and my favorite George character, Barbara Havers, many years ago.

The Great Crash 1929 by
John Kenneth Galbraith

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt, and Across the Great Desert by James Capper

The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel. Read in July 2005.

The Great Plains by Walter P. Webb

A Concise Treasury of GREAT POEMS by Louis Untermeyer

Great Plains by Ian Frazier

The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlon

On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea by Pablo Neruda

i've visited this one over and over for about 5 years.

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 11, 2009, 12:59am.

Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman - I may be moving this up on my tbr pile. Thanks for the reminder.

Dynamics of Isshinryu Karate Blue and Green Belt Book 2 by Harold Long

Speaking of Books : The Best Things Ever Said About Books and Book Collecting by Rob Kaplan

Larkin housewives' cook book; good things to eat and how to prepare them; a giveaway from the Larkin Soap Company at the turn of the last century.

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - read 2 years ago. not a big fan.

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 11, 2009, 3:06pm.

Time and Again by Jack Finney

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Devil's Daughter by Eleazar Lipsky

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter by Ruth Rendell. Read this in February 1995.

Dear Senator A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem (read 14 Aug 2005)

Congressman Joe Wilson's favorite book?

William Hazlitt, essayist and critic: Selections from his writings with a memoir, biographical and critical by William Hazlitt

Daughter Of The Queen Of Sheba: A Memoir - Jacki Lyden (read 2001)

Long Past Stopping: A Memoir by Oran Canfield. Read last week.

A biographical memoir of the late Edmond Malone, Esq. by James Boswell

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch

The craft of fiction by Percy Lubbock. Another English major chestnut.

Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life by Elizabeth George - another TBR book.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Postal Laws and Regulations and General Instructions Applicable to the Rural Mail Service by H.H. Billany

moibibliomaniac,
rural carrier, ret.

Theory and Problems of General Topology by Seymour Lipschutz

A Dictionary of Chemistry. : Containing the Theory and Practice of That Science; its Application to Natural Philosophy by Pierre Joseph Macquer

The new science of Giambattista Vico. From trying to understand Yeats. It didn't help.

A New Song by Jan Karon - read about 10 years ago

The song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel

England in Picture, Song and Story by John William Cunliffe

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 12, 2009, 11:20pm.

The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes. Read this in May of 2006.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer - read earlier this year. I'd really like to read his new one about Pat Tillman.

The Violent Bear it Away
by Flannery OʻConnor

I Will Bear Witness A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945, by Victor Klemperer translated by Martin Chalmers (read 7 Apr 2000)

character Witness by R.A. Forster

The Art of Acting in Connection With the Study of Character by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald

The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre. From the TBR shelves.

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra}

Hoyle's rules of games; descriptions of indoor games of skill and chance, with advice on skillful play by Albert H. Morehead.

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules by Michael Gorman - have two editions of this.

The Principles of Cataloguing by L. Jolley

An Examination of Dr Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, Dr Beattie's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, and Dr Oswald's Appeal to Common Sense in behalf of Religion, etc by Joseph Priestly

I thought this title looked familiar, but it didn't show up as already used in a search of the title in "talk." Now I know why it looked familiar: I played it Saturday in Message 185. Ouch!
moibibliomaniac playing as Charles Lamb.

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 13, 2009, 2:01pm.

An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense by Thomas Reid

The Sense of the Past by Henry James

Woman Without a Past by Phyllis A. Whitney

The way of duty : a woman and her family in revolutionary America by Joy Day Buel.

Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe*

*Became a classic movie; one of those that you can admire but itʻs hard to like them. I havenʻt read the book (the movie didnʻt make me eager to read it.)

Earth on her hands : the American woman in her garden by Starr Ockenga. Stretching here. Roland, I really enjoyed reading Woman in the Dunes.

To Larxol:

Thanks, guess I will read it or some title by Abe.

Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World by Amy Seidl - read this year

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
by Ben Jonson

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 13, 2009, 10:10pm.

The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle, read some years ago

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

The Hand of God, by W. A. Dostal (read in about 1936 or 1937)

Wrath of a Mad God by Raymond E. Feist. Read in April of this year.

Following the Wrong God Home by Catherine Lim. Read a few years ago. In fact, I've read all her books.

God knows by Joseph Heller.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare: With a Review of his Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick, and Other Celebrated Comedians by Thomas Davies

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 14, 2009, 12:26pm.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; and Other Sketches by Mark Twain

Boiling A Frog by Christopher Brookmyre. The third book of a crime series, this is in my TBR stacks.

Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore - I keep meaning to read this.

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Waterloo a Near Run thing by David Howarth.

Run with the Wind by Tom mcCaughren

Reap the Wild Wind by Julie Czerneda

Star of Wild Horse Canyon by Clyde Robert Bulla - read about 25 years ago...

Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Quiet Game by Greg Iles

Billy Phelan's greatest game by William Kennedy. Bleak Albany.

Billy Liar on the Moon by Keith Waterhouse

Billy Whiskers, by Frances T. Montgomery

(read about 1936, I think)

Billy Sunday; and Other Poems
by Carl Sandburg

Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman

The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.

Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Christie. Read in the early 70's - time for a reread.

Conflict Among Nations: Bargaining, Decision Making, and System Structure in International Crises by Glenn H. Snyder - a text book in 1992

The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr

The Breakdown Lane by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Back to Barnaby Lane; the Final Tales of the
City Omnibus by Armistead Maupin

Dublin in bloomtime: the city James Joyce knew by Cyril Pearl.

He Knew he was Right by Anthony Trollope

Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart

The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson : Sometime Chaplain to the Right Honourable William Lord Russel by Samuel Johnson

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 15, 2009, 8:13pm.

The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham - read for first time in early 90's.

The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery, tbr

Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline by Cheri Huber

*never have been able to get through it. sappy title, too. works for this, though. :)

The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
by E.A. Burtt

Overpopulation" A Study of Papal Teachings on the Problem with Special Reference to Japan, by the Rev. Anthony F. Zimmerman, S.V.D., S.T.L. (read 5 Feb 1961)

#281 by jnwelch did not correctly respond to #280 and should have been ignored by Larxolin #282--but wasn't! This publicity is penalty, I guess...

The Only Problem by Muriel Spark.

#296> The law of nit-picking says you got my username wrong.

The Problem Child by Michael Buckley

The tears of St. Margaret : also, Odes of condolence to the high and mighty musical directors on their downfall : to which is added, The address to the owl : likewise, Mrs. Robinson's handkerchief and Judge Buller's wig, a fable : also The churchwarden of Knightsbridge, or, The feast on a child by Peter Pindar

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 16, 2009, 11:22am.

Hedayatʻs "The Blind Owl", Forty Years After
by Michael Hillman

The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years by Joseph Heco.

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte - a great book

The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother by Meinrad Craighead

The songs of Homer by Geoffrey S. Kirk

Tales, epistles, odes, fables, &c. with translations from Homer and other antient authors. To which are added proposals for perfecting the English language by Thomas Cooke

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 16, 2009, 3:56pm.

America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C. Davis

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 16, 2009, 4:44pm.

The Wayward Pilgrims by Gerald Warner Brace

The Wayward Princess by Sally Watson - this was my favorite childhood author

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Rebellion by Marion Starkey

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

The Arrogant History of White Ben
by Clemence Dane

White savage : William Johnson and the invention of America by Fintan O'Toole.

The Life of Andrew Johnson by Robert Remini

Samuel Johnson : the Struggle by Jeffrey Meyers

The struggle for mastery in Europe 1848-1918 by A. J. P Taylor - read in early 90's - highly recommend.

Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing

I'm playing off 'for.' well, i was desperate ;)

The Descent by Jeff Long

"A Descent into the Maelstron"
by Edgar Allen Poe

The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan - read in 1986

The French Lieutenantʻs Woman
by John Fowles

French Kiss by Aimee Friedman

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang by Pauline Kael

Kiss of the Spider Woman
by Manuel Puig

read it ages ago after seeing the movie.

The Spider King: a Biographical Novel
of Louis XI by Laurence Schoonover

Form and Purpose in Boswell's Biographical Works by William R. Siebenschuh

Artful Paper Dolls: New Ways to Play with a Traditional Form by Terry Taylor

I Managed Good, but, boy, did they Play Bad!
by Jim Bouton

1066 and All That A Memorable History of England Comprising, All the Parts You Can Remember Including One Hundred and Three Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates, by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman (read 31 Oct 2004)

I think I've used this previously, but it is my favorite humor book of all time...

All Hallowsʻ Eve by Charles Williams

The book of fortune: being marvellous for the invention, pleasant to be read or heard, and in many things very profitable to be understood Fit for honest recreation after more serious affairs or studies, and necessary to drive away evil thoughts and fantacies, wherewith many are oppressed. First written in Italian, after translated into English, and now newly compared in all the parts thereof, and much amended by Samuel Strangehopes

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 17, 2009, 7:18am.

Six Italian Plays by Eric Bentley, ed.

Six Haunted Hairdos by Gregory Maguire

Haunted Ground by Erin Hart. Read in September 2004.

The Haunted House (original title: Mostellaria)*
by Plautus

*I played the role of Misargyrides, the money-lenderʻs assistant in a Latin-language production of this is 1951.

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 17, 2009, 2:59pm.

#335 mirus res :)

The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

Street Corner Society by William F. Whyte

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. Just bought this today.

No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin

Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Hotel by Arthur Hailey

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

read the audiobook, mmmm, maybe 10 years ago.

Lancelot du Lac (in the) Arthur (Cycle)
(Anonymous)

Lancelot, by Walker Percy (read 5 Nov 1987)

Lancelot and Elaine by Alfred Tennyson

XCVI. sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester by Lancelot Andrewes

Blinded By The Right: The Conscience Of An Ex-Conservative - David Brock (read 2006)

The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe

got it from QPBC at least 20 years ago and quite enjoyed it.

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 18, 2009, 12:16pm.

Right is wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made us
All Less safe by Arianna Huffington

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot

Needful Things by Stephen King

1,003 Great Things About Teachers by Lisa Birnbach

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

a great favorite. i gave it a friend's daughter and haven't replaced it yet. but i will!

*message edited to try to fix touchstone. which it happened. :)

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 18, 2009, 3:15pm.

The Wild Bunch by Ernest Haycox

The Bonnie Bunch of Roses
(in the Vocal Songbooks Series)
by Dan Milner

The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan. Read in June 2009.

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Time for a new game:
Go to
http://www.librarything.com/topic/75278

Mensagem editada pelo autor, Out 18, 2009, 5:11pm.

The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico by Elizabeth Carmichael

Mexico Days by Robert Roper. Read earlier this year, after it languished on my TBR shelves for a long time.

We started a new game. See Thread 357
http://www.librarything.com/topic/75278