A Harvard Education in a Book, by the editors of The Harvard Lampoon

(0399516654)
The good news about this book, which is 13 years old now, is that there are 45 used copies available on Amazon, at least one for the price $0.01. In my estimation, that may be overpriced. Maybe it's just way too old to be relevant. Or maybe I've got a rampaging case of reverse snobbery. Either way, I only got to p. 31. There appear to be some mildly amusing pages later; I just don't feel like finding all 4 of them.

Silver Lies, by Ann Parker

(1590580729)
Yes, all you catalogers will recognize this as an "off" ISBN, i.e., not a big press-- Poisoned Pen. A name to keep in mind...

Because, this is a damn good book. I hope she keeps writing. It is set in Leadville in 1879, just as silver has begun to pour out of the ground. The main character is 1/3 owner (along with her missing husband and a friend, who happens to be a black man) of a bar and "gaming establishment." It really is a murder mystery, but the setting is pretty major (to me) as well.

I know I've been in Leadville, I'm sure we've eaten there on the way over the mountains, but I have no strong memory of it. Unlike 'old' Central City and Black Hawk, which I refuse to go back to until they close the casinos.

Whoops. The beauty of this book is that the characters are all solid and believable people, and the historical research has obviously been done. Inez, the main character, is far from perfect, even by less stringest 21st century standards, and her choices are sometimes pretty off-kilter. Harry, the obvious "bad guy" throughout the book, isn't as bad as she thinks--although he's pretty much a low-life greedy scoundrel MCpig (man of his time, Cat) with an eye toward politics. But he's not (exactly) a murderer. Someone else is. Definitely.

Then there's Inez' relationship with Abe--her remaining business partner--and the whereabouts of her missing husband (dead? or maybe not?).... What a nice change to not have everything tidily boxed up and polished off at the end.

Of course I'd like to see more of these folks, but actually if she just populated the city of Leadville (a la Jan Karon) and focused on someone beside Inez, I'd be as happy too.

Keep an eye out for more by her.

Shadows on the Aegean, by Suzanne Frank

(044652090X)

Part two in this series of stories about Chloe and Cheftu. This is set for the most part on islands near ancient Greece, in what Chloe thinks is the Minoan culture that her mother has studied. Eventually the two of them figure out that this is actually Atlantis, and of course they are there at the end of the road for this civilization: earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions abound.

However, instead of going back to the 20th century at the end of the first book, the two of them have ended up further back 400 years. Cheftu in Egypt (in his same body) and Chloe in Aztlan, where she is inhabiting the body of a prophetess. So somehow Cheftu has to figure out that she's alive, and who she is, and where.

Everyone on these islands is oddly related family-wise but not exactly family in the same sense we think of today. The inheritance laws are a bit confusing, and so are all the relationships in the 'royal family.' Just like usual, that.

There is a short glimpse of what's going on with Chloe's 20th century family since she left. It's not good, to say the least. I suspect the third book will be bringing in more of this whole situation.

The end leaves us hanging again. Of course our heroes are separated by time and, one has to presume, space. There was a lot of research that went into this book, but Frank manages to (mostly) not bore the readers with too much historical detail (although there are a few pretty disgusting scenes that involve eating). Yes, I will be looking for the third book. It's nice to come in on a series like this that is finished! Betcha Egypt plays into the next one somehow!

Grandmother Spider, by James Doss

(0380803941)

I'm backtracking in this series a bit. This is a rather creepy story about an apparent giant spider making off with two people (hence the title--Grandmother Spider is not a very jolly grandmother figure in Ute folklore). Somehow Charlie Moon figures out how these two characters (and they are characters in many senses of that word) were left out in the middle of nowhere--one in the top of a tree!--and why one of them then disappears from the hospital.

More important to the series itself are the details of how he comes to be owner of a large working ranch, and how he meets his matukach lady friend.

Doss is so good at conveying personality traits for each person in the book. Each character is someone you want to know more about, even the waitress that runs off with the older white guy.

Now if only I could figure out where the little girl staying with Aunt Daisy came from....

[I think I'm over that fixation on death, at least with non-formulaic, mystery fiction, stylized death.]

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death & the World It Made, by Norman F. Cantor

(0060014342)
Fast read. This was more the latter half of the subtitle than the former. I wasn't prepared for the unexpected directions the author took. He mostly focused on England, but also dealt with some of the rest of (mostly Western) Europe. This was the first time I had heard that some of "the plague" might have been anthrax and/or other cattle diseases. I had not internalized just how many people actually died of the plague in England and what percentage of the population (something like 1/3). So of course a huge impact on EVERYthing: farming, law, psychological outlook, women's place in culture, theology/science, the monarchy.

The chapter on the Jews was expecially helpful; I now understand, among other things, why so many Jews lived in Poland (and western Russia) in the early 20th century.

Also, I had not heard that scientists now think that most plagues come up the same way ancient humans migrated, from eastern Africa.

For a little book, there's an awful lot here. And a great bibliography, sorted by area of interest: Historical Contexts, Kabbalah, Film...

I will probably put him on The List.

MORE DEATH

Yes, it's true.

I'm reading something about the bubonic plague now, a history of the first wave around 1340. Quick read. I should be back here soon to report in on the sum total.

Feeling so far: Possible list author??

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, by Kent Nelson

(0670032263)
WOW. I wouldn't have picked this up if I hadn't read a review--in Book Magazine, which is gone now. A moment of sadness in its honor....

This is a book that fits in with Atticus and Plainsong and Mavis about strong, modern westerners. This follows Mattie and her life directly before and after the death of her husband, Haney. It also climbs inside the heads of her daughter and the "hired man" she hires who calls herself Dawn in this incarnation of self. With the addition of a runaway Indian boy, they run the ranch through the spring and summer following Haney's death. Between rotten-awful neighbors--balanced by good-people friends--a secret uncovered in the trunk of Haney's Lincoln (the Doom Car itself), absolute hard work, mourning, and trying to find the pieces of oneself....well. The ending is horrific but happy. The only drawback was the relatively neat romantic package we are presented with at the end, with the exception of Shelley, the daughter. But one can see her as happy too... grr.

Still, a very effective evocation of the West: the space between people and places, the sweat and labor involved in doing anything worthwhile. The real story is how survivors feel about things they find out about the dead after the funeral is over. Very complicated. Like life.

(Again, what is it with the death theme?!)

Deadly Divots: A Golf Murder Mystery, by Gene Breaznell

(188259374x)
Oh my God, why did I waste my time on this? At least it was a quick read, but it was bad, bad, bad. I should keep this book around to remind of why I shouldn't try to write a book! Obviously no one told this guy: his plot was thin, his characters pretty stereotypical, not to mention leaden.

The only upside (and I think this is what kept me reading) is that the premise was interesting: the actual mystery in the book tracked the mystery novel he was reading, a book written by a British author a la Dame Christie.

(Then there's the fact that his wife died of cancer last year. I'm sensing a theme. This is one of the things about reading that I love. Serendipity.)

Nelson DeMille is quoted on the cover saying "A hole in one." He doesn't say 'one what.'

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, by Neil Peart

(1550225480)
OK, I can't stand Rush, and know nothing about the individuals in the band, but here is a book by the drummer (whose voice is not the grating horrible voice I hate Rush for!). When I cataloged this at work, it looked interesting: motorcycle trip to anywhere as escape from reality: Dealing with the death of a family member (in his case two--hmmm, in my case, two....). He's quite a good writer ("for a rock musician"), no really he is. He is obviously every-so-slightly more literate than say, Britney Spears or (to be less ageist and obvious) Ozzy Osbourne.

Daughter died in car accident on her way to college, wife died of cancer less than a year later, but he's convinced her broken heart killed her. They were his life. So now what? His answer: drive around North America for the better part of two years on his 'bike. Would that we could all run away (erg) from our troubles so easily. But that is a minor quibble for me.

Generally I liked this book. I could see what he was seeing (inside his head and out). Gotta love a man not afraid to admit he cries. He did get to the wallowing stage right around year one. Reminded me of that awful period of crying in the shower when everyone thinks, "Why isn't she over this?? It's been months!" Too bad it ends with a hokey-dokey romantic la-la ending. Quite a let-down (although I guess I'm happy for him)....grudge grudge. ;-)

INTENT

I've kept a reading log for over 10 years now, even inching up towards 15, I think. I'd have to go find them all. It has evolved. At the beginning, it was part of my 'regular' journal, so books and life were merged, but eventually I realized I was mostly writing in book titles and barely mentioning life. Plus, it was complicated to read.

So about 5 years ago I began a new notebook just for books. That works much better for that purpose. However, I haven't journalled in the normal sense in about 18 months. Life has been too hectic, which just means I have other priorities now. I will regret it later. Or not. Maybe getting the books in here will free up my ink and paper time to put down some stuff about the rest of the world.

This is not meant as a book review per se, but a log of what I was reading when, what I thought of it, and whether it was worthwhile, among other things.

Once I get a better handle on the whole Blog "thing," I hope to link the books to Amazon and do other fun things. Evolution is a wonderful thing!

So I will go get what I've been reading over the past couple of weeks and kick this off for real.

ADDED INFO: One of the things that evolved in the written log was the concept of List Authors. These are authors who write well, or whose books are enjoyable for some reason, anyway. They are Old Faithfuls, to whom I can return, or want to return and read the rest of their works. They are not usually "classics" in the Dickens or Plato set. Just fun authors to read, or intriguing characters that are worth following.

The Beginning
All right, blame this on Amy (and Jenica, too) and whoever it was that suggested keeping a journal of any kind. It's 9:40 at night and after the week I've had, I should be in bed. Instead I'm sitting at yet another computer, eating Chex mix (so much for no carbs!) and typing what the single functioning brain cell left in my head tells me to.

So, let's see if this works!

Recommended Books

Compiled over the years from assorted review sources, and frequently updated:

Pill, Pygmy Chimps & Degas' Horse Unauthorized Version Organized Obsessions Seeing Red or Tickled Pink Magical Alphabets Garden of Words Womanwords One of a Kind Baby Doctor In a Word Dickson's Word Treasury Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls If at All Possible, Involve a Cow Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered By Jove! Born of a Woman Born Again at the Laundromat Lost Gospel Cause of Death Scene of the Crime Superior Person's 2nd Book of W… "Nice Guys Finish Seventh" Letters of a Victorian Madwoman Women on the Edge Take a Deep Breath Baikal Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls Grim Reaper's Book of Days America Then & Now Bleep Russian Leave Carpool So Far From Home Totally Useless Skills Cinderella's Gold Slipper So Very English Wordplay Parables from Other Planets Two Women of London On the Oregon Trail City of Dreadful Delight More Whatdunits Why Doesn't My Funny Bone Make… Looking for History on Highway 14 Hue & Cry and Humble Pie Mouthful of Air Fine Art of Murder Zero to Lazy Eight Putting Away Childish Things Jesus the Sage Social Art Out of the Garden: Women Writers… Origin of Language Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Game of Thirty Real Life Condition Critical Why Greenland is an Island… Women of the Asylum God and the Philosophers Jesus Didn't Go to Church Turin Shroud Single Tree Handbook of Christian Apologetics Who Do You Think You Are? Other Bible Origins of Christian Morality Schindler's Legacy Bible: Designed to be Read Now All We Need Is a Title Man in the Ice Time Detectives Plagues and Peoples Alphabetic Labyrinth From Achilles' Heel to Zeus's Shield Anthropologist on Mars Secret Language of Birthdays Je Ne Sais What? Blown Sideways Through Life Two or Three Things I Know For Sure History Laid Bare Dead Men Do Tell Tales All Rivers Run to the Sea Wisdom of the Bones Her Story Is There a God? Numbers Making the Alphabet Dance Inside the Vatican Psychologist's Book of Self-Tests I Am Spock Full House Paintings in the Vatican Paintings in the Hermitage Sisters in Arms In the Beginning Chasing the Sun Hatchepsut Venetian's Wife Captain's Logs Captain's Logs Supplemental History of Reading Edge of the Unknown Way It Wasn't What's In a Name? Murder & Other Acts of Literature Prospect Before Her Alphabet of Modern Annoyances Bottom Line Personal Book of Bests Illustrated Book of Signs & Symbols Random House Word Menu Plague Tales History of Heaven Good Book Speaking Freely Unwritten Laws Letters From a Nut How the Mind Works Illustrated Jesus Through the Cent... Complete Dead Seas Scrolls in ... Guns, Germs and Steel Into the Forest Generations 70 Wonders of the Ancient World Story of Time World of Words Guide to Monastic Guest Houses Grimm's Grimmest Underground Education Blood and the Shroud Greatest Benefit to Mankind How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics Every Eye Beholds You Physics of Christmas Escape of Alexei Paranoid's Pocket Guide More Letters From a Nut Don't Know Much About the Bible Guide to Reading the Entire Bible… Poem a Day Cherokee Feast of Days II Bizarre Books After Long Silence Why Christianity Must Change or Die Calling Harlot By the Side of the Road Cowboy Mysteries of the Alphabet Tales of the Brothers Grimm What If? How We Believe Words and Rules Last Survivor Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages How Sharp Is Your Pencil? Who Are You? Dead Sea Scrolls Global Soul Little Lit Behind the Scenes at the Museum Losing Matt (Un)Fashion Author Unknown Pobby & Dingan Do One Thing Different Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride… Massive Swelling Best American Travel Writing 2000 Walking a Sacred Path Up in the Air Good Old Days ABCs of the Bible Hiding Places of God Gospel According to Jesus Journeys Into Medieval England Jesus Doesn't Live… Men Years of Rice and Salt Skipping Towards Gomorrah Child of My Heart Firestorm at Peshtigo How To Be Alone We Interrupt This Broadcast… Uniforms Speck Stranger on a Train Explorers and Artists in the Valley… Archaeology of Qumran… Complete World of the Dead Sea... In Ruins Tenacity of the Cockroach Why I Am a Catholic Angus Swimming Across Becoming Mona Lisa Age of Homespun Around the World in a Bad Mood A is for American Things You Get For Free Poems Seven In the Devil's Garden Who Wrote the Bible? Literary Trips Storybook Travels Kalahari Typing School for Men Stiff Songs of the Kings In the Shadow of Memory World's Most Dangerous Places Watermelon King Probable Future Pursuit of Alice Thrift Wandering Hill Wigfield Words we Live By O Caledonia If Grace is True Sacred Rights Magdalene's Lost Legacy Ambulance Girl Beautiful Shadow Giants in the Earth Quality of Life Report Curious Incident of the Dog… Importance of Being Lazy Mean of Everything True Story of Hansel & Gretel Red-Color News Soldier Dead Famous Faint Cold Fear Spygirl Gun, with Occasional Music Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove America's Women Bibliophilia God's Bestseller Cracked Moral Man & Immoral Society On to Orthodoxy Down Peacock's Feathers Quicksilver Small Things Considered Indelible Ink Serious Way of Wondering Escape from Slavery Lost Christianities Lost Scriptures Cheap Hotels Gucci Kangaroo Where in the Word More Annotated Alice Bible Is History New Testament Songs of the Open Road Atlas of Experience These Ruins Are Inhabited Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax What Are We Talking About? Unlocking the English Language Death of Donna-May Dean Solved: Famous Mystery Writers… Quite Remarkable Adventures of… Alfred & Guinevere Charlie Peace, a Fable Weird N.J. Earth from Above 1,000 Places to See Before You Die Mirror, Mirror Dream me Home Safely Bushwhacked Witches of Chiswick Mother, Come Home I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your ...? Lisa33 Jane Austen Book Club Murder on the Leviathan Stones of Summer Stone Reader (DVD) Shadow of the Wind Poet Narrows Sex with Kings Stories of English My Kind of Place Let Me Go Mongo Enduring Love Naked Pictures of Famous People Fork it Over Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... Soul Survivor Rottweiler Gilead Children's Blizzard Learning to Sing Shakespeare After All Founding Myths Bad Dirt Faith : Stories Word Myths Elephants of Style Outposts So Many Books, So Little Time When Did I Stop Being Barbie... Freakonomics Word Origins and How We Know... Gilead When Jesus Came to Harvard The Lake the River & the Other Lake Breath and Bones Pole to Pole A Student's Introduction to English... Close Up Loretta Lux Crossworld March 1491 Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading Garbage Land Good Poems for Hard Times Bound to Please A World Lit Only By Fire Your Final Diet Never Let Me Go God's Politics How to Create a Flawless Universe... Chronicles of Narnia Billy Joel Heavy Words Lightly Thrown Expletive Deleted Woman in Berlin Everything I Ate Recreation Ditched by Dr. Right Beasts of No Nation Unfolding of Language Why Do Men Have Nipples? Music Through the Floor Empires of the Word Eye of the Wolf Instance of the Fingerpost Spies Devil in the White City Library: An Unquiet History Inexcusable Robe Sword at Sunset Name of the Rose Girl Sleuth One Last Breath The Last Quarry Interior Desecrations Epileptic Kafka on the Shore Power of Images Seeing Through Clothes The Wild Man Studies in Iconology The Human Voice The Devil's Feather Brainiac Prisoner of Trebekistan

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Updated 9/26/06

LIST AUTHORS

My favorites:

• Allegretto, Michael
• Barker, Pat
• Barnard, Robert
• Barr, Nevada
• Bedford, Martyn
• Black, Veronica
• Bleeck, Oliver (pseud. for Ross Thomas)
• Block, Lawrence
• Boyle, Gerry
• Brown, Dan
• Brunvand, Jan
• Bryson, Bill
• Burke, Jan
• Burns, Rex (pseud. Tom Sehler)
• Cahill, Tim
• Camp, John (pseud. for John Sandford)
• Cantor, Norman
• Caudwell, Sarah
• Coe, Jonathan
• Coel, Margaret
• Cooper, Susan Rogers
• Doss, James D.
• Dunning, John
• Early, Jack (pseud. for Sandra Scoppettone)
• Edwards, Ruth Dudley
• Elkins, Aaron
• Emerson, Earl W.
• Feldman, David
• Fforde, Jasper
• Foxx, Jack (pseud. for Bill Pronzini)
• Frank, Suzanne
• Fyfield, Frances (pseud. Frances Hegarty)
• Gellis, Roberta
• George, Elizabeth
• Grabien, Deborah
• Grafton, Sue
• Graham, Caroline
• Haddam, Jane (pseud. Orania Papazoglou)
• Hallinan, Timothy
• Hansen, Joseph
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
• Harvey, John
• Hayden, Torey
• Healy, Jeremiah
• Hegarty, Frances (pseud. for Frances Fyfield)
• Hillerman, Tony
• Holton, Hugh
• James, P.D.
• Jance, J.A.
• Kaminsky, Stuart M.
• Kellerman, Faye
• Kelly, Jim
• Kerr, Philip
• Kilmer, Nicolas
• King, Laurie
• Langton, Jane
• Lawrence, Margaret (pseud. M.K. Lorens)
• Lawrence, Martha C.
• Lipez, Richard (pseud. for Richard Stevenson)
• Lorens, M.K. (pseud, for Margaret Lawrence)
• Maitland, Barry
• Marsh, Ngaio
• Marston, Edward
• Matera, Lia
• McCrumb, Sharyn (Windsor Knot series only)
• McDermid, Val
• McQuillan, Karin
• Mertz, Barbara (pseud. for Elizabeth Peters)
• Muller, Marcia
• O’Connell, Carol
• Oliphant, B.J. (pseud. for Sheri Tepper)
• Orde, A.J. (pseud. for Sheri Tepper)
• Page, Jake
• Papazoglou, Orania (pseud. for Jane Haddam)
• Paretsky, Sara
• Parker, Ann
• Parker, Robert B.
• Perry, Michael
• Perry, Thomas
• Peters, Elizabeth (pseud. Barbara Mertz)
• Phillips, Mike
• Pickard, Nancy
• Pronzini, Bill (pseud. Jack Foxx, Alex Saxon)
• Prowell, Sandra West
• Ramos, John R.
• Riggs, John
• Roberts, Gillian
• Robinson, Peter
• Sandford, John (pseud. John Camp)
• Saxon, Alex (pseud. for Bill Pronzini)
• Scoppettone, Sandra (pseud. Jack Early)
• Sehler, Tom (pseud. for Rex Burns)
• Smith, Joan
• Stevenson, Richard (pseud. Richard Lipez)
• Sutherland, John
• Thomas, Ross (pseud. Oliver Bleeck)
• Van Gieson, Judith
• Walters, Minette
• White, Stephen
• Willis, Connie
• Zigal, Thomas
• Zubro, Mark David