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maxcelcat ([personal profile] maxcelcat) wrote2006-09-02 05:23 pm

Too Many Books

I hereby swear, as you are all my witnesses, that I will NOT set foot into another book shop until I have READ all the books I have bought in the last six months. And which are sitting around my flat. Not to mention my book group book - which this month was Catch-22, the one book I've read more times than any other.

Books I have to read:
  • Monkey - Wu Ch'Eng-En (translated by Arthur Waley) Yes, THE monkey
  • What We Do Now - Multiple authors, collection of essays.
  • Quarterly Essay - "Beyond Belief" - John Button et. al.
  • Quarterly Essay - "What's Left" - Clive Hamilton et. al.
  • Hope - Marian Fowler. A book about a diamond
  • Dopeland - John Birmingham, the guy who wrote "He Died With a Fallefel in his Hand"
  • Blunt - Bob Blunt. A biased history of Australian Rock
  • Humans - Mike Dowdall and Pat Welch. A field guide from the 70's
I also picked up a book in Pitman Shorthand a few weeks back, which I'm NOT going to attempt to read!

There was another little book of essays, which I now can't locate... Will have to ask [livejournal.com profile] evildoom_bunny if she's seen it.

I'm currently finishing "Best American Essays 2003" which is really excellent.