Lists and Lists and Lists of books

[susandennis]

pookfreak asked me about my book lists today and I decided to get them all into one entry...

The first is a little spreadsheet that I mainly use for my Treo - in case I get somewhere and find a great deal on a book - it's designed, hopefully, so that I will not - as I often do - buy a book I already have or already have read!

All the books I've read (or started to and rejected) since 1994 - Plus some I haven't read yet. (os=on shelf, w= in the web database, R=rejected)

In 1994, I started a little database of books that I read. They are not really reviews. Out of the nearly 600 now, very few are panned because, honestly, if I don't like a book, I don't finish it and I don't add it to this database. So I call them recommendations. The recommendations.

And this is the complete list of all the books that I want to read. They are on hold at the library, on my library list (fodder for when I am waiting for other holds), my Half.Com wish list and my Amazon wish list - in no particular order (and the format is funky because it's a copy/paste thing from four different web pages)...


It's all true : by Freeman, David
Amazonia: by Marcus, James.
The big love : by Dunn, Sarah
Blue blood: by Conlon, Edward
The bookman's promise : Dunning, John
The color of death: by Lowell, Elizabeth
Darkly dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeffry P.
Death match : by Child, Lincoln
The enemy : Child, Lee
Fast food nation : Schlosser, Eric.
The Havana room: by Harrison, Colin
Just one look: by Coben, Harlan
Live bait: by Tracy, P. J.
Memorial Day: by Flynn, Vince
My life: by Clinton, Bill
The narrows : by Connelly, Michael
Now you see it : by Lynn, Allison
Off ramp : by Stuever, Hank
R is for ricochet: by Grafton, Sue
Red tide: by Ford, G. M. (Gerald M.)
Skinny dip: by Hiaasen, Carl
Absolutely American : by Lipsky, David
Aphrodite: by Andrews, Russell
The art of deception : by Mitnick, Kevin D. (Kevin David)
Blind eye: by Wilson, John M.
Crossing the line: by McKinzie, Clinton.
Death by Hollywood : by Bochco, Steven.
Derailed: by Siegel, James
Fatal flaw: by Lashner, William
A firing offense: by Pelecanos, George P
First degree: by Rosenfelt, David
Four blind mice : by Patterson, James
Grudge match : by Brandon, Jay
The guards: by Bruen, Ken
It's all true : by Freeman, David
Keeping faith :by Schaeffer, Franky
Keeping watch : by King, Laurie R.
Loaded dice : by Swain, James
Long for this world:
The man who walked through walls; by Swain, James
Mission flats: by Landay, William
The Orion Protocol: by Tigerman, Gary
Pattern recognition: by Gibson, William
Present value : by Willett, Sabin
Private heat: by Bailey, Robert E.,
Quantico rules: by Riehl, Gene
Sacrifice: by Phillips, Clyde
See Jane die: by Spindler, Erica
She's not there : by Boylan, Jennifer Finney
She's not there : by Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone
Transmission: by Kunzru, Hari
Tricky business: by Barry, Dave
The white trilogy: by Bruen, Ken
Buzz Riff - Sam Hill
The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
Barman - Alex Wellen
Skywriting : A Life Out of the Blue by Jane Pauley

And that's about it... Oh wait... I forgot the ones that I have checked out from the Library right now and am reading or getting ready to:

On Call - Emily R. Ransue
The Hundredth Man - Jack Kerley
The Importance of Being Famous - Maureen Orth
Ransom of Red Chief - O'Henry
Paranoia - Joseph Finder
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris

Ok, that is it. Really.

How nice to be book organized at least for a day... thanks pookfreak!

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[hlee.livejournal.com]

But you also knit and watch lots of TV. How do you find the time to read so much?

I'm in awe.

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[susandennis]

No need to be in awe... I'm not reading great literature and two books later, I probably couldn't even pass a pop quiz on the plot. Plus, remember, I knit WHILE watching tv... And, if the pattern is simple, I don't have to look so I can knit while I read. But, honestly, I only read about an hour a day total.

So you've been stealth reading :)

[hlee.livejournal.com]

I realized what threw me off is that you don't mention that hour in your LJ.

I've noticed that I can keep track of plot and character names as long as I have a book open and am reading it. But all that info isn't often available otherwise. Yet if I start reading an unfinished book I immediately know what's happening in the story and who every character is. It's almost as if the memory of the book gets stored in its pages.

Re: So you've been stealth reading :)

[susandennis]

YES! The same thing happens to me! I can look at the outside of a book and think I've never seen it before but open it up and at the end of the first page, it floods back along with all of the associations - where I lived when I read it, sometimes even the season I read it in. I sometimes wish I didn't have that so I could re-read some of my favorites and not have a clue what's going to happen...

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[rsc.livejournal.com]

jwg's mother used to be able to watch TV, knit, and read, all at the same time.

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[susandennis]

She wins. I don't have enough brain power to keep track of all that. Oh wait, yes I do! I have been known to read, knit and watch a baseball game on TV. Yes, I have.

[dlanor.livejournal.com]

The ability to read a book, having many different books to read, wanting to read a book. All so very important. I have taught adults to read, they had no idea what reading a book was like.

People in many societies do not have a chance for any of that. We are indeed blest. Don't you agree?
My list is not as long as yours, I just keep it in a large spiral bound notebook. Helps me to remember names.

[susandennis]

I do love to read and I am very grateful to all my favorite authors for doing all the work so I endulge myself. Must be fun to help someone discover book reading.

[pookfreak.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until I was probably about 22 that I realized that there are people out there that don't read unless they have to for work or school or they don't read fiction for pleasure. It was so incomprehensible to me that it never occurred to me that there were people out there like that. I was even more floored to find out I was friends with them. Not that it was bad, more that I was surprised to find out the person who became and is now one of my closest friends only would read self help books (like Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus when she and her boyfriend were having a rough patch) but never read books for pleasure.

Me, I have to read nearly every day - even if it's right before bed for a short time and it's a book I've read before (it's like visiting old friends).

[dlanor.livejournal.com]

A world without books, I can not imagine. They can take us to where ever we want to go and then some. There seems to be a never ending selection of books to choose from. I love to find a new author to me, or a new non fiction topic that strikes my interest. My wife is a reader also and we always read before going to sleep.

[pookfreak.livejournal.com]

I'm in the middle of reading Quantico Rules right now by Gene Reihl - it's pretty good but not can't put it down must stay up late sucked into the story good. It's also probably a, no reason for me to keep it, type book so if you'd like me to send it along to you I am completely willing to do so once I'm done (email me your address if you want it).

Have you read any Clive Cussler - I didn't see him in recommendations or in the rejected/read list for the treo but I may have missed it. You might like his stuff too.

[susandennis]

Wow.. that would be very nice of you to send Quantico Rules!

526 1st Ave. s. #413
Seattle, WA 98104

THANKS!

I have not read any Clive but I keep thinking I should give him a try - what book of his should I start with?

[pookfreak.livejournal.com]

Cool I've saved the address - I've only recently started reading Clive Cussler - actually it started because Jeff and I listened to Valhalla Rising during our Colorado Road trip. It's his latest book (he's got a series of books about a character named Dirk Pitt who is a Naval Officer who's commissioned to NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency) (http://www.numa.net/) that was actually founded in real life by Clive Cussler. I also read The Mediterranean Caper (bought while in Colorado at the local Walmart) but have since bought but not read more of his stuff from a local used book store. I usually like to read serial novels (what I use to describe books with the same main characters) by starting with the first one so I can follow the time line but I haven't bought the first one yet. I'd recommend you try Valhalla Rising - if you like it and can find the first one read that next :).