Saturday, July 24, 1993

Library Books Read Recently (Montgomery, Rosen, etc.)

LJ equivalent on July 24, 2008.

This is a somewhat complete list of the books I've borrowed from the library recently. I'll update this list if need be, of course.

101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells (Michael Rosen)
A Canadian Tragedy (Revised): JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate (Revised) (Maggie Siggins)
A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin)
A History of Celibacy (Elizabeth Abbott)
A History of Marriage (Elizabeth Abbott)
A History of Mistresses (Elizabeth Abbott)
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (James Joyce)
All That Matters (Wayson Choy)
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India (Rachel Manija Brown)
Always In Our Hearts: The Story Of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson, The Pregnancy They Hid And The Baby They Killed (Doug Most)
An Early Grave (St. Martin's True Crime Library) (Gary C. King)
Anne of Windy Poplars (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Anne's House of Dreams (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Bad Boy Drive: The life and fast times of Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper (Robert Sellers)
Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found (Jan Wong)
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly, Hurst Laviana)
Black Dahlia Avenger (Steve Hodel)
Blind Passion: A True Story of Seduction, Obsession, and Murder (John Glatt)
Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street (Gary Weiss)
But I Trusted You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #14 (Ann Rule)
Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul: Inspirational Stories of Baseball, Big-League Dreams, and the Game of Life (Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Mark Donnelly, Chrissy Donnelly, Tommy Lasorda)
Committed: Men Tell Stories of Love, Commitment, and Marriage (Chris Knutsen and David Kuhn)
Daily Life in Victorian England (Sally Mitchell)
Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss (Dave Bagby and Elliott Leyton)
David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists: and Wedding Dress Patterns for the Husky Bride (David Letterman's writers)
David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists; and Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes (David Letterman's writers)
Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Female Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos (Michael Reynolds)
Dead Janitors Club: Pathetically True Tales Of a Crime Scene Cleanup King (Jeff Klima)
Deadly White Female (Clifford L. Linedecker)
Death in Texas: A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder (Carlton Smith)
Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything: Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space... and More! (Editors of DISCOVER magazine, Dean Christopher)
Don't Look Behind You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #15 (Ann Rule)
Duh! The Stupid History Of The Human Race (Bob Fenster)
Encyclopedia of Crime (Oliver Cyriax, Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson)
Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age (Henry D. Spalding)
Exact Fare Only: Good, Bad and Ugly Rides on Public Transit (Grant Buday)
Exact Fare Only II: Good, Bad and Ugly Trips on Public Transit (Ian Cockfield)
Eye of the Beholder (Lowell Cauffiel)
Fire Along The Sky (Sara Donati)
Following Foo: (the electronic adventures of The Chestnut Man) (B.D. Wong)
Flashforward (Robert J. Sawyer)
Getting into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the World's Most Famous Record Book (Larry Olmsted)
Girl Power (Hillary Carlip)
Growing Girls (Jeanne Marie Laskas)
Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters (Annie Choi)
Hockey & High Heels: A Different Kind of Hockey Book (Lisa Ovens)
I Sleep at Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets (Bruce Storkler)
In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth (Ann Rule)
Into the Water (Diane Fanning)
Jade Peony (Wayson Choi)
Jan Wong's China: Reports From A Not-So-Foreign Correspondent
JonBenet (Steve Thomas and Donald A. Davis)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel (Susanna Clarke)
Lady of Hay (Barbara Erskine)
Laughter, The Best Medicine II (Editors of READER'S DIGEST)
Line of Fire: Heroism, Tragedy, and Canada's Police (Edward Butts)
Lord John and the Hand of Devils (Diana Gabaldon)
Love's Blood (Clark Howard)
Mao's Last Dancer (Li Cunxin)
Middlemarch (George Eliot, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Megan McDaniel)
Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners (Alan Emmins)
Mortal Danger (Ann Rule's Crime Files) (Ann Rule)
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks)
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, and Barry Miles)
New York: The Novel (Edward Rutherfurd)
No Kill, No Thrill: The Shocking True Story of Charles Ng - One of North America's Most Horrific Serial Killers (Greg Owens and Darcy Henton)
Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music (Joe Smith and Mitchell Fink)
On, Off: A Novel (Colleen McCullough)
One Tuesday Morning / Beyond Tuesday Morning (September 11 Series 1-2) (Karen Kingsbury)
Out of Control (St. Martin's True Crime Library) (Steven Long)
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (Lawrence Schiller)
Perfect Victim: A chilling account of a bizarre and callous murder. A mother's true story of her daughter's disappearance (Elizabeth Southall and Megan Norris)
Perfectly Executed (Peter Van Sant, Jenna Jackson)
Poison: From Steeltown to the Punjab, The True Story of a Serial Killer (Jon Wells)
Post-Mortem: Justice at Last for Yvette Budram (Jon Wells)
Rilla of Ingleside (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome (Steven Saylor)
Rumo: And His Miraculous Adventures (Walter Moers)
Russka: The Novel of Russia (Edward Rutherfurd)
Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson (Lois Simmie)
Seduced by Madness (Carol Pogash)
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files) (Ann Rule)
Sniper: The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp (Jon Wells)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence, Helen Baron, Carl Baron, and Blake Morrison)
Tacoma Confidential: A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life (Paul LaRosa)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear: being the demibiography of a seagoing bear, with numerous illustrations and excerpts from the "Encyclopaedia of the marvels, life forms, and other phenomena of Zamonia and its environs" by Professor Abdullah Nightling (Walter Moers)
The Alchemaster's Apprentice (Walter Moers)
The Boomer Bible (R.F. Laird)
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke (Angela Nissel)
The city of Dreaming Books: a novel from Zamonia / by Optimus Yarnspinner; translated from the Zamonian (Walter Moers)
The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls (Bob Mitchell)
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery (D.T. Max)
The Forest (Edward Rutherfurd)
The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation (Katherine Ramsland)
The Husband (Dean Koontz)
The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Mammoth Book of Jokes: Over 7400 Shaggy Dog Stories, Limericks, Puns, and Put-Downs for All Occasions (Geoff Tibballs)
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage) (McSweeney's, John Hodgman)
The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga (Edward Rutherfurd)
The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga (Edward Rutherfurd)
The Russian Concubine (Kate Furnivall)
The Sagas of Icelanders (Robert Kellogg, Jane Smiley)
The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (Matt Groening, Ray Richmond)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner) [I actually couldn't finish it... am I uncultured?]
The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit (Jill Conner Browne)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu and Royall Tyler)
The Torso Murder: The Untold Story of Evelyn Dick (Brian Vallee)
The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease (Robert Klitzman)
The Wedding MC: A Complete Guide to Success for the Master of Ceremonies (Tom Haibeck)
The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet)
Thrill Killers: A True Story of Innocence and Murder Without Conscience (Detective Raymond Pingitore and Paul Lonardo)
To the Grave: Inside a Spectacular RCMP Sting (Mike McIntyre)
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (Ann Rule)
True Crime, True North: The Golden Age of Canadian Pulp Magazines (Carolyn Strange, Tina Loo)
Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge (Caitlin Rother)
Ulysses (James Joyce and Craig Raine)
Uncle Jack (Tony Williams and Humphrey Price)
Under the Knife: A Beautiful Woman, a Phony Doctor, and a Shocking Homicide (Diane Fanning)
What Not to Name Your Baby (Joe Borgenicht) [reminds me of the bad baby names forum!]
When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught (David W. Barber, Dave Donald, Maureen Forrester, Anna Russell)
While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family (Kathryn Harrison)
Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs (Biz Stone)
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day (Mo Willems)

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