Taking a cue from someone else’s post which I saw a month or so back here is a list of the books which I have read in the 1st half (plus) of 2008. I imagine I missed recording one or two and I know I failed to record one or two which were re-reads. I also have a few books in progress which were started sometime earlier but aren’t finished yet.
Doing this now will make it simpler come the end of the year.
As anyone who knows me only (or primarily) through this blog can see, my reading took somewhat of a turn this year so far. As it stands I am about to return to something more like the back half of last year and first month or two of this as of today. Summer is fast winding down and it is time to concentrate on finishing my CAS paper and prepping for the panel I am on at ASIS&T (Oct.).
Before we get to the list, though, I’d like to mention a conversation I had with my friend the other day. We were discussing my love of [much of] our literature and she expressed some concern over my ability to find something to read for edification and enjoyment when I am done with my degree and school.
I assured her that that is not in any way an issue. Just because I am done with school won’t mean I am done reading the literature of my profession. There are too many gems from the last 100+ years waiting to be read (and critiqued). I also have hundreds of non-fiction and a score or two fiction books to be read already in my possession. There are 1000s more I do not own. There are books to re-read. And there are genres which I have barely even begun to consider, such as poetry; of which she has a decent collection to get me started.
My reading habits—especially whether I can find something to read once I back off some on the LIS stuff—should not concern anyone. There is too much too know to not be able to find something to read, and after almost a lifetime of actively avoiding literature there is much to make my own.
Some of these were talked about, or at least mentioned, here earlier in the year but I am far too lazy to try and link them now.
So far there’s 29 books read, 3 of which were re-reads. There is poetry, fiction, literature, philosophy, and assorted non-fiction, most of which is language and communication, and LIS.
8 January
Harris, Roy. 1978. Communication and Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
January [re-read]
Harris, Roy. 1998. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed. Language & communication library series. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
14 January – 11 February [re-read]
Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum.
25 – 30 January
Harris, Roy, and International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication. 2006. Integrationist Notes and Papers : 2003-2005. Crediton, Devon, England: Tree Tongue. http://www.librarything.com/work/details/26156294.
10 – ? February
Maxwell, Robert L. 2008. FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chicago: American Library Association.
18 – 21 February
Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
23 February
Richards, Jennifer. 2008. Rhetoric. New critical idiom. London: Routledge.
2 – 10 March
Aitchison, Jean. 2003. Linguistics. 6th ed. Teach yourself. Chicago, Ill: McGraw-Hill.
15 – 23 March [re-read]
DeLillo, Don. 1986. White Noise. Contemporary American fiction. New York: Penguin Books.
18 March
Shiga, Jason. 2007. Bookhunter. Portland, Or.: Sparkplug Comic Books.
16 – 28 March
Swift, Jonathan. 1996. Gulliver’s travels. Unabridged [ed.]. Mineola N.Y.: Dover Publications.
31 March – 4 April
Critchley, Simon. 2001. Continental philosophy : a very short introduction. Vol. 43. Very short introductions . Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
9 – 28 April
Austin, Michael W, ed. 2007. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind. Ed. Michael W Austin. Malden: Blackwell Pub.
20 – 24 April
Lodge, David. 1992. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses. New York: Penguin Books.
28 – 30 April
Forster, Michael N. 2008. Kant and Skepticism. Princeton monographs in philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
8 January / 1 – 10 May
Wilson, Patrick. 1968. Two Kinds of Power : an Essay on Bibliographical Control. Librarianship 5. Berkeley: University of California Press.
4 April – 12 May
Budd, John. 1992. The Library and Its Users: The Communication Process. Vol. 71. Contributions in librarianship and information science. New York: Greenwood Press.
approx. 6 – 13 May
Barnes, Bill. 2007. Read Responsibly: An Unshelved Collection. Seattle, Wash: Overdue Media LLC.
19 – 30 May
Chia, Mantak. 1997. The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know. 1st ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
27 – 30 May
Kressley, Carson. 2004. Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them. New York: Dutton.
16 June
Dubberley, Emily. 2006. Sex for busy people : the art of the quickie for lovers on the go. New York: Simon & Schuster.
?? June
Stone, Ruth. 2002. In the Next Galaxy. Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press.
26 June
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC Displays. 2005. Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays: Final Report May 2005. Recommended by the Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC Displays. Approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section . Vol. 27. IFLA series on bibliographic control. München: Saur.
29 March – 3 April / 4 June – 14 July
Budd, John. 2008. Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
14 – 25 July
Bright, Susie, ed. 2008. The Best of Best American Erotica 2008. Ed. Susie Bright. London: Simon & Schuster.
25 July
Gardner, John. 1976. Gudgekin, the Thistle Girl, and Other Tales. New York: Knopf.
?? – 5 August
Carlson, Ron. 2002. At the Jim Bridger: Stories. 1st ed. New York: Picador USA.
5 – 8 August
Foskett, D. J. 1984. Pathways for Communication: Books and Libraries in the Information Age. London: C. Bingley.
10 August
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, and H. T. Willetts. 2005. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
2 responses so far ↓
1 It is time to take another road, on which she does not smile // Sep 21, 2008 at 2:31 pm
[...] 2007 post. Haven’t commented on any of the others, although Stone is listed in my post about books read (mostly) in the 1st half of this year and I remember quite enjoying much of it. There was one poem in it I particularly liked entitled [...]
2 Books read in the 2nd half of 2008 // Jan 4, 2009 at 9:36 pm
[...] For assorted reasons my book reading greatly increased this past year. Based on that I split this list into two, posting the 1st half (or so) on 11 August in a post titled Books read in 1st half of 2008 (and some). [...]