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 Tuesday, December 21, 2004
So the referer record has resulted in my learning something completely unexpected about 2 of the authors I liked as a child: Patrick O'Connor of Black Tiger at Indianapolis and Leonard Wibberley of The Mouse that Roared are one and the same person! Full name Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley.
6:41:35 PM    

 Sunday, December 19, 2004
"I don't read sitting up."
--Stanley Elkin, from "Where I Read"
11:41:36 AM    

 Saturday, November 22, 2003
It's a different market.

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(The American version.)
8:49:31 AM    

 Thursday, October 2, 2003
There's a "referer" page for Radio weblogs, and mine was always empty, until I posted the booklist; now it's getting all sorts of hits from Google and Yahoo. People searching for book titles or authors. Nothing to do with me, but interesting nonetheless. John Fowles. Up the Down Staircase. And today an odder link: someone translated the entire list into Spanish. I assume I'll never know who.
8:47:03 AM    

 Monday, September 29, 2003
Went to see Neal Stephenson at Cody's on Thursday. My birthday present was his new book. Another 900-pager (v.2 due in March, then v.3 next September!). Didn't stay for autographs because the line was long.

That makes 2 books in the last 6 months with Isaac Newton as main characters (the other one is James Gleick's biography). Curious. One of those zeitgeisten.

Also, an experiment: the title of this entry takes you to Neal Stephenson's wiki.
10:19:27 AM    

 Saturday, September 27, 2003
Here's something I've always thought I should be able to do: publish online my list of books I've read. It always seemed like one way to let people know what I've been up to. I don't read as much as I used to (books, at least), but it still shapes the year. And the booklist has been a kind of axis ever since I began it (when I was 10).
6:20:55 PM    

 Friday, July 25, 2003
Brought some 25 books. Didn't know which would end up on the lap. May get around to listing them. 8 were from the library.

So far I've finished 2. "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman was part 2 in the kids' series "His Dark Materials." Recommended by Richard Wolinsky on KPFA and now Helen and Ben, this is one good trilogy. Begin with "The Golden Compass." I'm halfway through part 3. Better than Harry Potter (bailed after 1&1/2), this holds my interest. Thought I would power through the third without stopping, but Doug's visit prodded me to get to "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson. Incredible climbing story. I've never read of a more harrowing escape. For overall story though I'll still take Herzog.

In process: Friends for 300 Years by Howard Brinton (I only read Quaker books on vacation), good old Way of Zen by Alan Watts, and God and the New Physics by Paul Davies. There's my religious quest in a nutshell.

Since my Olympia trip in June I've been chipping away at Soul Mountain by Gao Xing-chien (I can't be bothered to go to the bedside table and get his name right?). I loved it at first; now it's a bit more of a chore with its never-real ghosts and demons. Still, it's mysterious; I don't know where it's going, and that's intriguing.
9:38:46 PM    

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