Whatcha Readin’?

Last Update: 4 June 2009

I (Fastidious) started this blog on 30 June 2008… here’s a list of the books I’ve read since then:

  • John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, started 30 June 2008, finished 30 June 2008
  • Stephen King, The Tommyknockers, started ?, finished 7 July 2008
  • Isabelle Allende, Zorro, started 8 June 2008, abandoned
  • Joe Hill, Heart Shaped Box
  • George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, finished 17 August 2008
  • Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
  • C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, started 17 August 2008, finished 23 August 2008
  • Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, 24 August 2008, finished 7 September 2008
  • Graham Swift, Waterland, started 7 September 2008 – abandoned
  • John Joseph Adams, The Living Dead, 4 October 2008
  • Susan Halloway Scott, Royal Harlot, started 15 October 2008, finished 26ish October 2008
  • Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, started 12 November 2008, abandoned
  • (re-read) Arthur Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, started 1 December 2008, finished mid-way through December
  • (re-read) Arthur Clarke, Rama II, started mid-way through December, abandoned end of December
  • Dan Simmons, The Terror, started 1 January 2009, finished 8 January 2009
  • John Speed, Tiger Claws: A Novel of India, started 9 January 2009, pseudo-abandoned
  • Ann Coulter, Guilty, started 13 January 2009, pseudo-abandoned
  • Owen Beattie and John Geiger, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, started 19 January 2009, finished 25 January 2009
  • Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow, started 26 January 2009, finished 7 February 2009
  • C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, started 10 February 2009 – abandoned
  • Mary Doria Russell, Children of God, March 2009
  • George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, stared 23 May 2009, finished 1 June 2009

…here’s a list of the books I’ve purchased since then:

  • Stephen King, The Tommyknockers, June 2008
  • Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, 1 July 2008
  • Robert H. Lieberman, The Last Boy, 1 July 2008
  • Bill Bennet, The Book of Virtues, 1 July 2008
  • Isabelle Allende, Zorro, July 2008
  • Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, July 2008
  • George R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, July 2008 (gift from Hubby)
  • C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves and The Abolition of Man, 4 October 2008
  • George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, 4 October 2008
  • The Living Dead, 4 October 2008
  • G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 4 October 2008
  • Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity?, 8 October 2008
  • Susan Halloway Scott, Royal Harlot, 11 October 2008
  • Dan Simmons, The Terror, 1 January 2009
  • John Speed, Tiger Claws: A Novel of India, 1 January 2009
  • Scott Cookman, Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition, 8 January 2009
  • Owen Beattie and John Geiger, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, 8 January 2009
  • Pierre Berton, The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909, 8 January 2009
  • Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow and Children of God
  • George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

…off the top of my head, here’s a list of fiction that shaped who I am:

  • Ayn Rand, The Return of the Primitive, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and Atlas Shrugged
  • George Orwell, 1984, Burmese Days, Animal Farm
  • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (yes, I read the whole damned series), A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
  • Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
  • Arthur Clarke, 2001
  • Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children