Booklog for 2015

For 2015, I did much better than 2014. Still not at 50, but almost halfway there. Thirty three books total as opposed to 17.

1) Harris, Charlaine “Dead Until Dark” (Re-read)

2) Harris, Charlaine “Living Dead in Dallas” (Re-read)

3) Harris, Charlaine “Club Dead” (Re-read)

4) Harris, Charlaine “Dead to the World” (Re-read)

5) Harris, Charlaine “Dead as a Doornail” (Re-read)

6) Harris, Charlaine “Definitely Dead” (Re-read)

7) Harris, Charlaine “All Together Dead” (Re-read)

8) Harris, Charlaine “From Dead to Worse” (Re-read)

9) Harris, Charlaine “Dead and Gone” (Re-read)

10) Harris, Charlaine “Dead in the Family” (Re-read)

11) Harris, Charlaine “Dead Reckoning”

12) Harris, Charlaine “Deadlocked”

13) Harris, Charlaine “Dead Ever After”

14) Penner, Jonathan & Steven Jay Shneider “Horror Cinema”

15) Sloan, Susan “An Isolated Incident”

16) Herrin, Judith “Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium”

17) Jensen, Robert “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”

18) Kalat, David “J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond”

19) Palahniuk, Chuck “Snuff”

20) Freeman, Phillip “Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths”

21) Cosper, John “Bluegrass Brawlers: The Story of Professional Wrestling in Louisville”

22) Kanyon, Chris & Ryan Clark “Wrestling Reality: The Life and Mind of Chris Kanyon, Wrestling’s Gay Superstar”

23) Quindlen, Anna “Every Last One”

24) Morton, W. Scott and J. Kenneth Olenik “Japan: It’s History and Culture (Fourth Edition)”

25) Plant, Richard “The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals”

26) Friedan, Betty “The Feminine Mystique” (With introduction by Anna Quindlen)

27) Spignesi, Stephen “The Titanic For Dummies”

28) Russo, Gus and Harry Moses “Where Were You? America Remembers the JFK Assassination”

29) Crompton, Louis “Homosexuality and Civilization”

30) Spong, John Shelby “The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal of the God of Love”

31) Korderas, Jimmy “The Three Count: My Life in Stripes as a WWE Referee”

32) Afanasyev, Alexander “Russian Fairy Tales” (Translated by Norbert Guterman)

33) Sinclair, Joan “Pink Box: Inside Japan’s Sex Clubs”

Booklog for 2014

I didn't realize I had not updated this since 2014. Wow. So, going to post my lists for 2014 and 2015. I need to really try and reach my goal of reading 50 books this year, it's been awhile since I've exceeded that goal. Unfortunately a lot of the books I have left to read are pretty lengthy. Still, I'll do my best. Here's my list from 2014. Pretty pitiful. I just dropped off of reading I suppose. Sheesh...

1) Sophocles “Antigone / Oedipus The King / Electra”
2) Kaplan, David & Alec Dubro “Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld (Expanded Edition)”
3) Bradbury, Ray “The October Country”
4) Bruch, M.D. Hilde “The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa”
5) Collins, Suzanne “The Hunger Games”
6) Collins, Suzanne “Catching Fire”
7) Collins, Suzanne “Mockingjay”
8) Pauls, Chris and Matt Solomon “Deck Z: The Titanic Unsinkable. Undead.”
9) Meltzer, Dave “Tributes II: Remembering More of the World’s Greatest Professional Wrestlers”
10) Arnheim, Dr. Michael “U.S. Constitution for Dummies"
11) Dunn, Carrie “Spandex, Screw Jobs & Cheap Pops: Inside the Business of British Pro Wrestling”
12) Cummins, Joseph “Great Rivals in History: When Politics Gets Personal”
13) Mascetti, Manuela Dunn “Goddesses: Mythology and Symbols of the Goddess”
14) Chopin, Kate “Complete Novels and Stories”
15) Cordery, Stacy A. “Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker”
16) Trigilio, Jr., PhD, ThD, Reverend John & Rev Kenneth Brighenti, PhD “Catholicism for Dummies"
17) Preston, Richard “The Hot Zone”

Book Log for 2013 - 29 Books Total

This year I didn't really start off right out of the gate reading. It took awhile to get going, so I only totaled 29 books. Some gems in this list, but this coming year I'm going to redouble my efforts. Still have so much to read!

1.  Ali, Monica “Brick Lane”
2.  O’Donnell, Helen “A Common Good: The Friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O’Donnell”
3. Childress, Mark “Crazy in Alabama”
4. Warren, Patricia Nell “The Fancy Dancer”
5. Harris, Charlaine “Dead in the Family”
6. Carter, Jimmy “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”
7. Flynn, Gillian “Sharp Objects”
8. Martin, George R.R. “A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire”
9. Berenbaum, Michael “The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” (Second Edition)
10.  Tyler, Royall “Japanese Tales”
11.  Winterson, Jeanette “Sexing the Cherry”
12.  Grant, Michael “The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31 B.C. – 476 A.D.”
13. Martin, George R.R. “A Clash of Kings: Book Two of A Song of Ice and Fire”
14. Garza, Hedda “Barred from the Bar: A History of Women and the Legal Profession”
15. Canfield, Jack, Mark Victor Hansen, Marty Becker, D.V.M., Carol Kline and Amy Shojai “Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover’s Soul”
16. Hart, Bret “Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling”
17. Baxendale, Trevor “Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks”
18. Tsutsui, William “Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of the Monsters”
19. Goldstone, Nancy “The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily”
20.  Jones, Ann “Women Who Kill”
21. Tolstoy, Leo and Ben H. Winters “Android Karenina”
22. Schieffer, Bob “This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV”
23. Da, Lottie and Jan Alexander “Bad Girls of the Silver Screen”
24.  Lloyd,  Rachel “Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself”
25. Matysik, Larry “Drawing Heat the Hard Way: How Wrestling Really Works”
26.  Lucado, Max “No Wonder They Call Him the Savior”
27. Stevens, Kate “Freak Nation: A Field Guide to 101 of the MOST Odd, Extreme, and Outrageous American Subcultures”
28. Schwartz, John Burnham “The Commoner”
29. Carter, Bill “The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy”

Book Log for 2012 - 30 Books Total

Not all that impressive, given my earlier book totals. But some great books read in 2012.

1.  Day, Malcolm “Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Kings & Queens”
2. Swint, Kerwin “Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirties Political Campaigns of All Time”
3. Stewart, Jon “Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race”
4. Wiesel, Elie “Night”
5. Reynolds, R.D. & Randy Baer “WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro-Wrestling”
6. LeRoux, Gaston “The Phantom of the Opera”
7.  Lindsey, Karen “Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII”
8. Gilman, Susan Jane “Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess”
9. Larsson, Stieg “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
10. Lewis, C.S. “The Problem of Pain”
11. Jericho, Chris with Peter Thomas Fornatale “Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps”
12. King, Greg “The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria”
13. Behrendt, Greg & Amiira Ruotola “It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy”
14. Perrotta, Tom “The Leftovers”
15. Hearn, Marcus & Alan Barnes “The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films”
16. Green, Vivian “The Madness of Kings: Personal Trama and the Fate of Nations”
17. Spark, Muriel “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
18.  Pollitt, Katha “Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of our Time”
19.  Larsson, Stieg “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”
20. Grealy, Lucy “Autobiography of a Face” (With an Afterword by Ann Patchett)
21. Collins, Gail “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present”
22. Blaine, Gerald with Lisa McCubbin “The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence”
23. Chandler, Charlotte “She Always Knew How: Mae West, A Personal Biography”
24. Pascoe, C.J. “Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School”
25. Hindley, Geoffrey “A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation”
26. Thompson, Ernest "On Golden Pond"
27. Steinbeck, John "The Pearl"
28. Steinbeck, John "Of Mice and Men"
29. Gregory, Philippa "The Red Queen"
30. Rabinor, Ph.D., Judith Ruskay "A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy"

Book Log for 2011 - 35 books total.

One of my poorest years for reading yet. Must do better in 2012, still have so much unread! Although 2010 was only 27 so that was worse.

1) Gillon, Steven “The Kennedy Assassination 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson’s Pivotal First Day as President”
2) Haskell, Molly “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies”
3) Loades, David “The Tudor Queens of England”
4) Irving, William “Final Fantasy and Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough”
5) Gerber, Linda “The Death By Bikini Mysteries (Includes Death By Bikini, Death by Latte and Death by Denim)”
6) Coelho, Paulo “The Alchemist”
7) Chapman, Gary “The Five Love Languages for Singles”
8) Hilton, Lisa “Queens Consorts: England’s Medieval Queens”
9) Bronte, Emily “Wuthering Heights”
10) Atwood, Margaret “The Handmaid’s Tale”
11) Anthony, Carl Sferrazza “Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era”
12) Starling, Colonel Edmund W. “Starling of the White House: The Story of the Man Whose Secret Service Detail Guarded Five Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, as told to Thomas Sugrue by”
13) Kennedy, Robert F. “Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis”
14) Suckling, Nigel “Book of the Vampire”
15) Schlosser, Eric “Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World”
16) Mulvaney, Jay & Paul De Angelis “Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares its Grief Letters, November 1963”
17) Cullen, Dave “Columbine”
18) Moore, Perry “Hero”
19) Largo, Michael “The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich and Powerful Really Died”
20) Meltzer, Dave “Tributes: Remembering Some of the World’s Greatest Wrestlers”
21) Ensler, Eve “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”
22) Levy, Ariel “Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture”
23) Lindqvist, John Ajvide “Let the Right One In”
24) Powell, Roger “Royal Sex: Mistresses and Lovers of the British Royal Family”
25) Freisenbruch, Annelise “Caesar’s Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome”
26) Rees, Laurence “Auschwitz: A New History”
27) Jeffers, Susan Ph.D. “Feel the Fear…and Do it Anyway”
28) Jones, Stephen “Clive Barker’s A – Z of Horror”
29) Heilemann, John & Mark Halperin “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime”
30) Kennedy, Edward M. “True Compass: A Memoir”
31) Lewis, C.S. “A Grief Observed”
32) Englund, Robert with Alan Goldsher “Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of your Dreams”
33) Erickson, Carolly “The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots"
34) Bressler, Richard “Frederick II: The Wonder of the World”
35) Whitelock, Anna “Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen”

Booklog for 2010

Booklog for 2010 - 27 books read total

Book Log for 2010

1) Bugliosi, Vincent "Four Days in November: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy"
2) Sinyard, Neil "Silent Movies"
3) Clarke, Thurston "The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 Days that Inspired America"
4) Barker, Clive “The Hellbound Heart”
5) Fawcett, Bill (Edited by) “You Said What? Lies and Propaganda Throughout History”
6) Harris, Charlaine “From Dead to Worse”
7) Harris, Charlaine “Dead and Gone”
8) Beard, Alan and Alec McNayr “Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World”
9) Kong, Lianna “i am neurotic (and so are you)”
10) Dorfman, Lawrence “The Snark Handbook: A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring”
11) Santrock, John W. “Psychology Essentials (Second Edition)” (Textbook)
12) Henslin, James M. “Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach (Fourth Edition)” (Textbook)
13) Kennedy, John F. “Profiles in Courage”
14) Larsson, Stieg “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
15) Jefferson, Jemiah “Fiend”
16) Ashdown, Dulcie M. “Royal Murders”
17) Staub, Danielle “The Naked Truth: A Memoir”
18) Hathaway, Nancy “The Friendly Guide to Mythology: A Mortal’s Companion to the Fantastical Realm of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Heroes”
19) Miller, Frank (Edited by) “Leading Ladies: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era”
20) Heger, Heinz “The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life – and – Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps”
21) Camus, Albert “The Plague”
22) Johnson, Margaret & Dwight Young “Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House from the Collections of the Library of Congress & National Archives”
23) Winterson, Jeanette “Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit”
24) Miller, John (Edited by) “Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers”
25) Ellison, Lillian (with Larry Platt) “The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle”
26) Stewart, Jon “Naked Pictures of Famous People”
27) Dikkers, Scott (Edited by) “The Onion Presents: Our Dumb Century (100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News Source)”


I'm not too pleased with the total, as it's far, far below the past few years. And considering the fact I was without a job for most of the year, it's fair to assume I could've read a lot more. However, I chalk this up to the fact that I read two textbooks and they took for-freakin'-ever to get through. Number 11, "Psychology Essentials" more than number 12 "Essentials of Sociology" (the latter was really fascinating and easy to read; not so much the former). That's the only reason I can think that I didn't read more books. Ah well - there's always next year!

Booklist 2009

Book Log for 2009 – 67 Books Total

1) Holland, Jeffrey Scott “Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets” (Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, Executive Editors)
2) Pernoud, Regine & Marie Veronique Clin “Joan of Arc: Her Story” (Translated and Revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams)
3) Hart, Martha with Eric Francis “Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart”
4) Weir, Alison “The Children of Henry VIII”
5) Wheatcroft, Andrew “The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire”
6) Bartlett, Wayne & Flavia Idriceanu “Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth”
7) Miller, Nathan “Theodore Roosevelt A Life”
8) Kissinger, Henry “Diplomacy”
9) Towns, Elmer “Praying the Lord’s Prayer for Spiritual Breakthrough”
10) Malory, Sir Thomas “Le Morte D’Arthur” (Complete, unabridged, new illustrated edition)
11) Gristwood, Sarah “Arbella: England’s Lost Queen”
12) Waldherr, Kris “Doomed Queens (Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends From Cleopatra to Princess Di)”
13) Rice, Anne (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty”
14) O’Donnell, Kenneth P. & David F. Powers with Joe McCarthy “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy”
15) Dugan, Ellen “The Enchanted Cat: Feline Fascinations, Spells & Magick”
16) King, Stephen “The Stand”
17) Harris, Charlaine “Dead as a Doornail” (Re-read)
18) Harris, Charlaine “All Together Dead”
19) Goodwin, Doris Kearns “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”
20) Ragone, Nick “Presidents’ Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Extraordinary Executives, Colorful Campaigns, and White House Oddities”
21) Wiseman, Neil “Growing Your Soul: Practical Steps to Increase Your Spirituality”
22) Carroll, Leslie “Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy”
23) Aitken, Jonathan “Nixon: A Life”
24) Cerasini, Marc “Godzilla: At World’s End”
25) Largo, Michael “Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon throughout the Ages”
26) Axworthy, Michael “A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind”
27) Brettell, Andrew; Imwold, Denise; Leonard, Warren; von Rohr, Heather “Cut! Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies”
28) Cunningham, Scott “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”
29) Erickson, Carolly “The Tsarina’s Daughter” (Fiction)
30) Coville, Bruce (Compiled & Edited by) “The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems and Unicorn Lore”
31) Frazer, Flora “The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline”
32) Prince Michael of Greece “The Empress of Farewells: The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico” (Translated from the French by Vincent Aurora)
33) Lamb, Brian and the C-SPAN Staff “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites” (With contributions by Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley)
34) Waldherr, Kris “The Book of Goddesses: A Celebration of the Devine Feminine”
35) Fox, Julia “Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford”
36) Switzer, Ellen & Costas “Greek Myths Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Their Sources, Their Stories & Their Meanings”
40) Anderson, Neil T. “The Bondage Breaker”
41) Obama, Barack “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”
42) Cawthorne, Nigel “Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day”
43) Cunningham, Scott “Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”
44) Euripides “Hecuba”, “The Trojan Women”, “Andromache” (Translated & Edited by James Morwood, apart of the Oxford World’s Classics)
45) Eppridge, Bill (Photographs & Text by) “A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties”
46) Boller, Jr., Paul F. “Presidential Anecodes” (Revised edition)
47) Meyer, Stephenie “Twilight”
48) Meyer, Stephenie “New Moon”
49) Goodrich, Norma Lorre “Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima Donna, Movie Star”
50) Meyer, Stephenie “Eclipse”
51) Meyer, Stephenie “Breaking Dawn”
52) Denton, C.S. “Absolute Power: The Real Lives of Europe’s Most Infamous Rulers”
53) Nixon, Richard “RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon”
54) Wilkinson, Philip “Myths & Legends: An Illustrated Guide to their Origins and Meanings”
55) Waggoner, Brenda “Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When you Expected Happily Ever After”
56) Beyer, Rick “The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder & Stupefy”
57) Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
58) Campbell, Ballard C. “American Disasters: 201 Calamities that Shook the Nation”
59) Roeper, Richard “Hollywood Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Delightfully Persistent Myths of Film, Television and Music”
60) Crofton, Ian “The Disappeared: The Stories of 35 Historical Disappearances from the Mary Celeste to Jimmy Hoffa”
61) Sorensen, Ted “Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History”
62) Barry, John M. “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History”
63) Olbermann, Keith “The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders”
64) Breverton, Terry “Immortal Words: History’s Most Memorable Quotations and the Stories Behind Them”
65) Kerr, Gordon “Goners: The Final Hours of the Notable and Notorious”
66) Hibbert, Christopher “Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason”
67) Arterburn, Stephen and Pam Farrel “One Year Book of Devotions for Women on the Go”