Saturday, January 23, 2016

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”