Sunday, 26 October 2014

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FOUR

Week four and another 50 on display and in the process of being logged for future reference.

Tub 4 - duly noted!
Izzo (French) - who I have been threatening to read for years, Carlotto from Italy, a couple of Roddy Doyle's from Ireland, and a John Ridley (US)

Love the cover, can't remember what the book's about.
Kent Anderson - only ever wrote a couple of books, more Carlotto, Val McDermid, Iain Levison

Harstad is very good from previous experience. David Owen wrote the Pufferfish detective books, this one pre-dates those. Robbins - I read previously and didn't enjoy - second chance saloon! More Irish humour - Doyle. Conman - sounds like something I'd like.

Two by McKinty, Doyle again. Michael Curtin another Irish author, something from the US - Brad Watson

More Irish with another Curtin book. A couple from Italy, Krabbe might be Dutch. Razor Smith - UK criminal memoir.

A bit of Petievich - his last published book about 10 years old, a couple of  Martin Beck books, a bit of literature with James Jones and one of my wife's - Beverly Barton.


Jardine - a Scottish author I haven't yet read, Ridley again, Paul Levine - lawyers with humour, LR.Wright - who might be Canadian.

Ross Thomas - I have a few of his, a couple from Deaver, Mark Timlin, - UK crime series with Nick Sharman as a PI, John Harvey - UK police procedural.


Italy, Ireland and the US. I need to re-visit the attic because I can't tell what Thomas book this is! CRIME TIME - a UK Monthly/Quarterly (?) crime magazine 

Not yet read any Bernie - shameful!

Another magazine/book about books!

US crime fiction.


199 logged in 4 weeks go me! 200 once I get the Ross Thomas title. Two years reading already or the best part of it.

Highlights - Adrian McKinty, John Ridley, Donald Harstad, Kent Anderson and Jean-Claude Izzo.

Books to avoid - nothing here I have changed my mind about reading or in the case of most of the Roddy Doyle early ones re-reading - at least they are short and quick.
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200 logged - the Ross Thomas book is The Porkchoppers originally published in 1972.

Hope you're worth that special trip back up the loft!
Full list........
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
ANDERSON KENT NIGHT DOGS 1996
ASPLIN RICHARD CONMAN 2009
BARTON BEVERLY AMNESIA 2005 GP1
BRANTON MATTHEW THE HOUSE OF WHACKS 1999
CARLOTTO MASSIMO THE GOODBYE KISS 2006 GP1
CARLOTTO MASSIMO DEATH'S DARK ABYSS 2006
CAROFIGLIO GIANRICO INVOLUNTARY WITNESS 2005 GG1
CURTIN MICHAEL THE LEAGUE AGAINST CHRISTMAS 1989
CURTIN MICHAEL THE PLASTIC TOMATO CUTTER 1991
DEAVER JEFFERY HARD NEWS 1991 R3
DEAVER JEFFERY THE VANISHED MAN 2003 LR5
DOYLE RODDY THE COMMITMENTS 1987 B1
DOYLE RODDY THE SNAPPER 1990 B2
DOYLE RODDY THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS 1996
DOYLE RODDY A STAR CALLED HENRY 1999 LR1
DOYLE RODDY PAULA SPENCER 2006
FORSHAW BARRY CRIME TIME 2.3 (FEB1999) 1999
FORSHAW BARRY CRIME TIME 3.1 (MAR2000) 2000
HARSTAD DONALD A LONG DECEMBER 2003 CH5
HARVEY JOHN ASH AND BONE 2005 FE2
IZZO JEAN CLAUDE SOLEA 2007 MT3
JARDINE QUINTIN SKINNER'S RULES 1993 BS1
JARDINE QUINTIN BLACKSTONE'S PURSUITS 1996 OB1
JONES JAMES FROM HERE TO ETERNITY 1951
KERR PHILIP MARCH VIOLETS 1989 BG1
KERR PHILIP THE PALE CRIMINAL 1990 BG2
KERR PHILIP A GERMAN REQUIEM 1991 BG3
KRABBE TIM THE VANISHING 1993
LANTIGUA JOHN HEAT LIGHTNING 1987
LEVINE PAUL KILL ALL THE LAWYERS 2006 SVL3
LEVISON IAIN DOG EAT DOG 2008
LUCARELLI CARLO CARTE BLANCHE 2006 CDL1
LUCARELLI CARLO THE DAMNED SEASON 2007 CDL2
McDERMID VAL CLEANSKIN 2006
McKINTY ADRIAN HIDDEN RIVER 2004
McKINTY ADRIAN THE DEAD YARD 2006 MF2
OWEN DAVID COPING WITH PLEASURE 1990
PETIEVICH GERALD THE SENTINEL 2003
RIDLEY JOHN U-TURN 1997
RIDLEY JOHN THE DRIFT 2002
ROBBINS TOM HALF ASLEEP IN FROG PAJAMAS 1994
SHUBIN SEYMOUR VOICES 1985
SJOWALL/WAHLOO MAJ/PER THE LOCKED ROOM 1973 MB8
SJOWALL/WAHLOO MAJ/PER THE TERRORISTS 1976 MB10
SMITH RAZOR A FEW KIND WORDS FROM A LOADED GUN 2004
THOMAS ROSS THE PORKCHOPPERS 1972
THOMAS ROSS AH TREACHERY 1994
TIMLIN MARK ZIP GUN BOOGIE 1992 NS6
WATSON BRAD THE HEAVEN OF MERCURY 2002
WRIGHT L. R. SLEEP WHILE I SING 1986 KA2

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14 comments:

  1. Prashant C. Trikannad27 October 2014 at 03:38

    Col, your Tub 4 has reminded me of Roddy Doyle who I thought I'd read soon after he won the Booker some two decades ago. I still haven't got round to reading anything by him, not even his "prized" book "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha."

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    1. col291027 October 2014 at 03:45

      I'll be interested to see how you get on with him. Let's see if you enjoy some Irish humour!

      I've definitely read The Van, The Snapper and The Commitments - his first three. It's a bit of a blur after that. I loved all of them and also the film version of The Commitments and The Van. I kind of felt nostalgic for the setting - Dublin - particularly bearing in mind I'd moved away from it at such a young age - almost a case of the life I could have been having. I can't remember reading the Paddy Clarke book, but I think it's somewhere in the stacks (tubs).

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    2. Prashant C. Trikannad27 October 2014 at 04:00

      Col, my problem is I've been oblivious to a lot of contemporary fiction, especially from 1990 onwards, as evident from the books I usually read. It's as if nothing was written during the past 25 years or so! It's only now that I'm reading modern fiction, thanks in the main to blogging.

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    3. col291027 October 2014 at 04:07

      I'm probably the exact opposite to you in that respect. I read mostly contemporary, though do have a fondness for the 80's and 90's. I used to try and avoid anything too old - by that I mean pre-60's the decade of my birth. I have kind of addressed that gently with the odd read from the GOLDEN AGE. I know some bloggers only seem to read from this period.

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  2. Anonymous27 October 2014 at 04:46

    Col - I so admire what you're doing to try to go through your books and sort them out! I notice a couple of Lucarellis. I hope you like them; I'd be keen to get your take on them. And in fact that reminds me that I need to do a spotlight on one of his books.

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    1. col291027 October 2014 at 04:58

      I'll look forward to it. I'm nearly certain I have read ALMOST BLUE by him which I enjoyed and which encouraged me to get more books by him. Funny though I only started recording my reads back in 2010, and he hasn't appeared on the reading list since then, so it was earlier than that. I looked the plot up and can't remember it whatsoever......I still think I read it though! It kind of confirms my whole raison d'etre for the blog - so I could look back and see what I read and when and whether I enjoyed it!
      I wonder if I will find it, or if I did read and pass it on.

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  3. Clothes In Books27 October 2014 at 08:10

    I have read a few Roddy Doyles, including A Star Called Henry, which I remember as being excellent, and which got me through a long, long wait (whole day wait) at a US Immigration office in Seattle.
    But my favourite up there has to be Mr Razor next to the plastic tomato cutter - every type of blade covered.

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    1. col291027 October 2014 at 08:28

      I definitely haven't read Henry yet. Did customs turn you back around?

      Michael Curtin and his Plastic Tomato Cutter is perhaps one I will approach with slight trepidation. My dad had his book - The Replay (1981) - which I borrowed for some bizarre reason - during the 80's when I was still living at home; maybe the cover did it for me. I read it and it was the funniest book I ever enjoyed and the only book of my dad's I ever liked.
      By coincidence he was reading it when he died. My mum gave it back to me and as is my want, I went and bought other Curtin books I could track down. SING, TOMATO CUTTER and THE LEAGUE AGAINST CHRISTMAS. I read SING and it was a huge disappointment. I've kind of avoided the other two for a while ever since.
      I still have THE REPLAY which I will come across eventually. I'm undecided as to whether to re-read it or not. Nostalgia and sentiment says no - in case it disappoints second time around and kind of tarnishes my memory. I would love to think it offered him a few laughs and some comfort before he passed - maybe he got to the last page but one. I would love to think so.,

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    2. Clothes In Books28 October 2014 at 11:00

      Nice story, thanks for sharing that. I'll have to find out more about Curtin.

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    3. col291028 October 2014 at 15:04

      Thanks. I'll be honest and admit, I know nothing about him. I think he may have had one more book after my four, but on a personal level - nada. I may look him up myself.

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  4. TracyK28 October 2014 at 15:43

    There are actually a few books written by female authors in there. L. R. Wright was indeed a Canadian author. I think I have that same Crime Time magazine.

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    1. col291029 October 2014 at 02:23

      Not too many I'm afraid. Hopefully I will uncover more as I go, but I guess it will be under 10%. LR Wright ones looks interesting - I think there was another one by her previously.

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    2. TracyK29 October 2014 at 15:38

      Her first in this series, The Suspect, is the most well known, I think. An inverted mystery.

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    3. col291029 October 2014 at 23:33

      I just looked her up. The two I have - I don't think I have more, but I may be wrong are the first and second in a nine book series. Never say never but I doubt I will have time to go deeper into it than the ones I already have.

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