Monday 15 December 2014

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART ELEVEN

The task continues with another 50, though it has to be said I'm starting to flag a bit. I have still to catch up on the details for last week's 50 plus do some tidying up regarding the finer details for the first few week's tubs.

Maybe I'll take a week or two off over the Christmas and New Year period and come back in January. Or conversely I'll be back in a week's time having recharged my batteries after a fairly hectic time of it recently at work.

Anyway, here's the latest tub....
Tub 11

Lee Child, Jo Nesbo, Chuck Palahniuk, Leonard Gardner and a non-fiction book about a road, Leadville.

Irving, Carofiglio, Giles Blunt, Dean Koontz and Eugene Izzi



Camilleri, Don Winslow, Chester Himes - autobiography, Bill James and some short stories.

Palahniuk, Winslow, Peter Temple, Joseph O'Connor and a bit of Rambo!

Lee Child, Gary Phillips, Tony Spinosa (aka Reed Farrel Coleman), Bill Fitzhugh and a sports biography.

A couple by Sam Millar, another Peter Temple, Irvine Welsh, Gene Kerrigan

Martin Beck series book

Eoin McNamee, Harry Crews - my favourite book of his, Simon Kernick, Christopher Brookmyre and Sjowall and Wahloo

Lawrence Block, The almost obligatory Pronzini, Harry Dolan and a couple by Richard Lange

Mr Monk appears again.

Lee Goldberg and his Monk, Lawrence Sanders and two by David Cray - who is actually one of last week's guests on the blog - Stephen Solomita.

Two more by the mighty Solomita, two by Michael Genelin and another Bill James

Quite an interesting tub with only a couple that scare me - Dean Koontz - does he rediscover his magic touch that had me raving about him in the 80's and early 90's or is it more of the same dross he has churned out recently? Paul Thomas - one of my favourite crime fiction authors, pens an auto-biography of a New Zealand Rugby Union coach......hmm, looks like fun.

Another observation.........this tub is almost a female free zone, with only Maj Sjowall with half a book offering any representation, though of course there may be some female-penned short stories in A Book of Two Halves compilation.

I'm fairly sure the next tub will be positively over-flowing with books from the fairer sex......haha course it will!

I am looking forward to in no particular order.........Block, Winslow, Solomita (plus Cray), Lange and that man Pronzini.

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
BLOCK LAWRENCE HIT ME 2013 K5 F
BLUNT GILES BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS 2006 JC4 F
BROOKMYRE CHRISTOPHER COUNTRY OF THE BLIND 1997 JP2 F
CAMILLERI ANDREA THE PAPER MOON 2008 IM9 F
CAROFIGLIO GIANRICO THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY 2007 F
CHILD LEE THE ENEMY 2004 JR8 F
CHILD LEE BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE 2007 JR11 F
CRAY DAVID KEEPLOCK 1995 F
CRAY DAVID BAD LAWYER 2001 F
CREWS HARRY A FEAST OF SNAKES 1976 F
DOLAN HARRY THE LAST DEAD GIRL 2014 DL F
FITZHUGH BILL  RADIO ACTIVITY 2004 RA1 F
GARDNER LEONARD FAT CITY 1969 F
GENELIN MICHAEL REQUIEM FOR A GYPSY 2011 JM4 F
GENELIN MICHAEL THE MAGICIAN'S ACCOMPLICE 2010 JM3 F
GOLDBERG LEE MR MONK GETS EVEN 2012 MM15 F
GOLDBERG LEE MR MONK ON THE COUCH 2011 MM12 F
HIMES CHESTER MY LIFE OF ABSURDITY 1976 N
IRVING JOHN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP 1978 F
IZZI EUGENE THE EIGHTH VICTIM 1988 F
JAMES BILL  GOSPEL 1992 H+I9 F
JAMES BILL  THE GIRL WITH THE LONG BACK 2003 H+I20 F
KERNICK SIMON THE LAST 10 SECONDS 2010 F
KERRIGAN GENE THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR 2006 F
KOONTZ DEAN THE BAD PLACE 1990 F
LANGE RICHARD THIS WICKED WORLD 2009 F
LANGE RICHARD ANGEL BABY 2013 F
MCNAMEE EOIN THE ULTRAS 2004 F
MILLAR SAM THE REDEMPTION FACTORY 2005 F
MILLAR SAM THE DARKNESS OF BONES 2006 F
MORRELL DAVID FIRST BLOOD PART II 1985 FB2 F
NESBO JO NEMESIS 2008 HH4 F
O'CONNOR JOSEPH THE IRISH MALE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1996 IMT2 F
PALAHNIUK CHUCK LULLABY 2002 F
PALAHNIUK CHUCK CHOKE 2001 F
PHILLIPS GARY BANGERS 2003 F
PLATT EDWARD LEADVILLE 2001 N
PRONZINI BILL THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE 2008 F
ROYLE NICHOLAS A BOOK OF TWO HALVES ed. 1996 F
SANDERS LAWRENCE THE FOURTH DEADLY SIN 1985 EXD5 F
SJOWALL/WAHLOO MAJ/PER THE MAN ON THE BALCONY 1967 MB3 F
SOLOMITA STEPHEN  ANGEL FACE 2011 F
SOLOMITA STEPHEN  DANCER IN THE FLAMES 2012 F
SPINOSA TONY HOSE MONKEY 2006 JS1 F
TEMPLE PETER TRUTH 2008 BS2 F
TEMPLE PETER BAD DEBTS 1996 JI1 F
THOMAS PAUL CHANGE OF HART 1997 N
WELSH IRVINE CRIME 2008 F
WINSLOW DON THE TRAIL TO BUDDHA'S MIRROR 1992 NC2 F
WINSLOW DON THE GENTLEMEN'S HOUR 2009 F

8 comments:

  1. Col, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP was a much-hyped up book. I liked only the first half and thought it kind of lost its way towards the end which, of course, is not a reflection on John Irving's writing.

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    1. Prashant, GARP is my second favourite Irving book after A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. I can't recall having the same issues as you on first reading. Maybe second time around I'll have a more critical eye when reading it. It has been a few years since I picked one of his up. I'll try for one on 2015.

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  2. Those early Lee Childs were really good reads - sad when a series goes a bit off, but one can understand that it must be a drag turning them out.

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    1. I read the first couple and enjoyed them, so have continued to accumulate them as I come across them. I suppose all series ultimately get tired in the end. I've switched off a few myself. I don't suppose Reacher is harming his bank balance though as he continues to churn them out!

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  3. I read a Reacher book now and again - they don't tend to make for blog entries though. Otherwise, Irving and Winslow caught my eye - 2 very fine writers.

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    1. I could probably squeeze a post out of Reacher, but then I'd have to read one instead of just stock-piling. Agreed on Irving and Winslow.....plus others

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  4. Ah, you found some books by Michael Genelin. And the Chester Himes autobiography sounds good. I need to read some of his mysteries.

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    1. I've read the first Coffin Ed - Grave Digger Jones book, I'll start on him again when I find the second. I have it somewhere! His autobiography is in two parts - this one's the second installment.

      Genelin books are the 3rd and 4th, but I think I'll start there..no time to back-track.

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