Monday 29 June 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART THIRTY-EIGHT

Tub 38, books 1851 to 1900.........rough calculation, 10 books a month, 120 a year, 15 years reading minimum logged!

Pre-logging look!

Laura Lipman, Shane Maloney, David Baldacci, Steve Lopez, John Harvey,

Australian crime fiction - Murray Whelan.

Jeffery Deaver, Michael Harvey, Len Deighton, Alistair MacLean, Tony Hillerman,

Native-American crime

English espionage!

Debut novel - Michael Kelly series

Dan Kavanagh, John Del Vecchio,

Julian Barnes in disguise - a 4-fer about a gay PI.


Humour

Tim Relf, William Boyd, Chuck Culpepper, Danny King, Howard Jacobson,

Danny King - Crime diaries series

Garry Disher, Brian McGilloway, Richard Stark, Robert Mason, Leonard B. Scott,

Short stories

Parker series by from Westlake's alter-ego!

Donald Bodey, Joe T. Heywood, Fred Vargas, Robert Campbell,

Jimmy Flannery series book,

French crime

Vietnam novel,

Vietnam book, Michael J. Fox - autobiography, George MacDonald Fraser,

Another Flashman book,

Tom Cain, Gerald Seymour, Len Deighton,

Series espionage,

English author


Biography about a boxer falsely imprisoned.

Martin Beck series book,

East European intrigue

John Irving memoir,

Helen MacInnes book originally from the 30's

James Reasoner, Garry Disher, Jonathan Tulloch,

Sports fiction


James W. Hall, David Loyn

Short stories

Dan Vyleta, Tess Gerritsen,

Laidlaw series book,

Ron Rash - US Literature?


Hal Challis series book,

Classic Forsyth

Post-logging look!



HIGHLIGHTS........ A few here from my Vietnam reading period, I wouldn't mind reading or re-reading, Steinhauer, MacInnes, Vyleta and Irving look promising, as does Deighton

LOWLIGHTS....... Baldacci again, I'm no longer a fan of house-brick books,

FULL LIST OF 50..........


AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
BALDACCI DAVID THE SIMPLE TRUTH 1998
BODEY DONALD F.N.G. 1985
BOYD WILLIAM ARMADILLO 1998
CAIN TOM THE SURVIVOR 2008 SC2
CAMPBELL ROBERT W. NIBBLED TO DEATH BY DUCKS 1989 JF6
CULPEPPER CHUCK UP POMPEY 2007
DEAVER JEFFERY BLOODY RIVER BLUES 1993 JP2
DEIGHTON LEN SPY STORY 1974 HP5
DEIGHTON LEN SPY LINE 1989 BS5
DEL VECCHIO JOHN THE 13TH VALLEY 1983
DISHER GARRY STRAIGHT, BENT & BARBARA VINE 1997
DISHER GARRY THE DRAGON MAN 1999 IC1
FORSYTH FREDERICK THE DAY OF THE JACKAL 1971
FOX MICHAEL J. LUCKY MAN 2002
GERRITSEN TESS BODY DOUBLE 2004 JR+MI4
HALL JAMES W. PAPER PRODUCTS 1990
HARVEY MICHAEL THE CHICAGO WAY 2007 MK1
HARVEY JOHN LAST RITES 1998 R10
HEYWOOD JOE T. TAXI DANCER 1985
HILLERMAN TONY PEOPLE OF DARKNESS 1980 JC1
HIRSCH JAMES S. HURRICANE FIGHTER: THE LIFE OF RUBIN CARTER 2000
IRVING JOHN THE IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND 1996
JACOBSON HOWARD WHO'S SORRY NOW? 2002
KAVANAGH DAN PUTTING THE BOOT IN 1985 D3
KAVANAGH DAN FIDDLE CITY 1981 D2
KAVANAGH DAN GOING TO THE DOGS 1987 D4
KAVANAGH DAN DUFFY 1980 D1
KING DANNY THE BANK ROBBER DIARIES 2002 CD2
LIPPMAN LAURA BALTIMORE BLUES 1997 TM1
LOPEZ STEVE THE SUNDAY MACARONI CLUB 1997
LOYN DAVID FRONTLINE: REPORTING FROM THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST PLACES 2011
MACDONALD FRASER GEORGE FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT 1990 F9
MACINNES HELEN ABOVE SUSPICION 1939
MACLEAN ALISTAIR WHERE EAGLES DARE 1967
MALONEY SHANE THE BIG ASK 2000 MW4
MASON ROBERT CHICKENHAWK 1983
McGILLOWAY BRIAN BLEED A RIVER DEEP 2009 IBD3
McILVANNEY WILLIAM STRAIGHT LOYALTIES 1991 JL3
RASH RON THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT 2006
REASONER JAMES TEXAS WIND 1980
RELF TIM STAG 2004
SALLAH/WEISS MICHAEL/MITCH TIGER FORCE 2005 N
SCOTT LEONARD B. THE HILL 1995
SEYMOUR GERALD THE UNTOUCHABLE 2001
SJOWALL/WAHLOO MAJ/PER THE ABOMINABLE MAN 1972 MB7
STARK RICHARD BREAKOUT 2002 P21
STEINHAUER OLEN THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS 2003 YB1
TULLOCH JONATHAN THE SEASON TICKET 2000
VARGAS FRED SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR 2004 CA2
VYLETA DAN PAVEL & I 2008

13 comments:

  1. Ah, you have some good stuff there, Col! Deighton, Disher, Hillerman, and Vargas! And McGilloway, too. In my opinion, anyway, good reading awaits you!

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    1. Margot thanks. I think it's safely established I have plenty of good reading ahead of me and no real need for any more books!

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  2. Shane Maloney – Yes – Enjoyed his work, but have not read him in a while. Need to catch up.

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    1. I read him maybe 10 years ago, but haven't kept pace with him.

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  3. Maclean, Macinnes, Vargas, Deighton - plenty there to keep me happy. Where Eagles Dare is such a classic Maclean - strong men, buxom women, over-the-top Nazis. I want to re-read it now.

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    1. I've not yet tried MacLean - buxom women, hmm.......what's not to like!

      I will let you know how that works out for me...

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  4. Vicki has summed up nicely for me. You should definitely read Where Eagles Dare! I was always a big MacLean fan.

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    1. I think I only have this one from him, what restraint!

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  5. I have not read Where Eagles Dare and I want to. I have read The Dragon Man by Garry Disher and I liked it and I need to get to the second book someday. Lots of other books here I would like to hear about when you review them.

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    1. Disher has a couple of series I need to get through....one day! Funny enough I found another MacLean book in tub number forty-something.

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  6. Col, I have got a couple of David Baldacci and Jeffrey Deaver books and, of course, I'm waiting to read Mr. Reasoner's TEXAS WIND.

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    1. Doesn't look like Baldacci does short - why use one word when you can use 50? TEXAS WIND should be good.

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    2. Doesn't look like Baldacci does short - why use one word when you can use 50? TEXAS WIND should be good.

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