Sunday 12 October 2014

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART TWO

Week two - tub two-50 more!


Another Deaver book, a Dibdin and a Bateman.

The Deer Hunter, The Bride Wore Black, Dibdin again, Jess Walter (love him) and Robert Campbell

Peter Corris Cliif Hardy 4 - 6.

Peter Corris Cliif Hardy 1 - 3

Valin, John Camp (John Sandford actually), Lippman, Wilson and Wiltz

Elmore Leonard -Touch the pick of the bunch.

Photography is not my strong point. A younger Hagrid on the cover of a Cracker novelisation.

Another Valin book - 2nd of about 10 in the stacks.

Mike Gayle - definitely not crime fiction.

Hugh Laurie's only fiction effort I think, a few Jim Thompson's though The Rip-Off can be moved on as I read it last year.

A few crime heavyweights - Rankin, Robinson and Sandford.

A couple more Magnus Mills books, a couple by John Williams including the fascinating Into the Badlands a non-fiction book that put a lot of US crime writers on my radar.

Williams and Williams

A couple by Ben Elton and another by John Williams
Elton and Williams

Sjowall and Wahloo!
Week two, nothing majorly exciting uncovered, but nothing too off-putting either. I probably wouldn't buy Magnus Mills today if I hadn't already got them. I think I may have read a couple of the three uncovered, but I'm sure if I ever re-read I will enjoy them.

I read Jim Thompson's book The Rip-Off last year, so that reduces the log to 49 for the tub. OCD dictates I put something else in it's place. So I will drop in Edgar Wallace's The Calendar.

Only two Vietnam themed books uncovered. I've read Edelman's Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam and have always been moved by it. The Deer Hunter, I'm fairly sure is a novelisation of the movie, rather than a book that inspired it.

Highlights or things I'm looking forward to in particular would be Jess Walter's Over Tumbled Graves, Peter Corris and his Cliff Hardy PI books and a bit of Jonathan Valin and his Harry Stoner series, though I will be endeavouring to read the series books strictly in order.

Also I want to read through the John Sandford Lucas Davenport series.

Number 50!
FULL LIST!

AUTHOR
TITLE YEAR SERIES FICT/NON
BATEMAN COLIN MURPHY'S LAW 2002 JM1 F
CAMP (SANDFORD) JOHN THE FOOL'S RUN 1989 K+LE1 F
CAMPBELL ROBERT W. IN A PIG'S EYE 1992 JF8 F
CAUNITZ WILLIAM BLACK SAND 1988 F
CONNOR JOHN THE PLAYROOM 2005 KS2 F
CORDER E.M. THE DEER HUNTER 1979 F
CORRIS PETER THE DYING TRADE 1980 CH1 F
CORRIS PETER THE MARVELLOUS BOY 1982 CH3 F
CORRIS PETER WHITE MEAT 1982 CH2 F
CORRIS PETER THE BIG DROP 1985 CH7 F
CORRIS PETER DEAL ME OUT 1986 CH10 F
CORRIS PETER THE JANUARY ZONE 1987 CH11 F
DEAVER JEFFERY DEATH OF A BLUE MOVIE STAR 1990 R2 F
DIBDIN MICHAEL THE TRYST 1989 F
DIBDIN MICHAEL VENDETTA 1990 AZ2 F
EDELMAN BERNARD DEAR AMERICA: LETTERS HOME FROM VIETNAM 1985 N
ELTON BEN GASPING 1990 F
ELTON BEN DEAD FAMOUS 2001 F
FROST SCOTT RUN THE RISK 2005 AD1 F
GAYLE MIKE DINNER FOR TWO 2002 F
HASLAM CHRIS ALLIGATOR STRIP 2005 MB2 F
HIMES CHESTER THE REAL COOL KILLERS 1959 CEJ2 F
HOLLIDAY LIZ CRACKER - TRUE ROMANCE 1996 9 F
LAURIE HUGH THE GUNSELLER 1996 F
LEONARD ELMORE TOUCH 1987 F
LIPPMAN LAURA EVERY SECRET THING 2003 F
MACINNES COLIN CITY OF SPADES 1957 LN1 F
McNEAL TOM GOODNIGHT NEBRASKA 1998 F
MILLS MAGNUS THE RESTRAINT OF BEASTS 1996 F
MILLS MAGNUS ALL QUIET ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 1998 F
MILLS MAGNUS THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT 2002 F
RANKIN IAN BEGGAR'S BANQUET 2002 F
ROBINSON PETER COLD IS THE GRAVE 2000 IB11 F
SANDFORD JOHN CHOSEN PREY 2001 LD12 F
SJOWALL/WAHLOO MAJ/PER COP KILLER 1975 MB9 F
STARLING  BORIS STORM 2000 F
THOMPSON JIM BAD BOY 1953 N
THOMPSON JIM TEXAS BY THE TAIL 1965 F
VALIN JONATHAN FINAL NOTICE 1980 JS2 F
VALIN JONATHAN LIFE'S WORK 1986 JS6 F
WALLACE EDGAR THE CALENDAR 1930 F
WALTER JESS OVER TUMBLED GRAVES 2001 F
WILLIAMS JOHN INTO THE BADLANDS 1991 N
WILLIAMS JOHN FAITHLESS 1997 F
WILLIAMS JOHN CARDIFF DEAD 2000 F
WILSON ROBERT A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON 1999 F
WILTZ CHRIS THE KILLING CIRCLE 1981 NR1 F
WOLSTENCROFT DAVID  GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS 2004 F
WOLSTENCROFT DAVID  CONTACT ZERO 2005 F
WOOLRICH CORNELL THE BRIDE WORE BLACK 1940 F

12 comments:

  1. Col, I haven't read any of the authors, neither Ben Elton nor Edgar Wallace. I like the idea of keeping books in a tub, from a visibility point of view, except I wouldn't have place for the tubs. Over the weekend I sat with a few hundred of my DC and Marvel buddies and as it happens so often with storage, I could remove the comics from their lofty perch but I couldn't put them back the way they were.

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    1. The only place now for them is the attic sadly, as I did used to like looking at them and browsing them, and changing my mind at least ten times on what to read next! You ought to do a blog post on your comics in the future.

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    2. Col, I used to write about comics earlier and then decided to focus on books as that's what most people like to read about nowadays. I might do a post or two on comics in the immediate future.

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    3. Prashant - good. Comics aren't really my thing, but I do like to broaden my horizons every so often. I'm ready to be persuaded!

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  2. Col - You have quite a library! I'm impressed! And I admire your work to get it all sorted and logged. Nice to see you've got such a Corris collection too. I do like the Cliff Hardy series.

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    1. Margot thanks. I think it will be worth the effort trying to get some order into it. Corris will hopefully be enjoyed in 2015, maybe later!

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  3. Very little I have read there apart from Dibdin. But still find it fascinating. I'm interested to know - presumably you are making lists now? How are youndoing that?

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    1. Moira, it's a very scientific process, not. I take my phone up to the attic, pick a box - photograph all 50 books - trying for 4 or 5 at a time, but the light isn't great, so I end up taking more photos. I then transfer the photos to my laptop.
      I manually record 50 books on a sheet of A4, with the tub number. Over the course of the week I then transfer the books onto an excel spreadsheet with a few details - year of publication, whether it is a series book or not and what number it is. I will print off a tub list then, in alphabetical order, which I will drop one copy into the tub and one copy to keep in a ring binder. Then I'm going to merge week 2's books into week 1's books on excel for a master list showing what I have and where it is. (Not recorded week 2 books yet on the lappie, so we will see how we go as I'm not an excel maestro!)

      Any suggestions - gratefully received as it does seem a bit long-winded and a lot of effort. I use the photos to construct the blog post - just adding a line or two of caption. I might admit, I'm kind of enjoying it at this stage, but am well aware I had tried this before and it has proven to be a short-lived exercise.

      I must admit as a dedicated book-phile, I would love to see inside everyone's else's library. Whether mine continues to fascinate - we will see.

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  4. Col, not many of these authors are ones I have read. Some I would like to read, of course. Especially the Peter Corris books.

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    1. When I was pulling together my spreadsheet I actually realised the second Corris omnibus isn't compiled of numbers 4,5 and 6 in the series as I had assumed - they are something like the 7th, 10th and 11th. Don't suppose it matters to any one too much though. I think they are going to be hard to read in bed at night - too heavy!

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    2. You are right about those omnibuses, Col. I was going to express envy, but actually I have had some like that and they are hard to read, comfortably. I say away them now, if I can get other copies.

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    3. I think price paid a big part in buying them. I have a 5 book monster of an omnibus by Lawrence Block somewhere - it's bigger than a house brick!

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