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| Week two - tub two-50 more! |
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| Another Deaver book, a Dibdin and a Bateman. |
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| The Deer Hunter, The Bride Wore Black, Dibdin again, Jess Walter (love him) and Robert Campbell |
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| Peter Corris Cliif Hardy 4 - 6. |
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| Peter Corris Cliif Hardy 1 - 3 |
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| Valin, John Camp (John Sandford actually), Lippman, Wilson and Wiltz |
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| Elmore Leonard -Touch the pick of the bunch. |
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| Photography is not my strong point. A younger Hagrid on the cover of a Cracker novelisation. |
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| Another Valin book - 2nd of about 10 in the stacks. |
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| Mike Gayle - definitely not crime fiction. |
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| 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. |
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| A few crime heavyweights - Rankin, Robinson and Sandford. |
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| 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. |
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| Williams and Williams |
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| A couple by Ben Elton and another by John Williams |
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| Elton and Williams |
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| 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.
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| 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 |
|
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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
DeleteCol, 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.
DeletePrashant - good. Comics aren't really my thing, but I do like to broaden my horizons every so often. I'm ready to be persuaded!
DeleteCol - 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.
ReplyDeleteMargot 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!
DeleteVery 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?
ReplyDeleteMoira, 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.
DeleteI 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.
Col, not many of these authors are ones I have read. Some I would like to read, of course. Especially the Peter Corris books.
ReplyDeleteWhen 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!
DeleteYou 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.
DeleteI 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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