Monday 23 March 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART TWENTY-FOUR

Another tub another 50, no end in sight......

Pre-logging look

David Peace, Don Winslow, a couple from Sam Millar, Andrew Nugent

Larry Brown, Russel D. McLean, John Harvey, Val McDermid, Gerald Seymour,

Loved this guy, died too young!

Jasper Fforde, Nick Stone, Charles Bukowski, Marc Behm, Eugene Izzi

US author, mainly published in France where he lived as an ex-pat.

Cracker book, a couple of Pufferfish books from David Owen, William Faulkner, Leonard B. Scott

Literature from the 20's?

Stuart Pawson, Eugene Izzi, Paul Watkins, Robert Campbell, John Le Carre

Standalone from author of the Jimmy Flannery series

Larry Watson, Tony Hillerman, Jeffery Deaver, John Ridley

Not picked up one of these for a few years - overdue.

Michael Herr, Alexander Baron, William P. McGivern, Mark Baker, Richard Price,

The Big Heat - 50's I think.

Vietnam - non fiction

Forgotten English author - brought back into print now.

Shaky camera hand - Murdaland anthology, Niall Griffiths, Anthony Loyd, Charlie Higson, Sean Condon - travelogue

Anthony Loyd - war correspondent - Another Bloody Love Letter

Short-lived anthology of crime in print.

Russell James, Lauren Henderson, James Dickey, Willy Vlautin,

English noir!

Stella Duffy, Brian McGilloway

Olen Steinhauer, Mark SaFranko 

Great cover

Gary Phillips, Bill James, Emily Bronte

Who says I'm strictly low-brow?

Post logging view!
Highlights, lowlights.........looking forward to getting back to Eugene Izzi and Tony Hillerman. I'm also looking forward to cracking open Mark SaFranko's book, plus embarking on the Olen Steinhauer - Milo Weaver books.

Not too sure if or when I will read Emily Bronte, or indeed Jasper Fforde,

50 more next week.....hopefully

Full 50 are........
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON GENDER
BAKER MARK NAM 1981 N M
BARON ALEXANDER KING DIDO 1969 LF3 F M
BEHM MARK THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 1980 F M
BRONTE EMILY WUTHERING HEIGHTS 1847 F F
BROWN LARRY DIRTY WORK 1983 F M
BUKOWSKI CHARLES THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN 1983 F M
CAMPBELL ROBERT W. CIRCUS COURONNE 1977 F M
CONDON SEAN SEAN AND DAVE'S LONG DRIVE 1996 N M
DEAVER JEFFERY MANHATTAN IS MY BEAT 1989 R1 F M
DICKEY JAMES TO THE WHITE SEA 1993 F M
DUFFY STELLA FRESH FLESH 2000 SM4 F F
FAULKNER WILLIAM SANCTUARY 1931 SAS3 F M
FFORDE JASPER THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS 2002 TN3 F M
GRIFFITHS NIALL RUNT 2007 F M
HARVEY JOHN NICK'S BLUES 2008 F M
HENDERSON LAUREN PRETTY BOY 2001 SJ7 F F
HERR MICHAEL  DISPATCHES 1977 N M
HIGSON CHARLIE KING OF THE ANTS 1992 F M
HILLERMAN TONY LISTENING WOMAN 1978 JL3 F M
IZZI EUGENE INVASIONS 1990 F M
IZZI EUGENE PLAYERS 1996 F M
JAMES RUSSELL SLAUGHTER MUSIC 1994 F M
JAMES BILL THE LOLITA MAN 1986 H+I2 F M
LANGNAS MICHAEL ed. MURDALAND 2007 F M/F
LE CARRE JOHN SINGLE & SINGLE 1999 F M
LOYD ANTHONY ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER 2007 N M
McDERMID VAL FEVER OF THE BONE 2009 TH/CJ6 F F
McGILLOWAY BRIAN GALLOWS LANE 2008 IBD2 F M
McGIVERN WILLIAM P. THE BIG HEAT 1953 F M
McLEAN RUSSEL THE LOST SISTER 2009 JMCN2 F M
MILLAR SAM BLOODSTORM 2008 F M
MILLAR SAM DARK SOULS 2003 F M
MORTIMORE JIM CRACKER: MEN SHOULD WEEP 1995 C6 F M
NUGENT ANDREW SECOND BURIAL 2006 F M
OWEN DAVID THE DEVIL TAKER 1997 F M
OWEN DAVID X AND Y 1994 F M
PAWSON STUART LAST REMINDER 1997 DICP4 F M
PEACE DAVID TOKYO YEAR ZERO 2007 TT1 F M
PHILLIPS GARY HIGH HAND 2000 MC2 F M
PRICE RICHARD LADIES' MAN 1978 F M
RIDLEY JOHN LOVE IS A RACKET 1998 F M
SAFRANKO MARK HATING OLIVIA 2004 MZ1 F M
SCOTT LEONARD B. THE LAST RUN 1987 F M
SEYMOUR GERALD THE COLLABORATOR 2009 F M
STEINHAUER OLEN THE NEAREST EXIT 2010 MW2 F M
STONE NICK MR CLARINET 2006 MM1 F M
VLAUTIN WILLY NORTHLINE 2008 F M
WATKINS  PAUL ARCHANGEL 1995 F M
WATSON LARRY WHITE CROSSES 1997 F M
WINSLOW DON THE DAWN PATROL 2008 F M

16 comments:

  1. Col - You do have a variety there! From my perspective, any time is a good time to re-read Hillerman. There are simply authors like that. And you've got some others in there I'd like to read. Looking forward to your reviews.

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    1. I will probably have to be the world's oldest person, in order to read and review everything I have.......might as well set the bar high!

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  2. Not sure I was expecting to see Emily Bronte amongst that lot! It'll be a Mitford sister next. There's some good stuff there, some I've read and some I'd like to. Big fan of Winslow and Peace. I read quite a few Lauren Hendersons in my day, and am converted to Steinhauer. I read Eye of the Beholder long ago, and have samples several others of the authors. I read about King Dido recently - could you review that one soon, so as I can decide whether I need to...?

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    1. Well a tub more to your liking. I doubt I'll go so far as Mitford, I don't even know where the Bronte appeared from! I think I have read one Henderson, but have 5 or 6!
      King Dido - were you disappointed when you realised it wasn't a typo? I'll aim for this year or next!

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  3. How many more tubs to go? Looks like you shouldn't buy any books for awhile *g*

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    1. Keishon............ooh, might be around 80 in total......sharp intake of breath - 50 plus to go! Yeah, I get the not buying thing but I'm sort of addicted and deluded.....

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  4. Where do you keep em all?? Are these coming out the loft, or garage? And I know your wife's a keen reader too, but does she never suggest getting rid of some of them?? Mr Clarinet is a book I greatly enjoyed. And I've been reading Brian McGilloway a lot recently. I love seeing other people's book collections - when people talks in their studies on a TV show, I'm always trying to read the titles behind! When I was a child I dreamt of a house with a library (too much Agatha Christie!) But I'd like a study!

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    1. They are lined up like the Terracotta Warriors taking up about half the attic. I used to be a keeper but try and get rid of the ones I have read now, though I am finding it hard to part with some copies. They are kind of out of sight, out of mind as far as the rest of the family go........fortunately my wife never ventures into the attic!

      I'm exactly the same, I find it hard not to tap people on the shoulders if they are reading something on a bench, on a tube, on a train just so I can see what they are at. Bookshelves are exactly the same.

      I have only read McGilloway's first, manuy years ago - more await!

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  5. Col, I read your reply to Keishon above. Surely, you didn't mean eighty tubs, did you?! If you did, then here's a question — when did you start collecting books?

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    1. Hmm, yeah best guess in the region of 80 total, plus papers, PDFs and kindle books that I don't even want to think about.

      Maybe I got the bug mid-to-late 80's. I'm trying to push to envelope to 30-odd years ago, so I don't seem so ridiculous, but in truth its about 25/26 years I guess.

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    2. Col, I started seriously buying books about a decade ago. Until then, I used to borrow most of my books. The only books that I have been collecting since childhood are comic-books which number a little less than a thousand. Comic-book paper doesn't last.

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    3. I can safely defer to you in the comic stakes - I don't have any! (Just as well I never caught that bug)

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  6. Ok, if you have 80 tubs, I do think you have got me beat in numbers of TBR books. I started counting a while ago, ran out of time and energy for that project.

    In this tub, I think I have only read Gallows Lane by McGilloway. So lots here for me to wait and see what you think of them.

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    1. In fairness to myself probably 20 - 25 % might be books I may have already read. Until a few years ago I was a keeper. I suppose I should have tried to assess books in the tubs as to whether I had read them before or not, but too late now to back track again. I do want too read them all again regardless.

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    2. 80 tubs x 50 books = 4000 books. Take away a quarter and you still have 3000. I am thinking I have between 1500 and 2000. And hoping it is on the lower side of that.

      I now only keep books that there is a chance I will reread (or someone else in the family might want to read).

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    3. Yeah I look at some books and think........hmm will I, but then I think well I bought it for a reason. Sobering thought - the logged tubs equal about 10 years reading on their own, without any new additions!

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