Monday 13 July 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY

Possibly at the halfway stage of the exercise, but maybe not. Having spent an afternoon shuffling the tubs around and giving myself some palpitations about the strength of the joists in my attic, there are 42 tubs still to catalogue. (Though they may or may not house 50-odd books in each.)

When I have the paperbacks and hardbacks in the attic done, there's 100-odd books downstairs, plus a load of "papers" and PDF copies of books also in the attic, then the Kindle. Something to worry about in about 42 week's time maybe.......

Tub 40 anyway.........
Tub 40 - pre-logged look!

Alan Bennett, William Boyd, David Nicholls, Kenneth Abel, Robert Deane Pharr,

Robert Deane Pharr,

Kenneth Abel - likened to Elmore!

Hakan Nesser, Russell James, P.J. Tracy, Steve Ulfelder, Ernesto Mallo,

Argentinian Crime,

Scandi crime.

Brit crime,

Joe R. Lansdale, Charles McCarry, Johan Theorin, Hakan Nesser, Jim Thompson.

Jim Thompson

Espionage from McCarry

Joe R. Lansdale - standalone novel.

Steve Mosby, Elmore Leonard, Arnaldur Indridason, Victor Headley, David Kevien,

Carl Webster book

David Levien - Lee Child likes him,

Michael Peterson, Peter Robinson, Bill James, Tony Hillerman, James McClure,

Native American crime

Harpur and Iles series book

South Africa - during apartheid era

P.B.Yuill, Graham Hurley, David Morrell, Giles Blunt, Mark Gimenez,

Canadian Crime

UK police procedural

John Irving, Ed O'Loughlin, Christopher Ross, Greg Rucka x 2,

Horror on the shelves?
Atticus Kodiak books


London Underground - non-fiction

Bill Bryson, Jonathan Valin, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Manuel Vasquez Montalban, Inbali Iserles,

Spanish author

Harry Stoner series book,

African journal from Bryson

YA book - slipped in the tub by one of the kids?

Bruce Zimmerman, Gerald Seymour, Reed Farrel Coleman, Don Winslow, Mike Knowles,

Moe Prager PI series

Series book from Mike Knowles

Sequel to a Trevanian novel,

Bradley Denton, Gerald Seymour, Dashiell Hammett, Nicholas Blincoe, Harry Crews - bio book,

My kind of book,

20's hard-boiled from Hammett

English thriller writer

Nicholas Blincoe

Essays on Harry Crews

Tub 40 put to bed.


Highlights........ Kenneth Abel, Joe Lansdale, Mike Knowles, Greg Rucka...

Lowlights........ nothing in particular, though I did struggle to get into Blincoe when I tried reading him a few years ago. Second time's the charm, maybe.

Full list of 50........

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
ABEL KENNETH THE BLUE WALL 1996 F
ADLER-OLSEN JUSSI REDEMPTION 2013 DQ3 F
BENNETT ALAN FOUR STORIES 2006 F
BLEDSOE ERIK  PERSPECTIVES ON HARRY CREWS (ed.) 2001 N
BLINCOE NICHOLAS JELLO SALAD 1997 F
BLUNT GILES FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW 2000 JC1 F
BOYD WILLIAM ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS 2009 F
BRYSON BILL AFRICAN DIARY 2002 N
COLEMAN REED FARREL REDEMPTION STREET 2004 MP2 F
DENTON BRADLEY BLACKBURN 1993 F
GIMENEZ MARK THE ABDUCTION 2007 F
HAMMETT DASHIELL RED HARVEST 1929 F
HEADLEY VICTOR SEVEN SEALS 2002 F
HILLERMAN TONY THE BLESSING WAY 1970 JL1 F
HURLEY GRAHAM TURNSTONE 2000 F+W1 F
INDRIDASON ARNALDUR HYPOTHERMIA 2009 IE6 F
IRVING JOHN THE 158-POUND MARRIAGE 1974 F
ISERLES INBALI THE TYGRINE CAT 2007 TC1 F
JAMES RUSSELL PICK ANY TITLE 2002 F
JAMES BILL HARPUR AND ILES 1988 H+I4 F
KNOWLES MIKE NEVER PLAY ANOTHER MAN'S GAME 2012 W4 F
LANSDALE JOE R. FREEZER BURN 1999 F
LEONARD ELMORE UP IN HONEY'S ROOM 2006 CW2 F
LEVIEN DAVID THE CONTRACT 2011 FB3 F
MALLO ERNESTO SWEET MONEY 2011 IL2 F
McCARRY CHARLES CHRISTOPHER'S GHOSTS 2007 PC7 F
McCLURE JAMES SNAKE 1975 K+Z4 F
MONTALBAN MANUEL VASQUEZ SOUTHERN SEAS 1986 PCM2 F
MORRELL DAVID THE COVENANT OF THE FLAME 1991 F
MOSBY STEVE THE CUTTING CREW 2005 F
NESSER HAKAN THE INSPECTOR AND SILENCE 2010 IVV5 F
NESSER HAKAN BORKMANN'S POINT 2006 IVV2 F
NICHOLLS DAVID STARTER FOR TEN 2003 F
O'LOUGHLIN ED TOPLOADER 2011 F
PETERSON MICHAEL A TIME OF WAR 1990 F
PHARR ROBERT DEANE GIVEADAMN BROWN 1978 F
ROBINSON PETER CAEDMON'S SONG 1990 F
ROSS CHRISTOPHER TUNNEL VISIONS 2001 N
RUCKA GREG KEEPER 1996 AK1 F
RUCKA GREG FINDER 1997 AK2 F
SEYMOUR GERALD THE FIGHTING MAN 1993 F
SEYMOUR GERALD THE GLORY BOYS 1976 F
THEORIN JOHAN THE DARKEST ROOM 2009 O2 F
THOMPSON JIM CROPPER'S CABIN 1952 F
TRACY P. J. TWO EVILS 2012 M6 F
ULFELDER STEVE PURGATORY CHASM 2011 CS1 F
VALIN JONATHAN NATURAL CAUSES 1983 HS5 F
WINSLOW DON SATORI 2011 F
YUILL P. B. THE BORNLESS KEEPER 1974 F
ZIMMERMAN BRUCE BLOOD UNDER THE BRIDGE 1989 QPM1 F


14 comments:

  1. Steve Ulfelder has a good series going with his Conway Sax novels. Gerald Seymour has written some first rate books.

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    1. Elgin, I did like the look of them (the Sax books), but I'll see how the 1st one goes, before considering any more. I've read a couple from Seymour and enjoyed them both.

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  2. Col, this looks like an alien tub to me. Few authors I'm familiar with though I'd like to know your thoughts on John Irving's THE 158-POUND MARRIAGE. It's among the smallest of his novels I have read.

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    1. It is less intimidating than some of his other offerings. I did read it years ago, but can remember very little about it, scrub that - nothing, maybe a bit about wrestling in there, but I'm searching....

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  3. Oh, you do have some authors there whose work I really like, Col! Mallo, Nesser, Robinson, Hammett...yes, all great!

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    1. Margot cheers - I do need a bit of a South American flavour in my reading, so probably the Mallo will come first from your picks.

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  4. You might want to give Denton's Blackburn a look sooner rather than later. It's actually a sort of dark comedy/satire, in which you end up guiltily rooting for the serial killer. I enjoyed it really quite a lot.

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    1. John, I'm scratching my head....I wish I had kept a list of all I had read from the early 80's onwards....I'm maybe 60% certain I have read it, but until I try it again and parts come back to me, I can't say for definite. Something to look forward to, even if it does turn out to be a re-read!

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  5. That's an Irving I haven't read; I know the Bryson and the Dashiell Hammett, and I've certainly seen the film of Starter for Ten!
    Still slightly reeling from how much you still have left to log!

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    1. Moira, it kinds of feels like I've been sorting books for the whole of my life, with no end in sight.....a bit wearying and a bit chastening - when did it all get out of control? I haven't read Bryson for a few years, but I have enjoyed what I have consumed of his in the past.

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  6. Charles McCarry is one of my favorite writers. I don't remember Christopher's Ghosts specifically, it is the last one in that series, so you would think I would remember it better. I should reread all of those.

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    1. I remember you're a fan. I think I'll look to read him 2016 (or 2017) - one a month strategy! Will you have time to reread all of them?

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  7. McCarry is excellent, though I'd recommend starting at the beginning of the series, as he's very complex at all the interweaving. (And I didn't think Christopher's Ghosts was his best.)

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    1. Vicki, cheers I'm OCD so will definitely tackle them in order!

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