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Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced Gregory Hays
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard
Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Concise Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford Corpus, and a Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Merriam's people I guess, I dunno. [I may not in every instance be as extremely exhaustive as I sometimes like to be. Also I just realized I never indicate who translates the Murakami I get. It's usually Jay Rubin or Alfred Birnbaum, but Murakami desperately needs new, uncut editions, possibly from new translators, and I await them eagerly.]
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Virginia Hamilton, illus. Leo and Diane Dillon
Fractured, Karin Slaughter
Exposed, Alex Kava
The Last of the Breed, Louis L'Amour
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, Karen Armstrong
Bones of the Lost, Kathy Reichs
Where the Past Begins, Amy Tan
Selected Tales, Edgar Allan Poe
Rhetoric & Poetics, Aristotle, R translated W. Rhys Roberts, P translated Anthony Kenny
Meditations of First Philosophy With Selections from the Objections and Replies, René Descartes, translated and edited John Cottingham
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding with A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh and Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature & An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, David Hume
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, translated A.V. Miller with analysis, foreword by J.N. Findlay
The Discourses: The Handbook Fragments, Epictetus, translated and edited Christopher Gioll, revised Robin Hard
Children's Literature: An Illustrated History, edited Peter Hunt
Children's Books and Their Creators, edited Anita Silvey
American Picturebooks: From Noah's Ark to The Beast Within, Barbara Bader
Piper at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature & There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak, Jonathan Cott
The Pleasures of Children's Literature, Perry Nodelman, Second Edition
Children & Books, many editors, Sixth Edition
Origins of Story: On Writing For Children, edited Barbara Harrison and Gregory Maguire
Facundo, Domingo F. Sarmiento, translated Mary Peabody Mann, introduction Ilan Stavans [don't usually bother to grab any kind of translation from the Spanish, but this was just...there. I just grabbed it. Often, I cannot help this reflex.]
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, translated Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevalier, introduced Judith Thurman
Chronicles of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez, translated Gregory Rabassa [Ordinarily I do not bother with translations from the Spanish (see above) but I have a soft spot for this one. So small, and acquits itself well.]
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant, translated/edited Mary Gregor and Jens Timmerman, revised by latter, introduced Christine M. Korsgaard
Clouds, Aristophanes, translated N.G. Wilson, edited John Claughton and Judith Affleck, introduced generally P.E. Easterling
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
Rudyard Kipling Illustrated, Rudyard Kipling [it's a bunch of his stories and writings, probably not including The White Man's Burden but like who knows with this type of thing]
The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
"...And Ladies of the Club", Helen Hoover Santmyer
The Martian, Andy Weir
The Reluctant Dragon, Kenneth Grahame, illustrated Ernest H. Shepard; also by Grahame, The Penguin & Dream Days
Randolph Caldecott: 'Lord of the Nursery', Rodney K. Engen
Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim
Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey
Fascism: A Warning, Madeline Albright
The Bookstore Mouse, Peggy Christian
The Owl Service, Alan Garner
Breadcrumbs, Anne Ursu
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, E.L. Konigsburg
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated N.C. Wyeth [hardcover illustrated upgrade from my current paperback, which is an upgrade from my super old paperback]
Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Some dude named Mourt I guess
Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans & The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk, Sy Montgomery, photographs for OS by Keith Ellenbogen
Krakatoa: The Day World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester
The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinov
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Geraldine Brooks
Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind, Stephen Buchmann
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Gift of Fear: And Other Signals That Protect Us From Violence, Gavin De Becker
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, Jim Ottavian and Maris Wicks
Slumps, Grunts, and Snickerdoodles: What Colonial America Ate and Why, Lila Perl
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara W. Tuchman
Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica, Fen Montaigne
Nothing Is Impossible: The Story of Beatrix Potter, Dorothy Aldis
Eco Amazons: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World, Dorka Keehn
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, Irene M. Pepperburg [I feel like I have a good chunk of the gist here, but, y'know, still gonna read it]
The Story of English, Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil, William Cran [This kind of shit gets me off. There is something primevally sexual about the formation of language. There's this section on the effect of symbols on the development of meaning in language in The Art of Looking Sideways, which is a life-changing visual and informational masterpiece that I should probably write a post about, which gets me hard enough to cut glass.]
In the Company of Crows and Ravens, John M. Marzluff, illus. Tony Angell, foreword Paul Ehrlich [very excited to read this. I absolutely love corvids]
The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales, Maria Tatar
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.
The Read-Aloud Handbook, Jim Trelease
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Food That Cause Disease and Weight Gain, Steven R. Gundry, MD [A big part of me is like "ok buddy keep it movin" but I dunno, eating "fresh" food off-season is pretty inflammatory to the system and we should probably stop it. I'll read it and see what I think. Pickling and preserving and otherwise fermenting is, of course, the bomb]
The Classic Fairy Tales, Iona and Peter Opie
New Coasts and Strange Harbors: Discovering Poems, & Dusk to Dawn: Poems of Night, compiled Helen Hill and Agnes Perkins, also Alethea Helbig for DtD
Poetry for Cats, Henry Beard
The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, compiled Bill Moyers
More Spice than Sugar, poems compiled Lillian Morrison, illustrated Ann Boyajian
Complete Poems of Robert Frost, Robert Frost
Dreams of Glory: Poems Starring Girls, compiled Isabel Joshlin Glaser, illustrated Pat Lowery Collins
Republic, Plato, translated G.M.A. Grube, revised C.D.C. Reeve [I feel like you have to purposefully endeavor to achieve these name shenanigans. Like "Yeah, Larry, this is pretty good translation. Yeah. But you just have the one name, huh? Listen. Get this and your no-name ass-hole the fuck out of my office."]
The Millenium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson, separate volumes [you know, that girl with her dragon tattoo. That stuff. I found out the title in the original Swedish is Men Who Hate Women, which is perhaps too advanced as a public-facing concept]
Children's Literature: An Issues Approach, Masha Jabakow Rudman
A Critical History of Children's Literature: A Survey of Children's Books in English, Prepared in Four Parts, Revised Edition, Cornelia Meigs, Anne Thaxter Eaton, Elizabeth Nesbitt, Ruth Hill Viguers
A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, Rebecca J. Lukens
The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse
Pilates Anatomy: Your Illustrated Guide to Mat Work for Core Stability and Balance, Rael Isacowitz, Karen Clippinger
El Diablo De Los Números: Un Libro Para Todo Aquellos Que Temen a las Matemáticas, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, illustrated Rotraut Susanne Berner [this is a translation into Spanish from the German by Carlos Fortea. The title in English would be The Numbers Devil: A Book For Those Who Fear Math. I stole this back, along with a few other items on this list, from my little brothers. A bunch of them were stuffed into the closet of my old room, which I see as an unmistakable signal that they are up for grabs again. It's a good book, filled with delicious concepts and metaphors; it did not, however, improve my scholastic mathematics performance, as my parents had hoped. I never feared numbers. I love math. I just hate rote performance in the service of the obvious to prove something to a third party. Guess I'm trying to get over that these days.]
The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books, Eleanor Cameron
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God damn, people. Was it good for you too?
This list does not even include the dozens of actual children's books I've acquired in recent months. Another time. I mean, we all got places to be.
I would like to befriend a dinosaur. Where's that videogame? I'm tired of running from or killing dinosaurs. The Dinotopia game they made was almost unplayable, and lacked sufficient dinosaur interactions. My dreams often come true when it comes to video games, so hopefully it's on its way. I got this game Dying Light where one can finally, properly, jump around on an interactive environment and do a bunch of parkour in order to navigate a zombie infestation. I was very tired of "running in a single direction and maybe I get to turn around or perform a context-sensitive jump" movement formulas, and I finally got a game where one can approximate human movement in an urban environment. It's pretty awesome, and good to play. Could be better, but, y'know, so could the average piss.
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On a separate and final note, it's a Joseph Got Extremely Laid Tuesday! Tell your friends, family, neighbors, call up your old teachers--anyone who might be helped by this information. I know I was!
--JL
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