The formula is simple and foolproof (although those who deploy it so facilely seem to think we are all fools): If the bad act is committed by a member of a group you wish to demonize, attribute it to a community or a religion and not to the individual. But if the bad act is committed by someone whose profile, interests and agendas are uncomfortably close to your own, detach the malefactor from everything that is going on or is in the air (he came from nowhere) and characterize him as a one-off, non-generalizable, sui generis phenomenon. -- Stanley Fish
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About Me
Nan
Atlanta, Georgia
Still pondering life's most meaningful questions, like how many times must a compound word be used before the hyphen can drop out?
The Spring of the Ram, Dorothy Dunnett
13 1/2, Nevada Barr
A Few Good Women, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Moon Pies and Movie Stars, Amy Wallen
Hardball, Sara Paretsky
Bone Hunter, Sarah Andrews
The Gates, John Connolly
The Store, T. S. Stribling
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Nortin M. Hadler, MD
A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel, Mel Starr
Republic, Plato (translated by C. D. C. Reeve)
Blood Noir, Laurell K. Hamilton
Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?, Jancee Dunn
End in Tears, Ruth Rendell
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism, Matthew D. Lassiter & Joseph Crespino, editors
The Unquiet Bones, Melvin R. Starr
Nothing Like It in the World, Stephen E. Ambrose
Mariposa, Greg Bear
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, Craig Ferguson
Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich
Big Boned, Meg Cabot
Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief, edited by Harold K. Steen
Murder at the Smithsonian, Margaret Truman
The Court of the Lion, Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri
Watch on the Rhine, John Ringo and Tom Kratman
America's Fires: A Historical Context for Policy and Practice, Stephen J. Pyne
By Schism Rent Asunder, David Weber
The Devil's Dream, Lee Smith
A Murderous Procession, Ariana Franklin
Island In the Sea of Time, S. M. Stirling
The Mercenary, Jerry Pournelle
The Burnt House, Faye Kellerman
The Hero, John Ringo
The World at the End of the Universe, Frederick Pohl
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
Small Favor, Jim Butcher
The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
Some Lie and Some Die, Ruth Rendell
Trader's World, Charles Sheffield
The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970, Frank Uekoetter
Cally's War, John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux
The Old Wine Shades, Martha Grimes
Renfield: Slave of Dracula, Barbara Hambly
Cold Case, Kate Wilhelm
The Life and Death of Lenin, Robert Payne
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, James Oliver Horton & Lois E. Horton, editors
Off Armageddon Reef, David Weber
Next of Kin, Joanna Trollope
Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
Voorloper, Andre Norton
The Awakening and Selected Stories, Kate Chopin
Eye of the Storm, John Ringo
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, P. G. Wodehouse
The Return of Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse
Fins, Finns and Astorians, Greg Jacob
Quantico, Greg Bear
206 Bones, Kathy Reichs
Havana Bay, Martin Cruz Smith
Dexter by Design, Jeff Lindsay
Global Disease Eradication: The Race for the Last Child, Cynthia A. Needham and Richard Canning
Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes
Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered with Cat Hair, Laurie Perry
The Quiet Girl, Peter Hoeg
Death is Now My Neighbor, Colin Dexter
The Uplift War, David Brin
Startide Rising, David Brin
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, Simon Winchester
MacPherson's Lament, Sharyn McCrumb
Dearly Devoted Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, Clinton Heylin
Honeymoon in Tehran, Azadeh Moaveni
The Last Wife of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson
Backup, Jim Butcher
Homeward Bound, Harry Turtledove
Rumpole and the Angel of Death, John Mortimer
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz
Paths of Glory, Jeffrey Archer
Laughing Boy, Oliver La Farge
Henry VIII: The King and His Court, Alison Weir
Plum Spooky, Janet Evanovich
Rose Madder, Stephen King
Growing Up Bin Ladn: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World, Najwa bin Ladn, Omar bin Ladn, and Jean Sasson
Death Masks, Jim Butcher
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith
The Ship Errant, Jody Lynn Nye
Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
The Long Secret, Louise Fitzhugh
My Pulitzer life list with the year the book won the prize, not the year I read it
Years of Grace (1931), Margaret Ayer Barnes
To Kill A Mockingbird (1961), Harper Lee
The Yearling (1939), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters (1959), Robert Lewis Taylor
The Store (1933), T. S. Stribling
The Road (2007), Cormac McCarthy
The Old Man and the Sea (1953), Ernest Hemingway
The Magnificent Ambersons (1919), Booth Tarkington
The Good Earth (1932), Pearl S. Buck
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928), Thornton Wilder
3 comments:
Oh man, I hate moving. Even if I get lucky enough to move to the country I'm keeping this place so I can take my sweet time moving.
And I'll keep it after that also so I have a little home base in town when I come to town.
Hell, it's free and clear so it won't cost much to keep it, just a few hundred bucks a year.
"Oh man, I hate moving."
So do I, and this one has been worse than usual -- the date for it kept shifting, so we've been living with stuff half-packed since June.
Oh, I feel for you. I still have nightmares about my last move which involved a major downsize. Good luck.
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