A break from the long gap of my postless-ness
To relieve you of the tedium I am sure you were suffering in anticipation of my next thrilling post, I proudly present to you my results of the 50-book challenge for 2008.
this cut brought to you by sarcasm and the lack of time to do a more exciting post at the moment
What Would the Founders Do? Richard Brookhiser
Gouverneur Morris: The Rake who Wrote the Constitution Richard Brookhiser
Dream Boy Jim Grimsely
Forbidden Fruit Dion Boucicault***
False Shame William Dunlap
Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution Robert Zubrin
Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat Edward Mac Phearson***
Virtue, Valour, and Vanity Eric Burrs
L'ecole des femmes Moliere
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Nijinsky (ed. Joan Acocella)***
Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film James Card***
Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to Casablanca J.C. Allen
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson***
The Green Hat Michael Arlen*** *** *** ***
Hitler and the Occult Joachim Feis?
Three Weeks Elinor Glyn
The Goebbels Diaries 1939-1942 Josef Goebbels (trans. Fred Taylor)***
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1958 Hungarian Revolution Victor Sebestyen***
Duty Jim R. Lane
The Oracle Glass Judith Merkle (?) Riley
BERLIN The Twenties Rainer Metzer and Chrisitan Brandstatter*** *** *** *** ***
Hidden Agenda: How the Dule of Windsor Betrayed the Allies Martin Allen
Elisabeth Vigee le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist and an Age of Revolution Gita May
Imre: A Memorandum Edward Prime-Stevenson (ed. James J. Gifford)*** *** ***
The Hollow Years: France in the 1930's Eugen Weber*** ***
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoir of the Man who Killed Rasputin Prince Felix Yusupov***
The London Venture Michael Arlen
The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds J.A Symonds (ed.Phyllis Grosskurth)
John Brent Theodore Winthrop
Men Dislike Women Michael Arlen
Bavarian Fantasy ???
The Last Great Frenchman Charles Williams***
Napoleon III and his Carnival Empire ???***
The Dream King Wilfrid Blunt
Borgia Zona Gale
Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette M. Jules Cloquet, M.D.
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl David Huddle
Dandies James Laver
The Elgin Affair, The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused Theodore Vrettos***
Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture Susan Fillin-Yeh
Effeminate England : homoerotic writing after 1885 Joseph Bristow
Keaton Rudy Blesh
The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric Michel Pastoureau
Durer today Willi Bongard
Pigs in Clover Frank Danby
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford Linda Dowling
France restored : Cold War diplomacy and the quest for leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 William I. Hitchcock
The Child Manuela: The Novel of Maedchan in Uniform Christa Winsloe
Your Death Would be Mine Martha Hanna***
A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel***
Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle Rhonda K. Garelick
Washington: the Young Leader George William Gerwig
Anyone have any of the same books on their list? I would be terribly surprised and happy if you do! *** by especially recommended/awesome books. ha ha ha, like anyone would go read them.
Also, I managed to do 53 books in 2008. Aw yeeeah. (I would like to thank the isolation and lack of interesting social scene at Hamilton College for my accomplishment of that feat.)
I am also proud of the fact that I have only one book on here that I am not proud to admit I actually read *snob mode*, and I'm sure you can figure that one out. 2007 saw a few more like that on my list, something of which I am quite ashamed and thus never posted the list. -_-;
Post your lists, my friends! :)
I promise I will post something more interesting soon. For now though, have a picture:
this cut brought to you by sarcasm and the lack of time to do a more exciting post at the moment
What Would the Founders Do? Richard Brookhiser
Gouverneur Morris: The Rake who Wrote the Constitution Richard Brookhiser
Dream Boy Jim Grimsely
Forbidden Fruit Dion Boucicault***
False Shame William Dunlap
Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution Robert Zubrin
Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat Edward Mac Phearson***
Virtue, Valour, and Vanity Eric Burrs
L'ecole des femmes Moliere
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Nijinsky (ed. Joan Acocella)***
Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film James Card***
Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to Casablanca J.C. Allen
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson***
The Green Hat Michael Arlen*** *** *** ***
Hitler and the Occult Joachim Feis?
Three Weeks Elinor Glyn
The Goebbels Diaries 1939-1942 Josef Goebbels (trans. Fred Taylor)***
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1958 Hungarian Revolution Victor Sebestyen***
Duty Jim R. Lane
The Oracle Glass Judith Merkle (?) Riley
BERLIN The Twenties Rainer Metzer and Chrisitan Brandstatter*** *** *** *** ***
Hidden Agenda: How the Dule of Windsor Betrayed the Allies Martin Allen
Elisabeth Vigee le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist and an Age of Revolution Gita May
Imre: A Memorandum Edward Prime-Stevenson (ed. James J. Gifford)*** *** ***
The Hollow Years: France in the 1930's Eugen Weber*** ***
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoir of the Man who Killed Rasputin Prince Felix Yusupov***
The London Venture Michael Arlen
The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds J.A Symonds (ed.Phyllis Grosskurth)
John Brent Theodore Winthrop
Men Dislike Women Michael Arlen
Bavarian Fantasy ???
The Last Great Frenchman Charles Williams***
Napoleon III and his Carnival Empire ???***
The Dream King Wilfrid Blunt
Borgia Zona Gale
Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette M. Jules Cloquet, M.D.
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl David Huddle
Dandies James Laver
The Elgin Affair, The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused Theodore Vrettos***
Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture Susan Fillin-Yeh
Effeminate England : homoerotic writing after 1885 Joseph Bristow
Keaton Rudy Blesh
The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric Michel Pastoureau
Durer today Willi Bongard
Pigs in Clover Frank Danby
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford Linda Dowling
France restored : Cold War diplomacy and the quest for leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 William I. Hitchcock
The Child Manuela: The Novel of Maedchan in Uniform Christa Winsloe
Your Death Would be Mine Martha Hanna***
A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel***
Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle Rhonda K. Garelick
Washington: the Young Leader George William Gerwig
Anyone have any of the same books on their list? I would be terribly surprised and happy if you do! *** by especially recommended/awesome books. ha ha ha, like anyone would go read them.
Also, I managed to do 53 books in 2008. Aw yeeeah. (I would like to thank the isolation and lack of interesting social scene at Hamilton College for my accomplishment of that feat.)
I am also proud of the fact that I have only one book on here that I am not proud to admit I actually read *snob mode*, and I'm sure you can figure that one out. 2007 saw a few more like that on my list, something of which I am quite ashamed and thus never posted the list. -_-;
Post your lists, my friends! :)
I promise I will post something more interesting soon. For now though, have a picture: