2008, in books

[maeveenroute]

For a few years when I was in high school, I kept lists of the books I read every year. Back then, I kept them on the computer, and I categorized them as I went along. I ended up not liking that strategy, because I can't find the files anymore, and because I think it's kind of interesting to see what order I read books in (though seeing how many

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[madcaptenor]

I used to keep lists like this. Then I stopped. It's mostly because I kept them on the inside front or back cover of my paper journals, and my paper journalling stopped. I might start again.

The other thing I'm never sure of with those lists is whether to include books I read for academic purposes. (I'm guessing you don't.)

[maeveenroute]

The other thing I'm never sure of with those lists is whether to include books I read for academic purposes. (I'm guessing you don't.)

Yes and no. I debated making this "pleasure reading only," but the fact is, a fair amount of my academic bibliographies started as pleasure reading, and a lot of what I read for fun is academic in nature. (Grey-area books this year include 6, 22, 46, and 146 - for example.)

The solution I came up with is to exclude books I was specifically assigned to read, and include anything else I read all the way through.

[londo]

You are the first person to post such a list composed entirely of books I haven't read.

[maeveenroute]

Not a big mystery reader, eh? ;c)

[fnordian]

How was Faeries, Bears & Leathermen?

[maeveenroute]

I found it really interesting and well worth the read. (I can even bring it to LSA for you, if you like.)

My reservations about it amount to a desire for a book it wasn't meant to be: it doesn't talk about working-class masculinities (much), about nonwhite men (except in passing), or about misogyny. But it's a case study of three groups composed mostly of middle-class white men; the lack of discussion of misogyny is the only thing I can fairly blame him for. And he does acknowledge the odd homogeneity of the communities he studies, and speculates persuasively about the roots of that... he just doesn't fill in the demographic blanks.

(Then again, I also kept wishing it were a book about femme, but that's *totally* unfair.)

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