Log
I've been really lax about updating the whole books-read log lately, but as it happens to be the first of the month and I'm putting off work, here's August - October:
August
Books:
Lev, Leora: Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper
Ford, Richard: The Sportswriter
de Beistegui, Miguel: The New Heidegger
Banks, Iain M.: Use of Weapons
Kelman, James: Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political
Rhodes, Dan: Gold
McEwan, Ian: On Chesil Beach
Irwin, Terence: Classical Thought
Bolaño, Roberto: Last Evenings on Earth
Murakami, Haruki: After Dark
Riordan, Maurice: The Holy Land
Ford, Richard: Independence Day
Améry, Jean: At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
Sweeney, Matthew: Black Moon
Orwell, George: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Waldrop, Rosmarie: Dissonance (if you are interested)
July, Miranda: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Sampson, Fiona: Common Prayer
Simenon, Georges: The Little Man from Archangel
Jansson, Tove: The Summer Book
DVDs:
The West Wing: Season 7 - Assorted
The Bourne Supremacy - Paul Greengrass
Firefly - Assorted
Weeds: Season 1 - Assorted
Cinema:
Waitress - Adrienne Shelly
Knocked Up - Judd Apatow
The Bourne Ultimatum - Paul Greengrass
September
Books:
Berlin, Isaiah: The Roots of Romanticism
Thomson, James: The City of Dreadful Night
MacDonald, George: Lilith
Auslander, Shalom: Beware of God
Novalis: Philosophical Writings
MacDonald, George: Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
MacDonald, George: A Book of Strife in the form of the Diary of an Old Soul
Ameriks, Karl: The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
Wolff, Robert Lee: The Golden Key: A Study of the Fiction of George MacDonald
Raeper, William: The Gold Thread: Essays on George MacDonald
Crawford, Robert: Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature
Smith, Ali: The Whole Story and Other Stories
MacDonald, George: The Seaboard Parish
MacDonald, George: The Vicar's Daughter
Patchett, Ann: Run
Critchley, Simon: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Glück, Louise: Averno
MacDonald, George: Thomas Wingfold, Curate
McGrath, John: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Herder, Johann Gottfried: God: Some Conversations
MacDonald, George: Orts
Rancière, Jacques: The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing
Smollett, Tobias: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Castellucci, Cecil and Jim Rugg: The Plain Janes
Beiser, Frederick C.: The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism
MacDonald, George: Weighed and Wanting
Raeper, William: George MacDonald
MacDonald, George: Wilfred Cumbermede
MacDonald, George: Mary Marston
Burns, Robert: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Marion, Jean-Luc: The Erotic Phenomenon
DVDs:
Arrested Development: Season 1 - Assorted
Heroes: Season 1 - Assorted
Gregory's Two Girls - Bill Forsyth
Cinema:
Atonement - Joe Wright
October
Books:
MacDonald, George: Adela Cathcart
Prickett, Stephen: Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church
Leonard, Tom: Reports from the Present: Selected Work 1982-94
Bloom, Amy: Away
MacDonald, George: Home Again
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph: The Ages of the World
Ackerley, J.R.: We Think the World of You
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey
Eliot, George: Scenes of Clerical Life
Ashton, Rosemary: The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought, 1800-1860
O'Flaherty, James C.: Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia: A Translation and Commentary
Scott, Sir Walter: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Novalis: Henry von Ofterdingen
MacDonald, George: There and Back
Scott, Sir Walter: Waverley
Abrams, M.H.: Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
Berlin, Isaiah: The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism
Blanchot, Maurice: A Voice from Elsewhere
Schiller, Friedrich: On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Rancière, Jacques: On the Shores of Politics
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Beiser, Frederick C.: The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics
Tomine, Adrian: Shortcomings
Morrison, Robert and Chris Baldick: Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine
Fichte, Johann: The Vocation of Man
Gray, Alasdair: Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers
Galt, John: Annals of the Parish
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: On the Constitution of the Church and State
Lanchester, John: Family Romance: A Memoir
Chabon, Michael: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Spark, Muriel: Curriculum Vitae
DVDs:
Black Book - Paul Verhoeven
Weeds: Season 2 - Assorted
Breaking and Entering - Anthony Minghella
Spiderman 3 - Sam Raimi
Friday Night Lights: Season 1 - Assorted
Hot Fuzz - Edgar Wright
Cinema:
Control - Anton Corbijn
August
Books:
Lev, Leora: Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper
Ford, Richard: The Sportswriter
de Beistegui, Miguel: The New Heidegger
Banks, Iain M.: Use of Weapons
Kelman, James: Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political
Rhodes, Dan: Gold
McEwan, Ian: On Chesil Beach
Irwin, Terence: Classical Thought
Bolaño, Roberto: Last Evenings on Earth
Murakami, Haruki: After Dark
Riordan, Maurice: The Holy Land
Ford, Richard: Independence Day
Améry, Jean: At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
Sweeney, Matthew: Black Moon
Orwell, George: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Waldrop, Rosmarie: Dissonance (if you are interested)
July, Miranda: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Sampson, Fiona: Common Prayer
Simenon, Georges: The Little Man from Archangel
Jansson, Tove: The Summer Book
DVDs:
The West Wing: Season 7 - Assorted
The Bourne Supremacy - Paul Greengrass
Firefly - Assorted
Weeds: Season 1 - Assorted
Cinema:
Waitress - Adrienne Shelly
Knocked Up - Judd Apatow
The Bourne Ultimatum - Paul Greengrass
September
Books:
Berlin, Isaiah: The Roots of Romanticism
Thomson, James: The City of Dreadful Night
MacDonald, George: Lilith
Auslander, Shalom: Beware of God
Novalis: Philosophical Writings
MacDonald, George: Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
MacDonald, George: A Book of Strife in the form of the Diary of an Old Soul
Ameriks, Karl: The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
Wolff, Robert Lee: The Golden Key: A Study of the Fiction of George MacDonald
Raeper, William: The Gold Thread: Essays on George MacDonald
Crawford, Robert: Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature
Smith, Ali: The Whole Story and Other Stories
MacDonald, George: The Seaboard Parish
MacDonald, George: The Vicar's Daughter
Patchett, Ann: Run
Critchley, Simon: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Glück, Louise: Averno
MacDonald, George: Thomas Wingfold, Curate
McGrath, John: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Herder, Johann Gottfried: God: Some Conversations
MacDonald, George: Orts
Rancière, Jacques: The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing
Smollett, Tobias: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Castellucci, Cecil and Jim Rugg: The Plain Janes
Beiser, Frederick C.: The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism
MacDonald, George: Weighed and Wanting
Raeper, William: George MacDonald
MacDonald, George: Wilfred Cumbermede
MacDonald, George: Mary Marston
Burns, Robert: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Marion, Jean-Luc: The Erotic Phenomenon
DVDs:
Arrested Development: Season 1 - Assorted
Heroes: Season 1 - Assorted
Gregory's Two Girls - Bill Forsyth
Cinema:
Atonement - Joe Wright
October
Books:
MacDonald, George: Adela Cathcart
Prickett, Stephen: Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church
Leonard, Tom: Reports from the Present: Selected Work 1982-94
Bloom, Amy: Away
MacDonald, George: Home Again
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph: The Ages of the World
Ackerley, J.R.: We Think the World of You
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey
Eliot, George: Scenes of Clerical Life
Ashton, Rosemary: The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought, 1800-1860
O'Flaherty, James C.: Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia: A Translation and Commentary
Scott, Sir Walter: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Novalis: Henry von Ofterdingen
MacDonald, George: There and Back
Scott, Sir Walter: Waverley
Abrams, M.H.: Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
Berlin, Isaiah: The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism
Blanchot, Maurice: A Voice from Elsewhere
Schiller, Friedrich: On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Rancière, Jacques: On the Shores of Politics
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Beiser, Frederick C.: The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics
Tomine, Adrian: Shortcomings
Morrison, Robert and Chris Baldick: Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine
Fichte, Johann: The Vocation of Man
Gray, Alasdair: Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers
Galt, John: Annals of the Parish
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: On the Constitution of the Church and State
Lanchester, John: Family Romance: A Memoir
Chabon, Michael: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Spark, Muriel: Curriculum Vitae
DVDs:
Black Book - Paul Verhoeven
Weeds: Season 2 - Assorted
Breaking and Entering - Anthony Minghella
Spiderman 3 - Sam Raimi
Friday Night Lights: Season 1 - Assorted
Hot Fuzz - Edgar Wright
Cinema:
Control - Anton Corbijn