Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
The Sphinx
The Life of Gladys Deacon
Duchess of Marlborough
by Hugo Vickers
Hodder & Stoughton, 2020
466 pages
Library loan
Friday, May 17, 2024
While Time Remains
A North Korean Defector's Search
for Freedom in America
Yeonmi Park
Threshold Editions, 2023
224 pages
Library loan
In Order to Live
A North Korean Girl's
Journey to Freedom
Yeonmi Park
with Maryanne Vollers
Penguin Books, 2015
290 pages
Library ebook loan
Paperback and ebook cover shown above
Cover of hardback version
Penguin Press, 2015
288 pages
The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
Mulholland Books, 2021
481 pages
Library ebook loan
The Golden Thread
How Fabric Changed History
by Kassia St. Clair
Liveright, 2019
363 pages
Library ebook loan
The Unvanquished
The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special
Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's
Rangers, and the Shadow War that,
Forged America's Special Operations
by Patrick K. O’Donnell
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024
416 pages
Library loan
Monday, April 29, 2024
The Age of Wood
Our Most Useful Material and
the Construction of Civilization
by Roland Ennos
Scribner 2021
Paperback version
336 pages
Every Tool's a Hammer
Life Is What You Make It
by Adam Savage
Atria Books 2019
Library loan ebook
321 pages
The cover of this paperback/ebook version immediately brought to mind the cover of The Pencil:
A History of Design
and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
Knopf 1989
354 pages
I’ve watched a number of Adam Savage's recent videos (apropos to nothing, he has a stapler collection - I have a stapler collection), but as someone who does less than 1/10,000 of what he does, I don’t know what I was expecting from his book. What I got—among many other things—was a whole new way to organize my editing process, and a new appreciation for my own less than 1/10,000 projects.
I’m buying this one in hardback to put in a place of honor in the builder/how-to/maker section of my library.
Cover of hardback version
Atria Books 2019
288 pages
Next, I’m trying out the type of pencil he has in his pocket (pencil nerds please see "The Pencil" book reference above), the PaperMate Sharpwriter #2. Well, the lesser modern version of it anyway. He made a whole video about it. Go watch, enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwo1kOcwxs
Cover of hardback version
Atria Books 2019
288 pages
Ali's Well That Ends Well
Tales of Desperation and
a Little Inspiration
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2022
Library loan ebook
208 pages
Go Ask Ali
Half-Baked Advice
(And Free Lemonade)
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2018
Library loan ebook
224 pages
Happily Ali After
And Other Fairly True Tales
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2015
Library loan ebook
240 pages
Ali in Wonderland
And Other Tall Tales
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2012
Library loan ebook
272 pages
Barbarella #5
The Center Cannot Hold
by Sarah Hoyt
Art by Riccardo Bogani
Dynamite Entertainment 2023
Graphic novel ebook
28 pages
Ho hum. Yet again making sure the series remains mildly kidlette appropriate. Which it did. Now it's done.
Barbarella #4
The Center Cannot Hold
by Sarah Hoyt
Art by Riccardo Bogani
Dynamite Entertainment 2023
Graphic novel ebook
29 pages
Again, making sure the series remains mildly kidlette appropriate.
Barbarella #3
The Center Cannot Hold
by Sarah Hoyt
Art by Riccardo Bogani
Dynamite Entertainment 2023
Graphic novel ebook
29 pages
Making sure the series remains mildly kidlette appropriate.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Letters of Pontius Pilate
Written during His Governorship
of Judea to His Friend Seneca
in Rome
Edited by W.P. Crozier
Fredonia Books, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands 2002
176 pages
Nothing in this 2002 paperback version of the 1928 original indicates that it is a work of fiction. If fact, there is a carefully worded blurb on the copyright page that, in my opinion, deliberately obfuscates the genres that reads:
In order to make original editions of historical works available to scholars at an economical price this facsimile of the original edition is reproduced from the best available copy and has been digitally enhanced to improve legibility, but the text remains unaltered to retain historical authenticity.
To me, the inclusion of “historical works,” “scholars,” and “historical authenticity” serve to give the impression that this is a non-fiction work.
On March 30, 1928 The Manchester Guardian (now just The Guardian) printed a review of the British edition which was released that day by Jonathan Cape Ltd. It turned out that William Percival Crozier (a reporter and later editor for that same newspaper) was well versed in the Latin and Greek classics, as well as the Bible, all of which inspired his writing his first novel. And the paper identified it as such — a novel.
Seriously, who's going to believe Pontius Pilate ever said "Tell it to the Marines?" [Although Imperial Rome did have the equivilent of shipboard marines, the phrase did not appear until circa 1804 A.D.]
The American edition was published shortly thereafter, but printed without noting that it was a novel. As an afterthought the publisher, J.H. Sears & Company in New York, glued a tipped-in notice on the flap that said “these letters are purely fictitious and composed by Crozier for the purpose of presenting a picture of what might reasonably be supposed to have happened in the time of Pontius Pilate.” Both publishers listed Crozier as the “editor” in order to enhance the image of these being real letters.
I suspect that Crozier was influenced by Gesta Pilati: The Reports, Letters and Acts of Pontius Pilate. Being the Official Records of Pilate as made to Tiberius Caesar Emperor of Rome, Concerning the Apprehension, Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth written by William Overton Clough and published in 1880 by Robert Douglass. I’ll read that one soon and let you know. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data lists Ann Wroe’s Pontius Pilate (Random House 2000) as biography despites its, um, enhancements, whereas Paul L. Maier’s Pontius Pilate (Kregel Publications 1968) proudly states on the cover “A Novel.”
Now let’s talk copyrights…
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Snowpiercer 3: Terminus
by Oliver Bocquet
Art by Jean-Marc Rochette
Titan Comics 2020
Library loan graphic novel
231 pages
Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers
by Benjamin Legrand
Art by Jean-Marc Rochette
English version Titan Comics 2014
Library loan graphic novel
140 pages
Snowpiercer 1: The Escape
by Jacques Lob
Art by Jean-Marc Rochette
English version Titan Comics 2014
Library loan graphic novel
110 pages
Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Logbook
1924 - 1944
One man’s aviation journey from
drying grapes with airplane engines
to flying the mail, bush flying in
Alaska and on to flying B-25s in WWII
by Joy Guyer
Unpublished/uncorrected draft copy 2024
Approximately 280 pages
Working title proposal for publishing. So far very good - an offer will be made!
Offer made and accepted! Now the fun begins!
Becoming Trader Joe
>
How I Did Business My Way
And Still Beat the Big Guys
by Joe Coulombe with Patty Civalleri
HarperCollins Leadership 2021
288 pages
Holmes, Marple & Poe
The Greatest Crime-Solving Team
of the Twenty-First Century
by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
Little, Brown and Company 2024
Library ebook loan
352 pages
Saturday, March 30, 2024
The It Girls
a novel
by Karen Harper
William Morrow 2017
Library ebook loan
384 pages
The Last Week
A Day-by-Day Account of
Jesus’ Final Week in
Jerusalem
by Marcus J. Borg &
John Dominic Crossan
HarperSanFrancisco 2006
216 pages
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Lexington
The Extraordinary Life and
Turbulent Times of America’s
Legendary Racehorse
by Kim Wickens
Ballantine Books 2023
Library ebook loan
416 pages
Monday, March 18, 2024
Random In Death
An Eve Dallas Novel
by J. D. Robb
St. Martin's Press 2024
Library loan
362 pages
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The Secret Life of Groceries
The Dark Miracle of the
American Supermarket
by Benjamin Lorr
Avery 2020
ebook version
336 pages
Blizzard
A Story of Dakota Territory
(The Ramsdell Family)
by Cindy Rinaman Marsch
Moraine's Edge Books 2016
Short story ebook
30 pages
Monday, March 11, 2024
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
by John McPhee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1975
Paperback edition 1995
147 pages
Runways In The Sand
The History of Blythe Army Air Base
in WWII
by Art Wilson
Independently published 2008
128 pages
Saturday, March 9, 2024
My Brother's Voice
How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived
the Holocaust
A True Story
by Stephen Nasser
with Sherry Rosenthal
Stephens Press 2013
ebook version
260 pages
21 Months A Captive
Rachel Plummer and the
Fort Parker Massacre
(Annotated)
by James W. Parker
and Rachel Plummer
Big Byte Books 2016
Revised 2020
ebook version
90 pages
2020 edition contains newly unearthed information about the participants.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Run! Run! Hitler'd Coming!
How a Young German Girl Escaped
The Holocaust
A True Story
by Irene Gordon Rosenthal
with Sherry Rosenthal
Independently published 2013
136 pages
The History of Diners in New Jersey
by Michael C. Gabriele
American Palate Division of
The History Press 2013
142 pages
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Charles Montier and His French Racing Fords
by Chris Martin
Independently published 2022
Print-on-demand fulfilled
April 15, 2023
132 pages
Resurrection Walk
A Lincoln Lawyer Novel
by Michael Connelly
Little, Brown and Company 2023
403 pages
The Blizzard of '88
by Irving Werstein
Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1960
157 pages
Narratives of North American Indian Captives, Volume 63
Barker, Solomon. Interesting Narrative
Of The Sufferings of Joseph Barker and his
Wife. 1848.
An Indian Tradition. (Escape of William
Wallace). 1848.
Adam, George. The Dreadful Sufferings
of Emigrants to California. 1850.
Brice, James. History of the Revolutionary
War. (Captivity of John and Robert Brice).
1851.
Butterfield, David C. Life and Adventures.
1851.
Edited by Wilcomb E Washburn
Garland Publishing 1978
Digitized by Internet Archive 2017
Online library loan from Internet Archive
256 pages
A Story of a Charter Pilot
by Garth Greenlee
AMA Publishing 2023
ebook version
160 pages
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indidans
by Fanny Kelly
Mutal Publishing 1872
Ebook edition Laramie Press 2019
170 pages
History of the Captivity and Providential Release Therefrom of Mrs. Caroline Harris
Wife of the late Mr. Richard Harris, of
Franklin Co., State of N. York; who, with
Mrs.Clarissa Plummer, wife of Mr. James
Plummer, were, in the Spring of 1835,
(with their unfortunate husbands,) taken
prisoner by the Camanche tribe of Indians,
while emigrating from said Franklin Co.
(N. Y.) to Texas; and after having been
made to witness the tragical deaths of
their husbands, and held for nearly two
years in bondage, were providentially
redeemed therefrom by two of their
countrymen attached to a company
of Santa Fe Fur Traders.
by Caroline Harris
G. Cunningham 1838
pdf download from Internet Archive
24 page pamplet
Narritive of the Captively and Extreme Sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer
Wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of
Franklin County, State of New York; who,
with Mrs. Caroline Harris, wife of the late
Mr. Richard Harris, were, in the Spring of
1835, with their unfortunate families,
surprised and taken prisoners by a party
of the Camanche tribe of Indians, while
emigrating from said Franklin Co. (N. Y.) to
Texas; and after having been held nearly
two years in captivity, and witnessed the
deaths of their husbands, were fortunately
redeemed from the hands of the savages
by an American Fur Trader, a native of Georgia.
by Clarissa Plummer
Perry and Cooke 1838
pdf download from Internet Archive
24 page pamplet
Friday, February 23, 2024
The Rachel Plumer Narrative
A stirring narrative of
adventure, hardship and
privation in the early
days of Texas, depicting
struggles with the Indians
and other adventures.
by Rachel Lofton,
Susie Hendrix
and Jane Kennedy
Privately published 1926
pdf download from Internet Archive
118 pages
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer During a Captivity of Twenty-one Months Among the Comanche Indians
by Rachel Plummer
(originally published 1839)
Lulu.com 2022
Print-on-demand fulfilled
Febuary 14, 2024
49 pages
Boy, will I have a lot to say about this edition.
Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and
the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches,
the Most Powerful
Indian Tribe in
American History
by S. C. Gwynne
Scribner 2010
319 pages
Library loan*
*Library loan because I forgot that I had purchased the paperback version at a library sale some time ago for 50 cents. It's sitting on a bookshelf less than three feet from my left arm as I sit at the computer. In my defense it is on a higher shelf out of my direct line of sight, and therefore out of mind.
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