Thursday, July 14, 2005
Tagged!
I got tagged by Sunny to talk about books. I'm really more of a magazine guy, but I do from time to time read those things that are bound together with glue rather than staples. So...
Number of books I own: I counted 199 on the shelves last night, though that includes some really old textbooks that I was planning to get rid of. So I guess my laziness makes me look more intellectual than I really am.
Last book I read: Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson. I have recently discovered Bryson and have really enjoyed all of what I have read so far. This one was a travel diary of England by public transportation.
Last book I bought: Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell. Angell has been writing about baseball for The New Yorker for over 40 years; this book is a selection of those essays. Interestingly enough, his mother Katherine White was also an editor at the same magazine, as was his stepfather E.B. White, who also wrote Charlotte's Web and co-authored The Elements of Style.
Five books that mean a lot to me
(in no particular order, and not including the phone book):
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. Music nerd has lady problems.
- Klondike by Pierre Berton. The Yukon is cool.
- Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony by David C. Woodman. First book (of many) that I read on Franklin's lost expedition.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Regular nerd has lady and interplanetary travel problems.
- Memoirs by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Handsome nerd has Canadian unity problems.
I'm now supposed to tag someone else, but since no one ever reads this but Johnny Nemo, I'll ask him for his input.
Number of books I own: I counted 199 on the shelves last night, though that includes some really old textbooks that I was planning to get rid of. So I guess my laziness makes me look more intellectual than I really am.
Last book I read: Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson. I have recently discovered Bryson and have really enjoyed all of what I have read so far. This one was a travel diary of England by public transportation.
Last book I bought: Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell. Angell has been writing about baseball for The New Yorker for over 40 years; this book is a selection of those essays. Interestingly enough, his mother Katherine White was also an editor at the same magazine, as was his stepfather E.B. White, who also wrote Charlotte's Web and co-authored The Elements of Style.
Five books that mean a lot to me
(in no particular order, and not including the phone book):
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. Music nerd has lady problems.
- Klondike by Pierre Berton. The Yukon is cool.
- Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony by David C. Woodman. First book (of many) that I read on Franklin's lost expedition.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Regular nerd has lady and interplanetary travel problems.
- Memoirs by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Handsome nerd has Canadian unity problems.
I'm now supposed to tag someone else, but since no one ever reads this but Johnny Nemo, I'll ask him for his input.
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If you knew a kid who wanted to develop her knowledge of the Franklin expedition beyond what Stan Rogers and a nice man on the Discovery Network told her, would you recommend the Woodman book as good place to start?
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: 6:01 PM
The Woodman book is pretty cool because it uses oral history to theorize about what became of the expedition, something that didn't get a lot of cred in Victorian England.
The other good book I like on the subject is Frozen In Time by Owen Beattie and John Geiger. It has graphic colour photos of bodies the authors exhumed in the 1980s.
Of course, there's always The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton, who gives you a Pierre Bertonesque look at the subject.
The other good book I like on the subject is Frozen In Time by Owen Beattie and John Geiger. It has graphic colour photos of bodies the authors exhumed in the 1980s.
Of course, there's always The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton, who gives you a Pierre Bertonesque look at the subject.
Okay, I'll play too. Here's five books I keep rereading, in no particular order and not claiming that I wouldn't choose another five if you asked me tomorrow:
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. One of the commie "Hollywood Ten", the first guy named to break the blacklist, writes a great anti-war novel that's also a great drama.
Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul. The husband of our Governor General articulates almost exactly what I think is wrong with our society.
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman. Award-winning novelist and screenwright tells and shows us how to write a good screenplay, and how to write a screenplay for Hollywood -- not necessarily the same thing.
Rebecca's World by Terry Nation. The creator of Dr. Who's arch-enemy the Daleks writes a children's book that's just charming, about sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, and hope.
Cerebus by Dave Sim. Canadian cartoonist and misogynist nutjob wandered pretty far from sanity in the 26 years he spent on this project, but there's lots of good stuff in there.
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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. One of the commie "Hollywood Ten", the first guy named to break the blacklist, writes a great anti-war novel that's also a great drama.
Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul. The husband of our Governor General articulates almost exactly what I think is wrong with our society.
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman. Award-winning novelist and screenwright tells and shows us how to write a good screenplay, and how to write a screenplay for Hollywood -- not necessarily the same thing.
Rebecca's World by Terry Nation. The creator of Dr. Who's arch-enemy the Daleks writes a children's book that's just charming, about sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, and hope.
Cerebus by Dave Sim. Canadian cartoonist and misogynist nutjob wandered pretty far from sanity in the 26 years he spent on this project, but there's lots of good stuff in there.
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