Monday 1 February 2016

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SIXTY-SIX

Another week, another tub, another 50 books.
66 or (3300) and counting!

Alex Berenson, Tim Dorsey, Peter Leonard, Ben Fountain, Mohamed Sifaoui,

Son of Elmore, and just as enjoyable!

Ian Rankin, Ben Fountain, Juli Zeh, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Gerard Donovan,

Irish author, Balkans conflict - Gerard Donovan,

Stuart Neville, Ian Rankin, Chuck Palhniuk x 2, Richard Ford, 

Richard Ford - novel. I think he's known for his short stories.

Untried Northern. Irish author, 

Lee Child, Louise Ure, Greg Rucka. Mickey Spillane, Donna Leon,

Louise Ure - Forcing Amaryllis,

Mike Hammer series book,

Lawrence Block, Lionel Davidson x 2, Arthur Lyons, Dick Francis,

Welsh jockey turned author -  he rode Devon Loch the Queen's horse that face-planted 50 yards from the finish line in the 1956 Grand National.

Lawrence Block- Tanner series book!

Dick Francis x 2, Hakan Nesser, Arthur Lyons, Janwillem van de Wetering,

Mid 70s Dutch crime - first in the Amsterdam Cops series,

Jacon Asch series book - is it a typo or is discrete spelled discreet in the US?

Jack Kerley, Donna Leon, Barbara Vine, Randy Wayne White, John Pimlott, 

Guido Brunetti series opener 

Harry Dolan x 2, Charlie Newton, William Boyd, Shalom Auslander, 

Charlie Newton - an untried US author,

Hope: A Tragedy!
Frank Bill x 2, Charles Bukowski, Mike Nicol, Michael Konik,

Who wouldn't want to read about a man who had breast implants to win a $100k bet?

Fast paced, violent South African crime!


Frank Bill - short stories!

Sean Moncrieff, Ross MacDonald, Herman Koch, Michael Frayn, Matthew Stokoe,

Irish crime!

I think everyone's read this bar-me.

Cows - Matthew Stokoe - a disturbing read apparently!

3251 - 3300 put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS.....Frank (double) Bill, Lawrence Block, Peter Leonard, Matthew Stokoe, Charles Bukowski - to mention a few.

LOWLIGHTS.......nothing too scary here - a decent tub I reckon!

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:


AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
ADLER-OLSEN JUSSI MERCY 2011 DQ1
AUSLANDER SHALOM HOPE: A TRAGEDY 2012
BERENSON ALEX THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE 2010 JW4
BILL FRANK DONNYBROOK 2013
BILL FRANK CRIMES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA 2011
BLOCK LAWRENCE TANNER'S TWELVE SWINGERS 1967 ET3
BOYD WILLIAM WAITING FOR SUNRISE 2012
BUKOWSKI CHARLES PULP 1994
CHILD LEE A WANTED MAN 2012 JR17
DAVIDSON LIONEL THE ROSE OF TIBET 1962
DAVIDSON LIONEL THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS 1961
DOLAN HARRY VERY BAD MEN 2011 DL2
DOLAN HARRY BAD THINGS HAPPEN 2009 DL1
DONOVAN GERARD SCHOPENHAUER'S TELESCOPE 2003
DORSEY TIM CADILLAC BEACH 2004 SS6
FORD RICHARD THE ULTIMATE GOOD LUCK 1981
FOUNTAIN BEN BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH CHE GUEVARA 2006
FOUNTAIN BEN BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK 2012
FRANCIS DICK COME TO GRIEF 1995 SH3
FRANCIS DICK WHIP HAND  1979 SH2
FRANCIS DICK BOLT 1986 KF2
FRAYN MICHAEL SKIOS 2012
KERLEY JACK THE DEATH COLLECTORS 2005 CR2
KOCH HERMAN THE DINNER 2012
KONIK MICHAEL THE MAN WITH THE $100,000 BREASTS 1999
LEON DONNA A NOBLE RADIANCE 1997 GB7
LEON DONNA DEATH AT LA FENICE 1992 GB1
LEONARD PETER TRUST ME 2009
LYONS ARTHUR CASTLES BURNING 1980 JA4
LYONS ARTHUR THE DEAD ARE DISCREET 1974 JA1
MACDONALD ROSS THE GALTON CASE 1959 LA8
MONCRIEFF SEAN DUBLIN 2000
NESSER HAKAN THE RETURN 2007 IVV3
NEVILLE STUART RATLINES 2013
NEWTON CHARLIE CALUMET CITY 2008
NICOL MIKE KILLER COUNTRY 2010 M+P2
PALAHNIUK CHUCK RANT 2007
PALAHNIUK CHUCK INVISIBLE MONSTERS 1999
PIMLOTT JOHN VIETNAM: THE HISTORY AND THE TACTICS 1982
RANKIN IAN DARK ENTRIES 2009
RANKIN IAN A COOL HEAD 2009
RUCKA GREG SHOOTING AT MIDNIGHT 1998 AK4
SIFAOUI MOHAMED INSIDE AL QAEDA 2003
SPILLANE MICKEY THE GIRL HUNTERS 1962 MH7
STOKOE MATTHEW COWS 1998 LHOTB1
URE LOUISE FORCING AMARYLLIS 2005
VAN DE WETERING JANWILLEM OUTSIDER IN AMSTERDAM 1975 AC1
VINE BARBARA KING SOLOMON'S CARPET 1991
WHITE RANDY WAYNE EVERGLADES 2003 DF10
ZEH JULI EAGLES AND ANGELS 2003

14 comments:

  1. That's a nice lot of books you have there, Col! What a variety, too! Neville, Block, Nesser, and Rankin. And Donna Leon, too. I'll be keen to know what you think of The Dinner when you get to it.

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    1. Margot thanks. Nesser, Neville and Leon will all be new to me, as will Herman Koch. Block's an old favourite!

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  2. Quite a few authors here I do not know. Here’s a question Col: In logging the library, do you find you have doubles? I’ve picked up novels in used book shops only to find later that I already had it. Then there are times when I pass on a book because I know I have it only to recall later that I gave mine to someone to read and never got it back.

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    1. Elgin, I've just tabbed through the spreadsheet and I have 29 duplicate books, which isn't too bad - 29 less to read at any case. I suppose I must err on the side of caution, buy it twice rather than run the risk of not having it. No doubt I will have a few more, where they may have been issued twice under different titles.

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  3. 3,300 books? That's a heap of books, Col! I don't know whether I should feel envious, or relieved that my own lot doesn't exceed 500. I have some unintended duplicates too, including Elmore Leonard.

    I have been looking for some Spillane paperbacks. I like his narrative style. I think Stuart Neville deserves a read too. I also need to sink my teeth into Irish crime fiction.

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    1. Prashant - 3300 is a ridiculous figure and I'm nowhere near finished. I haven't yet tried Mickey Spillane - one of these years I'll get around to it!

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  4. The Donovan is the one that stands out for me here, on the grounds of the title if nothing else -- I must see if my local library has a copy.

    Nothing wrong with having 3300 books!

    Like Margot, I'm interested to find out how you get along with the Koch. I liked it a lot.

    Nothing wrong with the spelling of "discreet" in that book title. "Discrete" means something else.

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    1. John, you know if I had a bet on which one of the 50 you might take a punt on, I would have had a fiver on the Donovan - don't know why I felt that - maybe the cover and title.
      I'm sure I only blog to get myself an education - never before seen "discreet" only ever "discrete" - back to school for me then!
      Koch going closer to the top of the pile!

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  5. never before seen "discreet"

    You will now see it ten times in the next 24 hours: here, for example.

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    1. Aah.. kind of reminded of a rude joke about "what's the definition of indefinitely?".... I'll hazard you can guess the punchline.

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  6. Quite a few there I recognize from, or read in, the 80s and early 90s, some I haven't thought of in years. The Schopenhauer Telescope is a brilliant title, I'll have to have a look at that one...

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    1. Let us know if you plump for the Donovan book - no doubt you'll read it long before I do!

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  7. That is a real mixed bag of books. A lot of them I am not familiar with. I would like to get to OUTSIDER IN AMSTERDAM this year, but who knows? I have MERCY by Adler-Olsen, but by its other title, The Keeper of Lost Causes. I should get to that one this year too.

    Now it is official, you have at least twice as many books as I do. I started counting one but never got done.

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    1. I only have the one Amsterdam Cops book which was very restrained of me! I hope you enjoy it, you're bound to beat me to it. I've not yet tried any ADLER-OLSEN either.

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