Random books from Oklahoma's library

The African Queen by C.S. Forester

EASY TO KILL by Agatha Christie

The Far Pavillions (2) by M. M. Kaye

THIS PERFECT DAY by LEVIN IRA

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip P. Hallie

Ragtime: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 I-II by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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TagsMine (21), Ours (11), Romance (6), Fiction (5), Horror (3), Adventure (2) — see all tags

Groups50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2008, Best of British, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsCharlotte Bronte, Willa Cather, Agatha Christie, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Elliot, Philip Jose Farmer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Graves, Zane Grey, D.H. Lawrence (Shared favorites)

About me I read. I've always read. I never noticed the real world until last year. After noticing it, I promptly decided to ignore it as much as possible. I also watch movies. Not television. Horror movies, dramas, and comedies are my top favorites, but anything historical is good too. Other than that, my interests are drawing, talking, playing Trivial Pursuit, writing, watching college basketball, baseball, Diet Pepsi, needlework, fishing, and politics.

Reading List 2008---

1. The Lovers--Philip Jose Farmer
2. The Chamber of Secrets--J.K. Rowlings
3. Must Love Dogs--Claire Cook
4. Mutiny on the Bounty--C. Nordhoff/J.N. Hall
5.The Looking Glass War--Frank Beddor
6. Owls well that Ends Well--Donna Andrews
7.Quite a Year for Plums--Bailey White
8. Called Out--A.G. Mojitbai
9. The Ides of March--Thornton Wilder
10. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie--Muriel Spaek
12. Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden
13. Gertrude and Claudius--John Updike
14.Frankenstein Unbound--Brian w, Aldiss
15. Ice Station Zebra--Alistair MacLean
16. American Psycho--Bret Easton Ellis
17. The Owl and the Pussycat--Richard Hubbard
18. The DeerHunter--
19. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory maguire
20. Communion--Whitley Striber
21. Deliverance--James Dickey
22. Tobacco Road--Erskine Caldwell
23. Atonement--IanMcEwan
24. West of the Moon--Jason Nasaw
25. Ladies of Missalonghi--Colleen McCullough
26. Hatchet--Gary Paulsen
27. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. Goodbye Mr. Chips--James Hilton
29. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
30.Life of Pi--Yann Martel
31. Silverhill--Phyllis A. Whitney
32. The Adam Experiment--Geoffrey Simmons
33. The Book of Fred--Abby Bardi
34. Born For Love--Leo Buscaglia
35.The Rag Nymph--Catherine Cookson
36. Tanner's Twelve Swingers--Lawrence Block
37. All Quiet on the Western Front--Eriche Maria Remarque
38. Field Guide to Chickens--Pam Percy
39. At Wit's End--Erma Bombeck
40. Oh, Kentucky! --Betty Layman Receveur
41. Woman's Doctor--Dr. William J. Sweeney III
42. Forever--Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes
44. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency--Douglas Adams
45. Practical Demonkeeping--Christopher Moore
46. The Neverending Story--Michael Ende
47. Cheaper by the Dozen --Frank Gilbreth
48. The Shadow Riders--Louis L'amour
49. A Boy called Hopeless--David Melton
50. The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse--Nancy Butcher
51. Beneath the Wheel--Hermann Hesse
52. The Stone Diaries--Carol Shields
53.Jamie--Jack Bennett
54. Crazy ladies--Michael Lee West
55. The New Year--Pearl S. Buck
56. How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law--Dorothy Cannell
57. The Green Berets-Robin Moore
58. So Dear to My Heart-Sterling North
59. The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
60. Dreamcatcher--Stephen King
61. This Perfect Day--Ira Levin
62. Plains of Passage--Jean M. Auel
63. Shelters of Stone--Jean M. Auel
64.Needlework in America--Virgina C. Bath
65. Steffie Can't Come Out to Play--Fran Arrick
66. Lord Jim--Joseph Conrad
67. Me and Emma--Elizabeth Flock
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Some Books On My TBR Stack for 2008

Adam Bede
Around the World In Eighty Days
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief

Barbary Shore
Beat to Quarters
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Best of Modern Humor
Blue Bottle Club
Books of Blood vol. 1, 2, 3

Catch-22
Cavern of Babel
Children of Dune
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Claim in The Hills, A
Columbella
Courtesan's Daughter, The
Crawfish Dreams

Darkness At Noon
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
Dog Who Wouldn't Be
Dombey and Son
Don't Lets Go to The Dogs Tonight
Double Eagle
Dynamo Farm

80 Minute Hour
Emma and Me
English Patient
Eye Among the Blind

Family Linen
Funny Farm

Heart of Darkness
High Wind in Jamaica
Holmes on the Range
Human Fly and Other Stories

I Love You Like a Tomato
Importance of Being Earnest, The

Lando
The Last Ride
Lest Innocent Blood be Shed
Lord Jim
Loving Each Other

Madame Bovary
Memory
Mill on the Floss
Mr. and Mrs. Cugat
Mosquito Coast

The Naked Ape
New Barbarians
Norah
Notes From the Underground

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Parsival, or A Knights Tale
Perfect Storm
Pride and Prejudice
Primary Elections in the South

Quick and the Dead

Runestone

Serpent and the Rainbow
She Flew the Coop
Soon to be A Motion Picture
Specter of the Past
Star Trek:The Lost Years
Sterile Cuckoo
Summer of '42

Tantric Quest
Three Against London
Tobacco
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

View From Here, The
Vision of the Future

West With the Vikings
Windwhales of Ishmael
Wolf's Hour, The
World of Jeeves
World War Z

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About my library It's growing! I've been trying to add at least ten books a week. ( usually off the library sale rack)Hoping one day to have over 100,000 volumes and my own private library to house them.

I prefer books written before 1940, but I'm always willing to read something new as well. I try not to keep up with the newest, popular or bestselling books because I like to discover and read them without being influenced by other's opinions. It's always fun when I read a book and like it, then research it and find out it was very famous or influential at one time.

Most of my books are used books,as I can't resist buying them and giving them a good home.

My favorite books of 2007--

Cold Sassy Tree
The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Cell
The Naked Civil Servant
Crime and Punishment
The Quilter's Apprentice
Far From the Madding Crowd

My favorite books of 2008--

Frankenstein Unbound--Brian Aldiss
Gertrude and Claudius--John Updike
Ice Station Zebra--Alistair MacLean
Ladies of Missalonghi--Colleen McCullough
Lord of the Flies--William Golding
Life of Pi--Yann Martel
Flowers for Algernon --- Daniel Keyes
Practical Demonkeeping--Christopher Moore
How to Murder Your Mother-in-law Dorothy Cannell

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Member sinceMar 24, 2007

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The Virginian was great. What a wonderful start to a whole genre. It had all of the things that we see in westerns now but with so much more, including a more well-rounded and complete main character. Most of the hero cowboys don't have the depth which Wister gave to the Virginian.

You should really check out his journals and letters compiled by a descendant, as they explain so much of the beginnings and the journey for the novel. That includes Wister's own experience with maltreatment of a horse. The novel plays down what really happened and the Virginian acts as Wister wished he would have but was not able to.

posted by blackdogbooks at 8:27 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008

I am loving The Virginian and loved Out West, his journals and Letters even more. It's not a commonly known book but it is well worth hunting up. You should really enjoy Darkness at Noon, as I see it is in your TBR pile there. I really enjoyed looking at your reading list for this year. We've got some overlap.

posted by blackdogbooks at 3:10 pm (EST) on Jun 20, 2008

Owl has many more books to add just not enough time to do it. Blackhawk Down is a good one. Wife's brother was wounded in that ordeal and I had two former students in that fray-cuss. All were on little birds. Fortunately owl was not there!

posted by owlmoon at 9:37 am (EST) on Jun 15, 2008

OH! Owl is from Altus, Okieland.

posted by owlmoon at 7:08 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

Owls well that ends well? Do you think owlmoon would like that?

posted by owlmoon at 7:06 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

Thanks for the friend request! I look forward to looking through your library. I have enjoyed your challenge thread. Erin

posted by Rarcar1 at 7:09 pm (EST) on May 1, 2008

I know! I don't know many people using this site yet, and most people I know aren't really big readers like I am. I'm glad you find my library interesting also--it's always so fun to find people with similar tastes in books who have read the same things.

posted by eheleneb3 at 2:26 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

Thanks for including me on your interesting libraries list. I too am interested in books that don't nescesarily make the current popularity lists. On my mothers death I was left a lot of her books (more than 20 boxes) and I really like to read books that were once popular. I have a feeling for these books that were the "blockbusters" of their time (mostly the 40's and 50's) but now are out of print and not read by anyone. Keep reading! It is definitely more exciting than real life!

posted by janeherr at 1:49 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2008

Oh, good! I'm glad. :) It seemed only right, as you knew already who'd get first listings.

posted by Eurydice at 2:58 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2008

Hi! Thanks for the 'interesting library' nod! :) You've got an enjoyably diverse range of hobbies and interests, looks like. If I may suggest: why not mark your listed authors in the 'Favorite Authors' section? It turns up interesting connections, and shows on the authors' pages.... a casual index of their fan base. I'm with you on usually preferring my fiction, at least, vintage; though there are exceptions. - And yes, it's a great feeling to give unwanted books of no illustrious title, shall we say, a good home. :)

J.

posted by Eurydice at 2:00 am (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

Hey, I've got a question (and I'm going to ask everyone who has this book, so I may end up getting a lot of answers, lol):

I've got a book that I can't identify. It looks like it's from the 50s or 60s. It's designed for young readers. I don't know the title of it, author, or ISBN because those pages have been torn off.

On page 4, it reads:

"This is a guide to aid you in identifying rocks and minerals. But it is more than that. This book will also help you understand the importance of rocks and minerals in our daily lives."

On page 5, there is an artist's depiction of a car that I think must be from the 50s or 60s.

I think this book might be the same one that you own entitled, "Rocks and Minerals" by Herbert Spencer Zim.

Could you please check page 4 to see if those are the first words?

Oh, another thing, this book is small (pocket sized) - as a field guide should be.

Thanks very much!

posted by glanecia at 7:04 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2007

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