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The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter

The Crusades: a Very Short Introduction by Christopher Tyerman

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

Comrades and citizens [Soviet people] by Seema Rynin Allan

The golden receipt book: or, information for all classes of persons by A. W. Chase

Report from Iron Mountain on the possibility and desirability of peace by Leonard C. Lewin

Rumpole rests his case by John Mortimer

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About meI work at a small academic library near Oxford. Why I do this, too, is beyond me...

About my libraryI moved to Oxford in early 2006 with a box of forty books; how they grow... The ones listed here are only those I have to hand; the remainder are in storage elsewhere, and not listed.

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Currently readingThe Scottish Nation: 1700-2007 by T.M. Devine
The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon
Are You Ready for the Country? by Peter Doggett
I May be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
The Oxford History of the British Army by David Chandler
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The way the future was : a memoir by Frederik Pohl

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The Gospel of Corax by Paul Park

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Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson

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World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war by Max Brooks

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The Rise of Political Lying by Peter Oborne

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Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward by David S. Prerau

Great review on Altered Carbon. I just wrote one myself, so it's interesting seeing someone else write one right when I finished the novel.

posted by bardsfingertips at 4:27 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

I just saw your little review of the Civil Defense Guidebook, Advising the Householder on Protection against Nuclear Attack. If you don't know it already, you very much must watch Duck and Cover produced by the US Federal Civil Defense Administration. (I couldn't tell if your book was US or UK).

posted by eromsted at 10:08 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

It is your fault I have bought a paid membership, after hemming and hawing about it. This now means I have to go catalog the *rest* of my books. Curse you!

posted by mindspillage at 12:15 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2007

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