Saturday, December 29, 2007
books I read in 2007
Inspired by Preacher/Lawyer Jed I am going to try to list all the books I read this year. I doubt I'll remember half of them since I didn't keep a list throughout the year, but I'll try. Next year I'll keep up with them!
In no particular order
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Really good and will catch you up on the real history of this hemisphere's inhabitants prior to and partially into European's arrival.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong The name says it all really. Highlights include Helen Keller the communist and Christopher Columbus the hand severer.
A Short History of Nearly Everything Not so much a history of the world, but more a history of how we figured out what we do know about the world with all the ologies in science (and physics!)
Hunters of Dune The first in the series that goes forward Chapterhouse, the book that was Frank Herbert's last. It was also really the first that ended in a cliffhanger. I don't think it lives up to Frank's legacy but it is still pretty good. I really enjoyed the prequels (6 of them). I will read the next one, I mean I've read all 13 of the others!
Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars) One of my MFA advisers gave this to me as my summer reading assignment after I got the job in Indianapolis. It helps demystify the tenure process and talks about it as a political process of give and take. Most important lesson: keep records of everything.
The Grifters Given to me by Joe Fielder (of Radio Free Silver Lake) when I was in the hospital. Good read, especially for someone from LA for a bit of nostalgia about the city.
The Toughest Indian in the World Collection of short stories about American Indians, mostly around Spokane Washington. Some are better than others but none are bad.
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Gets you to think about subjects in new ways. Seemingly unconnected ideas are pulled together into interesting theories. Statistics has never been so fun!
Echo Park (Harry Bosch) Listened to on the ride from Echo Park to Indianapolis. I'm not big on murder mysteries or anything of the like, but I couldn't resist this when I saw it in a truck stop in Kansas.
So I can't remember any more that I finished
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies Currently reading this book while researching treaties that I'm shooting. Talks about the treaties from the other side of the table from the white Americans writing the history books. I also have Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800 to read also. And several more that I'm getting too sleepy to link to but I'll list anyway.
Visions of America : landscapes as metaphor in the twentieth century Beardsley, John.
No reservations : Native American history and culture in contemporary art Klein, Richard.
Native to the nation : disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia Cerwonka, Allaine.
American Indian constitutional reform and the rebuilding of Native nations Lemont, Eric D. (Eric David), 1969-
The native tribes of North America : a concise encyclopedia Johnson, Michael, 1937 Apr. 22-
I also started Dry but didn't like it. I might try another of his books though because Racheal has them all.
In no particular order
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Really good and will catch you up on the real history of this hemisphere's inhabitants prior to and partially into European's arrival.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong The name says it all really. Highlights include Helen Keller the communist and Christopher Columbus the hand severer.
A Short History of Nearly Everything Not so much a history of the world, but more a history of how we figured out what we do know about the world with all the ologies in science (and physics!)
Hunters of Dune The first in the series that goes forward Chapterhouse, the book that was Frank Herbert's last. It was also really the first that ended in a cliffhanger. I don't think it lives up to Frank's legacy but it is still pretty good. I really enjoyed the prequels (6 of them). I will read the next one, I mean I've read all 13 of the others!
Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars) One of my MFA advisers gave this to me as my summer reading assignment after I got the job in Indianapolis. It helps demystify the tenure process and talks about it as a political process of give and take. Most important lesson: keep records of everything.
The Grifters Given to me by Joe Fielder (of Radio Free Silver Lake) when I was in the hospital. Good read, especially for someone from LA for a bit of nostalgia about the city.
The Toughest Indian in the World Collection of short stories about American Indians, mostly around Spokane Washington. Some are better than others but none are bad.
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Gets you to think about subjects in new ways. Seemingly unconnected ideas are pulled together into interesting theories. Statistics has never been so fun!
Echo Park (Harry Bosch) Listened to on the ride from Echo Park to Indianapolis. I'm not big on murder mysteries or anything of the like, but I couldn't resist this when I saw it in a truck stop in Kansas.
So I can't remember any more that I finished
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies Currently reading this book while researching treaties that I'm shooting. Talks about the treaties from the other side of the table from the white Americans writing the history books. I also have Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800 to read also. And several more that I'm getting too sleepy to link to but I'll list anyway.
Visions of America : landscapes as metaphor in the twentieth century Beardsley, John.
No reservations : Native American history and culture in contemporary art Klein, Richard.
Native to the nation : disciplining landscapes and bodies in Australia Cerwonka, Allaine.
American Indian constitutional reform and the rebuilding of Native nations Lemont, Eric D. (Eric David), 1969-
The native tribes of North America : a concise encyclopedia Johnson, Michael, 1937 Apr. 22-
I also started Dry but didn't like it. I might try another of his books though because Racheal has them all.
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