Books & Reading for May 2008

For the past month I've been meddling with the items on my sidebar. I've shifted some items onto my Wordpress blog, which has been renamed Dark Orpheus’ Reading of Notes. (What is it with me and pretentious blog names?)

I have decided to keep a closer eye on my reading habits by keeping a monthly records - on the number of library titles I check out, how many I actually get around to reading/completing, how many books I buy each month.

Why do we do things like this? Keep track of our books and readings?

Who knows?

My Books & Reading Records for May 2008:

Library Books Borrowed:

1. Tender at the Bone • Ruth Reichl


2. Amber and Ashes (The Dark Disciple Volume 1) • Margaret Weis


3. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape of the American West • Rebecca Solnit


4. We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction • Joan Didion


5. The Making of a Chef • Michael Ruhlman


6. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen • Jacques Pépin


7. White Slave: The Autobiography • Marco Pierre White


8. Library at Night • Alberto Manguel


9. Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays • Joan Acocella


10. Last Rituals • Yrsa Sigurdardóttir


11. The Reach of a Chef • Michael Ruhlman


12. The Art of Eating • M.F.K. Fisher


13. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone • Deborah Madison


14. Comfort Me With Apples: Love, Adventure and a Passion for Cooking • Ruth Reichl


15. The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn • Solomon Volkov [Translated by Antonina W. Bouis]


16. Other Colors: Essays and a Story • Orhan Pamuk [Translated by Maureen Freely]

Books Started:

• Tender at the Bone • Ruth Reichl
  [09/05/2008 ~


• Amber and Ashes (The Dark Disciple Volume 1) • Margaret Weis
  [09/05/2008 ~


• Red Bird • Mary Oliver
  [23/05/2008 ~


• Kitchen Confidential • Anthony Bourdian
  [27/05/2008 ~


• The Making of a Chef • Michael Ruhlman
  [27/05/2008 ~


• Last Rituals • Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
  [29/05/2008 ~


• Library at Night • Alberto Manguel
  [30/05/2008 ~


• Comfort Me With Apples: Love, Adventure and a Passion for Cooking • Ruth Reichl
  [31/05/2008 ~

Books In Progress:

• The Surgeon's Mate • Patrick O'Brian
  [18/04/2008 ~
  bookmarked at p268


• Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics • Rebecca Solnit
  [26/04/2008 ~


• The Prisoner and the Fugitive • Marcel Proust
  [translated by Carol Clark & Peter Collier]
  [08/05/2008 ~

Books Completed:

• Tender at the Bone • Ruth Reichl
  [09/05/2008 ~ 26/05/2008]


• Checkmate: Fall of the Wall • Greg Rucka, Joe Bennett & Chris Samnee
  [18/05/2008 ~ 18/05/2008]


• B.P.R.D. Killing Ground • Mike Mignola, John Arcudi & Guy Davis
  [18/05/2008 ~ 18/05/2008]

Books Bought:

1. Alice Water and Chez Panisee • Thomas McNamee


2. Gardening at the Dragon's Gate • Wendy Johnson


3. Red Bird • Mary Oliver


4. Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller • Judith Thurman


5. The Landmark Thucydides • Edited by Robert B. Strassler


6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future For You • Brian K. Vaugh, Georges Jeanty & Joss Whedon


7. B.P.R.D. Killing Ground • Mike Mignola, John Arcudi & Guy Davis


8. Checkmate: Fall of the Wall • Greg Rucka, Joe Bennett & Chris Samnee


9. Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit • Robert Macfarlane