Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Recent Reads

Here's what I've been reading over the past year, all free courtesy of sdcl.org!

Record 1 of 54
TITLE Experience Hendrix [videorecording].
PUB INFO Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2008.
CALL # DVD 782.42166 EXP.

Record 2 of 54
AUTHOR Donovan, Jim, 1954-
TITLE A terrible glory : Custer and the Little Bighorn : the last great
battle / James Donovan.
PUB INFO Boston, Mass. ; London : Little, Brown, 2008.
CALL # 973.82 DON.

Record 3 of 54
AUTHOR Grossman, Lev.
TITLE Codex / Lev Grossman.
PUB INFO Orlando : Harcourt, c2004.
CALL # F GROSMAN.

Record 4 of 54
TITLE Fodor's Washington, D.C. 2009 : [with Mount Vernon, Alexandria &
Annapolis] / [editor: Salwa Jabado].
PUB INFO New York : Fodor's Travel Pub., c2009.
CALL # 917.53 FOD.

Record 5 of 54
AUTHOR Buffett, Mary.
TITLE Warren Buffett and the interpretation of financial statements /
Mary Buffett and David Clark.
PUB INFO New York : Scribner, 2008.
CALL # 657.3 BUF.

Record 6 of 54
TITLE Legends of Hawaiian slack key guitar [sound recording] : live
from Maui.
PUB INFO Los Angeles, CA : Daniel Ho Creations, [2006]
CALL # HAW CD LEGENDS.

Record 7 of 54
AUTHOR Fraiser, Jim, 1954-
TITLE The French Quarter of New Orleans / Jim Fraiser ; photography by
West Freeman.
PUB INFO Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.
CALL # 720.9763 FRA.

Record 8 of 54
AUTHOR West, Ben.
TITLE Retiring abroad / Ben West and John Howell.
PUB INFO London : Cadogan Guides, c2004.
CALL # 643.12 WES.

Record 9 of 54
AUTHOR Proser, Jim.
TITLE I'm staying with my boys : the heroic life of Sgt. John Basilone,
USMC / Jim Proser with Jerry Cutter.
PUB INFO New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
CALL # B BASILONE.

Record 10 of 54
AUTHOR Stockett, Kathryn.
TITLE The help / Kathryn Stockett.
PUB INFO New York : Amy Einhorn Books, c2009.
CALL # F STOCKETT.

Record 11 of 54
AUTHOR Herczog, Mary.
TITLE Frommer's New Orleans 2010 / by Mary Herczog.
PUB INFO Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Publishing, c2010.
CALL # 917.6335 FRO.

Record 12 of 54
AUTHOR Hitchens, Christopher.
TITLE Hitch-22 : a memoir / Christopher Hitchens.
PUB INFO New York : Twelve, 2010.
CALL # B HITCHENS.

Record 13 of 54
AUTHOR Gorokhova, Elena.
TITLE A mountain of crumbs / Elena Gorokhova.
PUB INFO New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010, c2009.
CALL # B GOROKHOVA.

Record 14 of 54
AUTHOR Burke, James Lee, 1936-
TITLE Swan Peak : a Dave Robicheaux novel / James Lee Burke.
PUB INFO New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
CALL # F BURKE.

Record 15 of 54
AUTHOR Puchner, Eric.
TITLE Model home : a novel / Eric Puchner.
PUB INFO New York : Scribner, c2010.
CALL # F PUCHNER.

Record 16 of 54
AUTHOR Grafton, Sue.
TITLE U is for undertow / Sue Grafton.
PUB INFO New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009.
CALL # F GRAFTON.

Record 17 of 54
AUTHOR Burke, James Lee, 1936-
TITLE Rain gods / James Lee Burke.
PUB INFO New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
CALL # F BURKE.

Record 18 of 54
AUTHOR Miéville, China.
TITLE Kraken : an anatomy / China Miéville.
PUB INFO New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2010.
CALL # F MIEVILLE.

Record 19 of 54
AUTHOR Montville, Leigh.
TITLE The Big Bam : the life and times of Babe Ruth / Leigh Montville.
PUB INFO New York : Doubleday, 2006.
CALL # B RUTH.

Record 20 of 54
AUTHOR Hiaasen, Carl.
TITLE The downhill lie : a hacker's return to a ruinous sport / by Carl
Hiaasen.
PUB INFO New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
CALL # B HIAASEN.

Record 21 of 54
AUTHOR Verghese, A. (Abraham), 1955-
TITLE Cutting for stone : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
PUB INFO New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
CALL # F VERGHESE.

Record 22 of 54
AUTHOR Handler, Chelsea.
TITLE My horizontal life : a collection of one-night stands / Chelsea
Handler.
PUB INFO New York : Bloomsbury Pub., 2005.
CALL # 306.7 HAN.

Record 23 of 54
AUTHOR Skyhorse, Brando.
TITLE The Madonnas of Echo Park : a novel / Brando Skyhorse.
PUB INFO New York : Free Press, 2010.
CALL # F SKYHORSE.

Record 24 of 54
AUTHOR Kornfield, Jack, 1945-
TITLE A path with heart : a guide through the perils and promises of
spiritual life / Jack Kornfield.
PUB INFO New York : Bantam Books, c1993.
CALL # 294.3444 KOR.

Record 25 of 54
AUTHOR Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
TITLE The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Michael Lewis.
PUB INFO New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
CALL # 330.973 LEW.

Record 26 of 54
AUTHOR Kornfield, Jack, 1945-
TITLE After the ecstasy, the laundry : how the heart grows wise on the
spiritual path / Jack Kornfield.
PUB INFO New York : Bantam Books, c2000.
CALL # 294.3444 KOR.

Record 27 of 54
AUTHOR Wilson, Susan, 1951-
TITLE One good dog / Susan Wilson.
PUB INFO New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
CALL # F WILSON.

Record 28 of 54
AUTHOR Starr, Kevin.
TITLE Golden Gate : the life and times of America's greatest bridge /
Kevin Starr.
PUB INFO New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
CALL # 624.230979461 STA.

Record 29 of 54
AUTHOR Halpern, Justin.
TITLE Sh*t my dad says / Justin Halpern.
PUB INFO New York : It Books, 2010.
CALL # 818.6 HAL.

Record 30 of 54
AUTHOR Evanovich, Janet.
TITLE Sizzling sixteen / Janet Evanovich.
PUB INFO New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
CALL # F EVANOVICH.

Record 31 of 54
AUTHOR Turow, Scott.
TITLE Innocent / Scott Turow.
PUB INFO New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010.
CALL # F TUROW.

Record 32 of 54
AUTHOR Burke, James Lee, 1936-
TITLE The glass rainbow : a Dave Robicheaux novel / James Lee Burke.
PUB INFO New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
CALL # F BURKE.

Record 33 of 54
AUTHOR Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-
TITLE The angel's game / by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated into English
by Lucia Graves.
PUB INFO New York : Doubleday, c2009.
CALL # F RUIZ ZAFON.

Record 34 of 54
AUTHOR Moore, Wes, 1978-
TITLE The other Wes Moore : the story of one name and two fates / Wes
Moore ; afterword by Tavis Smiley.
PUB INFO New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2010.
CALL # B MOORE.

Record 35 of 54
AUTHOR Parkhurst, Carolyn, 1971-
TITLE The nobodies album : a novel / Carolyn Parkhurst.
PUB INFO New York : Doubleday, c2010.
CALL # F PARKHURST.

Record 36 of 54
AUTHOR Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
TITLE White House diary / Jimmy Carter.
PUB INFO New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
CALL # 973.926092 CAR.

Record 37 of 54
AUTHOR Silva, Daniel, 1960-
TITLE The Rembrandt affair / Daniel Silva.
PUB INFO New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.
CALL # F SILVA.

Record 38 of 54
AUTHOR King, Stephen, 1947-
TITLE Blockade Billy [sound recording] / Stephen King ; [read by Craig
Wasson].
PUB INFO New York : : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2010.
CALL # CDB F KING.

Record 39 of 54
AUTHOR Houston, James D.
TITLE Bird of another heaven : a novel / by James D. Houston.
PUB INFO New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
CALL # F HOUSTON.

Record 40 of 54
AUTHOR Barr, Nevada.
TITLE Burn / Nevada Barr.
PUB INFO New York : Minotaur Books, 2010.
CALL # F BARR.

Record 41 of 54
AUTHOR Rodgers, Judy.
TITLE The Zuni Cafe cookbook / Judy Rodgers ; wine notes & selections,
Gerald Asher ; photography, Gentl & Hyers/Edge.
PUB INFO New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2002.
CALL # 641.509794 ROD.

Record 42 of 54
AUTHOR Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
TITLE Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated
by Helen R. Lane.
PUB INFO New York : Penguin Books, 1995, c1977.
CALL # F VAR.

Record 43 of 54
AUTHOR Leff, Jim, 1962-
TITLE The Chowhound's guide to the San Francisco Bay area/
Chowhound.com ; introduction by Jim Leff.
PUB INFO New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
CALL # 647.9579461 LEF.

Record 44 of 54
AUTHOR Brown, Ann Marie.
TITLE 101 great hikes of the San Francisco Bay area / Ann Marie Brown.
PUB INFO [S.l.] : Foghorn ; London : Hi Marketing, c2000.
CALL # 796.51097946 BRO.

Record 45 of 54
AUTHOR Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
TITLE The storyteller / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
PUB INFO New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.
CALL # F VAR.

Record 46 of 54
AUTHOR Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh.
TITLE Enigma : the battle for the code / Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
PUB INFO New York : J. Wiley, c2000.
CALL # 940.5485 SEB.

Record 47 of 54
AUTHOR Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
TITLE The Feast of the Goat / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith
Grossman.
PUB INFO New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.
CALL # F VAR.

Record 48 of 54
AUTHOR Sinclair, Mick.
TITLE San Francisco : a cultural and literary history / Mick Sinclair.
PUB INFO New York : Interlink Books, 2004.
CALL # 979.461 SIN.

Record 49 of 54
AUTHOR Parker, T. Jefferson.
TITLE Iron river / T. Jefferson Parker.
PUB INFO New York : Dutton, c2010.
CALL # F PARKER.

Record 50 of 54
TITLE The Underground guide to San Francisco / Jennifer Joseph, editor.
PUB INFO San Francisco, CA : Manic D Press, c2003.
CALL # 917.9461 UND.

Record 51 of 54
AUTHOR Connelly, Michael, 1956-
TITLE The reversal : a novel / Michael Connelly.
PUB INFO New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
CALL # F CONNELLY.

Record 52 of 54
AUTHOR Hiaasen, Carl.
TITLE Star Island / Carl Hiaasen.
PUB INFO New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
CALL # F HIAASEN.

Record 53 of 54
AUTHOR Nicholls, David, 1966-
TITLE One day / David Nicholls.
PUB INFO New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2010.
CALL # F NICHOLLS.

Record 54 of 54
AUTHOR Le Carré, John, 1931-
TITLE Our kind of traitor / John Le Carre.
PUB INFO New York : Viking, 2010.
CALL # F LE CARRE.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Jimmy Donley

My first cousin, once removed:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126422467

Monday, February 22, 2010

What I'm Reading, Watching and Listening to.

Reading - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (mandatory re-reading after just seeing Capote for the first time) and simultaneously, by Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, which is absolutely amazing.

Watching - Courtesy of Netflix: Extract (just ok, although Ben Affleck is pretty engaging as the drug-dealing bartender), Bobby (intertwines a number of characters, all headed towards their presence at RFK's fatal encounter with Sirhan Sirhan), The Bourne Ultimatum, A History of Violence (really good flick) and One Fast Move or I'm Gone, a documentary with commentary by the likes of Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Casady and many others, revolving around Kerouac's Big Sur and his descent into madness. I also really liked Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis in 26 Monkeys.

Listening - Fela Kuti, Midlake, Nicolette Larson, Field Music, Sir Douglas Quintet and lots of good ol' Grateful Dead.