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nonfiction (101), fiction (80), novel (62), US writer (37), books I didn't finish (28), short stories (21), airport book (18), history (18), memoir (18), essays (15), journalism (12), Iran (9), US writers (9), biography (9), Iraq (8), U.S. writer (8), humor (8), British writer (8), psychology (7), women (7), Mexico (6), non-fiction (6), war (6), politics (6), us writer (6), CIA (6), Islam (6), Pakistan (5), afghanistan (5), China (5), novella (5), Middle East (5), economics (5), colonialism (5), movies (5), New York (5), what a mess (5), U.S. writers (5), WW2 (4), novellas (4), France (4), Afghanistan (4), food (4), Japan (4), mystery (4), communism (4), Saudi Arabia (4), Canadian writers (4), Shanghai (3), Kenya (3), Lebanon (3), murder (3), religion (3), Thailand (3), crime (3), YA (3), genocide (3), aging (3), New Yorker (3), behavioral economics (3), Southeast Asia (3), finance (3), civil war (3), crap (3), Poland (3), medicine (3), didn't finish (3), Africa (3), immigration (3), Burma (3), Myanmar (3), autobiographical (3), New York City (3), Russia (3), Asia (3), india (3), Germany (3), Canadian writer (3), chick lit (3), murder mystery (3), childhood (3), 1920s (3), combat (2), terrorism (2), homelessness (2), windbag (2), Mark Bowden (2), Japanese writer (2), Malaysia (2), David Foster Wallace (2), Chernobyl (2), philosophy (2), anthology (2), saddam hussein (2), marginal (2), bad novels (2), Lehman (2), Khomeini (2), al Queda (2), china (2), London (2), banking (2), India (2), children (2), U.S writer (2), Billy Parham (2), British slavery (2), jewish writer (2), Chinese writers (2), bin Laden (2), Indian writers (2), Naipaul (2), anti-Semitism (2), Judaism (2), US authors (2), California (2), 20th century history (2), Indonesia (2), Wall Street (2), Iranian Revolution (2), novels (2), france (2), World War II (2), African-American (2), Texas (2), Minnesota (2), interviews (2), sequel (2), New Jersey (2), British colonialism (2), Kanan Makiya (2), energy (2), Netherlands (2), historical novel (2), africa (2), musicians (2), vegetarianism (2), biology (2), book club (2), books (2), wolf (2), racism (2), kidnapping (2), recession (2), feminism (2), 1970s (2), agriculture (2), brain (2), environmentalism (2), Brooklyn (2), detective novel (2), photography (2), Chicago (2), Iraq war (2), Hollywood (2), slavery (2), global warming (2), russia (2), police procedural (2), fashion (2), pornography (2), royalty (2), Israel (2), iraq (2), autobiography (2), 9/11 (2), Soviet Union (2), capitalism (2), oil (2), business (2), neuroscience (2), fathers and sons (2), behavioral science (1), science fiction (1), cults (1), English grammar (1), Ruth Snyder (1), coffee trade (1), jd salinger (1), US foreign policy (1), Dark Ages (1), Italy (1), brazil (1), Depression (1), Crusades (1), l ron hubbard (1), gossip (1), Dot (1), Mary (1), mole (1), boston (1), Lisbeth Salande (1), B-grade (1), Tracy Austin (1), novels set in Massachusetts (1), Turk stereotypes (1), Kitty Genovese (1), new carolina (1), Vowell-head (1), Huntington's (1), Niketas (1), foxboro (1), Burt Kaplan (1), hedonic adaptation (1), kim peer (1), U.S. Memory Championship (1), Accidental College (1), Oxford Modern American Usage (1), us writers (1), memory (1), crappy writing (1), toad hall (1), al-queda (1), Amsterdam (1), KSM (1), arab woman (1), Frederick Barbarossa (1), dodgeville (1), butcher shop (1), vampires (1), 17th century Netherlands (1), diaries (1), prison (1), science (1), South Dakota (1), stereotyped characters (1), ghost murderer (1), folk tales (1), 9-11 (1), Holy Grail (1), George Tenet (1), cheney (1), factory farming (1), russian mafia (1), neoconservative (1), Portuguese Jews (1), occupational therapy (1), Jonah (1), popular psychology (1), Mamet (1), saddam (1), apologies (1), Adelaide (1), vegans (1), stans (1), suspense (1), nasar (1), Celestine (1), Minneapolis (1), toad (1), conservatives (1), new york (1), memory palace (1), Prester John (1), brain injury (1), editor (1), children's (1), osama bin laden (1), unwed mother (1), Yiddish (1), Vancouver (1), North Dakota (1), true life crime (1), Vandals (1), online dating (1), Troy (1), adoption (1), incentives (1), Massachusetts (1), perception (1), homosexuality (1), children's book (1), ratty (1), taliban (1), marketing (1), dna (1), radio (1), mnemonics (1), St Petersburg (1), Karl (1), Russell (1), mafia (1), brothers (1), Sita (1), drunk driving (1), Constantinople (1), Tony Buzan (1), women entrepreneurs (1), multicultural studies (1), realpolitik (1), swedish author (1), american literature (1), Ontario (1), George Bush (1), middle age (1), Nebraska (1), consumer behavior (1), gay men (1), pop science (1), decolonization (1)
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Aug 11, 2007
Over mijn bibliotheek
These books don't constitute my library. I'm going to use Library Thing to keep track of what I've read, though I might throw in the occasional old faithful. Because I live abroad and have moved a lot, I try very hard not to accumulate books. It hasn't been so difficult. If I know a book is in one of the libraries in town, or that a friend owns it, that's almost as good as owning it. Sometimes I donate a book to one of these libraries, so I can retrieve it if need be. Books of the airport/beach reading variety are recycled back to a secondhand bookstore.

I've let myself collect the best reference works, mostly academic stuff, on Southeast Asia, especially Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. If it's marginal, I donate it to the library.
Over mij
Most people finish reading a book and don't have an opinion of it. Reviewing a book forces you to have an opinion. That's a paraphrase, but V.S. Naipaul said that. At least Paul Theroux says so in Sir Vidia's Shadow.

I don't do much of it nowadays, but I used to review books for regional newspapers and magazines. For the most part, I reviewed history, politics and other nonfiction related to Asia. The habit Naipaul speaks of has remained with me. I never reach the finish line or the halfway mark with the standard Web review: I hated/loved/identified/related/couldn't identify. I have enough details and arguments to spew a review of a thousands words or more.

The reviews here aren't anything like my formal published reviews. They're just notes to myself. Maybe if I download them, I'll stop running the review in my head. These scattered thoughts might be useful someday.

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