tungsten_peerts avoids a personal life in 2015 using this pile of over 75 books

I was chexmix. Then I melted. Now I'm Tungsten, which is much sterner.

Key:

(G) - personal library
(L) - loan from public lib.
(S) - loan from friend
(E) - electronic
(ER) - Early Reviewers

1. Allen, Mike - Unseaming (E)
   
2. Aristotle - Meteorologica (L)
   
3. Barnes, Jonathan, ed - The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (G)
   
4. Betts, Doris - Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories (L)
   
5. Block, David L. and Freeman, Ken - Shrouds of the Night (G)
   
6. Caesar - The Gallic War (L)
   
7. Calder, Richard - Dead Girls (L)
   
8. Calvino, Italo - Cosmicomics (G)
   
9. Cicero - Cicero, Letters to Atticus, vol. 1 (L)
   
10. Claudian - Claudian, Vol 1 (L)
    
11. Claudian - Claudian, Vol 2 (L)
    
12. Conn, Herb and Conn, Jan - The Jewel Cave Adventure (L)
    
13. Davies, Robertson - What's Bred in the Bone (L)
    
14. DeLillo, Don - Ratner's Star (L)
    
15. Diaconis, Persi and Graham, Ron - Magical Mathematics (L)
    
16. Doressoundiram, Alain and Lellouch, Emmanuel - At the Edge of the Solar System (L)
    
17. Doughty, Caitlin - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (L)
    
18. Dozois, Gardner, ed. - The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (G)
    
19. Drabble, Margaret - The Pattern in the Carpet (L)
    
20. Emsley, John - The 13th Element (L)
    
21. Everitt, Anthony - Cicero (L)
    
22. Fitzgerald, Penelope - The Blue Flower (L)
    
23. Flaubert, Gustave - Sentimental Education (G)
    
24. Flores, Angel, ed. - An Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valery in English Translation (G)
    
25. Frye, Joanne S. - Biting the Moon (L)
    
26. Garfield, Simon - To the Letter (L)
    
27. Gillispie, Charles Coulston - The Edge of Objectivity (G)
    
28. Gombrich, E. H. - The Story of Art (G)
    
29. Grayling, Christopher - The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia (L)
    
30. Guthrie, W. K. C. - A History of Greek Philosophy, vol 2 (L)
    
31. Haskins, Charles Homer - The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (G)
    
32. Hopkins, Gerard Manley - The Major Works (L)
    
33. James, Henry (ed. Leon Edel) - The Letters of Henry James, Vol. 2, 1875-1883 (L)
    
34. Johnson, Charles W. - Ice Ship (ER, G)
    
35. Joyce, Rachel - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (L)
    
36. Kimmel, Haven - Iodine (L)
    
37. Kladstrup, Donald and Petie - Wine and War (L)
    
38. Komunyakaa, Yusef - Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (G)
    
39. Mallas, John - The Messier Album (G)
    
40. Lucian - Lucian, vol. 1 (L)
    
41. Morwood, Mike and van Oosterzee, Penny - A New Human (G)
    
42. Nichol, bp - As Elected: Selected Writing (G)
    
43. North, John - Cosmos (G)
    
44. Olsen, Tillie - Silences (G)
    
45. Pliny - Natural History, vol. 1 (L)
    
46. Pliny - Natural History, vol. 2 (L)
    
47. Plutarch - Moralia, vol. 2 (L)
    
48. Plutarch - Moralia, vol. 3 (L)
    
49. Poe, Edgar Allan - Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales (G)
    
50. Pratchett, Terry - Guards! Guards! (L)
    
51. Principe, Lawrence - The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest (L)
    
52. Reynolds, Alastair - Redemption Ark (G)
    
53. Reynolds, Alastair - Revelation Space (G)
    
54. Roach, Mary - Packing for Mars (G)
    
55. Saunders, George - Tenth of December (G)
    
56. Sebald, W. G. - The Rings of Saturn (L)
    
57. Simons, Sarah, ed. - No One May Ever Have The Same Knowledge Again (G)
    
58. Slattum, Judy - Masks of Bali (G)
    
59. Smyth, W. H. - Sidereal Chromatics (G, E)
    
60. Spark, Muriel - The Driver's Seat (L)
    
61. Stendhal - Scarlet and Black (G)
    
62. Stone, William and am Ende, Barbara, Beyond the Deep (L)
    
63. Swaby, Rachel - Headstrong (ER, G)
    
64. Sylvester, David - The Brutality of Fact (G)
    
65. Thomas, Lewis - The Lives of a Cell (G)
    
66. Tiles, Mary - The Philosophy of Set Theory (L)
    
67. Toibin, Colm - The Master (L)
    
68. Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Lord of the Rings (full trilogy) (L)
    
69. Updike, John - Rabbit Redux (L)
    
70. Various - Remains of Old Latin, vol. 1 (L)
    
71. Various - Remains of Old Latin, vol. 2 (L)
    
72. Villani, Cedric - Birth of a Theorem (L)
    
73. Wharton, Edith - French Ways and Their Meaning (S)
    
74. Whitlock, Kay and Bronski, Michael - Considering Hate (ER, G)
    
75. Wright, Charles - Negative Blue (G)
    
76. Zola, Emile - The Kill (G, E)
    

*waves gleefully*

Good to see you here!

Awesome!

I was chexmix. Then I melted. Now I'm Tungsten, which is much sterner.

There's something...uh...weird about that.

Still, it's good. So hello.

I never said I wasn't weird. ;^)

I just moved (up a floor, to a bigger apartment), so I am more than usually aware of how "over-booked" I am. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ahem. So one focus this year (as it has been for the past few years) is reading what I already own. The library interferes with this quest, of course.

>6 tungsten_peerts: *snork!* "Over-booked"! Love it. Congrats on the new apartment, too!

Thanks! I really like the new digs.

How is Oort settling in to the new place?

Oh, Ms. Cloud is very very happy. :^) She has loads of new hiding places, more space to galumph about like a beefalo and play ... she cried a little the first day or so, but that was it.

Excellent!

On Saturdays I go to brunch with four friends (two couples). Since books are basically my SO, I took a book with me this morning to feel less like Colonel Fifth Wheel. ;)

Hello, 50.

Happiest of 50ths to you!

Heh - thanks!

60!

Hello, 70.

Well ... one to go. Been an interesting reading year.

I should visit other folks' threads more, I guess.

You've done some pretty great reading this year!

When you add to your list of books read by editing the first post and not posting new, um, posts, your thread isn't bumped to the top of the Talk list and so it's more difficult for folks to follow your updates. Not that I'm saying you need to change what you're doing; I'm just offering an explanation for why I at least keep losing track of your thread (and I'd love to see more of you round the group, too!)...

Aha!

:p

Jeepers, one damn book to go ... still. I should just pull down a poetry book from the shelf, read it, and call 2015 done.

Sounds like a plan to me. :) I use graphic novels for just such an emergency...

Oo, I do have the Roz Chast memoir sitting next to my bed. Could do that one. Great idea.

There are other ones I need/want to read, but that is at hand immediately.

Done!

Woot! Congrats!

:D

Wasn't sure I was going to make it. I was prepared to cheat and break up Lord of the Rings into three!