2001 and prior readings

Here, captured from my now defunct website, is a partial bibliography of the books I read in 2001 and prior:

Please also see 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936

Burmese Days, George Orwell, 1934

Coming up for Air, George Orwell, 1939

The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction, J.H. Blair, Editor,
2000

The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells, 1897

'The Metamorphosis' and Other Stories, Franz Kafka, 1996 translation

About A Boy, Nick Hornby, 1998

The Old Man and the Sea, Earnest Hemingway, 1952

The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942

Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, Terry Jones, 1997

Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster, 1905

Blast from the Past, Ben Elton, 1998

Strong Poison, Dorothy L. Sayers, 1930

Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers, 1926

High Fidelity, Nick Hornby, 1995

Out of the Shelter, David Lodge, 1970, 2nd Ed. 1985

Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding, 1996

Swann, Carol Shields, 1987

Friend of My Youth : Stories, Alice Munro, 1990

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1945

Sophie's Choice, William Styron, 1979

Happenstance : The Wife's Story/the Husband's Story/Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition, Carol Shields, 1980

Larry's Party, Carol Shields , 1997

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle, 1993

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, 1997

Because of the Cats, Nicolas Freeling, 1963

Love in Amsterdam, Nicolas Freeling, 1962

The Wars, Timothy Findley, 1977

Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne, 1873

Stones, Timothy Findley, 1988

I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54, Robert Graves, 1934

The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence, 1964

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1970

Trainspotting a Screenplay, John Hodge, 1996

Trainspotting, Irvine Walsh, 1993

The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi, 1991

MicroSerfs, Douglas Coupland, 1996

Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938, 1975

Walker Evans: A Biography, Belinda Rathbone, 1995

Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, edited by Deborah Willis, 1996

Lisette Model, Anne Thomas, 1990?

Imogen Cunningham: The Poetry of Form, Pradip Malde, 1994

The Culture of Nature, Alexander Wilson, 1992

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Roland Barthes, 1985

Imogen Cunningham : Ideas Without End : A Life and Photographs, Richard Lorenz, 1993

The Homoerotic Photograph, Allen Ellenzweig, 1992

The Male Nude in Contemporary Photography, Melody D. Davis, 1991

Evergon 1971-1987, Martha Hanna

Mythologie personnelle, Evergon, 1998

Mayday: The U-2 Affair. The Untold Story of the Greatest US-USSR Spy Scandal, Michael R. Beschloss, 1986

Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1978

This is My Story, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1937

Monty Python Speaks, David Morgan, 1999

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Curt Gentry, 2001

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Dava Sobel, 1995

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1965

Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941 : The Partnership That Saved the West,
Joseph P. Lash, 1976

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, 1986

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Formula One: The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Grand Prix Motor Racing Fifth Edition, Bruce Jones, Editor, 1999

Monty: His Part in My Victory, Spike Milligan, 1976


Savage Love, Dan Savage, 1998

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth, Paul Hoffman, 1998

Pole to Pole With Michael Palin : North to South by Camel, River Raft, and Balloon, Michael Palin, 1992

The African-American Book of Days: Inspirational History and Thoughts for Every Day of the Year, Julia Stewart, 1996

Eccentric Graces: Eritrea and Ethiopia through the eyes of a traveller, Julia Stewart, 1999

Winston Churchill, William Vivian Butler, 1980

Adolph Hitler, John Toland, 1976

Innumeracy:  Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences, John Allen Paulos, 1990

Updated Contries I've Visited web page

List of eligible countries (where I've slept at least one motionless night)

List of ineligible countries (where I have set foot but not slept at least one motionless night)

Portraits

I have edited and restructured my portraits here.

Amsterdam Botanic Garden

Here are some snapshots of the Amsterdam Botanic Garden shot yesterday.

Travel map

I have belatedly updated my travel map and list. The newest additions were Russia, South Korea, and Myanmar.

Updated Contries I've Visited web page

I have finally updated my "Countries I have visited (in chronological order)" web page, now with 50 countries (newest = Norway) plus nine more in which I did not spend a motionless night.

Heroine

I've added Rachel Carson to my list of personal heroes.

Website down

My website - www.haythornthwaite.net - is currently unavailable due to server problems where it is hosted. The company says it won't take much longer to fix. I'll update this blog entry when the site is visible again.

Islamabad and Rawalpindi 2004

I'm refurbishing some of my 'Souvenirs' albums on my website. (It's amazing how they somehow seem to get stale. Part of the problem now is that my friend Jacqueline taught me how to adjust the levels with PhotoShop and now I hate all my old photo formulations.) Here's stuff from Pakistan in 2004.

Scotland snapshots

I've just finished wrestling with Web Album Generator which is fantastic in many ways but obstreperous for Web Album Editing. But anyway, my Scottish holiday snaps are now on-line here. (There's a rather heavy emphasis on birds.) Please feel free to comment.

Earlier today I tried out the bike I've 'inherited' from colleague Roberto, who has gone home. It's nice to be on two wheels but I found it harder to adapt to riding on the left than I do when I'm driving four of them. And although the left pedal was 'fixed' yesterday the whole crank broke off today when I was heading to a meeting, leaving two or three schoolgirls in stitches and leaving me pushing it along rather foolishly.

Hospital pump and reading

Lori, April 3, 2002

It's the first of the month which means we're in the middle of a lot of accounting and project reporting here at Merlin Buchanan. In the midst of this the water pump at the hospital we support (the Liberian Government Hospital here in Buchanan) failed again yesterday... sigh... this undoubtedly mean another dip into our already hemorrhaging hospital maintenance budget...

Last night I finished re-reading Mordecai Richler's Solomon Gursky was here, which I highly recommend.

It was particularly interesting to note which features and passages I remembered from my first reading, which was sometime before 2001.

I list what I've read in 2006 here. (Start here for other years.)