Friday, March 5, 2010

Horrible...horrible book buff.

I am shameful that I even claim to be a book connoisseur. Assert a passion for print. Admit an admiration for alliteration. I have failed you my dedicated congregation, of one. I know that this will not make up for months of neglect, but I would like to review some oldies and newbies that I have read lately. (Although 2-300 pages of textbook reading for school really puts a damper on my weekly book completion list.)


The Road by Cormac McCarthy (oldie)

http://ikereeder.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/the-road.jpg

Under the Dome by Steven King (newbie)
http://spl225.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/under-the-dome1.jpg

Confederacy of Dunces (oldie)

Book cover for A Confederacy of Dunces.  A cartoon like figure of a chubby man in a trenchcoat wearing a cap & scarf, holds a small curver sword in one hand and a hot dog in the other.
Heist Society (newbie)


This Side of Paradise (oldie...but always a goody!)

This_Side_of_Paradise_dust_jacket.gif image by jalfano58
Pirate Latitudes (newbie)
http://oceanblue1.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pirate_latitudes.jpg

The Naked and the Dead (oldie)

http://www.americanlegends.com/Interviews/naked-and-the-dead-pic-3.jpg
The Vipers Nest- 39 clues (newbie)



This Book is Overdue: How Librarian's and Cybrarian's can save us all!


Also I would like to take a minute to observe the memory of talent lost in the literary world this year:
2010 A Year of Great Loss

Jerome David Salinger
Barry Hannah
Robert B. Parker
Dick Francis
Erich Segal