Books

1. Mrs. Fitz's Flamingos   McCloskey, Kevin   1992   ----
   Started: 2002-xx-xx       Finished: xxxx-xx-xx

   We've checked this out twice and Delainie loves this very much. It's a truly original story book for children. I went searching for the author and was able to find him and send a brief note to which he replied that very day.

   
   

   Madeline   Behmelmans, Ludwig   1939   ----

   Started: 2002-xx-xx       Finished: xxxx-xx-xx

   Have read this countless times since checking this out. Have also memorized it. An excellent story that teaches empathy and compassion.

   
   

   Star Trek The Return   Shatner, William   ----   ----
   
   

   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   Rowling, J.K.   ----   ----
   

   Started: 2002-07-xx       Finished: 2002-07-14

   Harry's second year at Hogwarts.

   
   

   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   Rowling, J.K.   ----   ----
   

   Started: 2002-07-15       Finished: 2002-07-xx

   Harry's third year at Hogwarts.

   
   

   Madeline's Rescue   Behmelmans, Ludwig   1951   ----
   

   Started: 2002-07-16       Finished: 2001-07-16

   The second Madeline story.

1. Dandelion Wine
2. Black Sunday

   I want to see the movie of this again. I've not seen it since the film was in the theater in 1977. There is no letterboxed version of it on VHS and no DVD that I know of, which is a shame.

3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the BBC radio adaptation)

   This was quite different since it went beyond the second book but had a different story than what was in the third book.

4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro with The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

   This tape included part of Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist in the Floating World written in 1986. It too was very good.

5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. Eaters of the Dead
7. tuesdays with Morrie
8. Angela's Ashes
9. The Illustrated Man

   - listening to this twice and putting comments here.

10. The Trouble with Harriet

    by Dorothy Cannell, 1999. Recorded Books, LLC, 2000; Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.

Printed books I’ve read to in the year 2001:

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - finished it at last!
2. Beijing Spring
3. Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
4. Zen Rock Gardening - just a mini book, but interesting.
5. Neuromancer   Gibson, William   1984   Ace Books, The Berkley Publishing Group
6. Home Movie   Akins, Ellen   1988   Simon and Schuster
   
   Started: 2001-xx-xx       Finished: 2001-09-20

   This is a book that I've started on at least three other occasions. Each time, in the third chapter, I've lost the desire to finish it. This chapter is some 70 pages in length. One aspect of Akins' style of writing is to use very long sentences. These turn into very long paragraphs. There are cases where an entire paragraph will be a single immense sentence. I was so caught up in the mechanics of her writing, that it was a continuous distraction to the story.

   Slaughterhouse-Five   Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt   1969   Dell
   

   Started: 2001-09-26       Finished: 2001-09-27

   I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings   Angelou, Maya   1969   Bantam
   

   Started: 2001-09-28       Finished: 2001-10-04

   Veleteen Rabbit, The   ----   ----   ----
   

   Started: 2001-10-01       Finished: 2001-10-01

   But Not the Hippopotamus   ----   ----   ----
   

   Started: 2001-10-13       Finished: 2001-10-13

   Once Upon a Potty   ----   ----   ----
   

   Started: 2001-10-13       Finished: 2001-10-13
   

1. Red Scarf Girl
2. Winesburg, Ohio
3. Countdown
4. Little Big Man
5. The Lost World
6. The Hammer of God
7. Timeline
8. The Terminal Man
9. The Old Man and the Sea
10. Mutant Message from Forever
11. At Home in Mitford
12. The Cay
13. Airframe
14. The Great Train Robbery
15. Neanderthal
16. The Martian Chronicals
17. Timothy of the Cay
18. Fahrenheit 451
19. Timequake
20. The Bomb
21. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
22. The Pull of the Moon

Printed books I’ve read to in the year 2000:

1. Library of Nations: China by Time-Life books.
2. Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - not finished yet

1. Starship Troopers

   I read most of this in High School, but couldn't seem to finish it. It's quite a good story and has several interesting essay's on Civics. The movie was junk.

   
   

Printed books I’ve read to in the year 1999:

1. Star Trek: Resurrection - from GayleM at the DRMS project the second time
2. Animal Farm - After watching the new live action version from TNT.

1. My Father's Geisha by James Gordon Bennett. Something I found in a dollar store. Quite a good read.
2. 3001: Final Odyessy by Arthur C. Clarke - a loan from AndyB
3. Mutant Message Down Under
4. Snow Falling On Ceaders By David Guteson - had since DarylE from Oracle left it at Randolph.
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - another loan from AndyB

1. Iron Joe Bob by Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) - never did finish this.
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.
3. Fast Sofa by Bruce Craven - never did finish this.
4. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - a loan from Skoogie.

1. The Lively Little Rabbit by Ariane. Read to my niece Amy, who was 5 at the time, while I was on vacation.
2. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Very different from what is portrayed in the movie.
3. The Cay by Theodore Taylor.

1. Lando Calrissian and the
2. Lando Calrissian and the
3. Lando Calrissian and the

1. Cerebus Number Zero (reprinting issues 51, 117-118 and 137-138) by Dave Sim.
2. Cerebus Book 2 (Issues 26-50 High Society) by Dave Sim.

1. The Killing Joke - a Batman and the Joker graphic novel