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Welcome to PaperbackPal's bookshelf!
This bookshelf used to be an inventory of my permanent collection books but as of March 20th/06 I removed my PC book inventory (about 350 books) and listed them in LibraryThing. The PC books that remain here are connected to other users and can't be removed.
NOTICE: UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE I AM UNABLE TO TRADE OR RABCK ANY BOOKS THROUGH THE MAIL DUE TO THE ASTRONOMICAL COST OF SHIPPING THROUGH THE CANADIAN POSTAL SYSTEM. THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.
What do I read?
I now favour non-fiction....instructive, biographies, survival, rural life, gardening, art in general, Native art, Native history and culture, and books like Fast Food Nation and other depressing social issues LOL.
I don't read horror, chit lit, plays, romance, humour, sports, fantasy, mysterys, thrillers, teen, erotic, porn, occult, poetry, astrology, get rich quick, or travel.
Books that I have read from the day I joined Bookcrossing, September 7/04, to 2008
2004
*The Corporation* by Joel Bakan
*The End of Work* by Jeremy Rifkin *Davita's Harp* by Chaim Potok
*The Best Democracy Money Can Buy* by Greg Palast
*Missing Sarah* by Maggie De Vries *I am David* by Anne Holm
*The Color of Water* by James McBride *The Bookseller of Kabul* by Asne Seierstad
*When Memory Fails* by Alan Edwards Ph. D. *How to be Good* by Nick Hornby
*Life Without Water* by Nancy Peacock *The Change Before the Change* by Laura Corio MD.
*The Silent Passage* by Gail Sheehy *Glorious Appearing* by Tim Layahe
*Mind Wide Open* by Steven Johnson *Somebodies and Nobodies* by Robert Fuller
2005
*Lolita* by Vladimir Nabokov *Germinal* by Emile Zola
*Exodus* by Leon Uris *Vanishing Country: Is it Too Late to Save Canada* by M Hurtig
*Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion* by Jean Swanson
*Pay The Rent or Feed The Kids* by Mel Hurtig *Speaking Out: Ideas That Work for Canadians* by Jack Layton
*Homelessness: the making and unmaking of a crisis* by Jack Layton
*Addiction Is a Choice* by Jeffrey A. Schaler
*The Diary of a Young Girl* by Anne Frank *Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace* by Gore Vidal
*The Lovely Bones* by Alice Sebold *Obasan* by Joy Kogawa
*The Good Earth* by Pearl Buck *Exodus Revisited* by Leon Uris
*The Reader* by Bernhard Schlink *The Book of Eve* by Constance Beresford-Howe
*Hungry Hearts* by Anzia Yezierska *The Old Man and the Sea* by Ernest Hemingway
*Setting Up A Tropical Aquarium Week by Week* by Stuart Thraves
*Practical Fishkeeping* by Mary Bailey and Gina Sandford
*Aquariums for Dummies* by Maddy Hargrove *The Virus Within: A Coming Epidemic* by Nicholas Regush
*The Jade Peony* by Wayson Choy *Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust* by Fern Schumer Chapman
*Good Grief* by Lolly Winston *Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague* by Geraldine Brooks
*The Girl With a Pearl Earring* by Tracy Chevalier
*Middlesex* by Jeffrey Eugenides *The Kite Runner* by Khaled Hosseini
*The Speed of Dark* by Elizabeth Moon *Oryx and Crake* by Margaret Atwood
*The Life of Pi* by Yann Martel *La Prisonniere* by Malika Oufkir
*The Birth of Venus* by Sarah Dunant *Kindred* by Octavia Butler
*Farewell Babylon* by Naim Kattan *Tuesday With Morrie* by Mitch Albom
*The Five People You Meet in Heaven* by Mitch Albom
*Running With Scissors* by Augusten Burroughs *The Time Travelers Wife* by Audrey Niffenegger
*Possessing the Secret of Joy* by Alice Walker
*Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl* by Kate McCafferty *The Tipping Point* by Malcolm Gladwell
*Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith* by G.B. Nahai
*Chasing Rumi* by Roger Housden *Black & Blue* by Anna Quindlen
*Dubliners* by James Joyce *Jew Boy* by Alan Haufman
*The Paradox of Choice* by Barry Schwartz *A Librarian is to Read* by Betty Vogel
*The Working Poor* by David Shipler *Edges of the Earth* by Richard Leo
*Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology* by E Brende
*Stanley Park* by Timothy Taylor *Bee Season* by Myla Goldberg
*RRIR* by C. Sterling *The Bell Jar* by Sylvia Plath
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time* by Haddon
2005 was a bad year for reading because I joined the A-Z author challenge and read several really bad books that I would not normally have read. I have listed the books for this year in the approximate order that I liked them, from excellent to terrible. Live
and learn! :)
2006
*The Passion of Artemisia* by Susan Vreeland
*The Forest Lover* by Susan Vreeland *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch* by Solzhenitsyn
*Candide* by Voltaire *Utopia* by Sir Thomas More
*Walden* by Henry David Thoreau *Herland* by Charlotte Gilman
*Sidhartha* by Herman Hesse *Better Not Bigger: How to take control of urban growth* by J.Leslie
*Crime and Punishment* by Fyodor Dostoevsky *Girl in Hyacinth Blue* by Susan Vreeland
*The Book of Lights* by Chaim Potok *Bill Bryson's African Diary*
*The Metamorphosis and other Stories* by Franz Kafka
*The Eye* by Vladimir Nabokov *Night* by Elie Wiesel
*Russian Short Stories* as following: ....*The Shot* by Alexander Pushkin
....*The Nose* by Nikolay Gogol ....*Taman* by Mikhail Lermontov
....*Bezhim Lea* by Ivan Turgenev ....*A Strange Man's Dream* by Dostoevsky
....*The Scarlet Flower* by Vsevolod Garshin ....*The Make-up Artist* Nikolay Leskov
....*The Party* by Anton Chekov ....*Twenty-six Men and a Girl* by Maxim Gorky
....*The Grand Slam* by Leonid Andreev ....*After The Ball* by Lev Tolstoy
....*Ida* by Ivan Bunin ....*Guy De Maupassant* by Isaac Babel
....*The Lion* by Evgeny Zamyatin ....*The Third Son* by Andrey Platonov
....*Spring in Fialta* by Vladimir Nabokov ....*Streams Where Trout Play* by Konstantin Paustovsky
....*The Winter Oak* by Yury Nagibin ....*On The Island* by Yury Kazakov
....*Zakhar-the-pouch* by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
*Chelkash / Makar Chudra* by Maxim Gorky *Three Tales* by Gustave Flaubert
*Beloved Land, the World of Emily Carr* *The Broken Wings* by Kahlil Gibran
*Better World Handbook* by Jones, Haenfler,etc
*The Diving-Bell & The Butterfly* by Jean-Dominique Bauby *The W.A.S.P.* by Julius Horwitz
*The Virgin Blue* by Tracy Chevalier *Therese Raquin* by Emile Zola
*The Masterpiece* by Emile Zola *Mountain of Victory, a Biography of Paul Cezanne* by L. Hanson
*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley *Cliff's Notes to Brave New World*
*junky* by William Burroughs *Once Upon the River Love* by Andrei Makine
*L'Assommoir* by Emile Zola *Les Miserables* by Victor Hugo
*Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper* by Harriet Chessman
*A Child Called It* by David Pelzer *The Stranger* by Albert Camus
*War and Peace* by Tolstoy *Au Bonheur Des Dames* by Emile Zola
*The Bone House* by Luanne Armstrong *Workers of the World Relax by Conrad Schmidt
*Steppenwolf* by Herman Hesse *The Da Vinci Code* by Dan Brown
*The Seven Daughters of Eve* by Bryan Sykes *Hitler's Black Victims* by Clarence Lusane
2007
*The God Delusion* by Richard Dawkins
*The Pearl Diver* by Jeff Talarigo *We* by Yevgeny Zamyatin
*Hiroshima* by John Hersey *The Pearl* by John Steinbeck
*Black Like Me* by John Griffin *A Brief Examination of Work* by Reg Theriault
*Dispatches From the Poverty Line* by Pat Capponi
*A Gentle Creature and Other Stories* by Dostoevsky *The Life of a Useless Man* by Maxim Gorky
*Strength Training Anatomy* by Frederic Delavier
*Strength Training Anatomy for Women* by Frederic Delavier *Superpump!* Hardcore women's Bodybuilding by Ben Weider and Robert Kennedy
*Pumping Up!* by Ben Weider and Robert Kennedy *Super Chest!* by Robert Kennedy
*Fit or Fat* by Covert Bailey
2008
*Macrobolic Nutrition* by Gerard Dente
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government
Edward Abbey
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