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...on every book I read.

Currently reading

Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
The Moral Philosophers, by Richard Norman
Ardennes 1944, by Antony Beevor
Mind, Brain, Body, by Morton Reiser

Recently Finished

The Kingdom of Speech, by Tom Wolfe April 24, 2017
Valley of the Gods, by Alexandra Wolfe April 3, 2017
With God in Hell, by Eliezer Berkovits January 25, 2017
Ardennes 1944, by Antony Beevor December 21, 2016
Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen November 16, 2016
A Giacometti Portrait, by James Lord August 11, 2016
Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not June 23, 2016
William Kennedy: Ironweed, and Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes June 20, 2016
Green Hills of Africa, by Ernest Hemingway May 6, 2016
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway April 18, 2016
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald March 30, 2016
L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti, by Jean Genet March 28, 2016
Michael Crichton: Rising Sun and Airframe March 4, 2016
Dealers, by Peter Madsen February 18, 2016
The Lucky Bastard Club, by Eugene Fletcher February 17, 2016
The Afterlife: And Other Stories, by John Updike February 16, 2016
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway February 7, 2016
The Moronic Inferno, by Martin Amis January 24, 2016
The Wrong Stuff, by Truman Smith January 22, 2016
If on a winter’s night a traveller, by Italo Calvino January 15, 2016
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway January 6, 2016
Red Cavalry, by Isaac Babel December 28, 2015
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. December 2, 2015
The Battle of Midway: Books by Morison, Lord and Prange November 30, 2015
Anton Chekhov: The Complete Short Novels October 19, 2015
Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris August 16, 2015
Nemesis, by Philip Roth July 24, 2015
To Hell and Back, by Audie Murphy June 24, 2015
Elephant Bill, by Lt. Col. JH Williams, OBE June 22, 2015
The Two-Ocean War, by Samuel Eliot Morison June 17, 2015
Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell June 14, 2015
The FAA Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge June 11, 2015
Radiant Angel, a John Corey Novel by Nelson DeMille June 9, 2015
Contemporary Non-Fiction: Velazquez: The Complete Works, Taschen May 21, 2015
Contemporary Biography: Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris May 11, 2015
Modern Fiction: The Young Lions, by Irwin Shaw May 8, 2015
Contemporary Biography: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris April 1, 2015
Modern Non-Fiction: The English Decorated Style, by Jean Bony March 5, 2015
Modern Non-Fiction: The Theory and Practice of Hell, by Eugen Kogon March 4, 2015
Modern Technical: Pilot Training Manual for the B-25 Mitchell Bomber by Headquarters, AAF, Office of Flying Safety February 24, 2015
Contemporary Non-Fiction: Machine Beauty, by David Gelernter. February 20, 2015
Modern Non-Fiction: Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov February 12, 2015
Contemporary Fiction: The Zone of Interest, by Martin Amis. January 23, 2015
Modern Non-Fiction: Helmet For My Pillow, by Robert Leckie January 16, 2015
Modern Fiction: Amerika, by Franz Kafka January 13, 2015
Contemporary Non-fiction: Douglas Propliners, by Arthur Pearcy January 11, 2015
Modern Fiction: Lucy Crown, by Irwin Shaw January 8, 2015
Modern Non-fiction: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L Shirer January 6, 2015
Modern Fiction: Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov December 26, 2014
Contemporary fiction: The Information and Lionel Asbo, by Martin Amis December 3, 2014
Classic fiction: Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope November 30, 2014
Modern non-fiction: The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, by Arnold C. Brackman November 30, 2014
Contemporary fiction: Summertime by JM Coetzee. November 28, 2014
What are you doing? November 28, 2014

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