Dear Son,
As you know, we love to read
and to encourage you (and others) to read.
So our typical Christmas is always a bookish one. Here is the list of books we all received
this Christmas, which will become part of the family library as well:
BOOKS FOR MICHAEL, TOM AND EILEEN
SWEET PROMISED LAND by
Robert Laxalt (University of Nevada Press, 1959)
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by
George Orwell (Benediction Classics/Oxford, 2010)
BOOKS FOR EILEEN
(Some books are in transit; list will be updated when they arrive)
Poetry:
Poetry:
DISOBEDIENCE by Alice Notley
(Penguin, 2001)
RELIQUARIA by R.A.
Villanueva (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
DON’T LET ME BE LONELY: AN AMERICAN
LYRIC by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf, 2004)
THE OPEN SECRET by Jennifer
Moxley (Flood Editions, Chicago, 2014)
ECODEVIANCE: (SOMA)TICS FOR
THE FUTURE WILDERNESS by CAConrad (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2014)
A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL
AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS by CAConrad (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2012)
THE DAY OF SHELLY’S DEATH by
Renato Rosaldo (Duke University Press, 2014)
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY EIGNER, VOLUMES 1-4, Edited by Curtis Faville and Bob Grenier
GREAT GUNS by Farnoosh Fathi
(Canarium Books, Ann Arbor / Stuttgart / Iowa City, 2013)
SPONTANEOUS PARTICULARS: THE
TELEPATHY OF ARCHIVES by Susan Howe (Christine Burgin / New Directions, New
York, 2014)
DICKINSON UNBOUND: PAPER,
PROCESS, POETICS by Alexandra Socarides (Oxford University Press, 2012)
POST SUBJECT: A FABLE by
Oliver de la Paz (The University of Akron Press, Akron, OH, 2014)
HOURGLASS MUSEUM by Kelli
Russell Agodon (White Pine Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 2014)
KULCHUR GIRL: NOTES FROM BERKELEY 1965 by Rachel Loden
ABU GHRAIB ARIAS by Philip Metres
ODE TO THE HEART SMALLER
THAN A PENCIL by Luisa A. Igloria (Utah State University Press, 2014)
MAN IS WOLF TO MAN:
SURVIVING THE GULAG by Janusz Bordach and Kathleen Gleeson (University of
California Press, 1999)
GIRL DRIVE: CRISS-CROSSING
AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM by Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS by Robin
Wall Kimmerer (Milkwood, 2013)
AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’
HISTORY OF THE U.S. by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (Beacon Press, Boston, 2014)
TOMORROW’S MEMORIES: A DIARY
1924-1928 by Angeles Monrayo, Edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo (University of
Hawai’i Press, 2003)
THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS,
novel by Eric Gamalinda (Akashic, 2014)
THE ART FORGER, novel by
B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012)
PULSE, novel by Robert Cook
(Royal Wulff Publishing, 2014)
TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE AND
OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR FAVORITE LITERARY CHARACTER by Mallory Ortberg
(Henry Holt, 2014)
BOOKS FOR MICHAEL
MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury (Signed Edition released by Easton Press)
THE WINE REGION OF RIOJA by Ana Fabiano
CULINARIA SPAIN, Ed. Marion Trutter, Potography by Gunter Beer, Art by Peter Feierabend, Coordinator & Layout by Michael Ditter
STRENGTH TRAINING ANATOMY by Frederic Delouier
BOOKS FOR TOM
THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: VISIONS OF GLORY 1874-1932 by William Manchester (Little Brown, 1983)
THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: ALONE 1932-1940 by William Manchester (Little Brown, 1988)
THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: DEFENDER OF THE REALM 1940-1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid (Little Brown, 2012)
MEMORIES by Fannie A. Beers (Collectors Library of the Civil War / Time Life, Reprinted from Press of J.B. Lipincott Co., Philadelphia, 1888)
CIVIL WAR POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, Editor Paul Negri (Dover Thrift Editions, 1997)
MR. LINCOLN GOES TO WAR by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
LINCOLN’S DARKEST YEAR: THE WAR IN 1862 by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
THE GREAT TASK REMAINING: THE THIRD YEAR OF LINCOLN’S WAR by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2010)
ARISTOTLE: PARTS OF ANIMALS, MOVEMENT OF ANIMALS, PROGRESSION OF ANIMALS, Trans. by A.L. Peck & E.S. Forster (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1937-1961)
THUCYDIDES: HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, BOOKS 1-2, Trans. by C.F. Smith (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1919-2003)
HOMER: ILIAD, Books 1-12 (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1999)
CICERO: ORATIONS PRO SESTIO IN VATINIUM, Trans. by R. Gardner (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1958)
BOETHIUS: TRACTATES, DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE, Trans. by H.F. Stewart & E.K. Rand (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1918-1968)
THE NATURAL CUISINE OF GEORGES BLANC, photography by Christopher Baker (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1987)
A CENTURY OF WINE, THE STORY OF THE WINE REVOLUTION, General Editor Stephen Brook with Foreword by Hugh Johnson (Octopus Publishing, London, 2000)
AN IDEAL WINE: ONE GENERATION’S PURSUIT OF PERFECTION—AND PROFIT—IN CALIFORNIA by David Darlington (Harper Collilns, 2011)
THE JUICE: VINUOUS VERITAS by Jay McInerney (Knopf, N.Y., 2012)
GREAT COURSES (Books as DVDs):
36 REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES OF HISTORY
GREECE AND ROME: AN INTEGRATED HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION
A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Son, you will rarely be
bored if you are a reader. We hope you
will not live a boring life.
Love,
Mom and Dad
P.S. Trust Mom to sneak poetry into Dad's Civil War Collection:
