Saturday, December 31, 2011

best books

This years winner of upside your mind's book of the year is:
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Runners up was a tie between
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers and
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
Honorable mention goes to
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem

Monday, December 26, 2011

2011

Books I read this year.
  1. Steampunk'd - edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg
  2. Comfort me With Apples by Ruth Reichl
  3. Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
  4. Notions Unlimited by Robert Sheckley
  5. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  6. Others See Us by William Sleator
  7. Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
  8. The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
  9. Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
  10. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
  11. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
  12. Sooner Dead by Mel Odom
  13. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
  14. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
  15. Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
  16. To the Land of the Electric Angel by William Rotsler
  17. The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator
  18. Idle Pleasures by George Alec Effinger
  19. Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater
  20. Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
  21. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
  22. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille by Steven Brust
  23. Time Travelers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson
  24. Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
  25. Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
  26. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
  27. The Postmortal by Drew Magary (currently reading )

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Shanghai Jim


Bookmark follows JG Ballard from Shepperton to Shanghai and back, looking at the scenes of his life which inspired his autobiographical novels.



Sunday, December 4, 2011

gimme

Here's a list of books I'd like to receive as holiday gifts, in case Santa is reading this blog.