Latest Reads

Summer 2004

  • Ficciones (English Translation)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

    Seventeen stories by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the greatest writers of the century. My Love let me borrow this book to read. It was one of the books he read for one of his philosophy classes at PC.

     
  • The World Treasury of Science Fiction
    by David Hartwell, Clifton Fadiman

    A huge collection of science fiction works from the major science fiction writers of the 20th Century.

     
  • House of Sand and Fog
    by Andre Dubus III

    They made a movie out of this book and followed it pretty closely. The story is told through the eyes of an Iranian colonel who is doing what he can for his family and a woman who is thrown out of her house. The colonel buys her house and she goes to great lengths to try to force him to give it back to her.

     
  • Tricky Business
    by Dave Barry

    Dave Barry has another novel out and it's all Tricky Business. A gambling boat goes out in a storm, a wacky newsreporter team reports up to the minute news which costs many of the team to lose their lives, and a drug deal turns bad. All this and more thought up in Dave Barry's head. I love to read his newspaper articles.

     
  • The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

    The classic novel by Pearl S. Buck about a China man and his earth. Wang Lung is a poor man, but he has land and a faithful wife, O-Lan, who gives him children. The wealth he receives from his land turns him into a wealthy landowner.

     
  • Parrot in the Oven (rpkg) : mi vida
    by Victor Martinez

    The story of a boy named Manual Martinez and his coming of age. Winner of the 1996 National Book Award for Young People's Fiction.

     
  • Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections
    by Gary Soto

    Narrative recollections of growing up in the barrio in Fresno.

     
  • The Cider House Rules
    by John Irving

    The story of an orphanage, a Doctor who performs illegal abortions, and an orphan named Homer Wells. The movie was good, the book, even better.

     
  • The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories (Dick, Philip K. Short Stories.)
    by Philip K. Dick, James Jr. Triptree

    My love let me read his book cause I ran out of books to read. Dick's collection of short stories reminded me of one of my fav sci-fi authors, Ray Bradbury. Now I must check out his other works.

     
  • Cause for Alarm (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Eric Ambler

    The engineer Marlow, who must take a job in Italy. He replaces a man who was murdered, run down by a car in Milan, and now he is stuck in a deadly world of agents. Can he make it out of Italy alive, or will he be found and shot in the back of the head?

     
  • Space Mail II
    by Isaac Asimov, Greenber
    Collection of Sci-Fi diaries, memos, and letters edited by Isaac Asimov.
     
  • From the Dust Returned
    by Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury's latest novel from material from 1945. The Elliot family, based on Bradbury's own family, is full of strange and wonderful people including mind-readers, vampires, and many others.

     
  • 1984 (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Orwell

    It is the year 1984. Or is it? George Orwell's classic novel of "Negative Utopia" where the Party controls the past and whether or not you ever existed at all. This nightmare is a warning to the world. In a society where the dictionary of vocabulary becomes smaller and smaller, where the Thought Police can take you away to Room 101 where the unspeakable happens, where WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, AND IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."