During this time I bought a pile of books---several hundred dollars worth, not figuring in various discounts. I'm all about reading. (And I'm well-to-do enough that I can afford to splurge this much on brand-new hardcovers (most of the books I bought are recent publications), in addition to travel and eating expenses.)
Only three are outright science fiction and / or fantasy, though (and one associational book). Some were things I was on the lookout for...others I just happened across and thought interesting. But the titles are a good cross-section of my current reading habits and interests.
Here are some of the titles:
"The Complete Peanuts: 1959 - 1960," Charles M. Schulz
"Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant," Humberto E. Fontova
"Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times," H. W. Brands
"White Guilt," Shelby Steele
"The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," Mark W. Smith
"The U. N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World," Eric Shawn
"1901," Robert Conroy
"The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic," H. G. Wells and others.
"The American Home Front: 1941 - 1942," Alastair Cooke
"Washington's Crossing," David Hackett Fischer
"A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles," Thomas Sowell
"Notes for a Memoir: on Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing," Janet Jeppson Asimov
"Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalen: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend," Bart D. Ehrman
*****
There were others, but, for the sake of the "13 line" rule, I think it's enough for one post...maybe later I'll put others up. I haven't finished reading the last five books, either, but hope to get to most of them in the week remaining of my vacation-from-work.
I enjoyed the ones I've read, though. Anybody else read any of them? Liked them? Hated them? Have strong opinions about the authors? Got a vacation reading list of your own? Go right ahead.
Yeah, and I've got all five of the "Peanuts" collections, too---which only takes matters a fifth of the way. I hope to keep buying them all the way to the end if they don't fall over on me first. (I have somewhere over two hundred of the previous kind of "Peanuts" collections---there's a lot of duplication in them, though...)