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BookDoc16: ROOTing Again!

1BookDoc16
Redigerat: mar 5, 2020, 7:56 pm

Here we go for a new year, fellow ROOTers! As usual, if I reread an old favorite, I'll mark it with an *. Happy digging in your TBR pile to all of you!

The Way to Rainy Mountain - N. Scott Momaday
The Dog Who Knew Too Much - Spencer Quinn
Howling Mad - Peter David
The Texas-Israeli War - Jake Saunders & Howard Waldrop
The World's Best 100 Short Stories Vol. 3: Mysteries - Grant M. Overton (ed.)
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Tokyo on Foot - Florent Chavouet
The Mysteries - Lisa Tuttle
Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy
Gold Star - Zach Hughes
Partners in Wonder - Harlan Ellison, et. al.
The October List - Jeffrey Deaver
The Confidential Agent - Graham Greene

2rabbitprincess
jan 7, 2020, 6:43 pm

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

3MissWatson
jan 8, 2020, 3:01 am

Happy ROOTing!

4Jackie_K
jan 8, 2020, 1:32 pm

Welcome back! Happy reading!

5connie53
jan 8, 2020, 3:19 pm

Welcome back, BDoc! Happy ROOTing.

6BookDoc16
jan 13, 2020, 3:40 pm

Thanks to all of you, and enjoy your ROOTing this year, too! And BTW, I've added you all to my "Connections" list, as we share anywhere from 800-over 200 books in common. Hope you don't mind!

7connie53
jan 15, 2020, 3:25 am

I do that too. So I don't mind.

8BookDoc16
feb 7, 2020, 4:51 pm

Haven't updated since early January, so here's the latest:

Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Tokyo on Foot - Florent Chavouet
The Mysteries - Lisa Tuttle
Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy
Gold Star - Zach Hughes

9BookDoc16
feb 26, 2020, 8:52 pm

The October List - Jeffrey Deaver
Partners in Wonder - Harlan Ellison, et. al.

10BookDoc16
mar 5, 2020, 7:28 pm

The Case of the Waylaid Wolf - Erle Stanley Gardner
The Last Unicorn (graphic novel) - Peter S. Beagle & Renae DeLiz
The Confidential Agent - Graham Greene

11BookDoc16
apr 5, 2020, 9:24 pm

Lord Chondos' Ride - Paul Edwin Zimmer
A Pirate Looks at Fifty - Jimmy Buffett
The Mephisto Waltz - Fred Mustard Stewart

12BookDoc16
Redigerat: apr 21, 2020, 8:51 pm

The New Annotated Dracula - Bram Stoker & Leslie S. Klinger
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
Earthman's Burden - Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson

13connie53
maj 10, 2020, 8:29 am

How are you doing, BDoc? I hope you are al right?!

14BookDoc16
maj 14, 2020, 2:53 pm

Just fine, thanks; and yourself? Staying mostly at home w/ my wife, doing a lot of reading, cooking, baking, & movie watching, and finishing up the 3rd novel in the series I'm co-writing w/ an old friend. Hope you & everyone around you is equally well!

15BookDoc16
maj 14, 2020, 2:56 pm

The Case of the Sulky Girl - Erle Stanley Gardner
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya

16connie53
maj 15, 2020, 3:38 am

Yes, we are doing fine. Since I retired in July 2019 I have been home a lot. So nothing much changed for me. I miss the freedom to go wherever whenever I want too.

17BookDoc16
maj 27, 2020, 6:51 pm

The Wandering Fire - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Red Right Hand - Joel Townsley Rogers

18BookDoc16
jun 28, 2020, 7:53 pm

Shakespeare for Squirrels - Christopher Moore
The Inferno - Dante Alighieri, H. W. Longfellow (translator)
The Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Poems - Robert W. Service
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

19connie53
jul 15, 2020, 2:58 am

>18 BookDoc16: I had to smile reading the first title.

20BookDoc16
aug 2, 2020, 3:06 pm

You'd get even more laughs reading the book -- or ANY of Mr. Moore's novels!

21BookDoc16
Redigerat: sep 9, 2020, 4:20 pm

The Case of the Borrowed Brunette - Erle Stanley Gardner
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
The Killing Ground - Elleston Trevor
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Case of the Careless Kitten - Erle Stanley Gardner
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories - Washington Irving

22BookDoc16
okt 1, 2020, 3:47 pm

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems, Vol. II* - John Beecroft, ed.
The Haunted Lady - Mary Roberts Rinehart

23BookDoc16
okt 16, 2020, 7:19 pm

Benediction - Kent Haruf
A Fistful of Collars - Spencer Quinn
Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines - Ray Bradbury

24BookDoc16
Redigerat: nov 21, 2020, 1:27 am

So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Gladiator-at-Law - Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
The Quick Red Fox* - John D. MacDonald

25BookDoc16
nov 21, 2020, 1:26 am

Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War - Joe Santoli
City of Glass - Paul Auster
Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

26BookDoc16
dec 1, 2020, 9:50 pm

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
Argosy: The Short Story Magazine, June 1960 - Various, incl. Bradbury, Leyland, Richter
Who Knocks? - August Derleth, ed.

27connie53
dec 25, 2020, 6:44 am



Happy holidays from the Netherlands.

28BookDoc16
Redigerat: dec 26, 2020, 3:05 am

Spacepaw - Gordon R. Dickson
Ice Station Zebra - Alistair MacLean
A Christmas Carol: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - Charles Dickens

29rabbitprincess
dec 26, 2020, 10:08 am

>28 BookDoc16: Ooh, a good batch of books there! Haven't read Spacepaw, but the other two were great.