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Jan 8, 2006 2:12:02 PM Archived Entry: "2006 books purchased list"
The new year is off to a good start as I made my first book purchase before I left Paris. Here, in order, are my new books purchased this year. (Last year's purchases are here, this year's books read are here.)
January
1. Eros Revived - Peter Wagner
2. Harrowing the Dragon - Patricia A. McKillip
3. Art Nouveau Cross Stitch: Decorative Designs from the Turn of the Century - Barbara Hammet
4. The Children of the Company (The Company) - Kage Baker
5. The Art of William Morris in Cross Stitch - Barbara Hammet
6. Being Dead is No Excuse : The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral - Gayden Metcalfe
7. Broken Angels - Richard Morgan*
8. Give Me Time - The Mindgym
9. The Madams of San Francisco - Curt Gentry
10. Walter, The Egnlish Casanova (author of "My Secret Life") - Drs. Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen
11. Tableaux Vivants - Anonymous (originally 1870)
12, 13, 14. Fool Moon*, Grave Peril*, Summer Knight*: Books 2, 3, and 4 of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files
March
15. Bonjour Amour - Marie-Claire Villefranche
16. The Altar of Venus - Anonymous
17. Prospero's Children - Jan Siegel (I got it for the cover, so shoot me, then gave it away later because I hated it)
18. Suburban Souls - Anonymous
19. The Japanese Art of Love
20. Blood Trail* - Tanya Huff
21. Blood Lines* - Tanya Huff
22. Drum Warning* - Jo Clayton
23. I Was a Dominatrix: A Memoir - Shawna Kenney
24. Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decandence to the Post-Human - Amanda Fernbach
25. Prostition and the Victorians - Trevor Fisher
26. Queer Pulp - Susan Stryker
27. Mistress Ruby Ties It Together - Robin Shamburg
28. The Life of an Amorous man - Saikaku Ihara
29. Amour Toujours - Marie-Claire Villefranche
30. Jurgen - James Branch Cabell
April
31. The Porcelain Dove* - Delia Sherman
32. Drum Calls* - Jo Clayton
33. The Book of Ballads* - Charles Vess
34. Hollywood Babylon : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets* - Kenneth Anger
May
35. A Bait of Dreams - Jo Clayton
36. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
37. The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer
38. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
July
39. Serpent Waltz - Jo Clayton
40. The Magic Wars* - Jo Clayton
41. Ostara - Edain McCoy
42. The Tijuana Bibles - Bob Adelman
43. Bellwether* - Connie Willis
44. Accelerando* - Charles Stross
45. Mammoth* - John Varley
46. The Color of Magic* - Terry Pratchett
47. Red Dwarf - Grant Naylor
48. Bill, the Galactic Hero ... on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure - Harry Harrison and David Bischoff
49. Bill, the Galactic Hero ... on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell - Harry Harrison and David Bischoff
August
50. Singularity Sky - Charles Stross*
51, 52, 53. A Gathering of Stones, Skeen's Search*, Changer's Moon - Jo Clayton
54, 55, 56, 57. Fire Watch*, Impossible Things*, Lincoln's Dreams*, Uncharted Territory* - Connie Willis
58. Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey
59. Market Forces - Richard Morgan
60. The Privilege of the Sword - Ellen Kushner*
61. I Love Led Zeppelin* - Ellen Forney (with multi-media reading, yay!)
62. Gloriana - Michael Moorcock
63, 64. Blue Magic, Fire in the Sky - Jo Clayton
65. Guilty Pleasures - Laurell Hamilton
66, 67. The Ill-Made Mute*, The Lady of the Sorrows* - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
68. Moonscatter - Jo Clayton
69. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog - John Grogan
70. Dark Mondays - Kage Baker
71, 72, 73. Dancer's Rise, Dance Down the Stars, Drum Into Silence* - Jo Clayton
74. Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
September
75. AA Weekend Walks in Britain
76. Chains of Gold - Nancy Springer
77. Homo Art - Giles Neret
78. Reunion in Ropes and Other Stories - Eric Stanton
79. Walking Notorious London - Andrew Duncan
80. The Dalemark Quartet - Diana Wynne Jones
81. A History of Orgies - Burgo Partridge
82. Deviant Desires - Katherine Gates
83. The Horns of Elfland - Ellen Kushner et al
84. Wildfire - Jo Clayton
85. Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum
October
86. Night Train - Martin Amis
87. How to be good - Nick Hornby
88. All the Tea in China - Kyril Bonfiglioli
89. The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan (terrible, gave it away)
90. Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past: 1*
91. The Inferno of Dante
92.. Cybersex - Richard Glyn Jones, ed.
93. Mindscan - Robert J Sawyer
94. An Indian Food Cookbook, TBA
95. River Cafe Too Easy - Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
96. The Silver Spoon - Phaidon Press
97. Changeling* - Sherman, Delia
December
98. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
99. Chats on Household Curios - F. W. Burgess
100. Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film
101. The Shadow in the North - Phillip Pullman
102. Waddington's Illustrated Card Games
103. The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillippa Gregory
104. When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
"Only weak men fear able women" - Marion Boyars