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| Reading/Play List, 1985 |
From the time I completed undergrad, I kept a list of books with short reviews (and also plays seen). I originally did this on 3x5 cards and then migrated to notebooks and then on to word processed documents. Doing these "book reports" over the years helped me to think deeper about the material I was reading and to look back over time to the things I liked (at the time) and which, sometimes in retrospect, I can't believe I actually liked! For many years (too many ago now), I also was a regular reviewer of books for various publications (mostly art and biography for
Library Journal -- you can find most of those review cited in
Smithsonian Research Online and many of the actual reviews on Amazon since Amazon bought the rights to the reviews from
LJ's publisher).
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| Weeding/Donating |
I won't bore everyone with my notes on my readings for this past year, but here's the list. I did a lot of re-reading of things I'd completed before (
Lord of the Rings,
Dune, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, William Gibson, Hemingway, Orwell, Asimov) and some newer authors I've enjoyed (China Mieville, Kevin Kwan), and also a number of travel books for places I visited during the year. I also finally got around to Seamus Heaney's translation of
Beowulf and, I'll confess to starting the Harry Potter series (which I haven't read before! Two volumes down!). A bunch of information science and biodiversity reports and documents round out the year.
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So, here you are. This first list are the books, reports, and related that I read primarily for professional development. A lot of topic reports, annual reports, biodiversity bad news reports:
And now, here's the whole list of items I read over the course of the year:
