Kurt's bookshelf: read

The Eight
American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
The New Low Carb Way of Life: A Lifetime Program to Lose Weight and Radically Lower Cholesterol While Still Eating the Foods You Love, Including Chocolate
Earth Afire
Earth Unaware
The Prostate Monologues: What Every Man Can Learn from My Humbling, Confusing, and Sometimes Comical Battle With Prostate Cancer
Blood Crime
Americanah
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
Oxford History of Board Games
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
The Skull and the Nightingale
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
The Wolves of Midwinter
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks


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31 December 2013

Welcome to Kurt's Blog: An Experiment in Progress

During calendar year 2013 I read over 200 books (unemployment provides the time for such feats).  Around the time I was finishing book 166, or 168, someone said to me "you should have started a blog."  I replied, "I'm not sure anyone would want to read it."  I'm still not sure, but I'm still not employed full-time, so here goes nothing.  Here you will find discussions and reviews of books I read, music I listen to, movies and TV series I watch, and other related "cultural ephemera" as the title says.

As to the main part of the title, when I say I read books, I mean actual paper, cardboard and cloth books (although 2-3 of the 200 were ebooks).  I do not own an ereader or tablet, and I get the majority of my reading material from or through the Cincinnati Public Library.  If there were a "frequent reader" program, I probably would have earned a trip to Mount Everest by now.  

What do I read?  Well, a bit of just about everything....
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Historical Fiction
  • Mysteries
  • History
  • Cultural Studies
  • Memoirs/Biographies
  • Comic Books/Graphic Novels
  • Books about food and drink

I'm always open to suggestions, so give me recommendations.  And, if you're a writer looking for someone to read a work-in-progress, I've done that as well (and I'm a good proofreader if you need a bit of that as well).  Opinions here are mine, and mine alone.  Feel free to agree or disagree as you will.  Debate and discussion are welcome.  Thanks for reading!
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