Items about books I want to read #69
Posted on: October 21, 2016
The list of books I wish to read some day keeps growing, but the time to read them does not always grow to match. Still, I do enjoy making these posts so I can keep track of things I find interesting. In sharing them, I hope it helps a bit in terms of reader’s advisory for folks looking for ideas on books to read.
Items about books I want to read:
- Here is a book that asks how can bankers live with themselves when they ruin people’s lives and crash economies. In many cases, they can live with themselves just fine, and some even brag about their misdeeds. The book is Among the Bankers: A Journey Into the Heart of Finance. The Atlantic had a story on it.
- Here is a book on industrial meat production. The book is Chickenizing Farms and Food, and it was mentioned at Food Politics.
- Adding a little horror to my list with Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. It was reviewed at Horror Novel Reviews.
- Barbara Moore has a new Tarot book out, Your Tarot, Your Way. She writes about it and about how Tarot has evolved over time for Llewellyn’s blog. The book can be acquired individually or as part of a kit with the Llewellyn’s Classic Tarot deck. I do like Moore’s work, so I will likely be getting it down the road, and often, getting it in the kit is often not a bad deal, and it happens to be a deck I like.
- One more Tarot selection. Barbara Moore also writes this post for another book at Llewellyn’s blog, this one by Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin entitled Tarot Face to Face.
- And speaking of Tarot, Tarot with Jeff reviews an older selection: Complete Book of Tarot Spreads.
- Here is the story of two American teen boys who went on to become child soldiers and hit men for the Las Zetas drug cartel in Mexico. The book is Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel and it was discussed at Vice.
- Annie Downey, author of Critical Information Literacy, is interviewed at the Library Juice blog.
- If you want to learn more about the Encyclopaedia Britannica, especially the famous 11th edition, this book may be for you. The book is Everything Explained That Is Explainable. The book was reviewed at The Decolonized Librarian.
- Want to delve into the mind of corporate criminals like Bernie Madoff? HBS Working Knowledge has a book excerpt and interview with the author of Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal.
- Horror Novel Reviews looks back at an old classic of horror: The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. It turns out Rhinehart wrote a series of sequels as well, listed in the blog post.
- Speaking of old classics, Book Riot looks back at a series I saw a lot of back in younger days, Thieves’ World (link to first book of series). They recommend it for those who need a fix after Game of Thrones. I personally do not give much of a hoot over Game of Thrones, but I have been curious about Thieves’ World before, so this may be the time I finally try to pick it up. To be honest, Thieves’ World is a shared world anthology series, and if you ask me what I think is closer in feel and concept (i.e. a shared world anthology), I’d probably say the Wild Cards series (link to first book of series), which incidentally is also by George R.R. Martin.
- Library Juice highlights a new publication (well, as of this post, it is new to me), Class and Librarianship.
- Via Signature, an article on the book Modern Potluck. This reminds me of books I have read previously such as America Eats, and Being Dead is No Excuse.
- Via Bookgasm, this is a book I have been curious about for a while. I am not a huge fan of memoirs, but this does sound interesting. The book is My Father the Pornographer.
- Heading out now to the Victorian/Edwardian era with the book Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare (No WorldCat record as of this post, so link goes to the publisher). The book is reviewed at Wink Books. What would make this better? An actual copy of Spare’s deck along with the book. I can always dream.
- Another one reviewed at Wink Books. This one is an oldie. I may have mentioned this, but as a child I loved pictorial dictionaries and similar books. As an adult, I still find them interesting. Wink Books this time looks at Mann’s Pictorial Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Lists and bibliographies:
- With the easing of relations between the United States and Cuba, you may want to read a bit more about the island nation. Via Signature, here are “Literature Libre: 9 Great Books to Understand Cuba.” From the list, I read Oscar Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and Christina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.
- The Library Company of Philadelphia has an online exhibit entitled “Capitalism by Gaslight: the Shadow Economies of Nineteenth-Century America.” It includes various vintage items such as “A List of Gay Houses and Ladies of Pleasure.” You can read these online. A hat tip to Dangerous Minds.
- Here is a list of “9 Great Arab Cult Classics.” I found it at Arabic Literature (in English).
- Like audiobooks? Book Riot has a list of “11 Websites to Find Free Audiobooks Online.“
- Want some more horror reading suggestions? Book Riot offers “5 of the Best Horror Books to Make You Love Being Afraid.” From the list, I am interested in The Fireman, The Graveyard Apartment, and Hex. I mentioned Hex up above in this post. Curiously enough, I have mentioned The Fireman twice in this blog, here and here. Probably time I get to it.
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