Books read 2012

[dreamer_easy]

Chinua Achebe. No Longer At Ease.
Isaac Asimov. The Caves of Steel.
-- The Naked Sun.
Chris Boucher. Corpse Marker.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden.
Helene Chung. Ching Chong China Girl: From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent.
Richard Condon. The Manchurian Candidate.
Nick Dear. Frankenstein.
Samuel R. Delaney. Babel-17.
Suzette Haden Elgin. Earthsong: Native Tongue III.
Buchi Emecheta. Second-Class Citizen.
Ian Fleming. Dr No.
Sarah Hall. The Carhullan Army.
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon.
Roger Hargreaves. Mr. Topsy-Turvy. Shut up, it counts.
Christopher Isherwood. A Single Man.
Jon Klassen. I Want My Hat Back. I laughed, I cried, it changed my life.
Lois May. Transgenders and intersexuals: everything you ever wanted to know but couldn't think of the question: a resource book for the general community.
Iris Murdoch. The Sandcastle.
John Ray. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt.
Ian Sample. Massive: the Hunt for the God Particle.
Neal Stephenson. REAMDE.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Dennis Wheatley. The Devil Rides Out.

Notable short stories:
An Su-gil, "The Third Human Type", in a 1970 anthology of Korean short stories and plays. It's about a writer whose career is disrupted by the war; the last sentences took my breath away.

Books bought:
Ben Aaronovitch. Moon Over Soho.
Aravind Adiga. The White Tiger.
Isaac Asimov. The Caves of Steel.
- The Naked Sun.
Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest. The Egyptologists.
Peter L. Berger. A Rumour of Angels.
Jean Bottéo et al. Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece.
V.C. Buckley. Tickets Please!.
David Butler (ed). Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who.
Boyé Lafayette de Mente. The Korean Mind.
Peter J. Carroll. Liber Null and Psychonaut.
Raymond Chandler. Farewell My Lovely.
Dominique Charpin. Reading and Writing in Babylon.
Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Patrick Cook. Us and Them.
Keith Davey. Seashore Life of Australia.
Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
Guy Deutscher. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages.
Edward Wybergh Docker. The Blackbirders: A Brutal Story of the Kanaka (sic) Slave Trade.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes From Underground.
Umberto Eco and Jean-Clause Carrière. This is Not the End of the Book.
Rupert Furneaux. Ancient Mysteries.
Cyrus H. Gordon. Forgotten Scripts.
Uwe Johnson. Two Views.
Catherine A. Lawler. Three Thousand Years of Classical Art.
Courtland Lewis and Paula Smithka (eds). Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside.
Buchi Emecheta. Second-Class Citizen.
- The Slave Girl.
Arthur Evans. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture.
Roger Hargreaves. Mr. Topsy-Turvy.
Ian Kelly. Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy.
Andrew King. Stars: A Very Short Introduction.
Jon Klassen. I Want My Hat Back.
Maxine Hong Kingston. China Men.
Susanne K. Langer. Philosophy in a New Key.
Ursula K. Le Guin. The Eye of the Heron.
Elizabeth Little. Biting the Wax Tadpole.
P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. Wizards: a History.
Sean McCann. Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism.
Jason Michaels. The Devil is Alive and Well and Living in America Today.
George F. Miller. Aleppo: Past and Present.
Larry Niven. A Hole In Space.
Joy Noble and Fiona Verity. Imagine if: a handbook for activists.
Raphael Patai. The Hebrew Goddess.
J.H. Patterson. The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo.
Katha Pollitt. Virginity or Death!
John Ray. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt.
Francesco Razeto. Archaeological Museum, Florence.
Ed Regis. Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition.
Edward W. Said. Orientalism.
Mohamed Saleh and Hourig Sourouzian. The Egyptian Museum Cairo: Official Catalogue.
Mala Sen. India's Bandit Queen.
Keiko Shokon. Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, vol 3
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Brad Stieger. Worlds Before Our Own.
Jack Stoneley with A.T. Lawton. CETI.
Philipp Vandenberg. The Curse of the Pharaohs.
Margaret Wertheim. Physics on the Fringe.
Betty Wood. The Healing Power of Colour.
Wu Ch'êng-ên. Monkey.
John Wydnham. The Chrysalids.
Meanjin 1, 1996: "Australia Queer".
Oxford School German Dictionary
Teach Yourself Korean (oh gods, the shame *facepalm*)

Books borrowed:
Chinua Achebe. No Longer At Ease.
Ruth Bienstock Anolik and Douglas L. Howard. The Gothic other: racial and social constructions in the literary imagination.
Shirley Ardener (ed). Persons and powers of women in diverse cultures.
W. H. Auden & Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a war.
Robert Bickers. Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900-1949.
Chaz Bono. Transition.
Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles.
Louis Brand. Vector Analysis. wtf
Robin Briggs. Witches and Neighbours: the Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft.
Raymond Chandler. Farewell My Lovely.
Jerome Ch'en. China and the West: society and culture, 1815-1937.
Guy Deutscher. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages.
Dominique Collon. Ancient Near Eastern art.
A.A. Donohue, Mark D. Fullerton (eds). Ancient art and its historiography.
Dudgeon, Piers. Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain.
Bill Ellis. Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media.
Ian Fleming. From Russia With Love, Dr No and Goldfinger.
Renée Friedman and Barbara Adams (eds). The followers of Horus: studies dedicated to Michael Hoffman, 1944-1990.
Don Humphrey. Physics Calculations. OK, this is random, even for me.
Kenneth W. Ford. 101 Quantum Questions.
Stan Gibilsco. Geometry Demystified.
Mark Golden and Peter Toohey (eds). Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome.
Gordon, Edmund I. Sumerian Proverbs.
Wang Gungwu. Anglo-Chinese encounters since 1800: war, trade, science, and governance.
Jane Chi Hyun Park. Yellow Future: Oriental style in Hollywood cinema.
C. Grove Haines. Africa today.
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon.
Barnor Hesse (ed). Un/settled multiculturalisms: diasporas, entanglements, transruptions.
Louis V. iZabkar. Hymns to Isis in her temple at Philae.
Kay Redfield Jamison. Touched with fire: manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament.
Natalie Boymel Kampen with Bettina Bergmann (eds). Sexuality in ancient art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy.
Joseph A. Kestner. Sherlock's men : masculinity, Conan Doyle, and cultural history.
- Sherlock's sisters: the British female detective, 1864-1913.
P. Kousoulis. Ancient Egyptian demonology: studies on the boundaries between the demonic and the divine in Egyptian magic.
Moya Lloyd. Judith Butler: from norms to politics.
Sir John Lubbock. Origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man: Mental and social condition of savages.
Lois May. Transgenders and intersexuals : everything you ever wanted to know but couldn't think of the question : a resource book for the general community.
Robert McCrum. Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language.
Lois McNay. Gender and agency: reconfiguring the subject in feminist and social theory.
Barry Milligan. Pleasures and pains : opium and the Orient in nineteenth-century British culture.
Tariq Modood (et al). Ethnic minorities in Britain: diversity and disadvantage.
V.Y. Mudimbe. The Idea of Africa.
Kwee Choo Ng. The Chinese in London.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note.
Palmer, Alan. The East End: Four Centuries of London Life.
Alice Pung. Unpolished Gem.
Satyajit Ray. Indigo: stories.
Françoise Sagan. That Mad Ache. (translated by Douglas Hofstadter woo woo!)
Kim Scott. Benang: From The Heart.
Steven Seidman. Social construction of sexuality.
Tracy K. Sweely (ed). Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology.
Matthew Sweet. Inventing the Victorians.
Victor W. Turner. The Ritual Process.
Sherryl Vint. Bodies of tomorrow: technology, subjectivity, science fiction
Warner, Marina. Monuments and maidens: the allegory of the female form.
James L. Watson. Between two cultures: migrants and minorities in Britain.
H.G. Wells. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents.
Shearer West (ed). Victorians and race.
Kim Westwood. The Courier's New Bicycle.
Philip Wilkinson. Chinese Myth.
Martin Willis. Mesmerists, monsters, and machines: science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century.
Iris Marion Young. Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory.

Borrowed off mum :)
Janet Frame. Owls Do Cry.
John Le Carré. The Looking-Glass War.
Iris Murdoch. The Sandcastle.
Fay Weldon. Watching Me, Watching You.

Luverly Gifts!
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden.
Lisa Goldstein. Dark Cities Underground.
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Botany Bay.
Richard Parkinson. Cracking Codes: the Rosetta Stone and Decipherment.
Oliver Sacks. Hallucinations.
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. Twice over! :D

Photocopy/Download Log

• Abdalla, Aly. A Group of Osiris-Cloths of the Twenty-First Dynasty in the Cairo Museum. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 74 (1988), pp. 157-164.
  
• Al-Zubaidi, Layla. "Tracing women in early Sumer". in K. Anne Pyburn (ed). Ungendering civilization. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
  
• Ardener, Edwin. "Belief and the Problem of Women". in Ardener, Shirley (ed). Perceiving Women. New York, Wiley, 1975. pp 1-17.
  
• Baines, John. "Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian colour terminology and polychromy". in Visual and written culture in ancient Egypt. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  
• Berridge, Virginia. Victorian Opium Eating: Responses to Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. Victorian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Summer, 1978), pp. 437-461.
  
• Bickers, Robert A. Mr Wu and Fu Manchu. China Now 140 spring 1992 pp 28-29.
  
• C.J. Bleeker. "The Egyptian Goddess Neith". in The Rainbow: a collection of studies in the science of religion (Studies in the history of religions 30). Leiden: Brill, 1975.
  
• Blok, H.P. Eine magische Stele aus der Spätzeit. Acta Orientalia 7,8, 1929, pp 7-112.
  
• Boone, Elizabeth H. Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 79, No. 2 (1989), pp. i-iv+1-107.
  
• Castle, Kathryn. "The Yellow Peril: China in children's periodicals". in Castle, Kathryn. Britannia's children: reading colonialism through children's books and magazines. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Matin's Press, 1996.
  
• Griffiths, J. Gwyn. Osiris and the Moon in Iconography. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 62 (1976), pp. 153-159.
  
• Jonckheere, F. A la recherche du chirurgien Egyptien. Chronique d'Egypte 52 1951, pp 28-45.
  
• Kindaichi, Kyōsuke and Minori Yoshida. The Concepts behind the Ainu Bear Festival (Kumamatsuri). Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter, 1949), pp. 345-350.
  
• Kingsbury, Karen. "Yellow Peril, Dark Hero: Fu Manchu and the 'Gothic Bedevilment' of Racist Intent". in Anolik, Ruth Bienstock and Douglas L. Howard (eds). The Gothic other : racial and social constructions in the literary imagination. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co, 2004. pp 104-119.
  
• Lindeborg, Ruth H. The "Asiatic" and the Boundaries of Victorian Englishness. Victorian Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring, 1994), pp. 381-404.
  
• Marchant, Leslie. The Wars of the Poppies. History Today, May 2002, pp 42-49.
  
• Markoe, Glenn. "Religion". in The Phoenicians. London, British Museum, 2000.
  
• Thomas W. McCahill, Linda C. Meyer, and Arthur M. Fischman. "Whom the Police Believe". in The Aftermath of Rape. Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, 1979.
  
• Mastrocinque, Attilio. The Cicilian god Sandas and the Greek Chimaera: features of Near Eastern and Greek mythology concerning the plague. JANER 7,2_f5_197-218
  
• Michalowski, Piotr. Love or Death? Observations on the Role of the Gala in Ur III Ceremonial Life. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 58 (2006), pp. 49-61.
  
• Mitchell, Sir Philip. "Africa and the West in historical perspective". in Haines, C. Grove. Africa Today. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1955. How it was possible to govern Kenya and maintain such complete ignorance of Africans boggles my mind.
  
• Montet, Pierre. Le Jeu du Serpent. Chronique d'Egypte 30 1955, pp 189-197.
  
• V.Y. Mudimbe. "The Power of the Greek Paradigm". in The Idea of Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; London : J. Currey, c1994.
  
• Murray, M.A. The God 'Ash. Ancient Egypt and the East December 1934, pp 115-117.
  
• Ng, Maria Noëlle. Representing Chinatown: Dr. Fu-Manchu at the Disappearing Moon Cafe. Canadian Literature 163 1999, pp 157-175.
  
• Ochshorn, Judith. "Sumer: gender, gender roles, gender role reversals". in Ramet, Sabrina Petra. Gender reversals and gender cultures: anthropological and historical perspectives. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. pp 52-65.
  
• Parker, David. "The Chinese Takeaway and the Diasporic Habitus: Space, Time and Power Geometries". in Hesse, Barnor (ed). Un/settled multiculturalisms : diasporas, entanglements, transruptions. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2000.
  
• Quaegebeur, Jan. Documents concerning a Cult of Arsinoe Philadelphos at Memphis. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct., 1971), pp. 239-270.
  
• Siddiqi, Yumna. "Sherlock Holmes and the 'Cesspool of Empire'." in Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
  
• Saxonhouse, Arlene W. "Introduction." in Stereotypes of Women in Power.
  
• Smith, Andrew. "Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes's London". in Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber (eds). London eyes : reflections in text and image. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
  
• Susan Stryker. "My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage". in Curry, Renée R. (ed). States of rage : emotional eruption, violence, and social change. New York, New York University Press, 1996.
  
• Tabili, Laura. "A homogenous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800-present". in At Home With the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World.
  
• Nicholas Tarling. "China". in Imperialism in Asia : an essay. Auckland, N.Z. : New Zealand Asia Institute, c2005.
  
• Towle, Evan B. and Lynn M. Morgan. "Romancing the Transgender Narrative: Rethinking the Use of the 'Third Gender' Concept". in Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (eds). The Transgender Studies Reader. London : Routledge, 2006.
  
• Waller, P.J. Immigration into Britain: The Chinese. History Today, September 1985, pp 8-15.
  
• James L. Watson. "The Chinese: Hong Kong Villagers in the British Catering Trade". in James L. Watson, ed., Between Two Cultures: Migrants and Minorities in Britain, Blackwell: Oxford, 1977, 181-213.
  
• Wikan, Unni. "The Xanith: a Third Gender Role?" in Behind the veil in Arabia : women in Oman.
  
• Wu, William F. "Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan". in Wu, William F. The Yellow Peril: Chinese Americans in American fiction, 1850-1940. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1982.
  

And pages from:

• Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke (eds). Power, gender, and ritual in Europe and the Americas : essays in memory of Richard C. Trexler / Toronto : CRRS Publications, 2008.
  
• Ros Ballaster. Fabulous orients : fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  
• Bodley, John H. Cultural anthropology : tribes, states, and the global system. Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c1994.
  
• Gregor Benton and Edmund Terence Gomez. The Chinese in Britain, 1800-present : economy, transnationalism, identity. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  
• Lawrence M. Berman with Kenneth J. Bohac. Catalogue of Egyptian art: the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, the Museum, 1999.
  
• Vern L. Bullough. Sexual variance in society and history.
  
• Carrasco, Davíd (editor in chief). The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations of Mexico and Central America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  
• Jerome Ch'en. China and the West: society and culture, 1815-1937.
  
• Derchain, Philippe. Hathor quadrifons; recherches sur la syntaxe d'un mythe égyptien.
  
• Guy Deutscher. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages.
  
• Bill Ellis. Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media.
  
• Fazzini, Richard (et al). Ancient Egyptian art in the Brooklyn Museum. New York, the Museum, 1989.
  
• Finnane, Antonia. Changing clothes in China: fashion, history, nation. Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2007.
  
• Dan Fleming and Damion Sturm. Media, masculinities and the machine: F1, Transformers and fantasizing technology at its limits.
  
• Mark Golden and Peter Toohey (eds). Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome.
  
• Gordon, Edmund I. Sumerian Proverbs.
  
• Serge Gruzinski. Man-gods in the Mexican highlands: Indian power and colonial society.
  
• Brigitte R.M. Groneberg. Lob der Ištar: Gebet und Ritual an die altbabylonische Venusgöttin Tanatti Ištar.
  
• Hornadge, Bill. The Yellow Peril: a squint at some Australian attitudes towards Orientals. Dubbo, N.S.W. : Review Publications, 1976.
  
• Natalie Boymel Kampen et al (eds). Sexuality in ancient art : Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  
• Kendall, Timothy. Ways of Seeing China: from Yellow Peril to Shangrila. Fremantle, W.A. : Curtin University Books, 2005.
  
• P. Kousoulis. Ancient Egyptian demonology: studies on the boundaries between the demonic and the divine in Egyptian magic.
  
• Moya Lloyd. Judith Butler: from norms to politics.
  
• Sharon Macdonald, Pat Holden and Shirley Ardener. Images of women in peace and war: cross-cultural and historical perspectives.
  
• H. L. Malchow. "The Half-Breed as Gothic Unnatural". in West, Shearer. The Victorians and Race. Aldershot, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., c1996.
  
• Oscar White Muscarella. Bronze and iron: ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  
• Harold Hayden Nelson. The great hypostyle hall at Karnak.
  
• Parker, David. "Rethinking British Chinese Identities". in Skelton, Tracey and Gill Valentine (eds). Cool Places: geographies of youth cultures.
  
• Quennell, Peter (ed). London's Underworld (1862).
  
• Kay Almere Read and Jason J. González. Handbook of Mesoamerican mythology / Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, 2000.
  
• Robisek, Christian. Das Bildprogramm des Muttempels am Gebel Barkal.
  
• Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere (eds). Woman, Culture, and Society. Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 1974.
  
• Serge Sauneron. Le papyrus magique illustre de Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.156.
  
• Sederholm, Val Hinckley. Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its cultural and religious setting. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006.
  
• Townsend, Richard F. The Aztecs (2nd ed). London : Thames & Hudson, 2000.
  
• Wang Gungwu. The Chinese overseas: from earthbound China to the quest for autonomy.
  
• Whitehorne, John. Cleopatras. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.
  
• Wiggermann, F.A.M. Mesopotamian protective spirits: the ritual texts.
  
• Wilson, E. Jan. 'Holiness' and 'purity' in Mesopotamia.