Books read, 2014

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Non-Fiction
John Blofield. Bodhisattva of Compassion: the Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin.
Michael Coogan. The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction.
Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea.
Luciano Florido. Information: a Very Short Introduction.
Swami Harshanansa. Devī and her Aspects.
Luke Timothy Johnson. The New Testament: a Very Short Introduction.
Peter Lowe. The Korean War.
Sally Morgan. My Place.
J.H. Patterson. The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo.
Salman Rushdie. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey.
Eric Schlosser. Command and Control. Couldn't put it down.
Ronald Takaki. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb.

Fiction
Alfred Bester. Extro.
Janet Frame. Owls Do Cry.
Nalo Hopkinson. The New Moon's Arms.
Andrey Kurkov. Death and the Penguin. Strangely difficult to put down.
John le Carré. The Looking-Glass War.
Mary McCarthy. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood.
Atiq Rahami. A Thousand Rooms of Dreams and Fear.
Steven Sherrill. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break.
Bram Stoker. The Jewel of Seven Stars. I read an abridged version of this in primary school and was so bewildered by the conclusion that I thought "abridged" meant they had shortened the book by removing its ending. Now I see why my infant self was puzzled.
Koushun Takami. Battle Royale. (Trans. Yuji Oniki.) You must read this and then watch the movie, or vice versa.
Philippe Vasset. ScriptGenerator©®™.
Fay Weldon. Watching Me, Watching You. Breathtaking.

Manga
Hatori Bisco. Ouran High School Host Club vol 1.
Hino Matsuri. Vampire Knight vols 1-9.
Kishimoto Masashi. Naruto, vol 5.
Tite Kubo. Bleach volume 3.
Mayu Shinja. Ai Ore volume 8. Well that was confusing.
Yana Toboso. Black Butler, vol 1. Holy ^&*$^%$. vols 2-11

Books Bought

• Anne Baring and Jules Cashford. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image.
  
• Tracey Barnett. The Quiet War on Asylum.
  
• Burr Cartwright Brundage. The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World.
  
• John le Carré. The Constant Gardner.
  
• Mike Chinoy. China Live.
  
• Suzanne Corkin. Permanent Present Tense: the man with no memory, and what he taught the world.
  
• A. Rosalie David. The Ancient Egyptians: Religious Beliefs and Practices.
  
• Hazel Edwards. Authorpreneurship: the business of creativity.
  
• Greg Egan. Diaspora.
  
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald (ed). Winds of Change.
  
• Luciano Florido. Information: a Very Short Introduction.
  
• Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and kharyssa rhodes. Race and Identity in the Nile Valley: Ancient and Modern Perspectives.
  
• Dennis C. Forbes. Imperial Lives: Illustrated Biographies of Significant New Kingdom Egyptians. Volume One. The 18th Dynasty through Thutmose IV.
  
• James Fulcher. Capitalism: a Very Short Introduction.
  
• Theodor H. Gaster. Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East.
  
• Joe Giarratano. Taxi: Grace, Grunge and Gravity.
  
• William Gibson. Pattern Recognition.
  
• Germaine Greer. The Boy.
  
• Richard Hammond. On the Road.
  
• Debbie Higgs. The Self-Publisher's Marketing Guide.
  
• Euny Hong. The Birth of Korean Cool.
  
• Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's School Days.
  
• Han Woo-Keun. The History of Korea.
  
• Marc Isaacs. The Undesirables: Inside Nauru.
  
• Luke Timothy Johnson. The New Testament: a Very Short Introduction.
  
• C.M. Kornbluth. The Syndic.
  
• Nicholas D. Kristof and Shirley Wudunn. China Wakes.
  
• David Kynaston. Family Britain, 1951-57.
  
• Barbara S. Lesko. The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt.
  
• Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong. Refugees: Why Seeking Asylum is Legal and Australia's Policies Are Not.
  
• Mary McCarthy. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood.
  
• Sir Alfred Mehran. The Terminal Man.
  
• A.A. Milne. 곰돌이 푸우는 아무도 못 말려 ("Nothing Stops Winnie the Pooh", I think?).
  
• Michael Moorcock (ed). New Worlds: An Anthology.
  
• Sally Morgan. My Place.
  
• Nicole R. Murphy (ed). The Outcast: an anthology of exiles and strangers.
  
• Larry Niven. World of Ptavvs.
  
• Boori (Monty) Pryor. Maybe Tomorrow.
  
• Ven. Miao You and Yan Kaixin. Wind and Rain: The Life of Ikkyu.
  
• Judith Ochshorn and Ellen Cole (eds). Women's Spirituality, Women's Lives.
  
• David S. Painter. The Cold War: an International History.
  
• Lynn Pan. Sons of the Yellow Emperor: The Story of the Overseas Chinese.
  
• William H. Peck. Egyptian Drawings.
  
• Alice Pung. Growing Up Asian in Australia.
  
• Donald B. Redford. From Slave to Pharaoh: the Black Experience of Ancient Egypt.
  
• Paul Reps (compiler). Writings from the Zen Masters.
  
• Stacey Schiff. Cleopatra: a Life.
  
• Eric Schlosser. Command and Control.
  
• Ruby Simone. Aspergirls.
  
• Laura Solomon. Black Light.
  
• Cullen Thomas. Brother One Cell.
  
• Joyce Tyldesley. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt.
  — Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt.
  
• Juan Pablo Villalobos. Down the Rabbit Hole.
  
• Fay Weldon. Chalcot Crescent.
  
• Richard H. Wilkinson (ed). Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt.
  
• Tuttle Learner's Korean-English Dictionary

Books Borrowed

• Gerald A. Arbuckle. Dealing with Bullies.
  
• John Blofield. Bodhisattva of Compassion: the Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin.
  
• Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (eds). Chinese femininities / Chinese masculinities: a reader.
  
• José Ignacio Cabezón (ed). Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender.
  
• Liza Cleland et al (eds). The Clothed Body in the Ancient World.
  
• Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche. Gods and Men in Egypt.
  
• Gertie Englund (eds). Religion of the ancient Egyptians: cognitive structures and popular expressions: proceedings of symposia in Uppsala and Bergen, 1987 and 1988.
  
• Anne Fausto-Sterling. Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality.
  
• Theodor H. Gaster. Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East.
  
• Paul Ghalioungui. Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt.
  
• Franck Goddio and Manfred Clauss (eds). Egypt's Sunken Treasures.
  
• Lois Grant. People Who Make Your Life Hell.
  
• Bisco Hatori. Ouran High School Host Club vol 1.
  
• Rosalind M. and Jac J. Janssen. Getting Old in Ancient Egypt.
  
• Kata Endreffy and and András Gulyás (eds). Proceedings of the fourth Central European Conference of Young Egyptologists : 31 August-2 September 2006, Budapest
  
• Kim Young-Oh. Banya: the Explosive Delivery Man, vol. 3.
  
• Kishimoto Masashi. Naruto, vol 5, 8.
  
• J. Ki-Zerbo et al (eds). General history of Africa.
  
• Tite Kubo. Bleach volume 3.
  
• Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. Malleus Malificarum (trans. Montague Summers).
  
• Kurt Lange and Max Hirmer. Egypt: architecture, sculpture, painting in three thousand years.
  
• Hino Matsuri. Vampire Knight vols 1-9.
  
• Ihara Saikaku. The Great Mirror of Male Love.
  
• Heidi Saleh. Investigating ethnic and gender identities as expressed on wooden funerary stelae from the Libyan Period (c. 1069-715 B.C.E.) in Egypt.
  
• Jean Sasson. Love in a Torn Land.
  
• Susan Starr Sered. Priestess, Mother, Sister: Religions Dominated by Women.
  
• Mayu Shinja. Ai Ore volume 8.
  
• Dominic Streatfeild. A History of the World Since 9/11.
  
• Ronald Takaki. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb.
  
• Yana Toboso. Black Butler, vols 1-11.
  
• Susan Walker and Peter Higgs (eds). Cleopatra of Egypt: from History to Myth.

Photocopy/download log

• Bleeker, C.J. "The Position of the Queen in Ancient Egypt". in La regalità sacra: contributi al tema dell' VIII Congresso internazionale di storia delle religione (Roma, aprile 1955). Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1959. pp 261-268.
  
• Kaper, O. E. and K. A. Worp, "A Bronze representing Tapsais of Kellis", Revue d'Égyptologie 46, 1995, 107-118.
  
• Loraux, Nicole. "The Phantom of Sexuality". in The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man. Princeton University Press, 1995.
  
• Lie, John. What is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity. Korea Observer 43(3) autumn 20123, pp 339-363.
  
• Oh, Ingyu. The Globalization of Kpop: Korea's Place in the Global Music Industry. Korea Observer 44(3) autumn 2013 pp 389-409.
  
• Osing, Jürgen. Seth in Dachla und Charga. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo. volume 41, 1986, pp 231-233.
  
• Parkinson, R.B. 'Homosexual' desire and Middle Kingdom literature. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81 1995 pp 57-76.
  
• Piankoff, Alexander. The Sky-Goddess Nut and the Night Journey of the Sun. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1934 pp 57-59.
  
• Pope, Marvin H. "The Saltier of Atargatis Reconsidered". in E.F. Campbell, Jr and D.N. Freedman (eds). Biblical Archaeologist Reader (vol 3). Garden City, NY, Anchor Books, 1961-70.
• Ritner, Robert K. A Uterine Amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul., 1984), pp. 209-221.

And pages from:

• José Ignacio Cabezón (ed). Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender.
  
• W.V. Davies. Colour and painting in Ancient Egypt.
  
• Egypt Exploration Society. Studies presented to F. Ll. Griffith.
  
• Hans Goedicke and J. J. M. Roberts (eds). Unity and diversity : essays in the history, literature, and religion of the ancient Near East.
  
• Ahmed Fakhry. Bahria Oasis vol 1.
  
• Beatrice Laura Goff. Symbols of ancient Egypt in the late period: the twenty-first dynasty.
  
• Martin F. Kilmer. Greek erotica on Attic red-figure vases.
  
• Geoffrey Thorndike Martin. Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge : c. 3000 B.C.-A.D. 1150.
  
• Nick Merrima. The peopling of London : fifteen thousand years of settlement from overseas.
  
• Andrzej Niwiński. Studies on the illustrated Theban funerary papyri of the 11th and 10th centuries B.C.
  
• Alexandre Piankoff. The Wandering of the Soul.
  
• James B. Pritchard. The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament.
  
• Sylvia Schoske. Egyptian art in Munich.
  
• Tait, W.J. The Fable of Sight and Hearing in the Demotic Kufi Text. Acta Orientalia 37 1976 pp 27-44.
  
• Eleni Vassilika. Egyptian Art (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks).
  
• Cuncun Wu. Homoerotic sensibilities in late imperial China.
  
• N. Wyatt. Religious texts from Ugarit: the words of Ilimilku and his colleagues.

Noteable short stories
Fay Weldon - "Man With No Eyes". Brrr.