Books read, 2015
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dreamer_easyBarbara Baynton. Bush Studies. I hugely recommend this classic Australian anthology.
Catherine Chung. Forgotten Country.
Germaine Greer. On Rage. And Marcia Langton's passionate response.
Jonathan L. Howard. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer.
Ann Leckie. Ancillary Justice.
Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem.
— The Dark Forest.
Lorrie Moore. How to Become a Writer.
Kim Stanley Robinson. 2312.
Philip Sandifer. Recursive Occlusion: an Unofficial Occultism of Doctor Who. Loved it!
Charles Stross. The Atrocity Archives.
Jill Bolte Taylor. My Stroke of Insight.
Alan Watts. Tao: The Watercourse Way.
The Probably Unwise "Man's Inhumanity to Man" Reading List Project:
Anna Funder. Stasiland.
Mark Isaacs. The Undesirables: Inside Nauru.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. I also finally watched the excellent movie version, directed by Michael Radford and starring John Hurt.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Cancer Ward.
Manga etc
Kamio Yoko. Boys Over Flowers, volume 1.
Ven. Miao You (story), Yan Kaixin (art). Wind and Rain: the Life of Ikkyu.
Notable short stories
Charlotte Armstrong, "Miss Murphy"
Barbara Baynton, "Squeaker's Mate"
Kim Tongni. "A Descendant of the Hwarang"
Books bought
Mitchell Akhurst, Phillip Berries, and Ian McHugh (eds). The Never Never Land.
Alfred Bester. The Stars My Destination.
Boyé Lafayette De Mente. The Chinese Have a Word For It: the Complete Guide to Chinese Thought and Culture.
Luc Brisson. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
William S. Burroughs. The Naked Lunch.
Octavia Butler. Dawn.
Giacomo Casanova (trans. Andrew Lawston). The Story of My Escape.
Mark W. Chavalas (ed). Women in the Ancient Near East.
Robert Cormier. I am the Cheese.
Jonathan Culler. Barthes: a Very Short Introduction.
Roald Dahl. Collected Short Stories.
Mark Felton. The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese.
Janet Frame. The Envoy from Mirror City.
Anna Funder. Stasiland.
Stella Gibbons. Cold Comfort Farm.
William Gibson. The Peripheral.
Germaine Greer. On Rage.
John Hershey. Hiroshima.
Sonja Vegdahl Hur and Ben Seunghwa Hur. Culture Shock! Korea.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World.
— Brave New World Revisited.
Christopher Isherwood. The World in the Evening.
Jan Jin-Sung. Dear Leader.
Kamio Yōko. Boys Over Flowers volume 1.
Stuart A. Kauffman. Reinventing the Sacred.
Lawrence M. Krauss. A Universe From Nothing.
Ann Leckie. Ancillary Justice.
Rebecca Levene. Smiler's Fair.
Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem.
— The Dark Forest.
Michelle Marquardt. Blue Silence.
Gita Mehta. A River Sutra.
Lorrie Moore. How to Become a Writer.
Veronique Mottie. Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction.
B.R. Myers. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters.
Larry Niven. The Ringworld Engineers.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Geraldine Pinch. Magic in Ancient Egypt.
Sylvia Plath. The Colossus.
Fred Pohl. Pohlstars.
Jon Ronson. The Men Who Stare At Goats.
Philip Sandifer. Recursive Occlusion.
Roger Scruton. Beauty: a Very Short Introduction.
Charlene Spretnak (ed). The Politics of Women's Spirituality.
Neal Stephenson. Seveneves.
Charles Stross. The Atrocity Archives.
— Saturn's Children.
Mary Taylor. Baked Beans in the Outback and Curry in Kashmir.
Ōba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi. Death Note volumes 1-6.
David Gordon White. Myths of the Dog-Man.
Riki Anne Wilchins. Read My Lips: Sexual subversion and the end of gender.
Penguin Modern Stories 4.
Books borrowed
Sandra Lipsitz Bem. The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality.
Ronald G. Boothe. Perception of the Visual Environment.
Bruno G. Breitmeyer. Blindspots: the many ways we cannot see.
Luc Brisson. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
Bonnie Bullough, Vern L Bullough, and James Elias (eds). Gender Blending.
Dean Buonomano. Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives.
Rob Desalle and Ian Tattersall. The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviours, and Beliefs.
Page duBois. Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being.
David Eagleman. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain.
Christopher Eyre (ed). Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3-9 September 1995: Abstracts of Papers.
David Graeb. Debt: The First 5,000 Years.
Steven Johnson. Mind Wide Open.
Judith Lorber. Breaking the bowls: degendering and feminist change .
Elaine Marmel. Teach Yourself Visually Word 2013.
Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta (eds). Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan.
Yukio Mishima. Forbidden Colours.
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts.
Jenni Ogden. Trouble in Mind.
Michael G. Peletz. Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times.
Kim Stanley Robinson. 2312.
Kevin Warwick. Artificial Intelligence: the Basics.
The Masculinity Studies Reader.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3-9 September 1995.
Luverly Gifts!
Katherine Cummings. The Life and Loves of a Transgendered Lesbian Librarian.
Jonathan L. Howard. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer.
Rick Riordan. The Kane Chronicles (The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent's Shadow).
Photocopy log
Catherine Chung. Forgotten Country.
Germaine Greer. On Rage. And Marcia Langton's passionate response.
Jonathan L. Howard. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer.
Ann Leckie. Ancillary Justice.
Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem.
— The Dark Forest.
Lorrie Moore. How to Become a Writer.
Kim Stanley Robinson. 2312.
Philip Sandifer. Recursive Occlusion: an Unofficial Occultism of Doctor Who. Loved it!
Charles Stross. The Atrocity Archives.
Jill Bolte Taylor. My Stroke of Insight.
Alan Watts. Tao: The Watercourse Way.
The Probably Unwise "Man's Inhumanity to Man" Reading List Project:
Anna Funder. Stasiland.
Mark Isaacs. The Undesirables: Inside Nauru.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. I also finally watched the excellent movie version, directed by Michael Radford and starring John Hurt.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Cancer Ward.
Manga etc
Kamio Yoko. Boys Over Flowers, volume 1.
Ven. Miao You (story), Yan Kaixin (art). Wind and Rain: the Life of Ikkyu.
Notable short stories
Charlotte Armstrong, "Miss Murphy"
Barbara Baynton, "Squeaker's Mate"
Kim Tongni. "A Descendant of the Hwarang"
Books bought
Mitchell Akhurst, Phillip Berries, and Ian McHugh (eds). The Never Never Land.
Alfred Bester. The Stars My Destination.
Boyé Lafayette De Mente. The Chinese Have a Word For It: the Complete Guide to Chinese Thought and Culture.
Luc Brisson. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
William S. Burroughs. The Naked Lunch.
Octavia Butler. Dawn.
Giacomo Casanova (trans. Andrew Lawston). The Story of My Escape.
Mark W. Chavalas (ed). Women in the Ancient Near East.
Robert Cormier. I am the Cheese.
Jonathan Culler. Barthes: a Very Short Introduction.
Roald Dahl. Collected Short Stories.
Mark Felton. The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese.
Janet Frame. The Envoy from Mirror City.
Anna Funder. Stasiland.
Stella Gibbons. Cold Comfort Farm.
William Gibson. The Peripheral.
Germaine Greer. On Rage.
John Hershey. Hiroshima.
Sonja Vegdahl Hur and Ben Seunghwa Hur. Culture Shock! Korea.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World.
— Brave New World Revisited.
Christopher Isherwood. The World in the Evening.
Jan Jin-Sung. Dear Leader.
Kamio Yōko. Boys Over Flowers volume 1.
Stuart A. Kauffman. Reinventing the Sacred.
Lawrence M. Krauss. A Universe From Nothing.
Ann Leckie. Ancillary Justice.
Rebecca Levene. Smiler's Fair.
Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem.
— The Dark Forest.
Michelle Marquardt. Blue Silence.
Gita Mehta. A River Sutra.
Lorrie Moore. How to Become a Writer.
Veronique Mottie. Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction.
B.R. Myers. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters.
Larry Niven. The Ringworld Engineers.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Geraldine Pinch. Magic in Ancient Egypt.
Sylvia Plath. The Colossus.
Fred Pohl. Pohlstars.
Jon Ronson. The Men Who Stare At Goats.
Philip Sandifer. Recursive Occlusion.
Roger Scruton. Beauty: a Very Short Introduction.
Charlene Spretnak (ed). The Politics of Women's Spirituality.
Neal Stephenson. Seveneves.
Charles Stross. The Atrocity Archives.
— Saturn's Children.
Mary Taylor. Baked Beans in the Outback and Curry in Kashmir.
Ōba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi. Death Note volumes 1-6.
David Gordon White. Myths of the Dog-Man.
Riki Anne Wilchins. Read My Lips: Sexual subversion and the end of gender.
Penguin Modern Stories 4.
Books borrowed
Sandra Lipsitz Bem. The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality.
Ronald G. Boothe. Perception of the Visual Environment.
Bruno G. Breitmeyer. Blindspots: the many ways we cannot see.
Luc Brisson. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
Bonnie Bullough, Vern L Bullough, and James Elias (eds). Gender Blending.
Dean Buonomano. Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives.
Rob Desalle and Ian Tattersall. The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviours, and Beliefs.
Page duBois. Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being.
David Eagleman. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain.
Christopher Eyre (ed). Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3-9 September 1995: Abstracts of Papers.
David Graeb. Debt: The First 5,000 Years.
Steven Johnson. Mind Wide Open.
Judith Lorber. Breaking the bowls: degendering and feminist change .
Elaine Marmel. Teach Yourself Visually Word 2013.
Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta (eds). Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan.
Yukio Mishima. Forbidden Colours.
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts.
Jenni Ogden. Trouble in Mind.
Michael G. Peletz. Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times.
Kim Stanley Robinson. 2312.
Kevin Warwick. Artificial Intelligence: the Basics.
The Masculinity Studies Reader.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3-9 September 1995.
Luverly Gifts!
Katherine Cummings. The Life and Loves of a Transgendered Lesbian Librarian.
Jonathan L. Howard. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer.
Rick Riordan. The Kane Chronicles (The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent's Shadow).
Photocopy log
- Cohen, Mark E. The Incantation-Hymn: Incantation or Hymn? Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1975), pp. 592-611.
- Cooper, Jerrold S. "Sacred Marriage and Popular Cult in Early Mesopotamia". in Eiko Matsushima (ed). Official cult and popular religion in the Ancient Near East: papers of the first Colloquium on the Ancient Near East: the city and its life, held at the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan (Mitaka, Tokyo), March 20-22, 1992. Heidelberg, Winter, 1993. pp 81-96.
- Cornelius, I. The Lion in the Art of the ANE: a Study of Selected Motifs. Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 15 (1989), pp 53-85.
- Gazzaniga, Michael S. The Split Brain Revisited. Scientific American 279 (1), July 1998, pp 35-39.
- Israelit-Groll, Sarah. Studies in Egyptology: presented to Miriam Lichtheim.
Jerusalem: Magness Press, Hebrew University, 1990. - Joyce, Rosemary. "Beauty, Sexuality, Body Ornamentation, and Gender in Ancient Meso-America". in Sarah Milledge Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (eds). In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches. Walnut Creek, CA, AltaMira Press, 2002. pp 81-91.
- McBride II, Richard D. Pak Ch'anghwa and the Hwarang segi Manuscripts. The Journal of Korean Studies (1979-), Vol. 13, No. 1 (fall 2008), pp. 57-88
— Silla Buddhism and the Hwarang. Korean Studies, Vol. 34 (2010), pp. 54-89. - de Moor, Johannes C. Studies in the New Alphabetic Texts from Ras Shamra I. Ugarit-Forschungen 1, 1969, pp 168-188.
- Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal. Hair in Ancient Egypt. Acta Orientalia 51 1990 pp 7-26.
- Ulanowski, K. "The Metaphor of the Lion in Mesopotamian and Greek Civilization". in Robert Rollinger and Erik van Dongen (eds). Mesopotamia in the ancient world: impact, continuities, parallels: proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Obergurgl, Austria, November 4-8, 2013. ("Lions and Goddesses", pp 271-2)
- Žabkar, Louis. A Hieracocephalous Deity from Naqa, Qustul, and Philae. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 102(1), 1975, pp 143-153.
- David Aston et al (eds). Under the potter's tree : studies on ancient Egypt presented to Janine Bourriau on the occasion of her 70th birthday.
- David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
- Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge (eds). Cambridge world history of slavery.
- William E. Henthorn. A history of Korea.
- Carolyne Larrington (ed). The Feminist Companion to Mythology.
- Gary P. Leupp. Male colors: the construction of homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan.
- Egyptian religious texts and representations prepared under the supervision of Alexandre Piankoff.
- Alan Rowe. The Topography and history of Beth-Shan.
