Books read, 2016
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dreamer_easyFiction
Buchi Emecheta. The Moonlight Bride.
Judith Burnley (ed). Penguin Modern Stories 4.
William Gibson. The Peripheral.
Ha Jin. The Bridegroom.
Krys Lee. Drifting House. I realised I'd already read this whole book, probably in Rockville Library, so this was really a re-read, but I didn't regret a word of it.
— How I Became a North Korean.
劉慈欣 Liu Cixin. Death's End.
Neal Stephenson. Seveneves.
Neal Stephenson and George Jewbury (as Frederick George). Interface.
Charles Stross. The Jennifer Morgue.
Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti. Zeroes.
Monique Witting. Les Guérillères. 'There was a time when you were not a slave... Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.'
Non-Fiction
Anthony Bourdain. Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical.
Dean Buonomano. Brain Bugs: How the brain's flaws shape our lives.
Roger Luckhurst. The mummy's curse: the true history of a dark fantasy.
Serena Nanda. Neither man nor woman: the Hijras of India.
Phil Sandifer. Neoreaction: a Basilisk.
Neal Stephenson. In the Beginning... Was the Command Line.
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
Kevin Warwick. Artificial Intelligence: the Basics.
Fay Weldon. Auto da Fay.
The Probably Unwise "Man's Inhumanity to Man" Reading List Project:
Hannah Arendt. Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl.
John Hershey. Hiroshima.
George Orwell. Animal Farm.
Manga etc
Hirano Kōta. Hellsing vol 1.
Hamish Steele. Pantheon: the True Story of the Egyptian Deities. No less silly (or rude) than the myths it's based on. :)
Books bought
Akizuki Tatsuichiro. Nagasaki 1945.
Brian Aldiss. Cryptozoic.
Carol Andrews. Amulets of Ancient Egypt.
Elisabeth Benard and Beverly Moon (eds). Goddesses Who Rule.
Ray Bradbury. Machineries of Joy.
Adam Browne. The Tame Animals of Saturn.
William S. Burroughs. The Cat Inside.
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt.
Sean Dorney. The Embarrassed Colonialist.
John H. Elliott. Beware the Evil Eye: the Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World. Volume 1: Introduction, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl. (trans. Susan Massotty)
David Gerrold and Larry Niven. The Flying Sorcerers.
Lee Gutkind. Almost Human: Making Robots Think.
한강 Han Kang. The Vegetarian.
Chris Harman. How Marxism Works.
John Hershey. Hiroshima.
Brooke Holmes. Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy.
Betty Jeffrey. White Coolies.
조 주희 (Jo Juhui, writer), 한 승희 (Han Seunghui, artist). 밤을 걷는 선비 (Scholar Who Walks the Night) vols 1-73.
David Jobling et al (eds). The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis.
Hirano Kōta. Hellsing vol 1.
Ihm Ho Bin et al. Korean Grammar for International Learners.
— Korean Grammar for International Learners: Workbook.
(istg I will not read Kafka's "The Castle" just because of its supposed connection to "Pyramids of Mars")
Franz Kafka. The Essential Kafka.
(oh crap)
Cyril M. Kornbluth (writing as Jordan Park). Half.
Krys Lee. How I Became a North Korean.
Robert J. Lifton. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.
劉慈欣 Liu Cixin. Death's End.
Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff. The Starflight Handbook: a Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel.
Jan Morris. Conundrum.
Larry Niven. Neutron Star.
Stephen Quirke. Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt.
Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Phil Sandifer. Neoreaction a Basilisk. (Technically this is a Kickstarter pledge thingy - the "Conspiracy Zine" edition. I'm reading the ebook on the treadmill and keep laughing so much I nearly fall off.)
Robert Sheckley. Dimension of Miracles.
— The Robert Sheckley Omnibus.
Charles Stross. The Fuller Memorandum.
— The Jennifer Morgue.
Theodore Sturgeon. E Pluribus Unicorn.
Koenraad Donker van Heel. Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt.
Natsume Sōseki. I Am a Cat.
Patrick Smith. Cockpit Confidential.
Neal Stephenson. In the Beginning Was the Command Line.
— Some Remarks.
Neal H. Walls. The Goddess Anat in Ugaritic Myth.
Kaaron Warren. The Grief Hole.
Lyn Webster Wilde. The Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History.
Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams (eds). Robot Uprisings.
Books borrowed
Tzvi Abusch (ed). Riches hidden in secret places : ancient Near Eastern studies in memory of Thorkild Jacobsen.
Tzvi Abusch et al (eds). Lingering over words: studies in ancient Near Eastern literature in honor of William L. Moran.
William Foxwell Albright. Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan.
Carol Andrews. Amulets of Ancient Egypt.
Hannah Arendt. Eichmann in Jerusalem.
— The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Jan Assman. Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom.
Patrick Brantlinger. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914.
Bob Brier. Egyptomania.
Averil Cameron. Images of women in antiquity.
Elizabeth Donnelly Carney. Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: a royal life.
James Chapman. Inside the TARDIS : the worlds of Doctor Who : a cultural history.
Joanne Clark (ed). Archaeological perspectives on the transmission and transformation of culture in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Elliot Colla. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity.
Eugene Cruz-Uribe. Hibis temple project (vol 1).
Nicholas Daly. Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle: popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914.
Sue H. D'Auria (ed). Servant of Mut : studies in honor of Richard A. Fazzini.
William G. Dever. Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel.
A.A. Donohue. Ancient art and its historiography.
Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger.
Alan John Anthony Elliott. Chinese spirit-medium cults in Singapore.
Buchi Emecheta. The Joys of Motherhood.
— The Moonlight Bride.
John D. Evers. Myth and narrative : structure and meaning in some ancient Near Eastern texts.
I.L. Finkel, M.J. Geller (eds). Sumerian gods and their representations.
J. Gwyn Griffiths. The conflict of Horus and Seth from Egyptian and classical sources.
Judith Halberstam. Female Masculinity.
Christopher J. Hansen (ed). Ruminations, peregrinations, and regenerations : a critical approach to Doctor Who.
Melinda Hartwig. The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT69).
Dino Hodge. Colouring the rainbow: blak queer and trans perspectives: life stories and essays by First Nations people of Australia.
bell hooks. Ain't I a woman?: Black women and feminism.
Tom Johnson. Censored screams: the British ban on Hollywood horror in the thirties.
Sa-Moon Kang. Divine war in the Old Testament and in the ancient Near East.
Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger. Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel.
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons (eds). Naked truths : women, sexuality and gender in classical art and archaeology.
Jim Leach. Doctor Who.
Krys Lee. Drifting House.
Roger Luckhurst. The mummy's curse: the true history of a dark fantasy.
Howard L. Malchow. Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain.
Samuel A. B. Mercer. Horus, royal god of Egypt.
Timothy Mitchell. Colonising Egypt.
Serena Nanda. Neither man nor woman: the Hijras of India.
Kim Newman. Doctor Who.
Martti Nissinen. Sacred marriages : the divine-human sexual metaphor from Sumer to early Christianity.
Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity 1997. Aspects of women in antiquity.
Michael Otterman. American torture: from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond.
S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (eds). Sex and gender in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001.
Sabrina P. Ramet. Gender reversals and gender cultures: anthropological and historical perspectives.
Gregory A. Reinhardt. Many faces of gender : roles and relationships through time in indigenous northern communities.
Barbara A. Richter. The Theology of Hathor of Dendera.
Ashraf Iskander Sadek. Popular religion in Egypt during the New Kingdom.
John Seabrook. The song machine: inside the hit factory.
Mark S. Smith. Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World.
University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Studies presented to A. Leo Oppenheim, June 7, 1964.
Paul Veyne. Did the Greeks believe in their myths? : an essay on the constitutive imagination.
Neal H. Walls. The Goddess Anat in Ugaritic Myth.
Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti. Zeroes.
Photocopies / downloads
Buchi Emecheta. The Moonlight Bride.
Judith Burnley (ed). Penguin Modern Stories 4.
William Gibson. The Peripheral.
Ha Jin. The Bridegroom.
Krys Lee. Drifting House. I realised I'd already read this whole book, probably in Rockville Library, so this was really a re-read, but I didn't regret a word of it.
— How I Became a North Korean.
劉慈欣 Liu Cixin. Death's End.
Neal Stephenson. Seveneves.
Neal Stephenson and George Jewbury (as Frederick George). Interface.
Charles Stross. The Jennifer Morgue.
Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti. Zeroes.
Monique Witting. Les Guérillères. 'There was a time when you were not a slave... Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.'
Non-Fiction
Anthony Bourdain. Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical.
Dean Buonomano. Brain Bugs: How the brain's flaws shape our lives.
Roger Luckhurst. The mummy's curse: the true history of a dark fantasy.
Serena Nanda. Neither man nor woman: the Hijras of India.
Phil Sandifer. Neoreaction: a Basilisk.
Neal Stephenson. In the Beginning... Was the Command Line.
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
Kevin Warwick. Artificial Intelligence: the Basics.
Fay Weldon. Auto da Fay.
The Probably Unwise "Man's Inhumanity to Man" Reading List Project:
Hannah Arendt. Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl.
John Hershey. Hiroshima.
George Orwell. Animal Farm.
Manga etc
Hirano Kōta. Hellsing vol 1.
Hamish Steele. Pantheon: the True Story of the Egyptian Deities. No less silly (or rude) than the myths it's based on. :)
Books bought
Akizuki Tatsuichiro. Nagasaki 1945.
Brian Aldiss. Cryptozoic.
Carol Andrews. Amulets of Ancient Egypt.
Elisabeth Benard and Beverly Moon (eds). Goddesses Who Rule.
Ray Bradbury. Machineries of Joy.
Adam Browne. The Tame Animals of Saturn.
William S. Burroughs. The Cat Inside.
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt.
Sean Dorney. The Embarrassed Colonialist.
John H. Elliott. Beware the Evil Eye: the Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World. Volume 1: Introduction, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl. (trans. Susan Massotty)
David Gerrold and Larry Niven. The Flying Sorcerers.
Lee Gutkind. Almost Human: Making Robots Think.
한강 Han Kang. The Vegetarian.
Chris Harman. How Marxism Works.
John Hershey. Hiroshima.
Brooke Holmes. Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy.
Betty Jeffrey. White Coolies.
조 주희 (Jo Juhui, writer), 한 승희 (Han Seunghui, artist). 밤을 걷는 선비 (Scholar Who Walks the Night) vols 1-73.
David Jobling et al (eds). The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis.
Hirano Kōta. Hellsing vol 1.
Ihm Ho Bin et al. Korean Grammar for International Learners.
— Korean Grammar for International Learners: Workbook.
(istg I will not read Kafka's "The Castle" just because of its supposed connection to "Pyramids of Mars")
Franz Kafka. The Essential Kafka.
(oh crap)
Cyril M. Kornbluth (writing as Jordan Park). Half.
Krys Lee. How I Became a North Korean.
Robert J. Lifton. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.
劉慈欣 Liu Cixin. Death's End.
Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff. The Starflight Handbook: a Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel.
Jan Morris. Conundrum.
Larry Niven. Neutron Star.
Stephen Quirke. Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt.
Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Phil Sandifer. Neoreaction a Basilisk. (Technically this is a Kickstarter pledge thingy - the "Conspiracy Zine" edition. I'm reading the ebook on the treadmill and keep laughing so much I nearly fall off.)
Robert Sheckley. Dimension of Miracles.
— The Robert Sheckley Omnibus.
Charles Stross. The Fuller Memorandum.
— The Jennifer Morgue.
Theodore Sturgeon. E Pluribus Unicorn.
Koenraad Donker van Heel. Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt.
Natsume Sōseki. I Am a Cat.
Patrick Smith. Cockpit Confidential.
Neal Stephenson. In the Beginning Was the Command Line.
— Some Remarks.
Neal H. Walls. The Goddess Anat in Ugaritic Myth.
Kaaron Warren. The Grief Hole.
Lyn Webster Wilde. The Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History.
Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams (eds). Robot Uprisings.
Books borrowed
Tzvi Abusch (ed). Riches hidden in secret places : ancient Near Eastern studies in memory of Thorkild Jacobsen.
Tzvi Abusch et al (eds). Lingering over words: studies in ancient Near Eastern literature in honor of William L. Moran.
William Foxwell Albright. Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan.
Carol Andrews. Amulets of Ancient Egypt.
Hannah Arendt. Eichmann in Jerusalem.
— The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Jan Assman. Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom.
Patrick Brantlinger. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914.
Bob Brier. Egyptomania.
Averil Cameron. Images of women in antiquity.
Elizabeth Donnelly Carney. Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: a royal life.
James Chapman. Inside the TARDIS : the worlds of Doctor Who : a cultural history.
Joanne Clark (ed). Archaeological perspectives on the transmission and transformation of culture in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Elliot Colla. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity.
Eugene Cruz-Uribe. Hibis temple project (vol 1).
Nicholas Daly. Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle: popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914.
Sue H. D'Auria (ed). Servant of Mut : studies in honor of Richard A. Fazzini.
William G. Dever. Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel.
A.A. Donohue. Ancient art and its historiography.
Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger.
Alan John Anthony Elliott. Chinese spirit-medium cults in Singapore.
Buchi Emecheta. The Joys of Motherhood.
— The Moonlight Bride.
John D. Evers. Myth and narrative : structure and meaning in some ancient Near Eastern texts.
I.L. Finkel, M.J. Geller (eds). Sumerian gods and their representations.
J. Gwyn Griffiths. The conflict of Horus and Seth from Egyptian and classical sources.
Judith Halberstam. Female Masculinity.
Christopher J. Hansen (ed). Ruminations, peregrinations, and regenerations : a critical approach to Doctor Who.
Melinda Hartwig. The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT69).
Dino Hodge. Colouring the rainbow: blak queer and trans perspectives: life stories and essays by First Nations people of Australia.
bell hooks. Ain't I a woman?: Black women and feminism.
Tom Johnson. Censored screams: the British ban on Hollywood horror in the thirties.
Sa-Moon Kang. Divine war in the Old Testament and in the ancient Near East.
Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger. Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel.
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons (eds). Naked truths : women, sexuality and gender in classical art and archaeology.
Jim Leach. Doctor Who.
Krys Lee. Drifting House.
Roger Luckhurst. The mummy's curse: the true history of a dark fantasy.
Howard L. Malchow. Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain.
Samuel A. B. Mercer. Horus, royal god of Egypt.
Timothy Mitchell. Colonising Egypt.
Serena Nanda. Neither man nor woman: the Hijras of India.
Kim Newman. Doctor Who.
Martti Nissinen. Sacred marriages : the divine-human sexual metaphor from Sumer to early Christianity.
Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity 1997. Aspects of women in antiquity.
Michael Otterman. American torture: from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond.
S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (eds). Sex and gender in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001.
Sabrina P. Ramet. Gender reversals and gender cultures: anthropological and historical perspectives.
Gregory A. Reinhardt. Many faces of gender : roles and relationships through time in indigenous northern communities.
Barbara A. Richter. The Theology of Hathor of Dendera.
Ashraf Iskander Sadek. Popular religion in Egypt during the New Kingdom.
John Seabrook. The song machine: inside the hit factory.
Mark S. Smith. Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World.
University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Studies presented to A. Leo Oppenheim, June 7, 1964.
Paul Veyne. Did the Greeks believe in their myths? : an essay on the constitutive imagination.
Neal H. Walls. The Goddess Anat in Ugaritic Myth.
Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti. Zeroes.
Photocopies / downloads
- Blackman, A. M. and H. W. Fairman. The Myth of Horus at Edfu: II. C. The Triumph of Horus over His Enemies a Sacred Drama (Continued). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 29, December 1943, pp. 2-36.
- Briefel, Aviva. The mummy's curse: the true history of a dark fantasy [review]. Victorian Studies 57(1) autumn 2014 pp 139-141.
- Clamagirand, Anne-Cécile and Olivier Pelon. L'apparition du phénomène religieux dans l'Anatolie néolithique : les données de Çatal Höyük. Anatolia Antiqua 2009 17(1) pp 1-12.
- Cooper, Jerrold. "Prostitution", Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11, 2006, p. 12–21.
- Day, Jasmine. "Fear and Loathing: Twentieth-century classic mummy films". in The mummy's curse: mummymania in the English-speaking world. London, Routledge, 2006.
- el Awady, Tarek. "Sekhmet-Sahure: new evidence." in Etudes et Travaux XXVI. Centre D'Archeologie Mediterraneenne de L'Academie Polonaises des Sciences, Varsovie, 2013. Vol 1, pp 57-63.
- Falsone, Gioacchino. "Anath or Astarte? A Phoenician Bronze Statuette of the Smiting Goddess". in Religio Phoenicia: acta colloquii Namurcensis habiti diebus 14 et 15 mensis Decembris anni 1984. Namur, Société des études classiques, 1986.
- Griffiths, J. Gwyn. "The Symbolism of Red in Egyptian Religion". in C.J. Bleeker et al (eds). Ex Orbe religionum: studia Geo Widengren. Studies in the History of Religions 21-22. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1972. pp 81-90.
- Hornung, Erik. Seth: Geschichte und Bedeutung eines ägyptischenGottes. Symbolon Neues Folge BD 2, 1974.
- Lant, Antonia. The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania. October 59 winter 1992, pp. 86-112.
- Papantoniou, George. "The 'Cypriot Goddess' at the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age: a 'Cypro-centric' approach." in A.B. Knapp, J.M. Webb, and A. McCarthey (eds). J.R.B. Stewart: An Archaeological Legacy. Uppsala, Åströms Förlag, pp 161-73.
- Piankoff, Alexander. The Sky-Goddess Nut and the Night Journey of the Sun. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1934 pp 57-61
- Tarazi, Matthew S. A Cloud Roams and Beautifies by Spitting Out Her Brother. KTU 1.96 and its Relation to the Baal Cycle. Ugarit-Forschungen 36, 2004.
- Zandee, J. "The Book of Gates". in Liber Amicorum: Studies in honour of Professor Dr. C. J. Bleeker. Studies in the history of religions 17. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1969.
- Zeitlin, Froma I. Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of Dionysus and Demeter. Arethusa 15(1) spring 1982, pp 129-157.
- Arnold, Bettina and Nancy L. Wicker (eds). Gender and the archaeology of death. Walnut Creek, CA, AltaMira Press, 2001.
- Barnett, Richard D. The Earliest Representation of 'Anath. Eretz-Israel 14 1978 pp 28-31.
- Clère, J. Une statue de fils ainé de Nectanebo. Revue d'Égyptologie 6 1951 pp 138-155.
- Crass, Barbara A. "Gender and Mortuary Analysis". in Bettina Arnold and Nancy L. Wicker (eds). Gender and the Archaeology of Death. Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, 2001. ("Gender Differentiation in Traditional Inuit Society.")
- Ebeling, Jarle. "Multiword-verb combinations with and without ak". in Jarle Ebeling and Graham Cunningham (eds). Analysing literary Sumerian: corpus-based approaches. London, Oakville, CT, Equinox, 2007.
- Gardiner, Alan H. Hieratic papyri in the British Museum. Third series, Chester Beatty gift. London, British Museum, 1935.
- Jasnow, Richard and Kathlyn M. Cooney (eds). Joyful in Thebes: Egyptological studies in honor of Betsy M. Bryan. Atlanta, Georgia, Lockwood Press, 2015.
- Leitz, Christian. Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen. Dudley, MA , Peeters, 2002-2003.
- MacDonald, Sally and Michael Rice (eds). Consuming ancient Egypt. London: UCL, 2003.
- Daniel Ogden. Drakōn: dragon myth and serpent cult in the Greek and Roman worlds.
- Pirjo Lapinkivi. The Sumerian sacred marriage in the light of comparative evidence.
- S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting (eds). Sex and gender in the ancient Near East: proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001.
- Vandier, Jacques. Iousâas et (Hathor)-Nébetet-Hétépet III. Revue d'Égyptologie 18 1966.
- Wenig, Steffen. The Woman in Egyptian Art.
- Lexikon der Ägyptologie
- Pauly's Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
- Reallexikon der ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte
