50 Book Challenge 2012 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse

[Bella Fortuna]

I wore something similar for that wretched business in Borneo.

The All-Singing, All-Dancing Huxley Crossdressing Revue?

By Jove, is that cover-story still holding? Splendid job by the F.O.

I heard all the high-kicks and bloomer-showing was to distract from small arms being smuggled in via massive whiskers...

[Clinton Huxley]

Oh, that was just the start. The duel with Starnberg on the slopes of Kinabalu. The trained poison-monkeys. That blasted Austrian vixen..... That was a damned close-run thing for the Empire.

[Clinton Huxley]

1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis

[Coito ergo sum]

1. Chessmen of Mars, Burroughs
2. Foundation, Asimov
3. Foundation and Empire, Asimov
4. Second Foundation, Asimov
5. Foundation's Edge, Asimov
6. Foundation and Earth, Asimov
7. Brain Twister, Mark Phillips
8. Prelude to Foundation

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Okay, I've done my fifty, now what?

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada (Loved this!!)

[Coito ergo sum]

Would it be impertinent to suggest that one would like to have sex with Anna's mind?

She has finished yet another book, and I remain only 1/2 way through Prelude to Foundation, having spent most of the weekend alternating between sleeping, swilling in hops-based beverages, eating, and napping.

[anna09]

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley

[Bella Fortuna]

Goddammit, just stop!!!

[anna09]

Goddammit, just stop!!!

[Bella Fortuna]

Goddammit, just stop!!!

[Clinton Huxley]

Hey, Anna, what's that over there!
<Quickly hides Anna's books>

[Coito ergo sum]

Book reports, OIDH!