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15 books

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The latest Facebook fad is listing 15 things that will “always stick with you.” One that interested me enough to participate was “15 books.”

The Nine Billion Names of God

  • Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
  • When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
  • The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney
  • I and Thou by Martin Buber
  • The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
  • Writing the Australian Crawl by William Stafford
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Amazon, Powell’s, and eBay

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Recent book purchases:

  • Matthew Arnold: The Portable Matthew Arnold
  • Wendell Berry: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
  • Robert Bly: Eating the Honey of Words
  • Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetry
  • Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems
  • Kilala Kitamoto: LEGO book museum Vol. 1
  • W.S. Merwin: Selected Poems
  • William Stafford: The Way It Is
  • William Stafford: Writing the Australian Crawl
  • David Wagoner: Dry Sun, Dry Wind (First Edition)

Not a Bad Haul

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Books I got for Christmas:

  • How to Mow the Lawn by Sam Martin
  • A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems by David Wagoner (hurray!)
  • Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Music I got for Christmas:

  • The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
  • Sam’s Town from The Killers

New bands I recently found on the Web

  • Band of Horses
  • The Black Angels
  • Los Campesinos!

I wrote one poem last week.