In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of my bookblogging, which will come in late 2028, I’m reposting my monthly summaries since November 2003 when I started. (I already did this in 2019-2023, but this gives me a chance to consolidate all the posts and links to this WordPress site rather than my old Livejournal.) Everything will be linked under the bookblog nostalgia tag.
We spent September 2007, nineteen years ago this month, pretty much in limbo waiting for word on B’s future accommodation once she returned home after a couple of weeks’ respite. At work my Italian intern V left (she went off to run refugee camps and is now raising her family) and was replaced by a Dane, also V (who charmed me on her arrival by revealing that as an exchange student at Michigan State University she had actually shaken hands with Gerald Ford). I had one trip to London.
I read only 13 books, what with ongoing stress.
Non-fiction 8 (YTD 65)
About Time: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who, 1970-1974, by Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood
Eminent Churchillians, by Andrew Roberts
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography, by Barnaby Rogerson
The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism, by Barnaby Rogerson
Starling of the White House, by Colonel Edmund W. Starling (as told to Thomas Sugrue)
Athens-Skopje: an uneasy symbiosis, ed. Evangelos Kofos and Vlasis Vlasidis
Μακεδονία (Macedonia): a Greek term in modern usage, [Georgia Daidikou and Anna Pasali]
Belfast, c. 1600 to c. 1900: The Making of the Modern City, by Raymond Gillespie and Stephen A. Royle
Non-genre 2 (YTD 26)
The Nero Prediction, by Humphry Knipe
The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
SF 1 (YTD 58)
First Lensman, by E.E. “Doc” Smith
Comics 2 (YTD 18)
Preacher [#6]: War in the Sun, by Garth Ennis
The Age of Chaos, by Colin Baker
3,800 pages (YTD 56,900)
1/13 by women (YTD 47/192)
None by PoC (YTD 4/192)
My two favourite books of the month were the longest and the shortest: Proust’s second volume, which you can get here, and the lovely wee guide to the history of Belfast, which you can get here. Wooden spoon to E.E. “Doc” Smith’s First Lensman, which you can get here.
