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2009 Reading #5
Jan. 15th, 2009 06:43 pm1. Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer. I finished this book yesterday, and I find that I have little to say about it. I have a fondness for crackpots, and while Fort is less out there than many of those, he shares the same obsessiveness and desire to annoy scientists. He compiled volumes of documented weirdness, like rains of toads or blood, odd disappearances, and the like. He's the namesake of the adjective "Fortean," though the society that bears his name has diverged dramatically at times from Fort's own perspectives. I enjoyed the book--I may have identified a little overmuch with Fort, who seems to have been prone to social anxiety and deep discouragement with his career--but in the end I felt like I should have read Fort's books instead. Which I probably will, at some point.
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer. I finished this book yesterday, and I find that I have little to say about it. I have a fondness for crackpots, and while Fort is less out there than many of those, he shares the same obsessiveness and desire to annoy scientists. He compiled volumes of documented weirdness, like rains of toads or blood, odd disappearances, and the like. He's the namesake of the adjective "Fortean," though the society that bears his name has diverged dramatically at times from Fort's own perspectives. I enjoyed the book--I may have identified a little overmuch with Fort, who seems to have been prone to social anxiety and deep discouragement with his career--but in the end I felt like I should have read Fort's books instead. Which I probably will, at some point.