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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Happy New Year Mom

This one's just for you:

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Welcome...

...What's new? How is the world treating you?

It's a great song, don't you think? And not a bad title for a blog either, especially one created to post my musings on anything that's grabbed my interest lately.

About Me

DC: I'm a middle-aged man living in the Washington D.C. area. I love old music and old movies, politics and sports, reading and traveling. I'll post on all these subjects as the mood strikes me.

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Books I'm Reading

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Old Filth - by Jane Gardam

Music I'm Listening To

Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Tokyo String Quartet
Schubert: The Late String Quartets; String Quintet, Emerson String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos. 1-3, Kodaly Quartet
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4, 5 and 6, Kodaly Quartet

What's on Deck

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 - by Daniel Walker Howe

Books I've Read in 2010

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, by Daniel Okrent
Masters and Commanders, by Andrew Roberts
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
The Cost of Living, by Mavis Gallant
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
Blue Angel, by Francine Prose
Reading Like A Writer, by Francine Prose
Beethoven: The Music and the Life, by Lewis Lockwood
Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies: A Closer Look, by David Hurwitz
Brahms's Symphonies: A Closer Look, by David Hurtwitz
Getting the Most Out of Mozart: The Instrumental Works, by David Hurwitz
Exploring Haydn - A Listener's Guide to Music's Boldest Innovator, by David Hurwitz
Guide to Sonatas: Music for One or Two Instruments, by Melvin Berger
Guide to Chamber Music, by Melvin Berger

Books I read in 2009

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong - by Terry Teachout
Point of No Return - by John Marquand
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 - by Gordon Wood
Into Your Tent I'll Creep - by Peter DeVries (reread)
The Turnaround - by George Pelecanos
Hard Revolution - by George Pelecanos
We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism - by John Derbyshire
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989 - by Steven Hayward
The Road to War - by Richard Overy (re-read)
The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964-1980 - by Steven Hayward
In Search of London - by H.V. Morton
April in Paris - by Michael Wallner
Last Night at the Lobster - by Stewart O'Nan
The Silent Speaker - by Rex Stout
The Outfit - by Richard Stark
The Man With The Getaway Face - by Richard Stark
The Hunter: A Parker Novel - by Richard Stark
Not Quite Dead Enough - by Rex Stout
In the Best Families - by Rex Stout
Over My Dead Body - by Rex Stout
Some Buried Caesar - by Rex Stout
Too Many Cooks - by Rex Stout
A Good Man is Hard to Find - by Flannery O'Connor
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose - by Flannery O'Connor
Bix: Man and Legend - by Richard M. Sudhalter & Philip R. Evans
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 - by Ian Kershaw
Making of Casablanca, The: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II - by Aljean Harmetz

Blog Archive

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▼ 2008 (101)
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► 2007 (17)
- ► December (17)

Books I read in 2007

Why the Allies Won - by Richard Overy
The Dark Valley - by Piers Brendon
A Time to Be Born - by Dawn Powell
The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors - by Nicholas Wade
A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson
The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization - by Diana West
Stoner - by John Williams
Augustus - by John Williams
The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography - by Frank Capra
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice - by Judith Martin
Atonement - by Ian McEwan (reread)
Enduring Love - by Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach - by Ian McEwan
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression - by Amity Shlaes
Right as Rain - by George Pelecanos
The Dream Life of Sukhanov - by Olga Grushin
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Caesar: Life of a Colossus - by Adrian Goldsworthy
Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean - by Charles Freeman
The Fall of Berlin - by Anthony Beevor
Stalingrad - by Anthony Beevor
A History of Warfare - by John Keegan

Books I read in 2008

The Night Gardener - by George Pelecanos
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Barbery
A House and Its Head - by Ivy Compton-Burnett
The Go-Between - by L.P. Hartley
The Dud Avocado - by Elaine Dundy
A Traveller in Rome - by H.V. Morton
The Big Clock - by Kenneth Fearing
Friendship: An Expose - by Joseph Epstein
The Norton Book of Personal Essays
A Line Out For a Walk - by Joseph Epstein
The Most of P.G. Wodehouse
Envy - by Joseph Epstein
Snobbery: The American Version - by Joseph Epstein
Narcissus Leaves the Pool - by Joseph Epstein
In a Cardboard Belt! - by Joseph Epstein
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America - by Andrew Ferguson
Rites of Peace - by Adam Zamoyski
The Day of Battle - by Rick Atkinson
Amsterdam: A Novel - by Ian McEwan
Liberal Fascism - by Jonah Goldberg
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream - by John Derbyshire
American Creation - by Joseph Ellis

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