book list

[winterbadger]

A placeholder for when I have time to write up some comments.

28/50: Widdershins by Charles de Lint
29/50: Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West by T. R. Reid
30/50: Three Men and A Maid by P. G. Wodehouse
31/50: The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower
32/50: The Legate's Daughter by Wallace Breem

Guest of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I by James J. Hudson
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan by Nicholas Jubber
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr
The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas Desjardins
Theoretical Criminology by George B. Vold et al.
Knights of the Cross; or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Comments

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

I *loved* My Name is Red, one of my favorites ever. I even re-read it and still loved it, and I never normally re-read books. It really fueled my interest in Turkish (and then central Asian) history.

I've only read two books all summer, and haven't written a review of either.