The final loot of 2009!
Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott- Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth Century England by Lita-Rose Betcherman
- Insatiable: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream by Jason Fagone
- Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son by Allen and Louis Ginsberg
- Timothy Leary: A Biography by Robert Greenfield
- The Adventures of Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh by Hergé
- The Adventures of Tintin: In the Land of the Soviets by Hergé
- The Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
- Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
- Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs edited by John Pilger
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age 1945-2000 by Martin Torgoff
The best Christmas gift of all is the hugely comfortable, Grimace coloured bean bag in which I plan to do much reading over the years. Or recovering from intense family dance offs on the Wii, I’m pretty sure we worked off more than what we ate for Christmas dinner! You ain’t seen nothing until you’ve seen me shake my ass to ‘Groove is in the Heart‘. Don’t worry, the youtube video is just the music video, I’m not trying to inflict my dance moves to an international audience.
Wait, Grimace is supposed to be an anthropomorphic tastebud? I always just assumed he was some sort of giant purple monster. Childhood under capitalism is so disturbing, no wonder so many of us are dysfunctional.
Inaki Escudero read 52 books in 52 weeks this year. It is that time of year where we should consider our reading goals and challenges. If you are so inclined, what goals are you thinking about setting for yourself for 2010?