Our family celebrates Christmas. We were blessed to see many presents under the trees this year, but about 90% of the presents are ... books! I love lists and here below are the books I gave and received as presents for the 2013 Holidays.
I’ve also worked a lot with lists as scaffoldings for projects involving poetry and (auto)biography (for instance, THIS BOOK that contains a list of my daily trash over a certain period). Relatedly, a list such as this below may offer clues about the “I” writing the posts on this blog – she who is verbing books:
BOOKS I RECEIVED AS HOLIDAY PRESENTS:
(Most given by my loving husband based on his perceptions/knowledge of my interests as well as a few hints by Moi):
CHASING CHAOS: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander
FERRAN: The Inside Story of El Bulli and The Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews
I’LL DROWN MY BOOK: Conceptual Writing by Women, Eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place
The Hemingway Play by Frederic Hunter
BACK FROM THE CROCODILE'S BELLY: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory, Eds. S. Lily Mendoza and Leny Mendoza Strobel
Club Without Walls: Selections From the Journals of Philip Pavia, Ed. Natalie Edgar
Revelator by Ron Silliman
Another Path by Gladys Tabor
Stillmeadow Seasons by Gladys Tabor
The Stillmeadow Road by Gladys Tabor
BOOKS I GAVE AS HOLIDAY PRESENTS:
To My 17-Year-Old Son:
THE SECRETS OF MENTAL MATH
PANORAMIC COLOMBIA, photographs by Miguel Salazar Aparicio and text by Enrique Pulecio Marino
BOLIVAR: American Liberator by Marie Arana
AFRICA UNITED: Soccer, Passion, Politics and the First World Cup in Africa by Steve Bloomfield
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Easton Press. Books from Easton and Loeb are primarily to encourage a collector's library)
THE HOUSE OF HADES by Rick Riordan
THE COMEDIES by William Shakespeare (Easton)
THE TRAGEDIES by William Shakespeare (Easton)
THE HISTORIES by William Shakespeare (Easton)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (9th printing, Sept. 1939)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951 Book of the Month Club printing)
Mastering the Fundamentals of Mathematics, Prof. James A. Sellers
To My Brother and His Family:
PHILIPPINE AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (editor to come)
To Guest Pastor at UMC Family Celebration, Santo Tomas, Philippines:
THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems & New 1998-2010 by Eileen R. Tabios
To a Family Friend:
PATRIOT & ASSASSIN by Robert Cook
The Perils of Peace: America’s Struggle for Survival After Yorktown By Thomas Fleming
To My Husband:
The Official Record of the WAR OF THE REBELLION
AESOP’S Fables (Easton)
St. Agustine Confessions, Trans. by William Watts (Loeb Classical Library)
St. Agustine Confessions, II, Trans. by William Watts (Loeb)
The Confessions of St. Augustine, Trans. J.G. Pilkington (Easton)
THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, Trans. Arthur Livingston, with drawings by William Blake (Easton)
BOLIVAR: American Liberator by Marie Arana
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
OVER THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigating of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Easton)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (Easton)
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler (Easton)
CICERO on The Republic of the Laws, Trans. Clinton W. Kayes (Loeb)
CICERO ORATIONS, Philippics 1-6, Ed. & Trans. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Revised by John T. Ramsey & Gesine Manuwald (Loeb)
CICERO ORATIONS, Pro Caelio De Provincii’s Consularibus Pro Balbo, Trans. R. Gardner (Loeb)
CICERO: Tusculan Disputations, Trans. JE King (Loeb)
CICERO: IX Orations, Trans. H. Grose Hodge (Loeb)
CICERO: DE SENECTUTE DE AMICITIA DE DIVINATIONS, trans. W.A. Falconer (Loeb)
CICERO: ON THE NATURE OF THE GODS - ACADEMICS, trans. H. Rackham (Loeb)
CICERO: ON THE ORATOR, trans. by E.W. Sutton and H. Rackham (Loeb)
CICERO: LETTERS TO ATTICUS, Vol. II, Ed. & Trans. D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Loeb)
CICERO: Letters to Quintus and Brutus to Octavian / Inventions Handbook of Electioneering, Ed. & Trans. by D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Loeb)
CICERO: Orations Philippics 7-14, Ed & Trans. by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Revised by John T. Ramsey & Gesine Manuwald (Loeb)
CICERO: Letters to Atticus, Vol. I, Ed & Trans by D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Loeb)
CICERO: Orations in Catilinam I-IV, Pro Murena – Pro Sulla – Pro Flacco, Trans. C. MacDonald (Loeb)
CICERO: Orations Pro Quinctio Pro Roscio Amerino Pro Roscio Comoedo On the Agrarian Law (Loeb)
CICERO Orations Pro Archia Post Reditum In Senatu Post Reditum Ad Quirites De Domo Sua De Haruspicum Responsis Pro Planco, trans. by MH Watts (Loeb)
CICERO XXI, Ed. Jeffrey Haderson (Loeb)
CICERO IV De Oratore, Book III De Facto Paradoxa Stoicorum Partitiones Oratoriae, Trans. H. Rackham (Loeb)
CICERO Orations Pro Milone – In Pisonem – Pro Scauno – Pro Fonteio – Pro Rabirio Postumo – Pro Marcello – Pro Ligario – Pro Rege Deiotaro, Trans. N.H. Watta (Loeb)
[CICERO] Rhetorica Ad Herennum, Trans. Harry Caplan (Loeb)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Easton)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Easton)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (Easton)
How The Crusades Changed History, Prof. Philip Daileader (Great Courses)
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin (Easton)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (Easton)
The Short Stories by Charles Dickens (Easton)
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS by George Eliot with illustrations by Wray Manning (Easton)
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
In Flagrante Collecto (caught in the art of collecting) by Marilyn Gelfman Karp
FAUST by Goethe (Easton)
THE MAPS OF ANTIETAM by Bradley M. Gottfried
THE MAPS OF THE BRISTOE STATION AND MINE RUN CAMPAIGNS by Bradley M. Gottfried
THE MAPS OF FIRST BULL RUN by Bradley M. Gottfried
THE MAPS OF GETTYSBURG: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign June 3-July 13, 1863 by Bradley M. Gottfried
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Easton)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Easton)
HESIOD The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, trans H.G. Evelyn-White
THE ILIAD by Homer (Easton)
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER (Easton)
PASSIONS: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson
A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce (Easton)
SHERMAN: A Soldier’s Life by Lee Kennett
HOW MUSIC AND MATHEMATICS RELATE, Prof. David Kung (Great Courses)
The Prince by Machiavelli (Easton)
Caesar’s Women by Colleen McCullough
ANCIENT SHORES by Jack McDevitt (Easton)
LANGUAGES A to Z, Prof. John McWhorter (Great Courses)
Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville (Easton)
WIRED FOR WAR: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P.W. Singer
IVANHOE by Walter Scott (Easton)
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (Easton)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (8th printing but replica cover)
CALIFORNIA: A History by Kevin Starr
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Easton)
The Alhambra by Desmond Stewart and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Editions
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (Easton)
TACITUS Annals, Books XIII-XVI, trans. by John Jackson
TACITUS Agricola Germania Dialogue, Trans. M. Hutton, W. Peterson; Revised by RM Ogilvie, EH Warmington, and M Winterbottom
TACITUS, Histories IV-V, Annals I-III, Trans. by CH Moore and J. Jackson
TACITUS The Histories, Books I-III, Trans. by CH Moore
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Easton)
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne (Easton)
REASON AND FAITH: Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Thomas Williams
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