List all the books I read in 2008

i hadnt read any book.

This is my introduction to Hanley, a Irish author who worked throughout the near entirety of the 20th century.

This book is about six men who have to learn to deal with each other, and with themselves, after they find that they are confined with each other in an open boat after their ship has been torpedoed and sunk. Theirs is a struggle for survivial, to be sure, but the real value in this is Hanley´s ability to paint for us the perspective and internal thoughts held by each of the characters.

Apparently this author penned some 35 novels, amongst many other written works. I would be glad to come across more of these in the future.

This may be my first experience with Faulkner, I can´t quite recall if I read any in high school or not. In any case, I liked it well enough, but the author has a tendency to be incredibly verbose. While this may build up the benefit of incredible clarity of scene, feeling, emotion, etc, there are often other times when I found it hard to follow what was trying to be said. It was good for a bit of vocabulary building, however, and it is always good to have oneself challenged by a work.

Written in the 50’s, this book by pscyhiatrist Dr. Jung is meant to expose the fact that the very most of us live as “people” rather than individual “selves”. The difference being that a person is a cog in a machine, a tiny part of a gigantic social structure, whereas a person gives up this role, and looking within finds the self. It is not a guide for doing so, however, as he recognizes that this is too complex and broad an issue for him to lead the way, if indeed there is a specific way to be found.

A bit hard to follow at times, written in a very stuffy, professional manner; also the author has a flair for throwing in expressions in latin, french, and even a couple in greek.

He does say, however, that an individual’s personal relationship with God (or whomever diety they hold dear) and their ability to have a personalized religious experience is inherent to humans, and that this is something that can keep us from getting sucked into massive, government-controlled shapeless voids of man.

A book I should perhaps revisit if I ever read other modern psychiatric works, to get perspective.

i love napoli’s work. she takes events from history and makes up a background story for them. this book was about the background story of the Mona Lisa.

I read many books since my last entry, but was on the road and did not list or record them…. and now the end of 2008 is looming. Not sure how practical it would be to try and do this again for 2009. Perhaps, a possibility…

i’m doing this. i made a giant spreadsheet in excel with all the books i can ever remember reading, so it’s pretty easy to maintain by adding new ones i’ve just finished. i’m trying to copy this list to librarything.com, but it’s taking a while.

the first/last time i read this book was in 8th grade, wen it first came out. now w/ the movie coming out and everything, i thought id reread it, just to refresh my memory of each character and the plot in general.

eh, wasnt really good, but once i start a book, i have to finish it.

i loved it <333 cant wait to read the rest!