Current Count:(37 )Books Current Read (Comely Fields of Reading )
Paper/s Read ( zero but qaulity is always desirable) Podcasts listening/ed to ( Risser, Knight Conference this Week)
LIBRARY BOOKS ON LOAN?? ( 5 Return Doctorate one today?)Library Books Due Date ( renewed £3:50)

Books I have read 24 Last one: NIVEN Book 36 out of First Hundred (Academic with Literary Breaks)h

Thursday, 13 April 2006
8:34:47 PM

1. DAHL ‘On Democracy’ Yale Noto Bene Very good indeed, well written readable prose (Ac)
2. WEST AND WEST ‘Four Texts on Socrates, Plato, and Aristophanes’ MIT OCW. Political Theory Course(Ac) A very detailed precise slow read academic pace.
3. BURKE EDMUND ‘Reflections of the Revolution in France’ Oxford World Classics. An old Political Theory Classic (Essex)(Ac)
4. MILLET KATE ‘The Loony Bin Trip’ Kates searingly honest, disturbing account of her forcible sections on account of her mental illness. A vivid account of how a Professor is stripped of her academic identity in order to ‘fufill’ the perceived ID forced on her by concerned relatives. A book to induce campaigning.(MH)
5. MARTEL YAN ‘The Life of Pi’ An absolutely riveting story of a young Zoo Keeper/Zoologists account of being marooned at sea with Richard x a Tiger. Storytelling to open ones eyes.(LG)
6. TREMAIN ROSE ‘Music and Silence’ An excellent account of a forbidden love affair conducted in the German courts.(LG)
7. WOOLF VIRGINIA ‘Orlando’ A book for all those in Supported Housing considering time travel and inhabiting various successful identities.(LG)
8. HOLLINGHURST ALAN ‘The Line of Beauty’ Gay Love and Deep friendships with our friends the aristos of Notting Hill.(LG)
9. ROY ARUNDATI ‘The God of Small Things’ Booker Winner. I DID NOT like this book I persevered all the same. Something about the prose-style.(LG)
10. AMIS MARTIN’ The War against Cliché’ Vintage Random . A top class read that can be used to guide you into other worthwhile literary endevours.
11. PULLMAN PHILIP’The Amber Spyglass’(LG) His reading and academic background show in the quality of the story and length and breadth of imagination. This was a later book I wasn’t aware of previous volumes to be read prior to Amber Spyglass.
12. TAYLOR GP’Shadowmancer’ Or the most evil side of vicars you have ever seen. A disturbing but inadequate account of evil in the Church. GP Taylor a God TV Rick Joyner Cross Rhythms friend is just the sort of writer they need in their crusade against us.
13. LEVY ANDREA ‘Small Island’ (LG) A riveting account of love between the races in seedy run down London lodgings.
14. TAN AMY ‘The Bonesetters Daughter’(LG) MIT OCW Autobiographical Genre Author. (Ac) Life amongst the Chinese Bonesetters.
15. GOFFMAN ERVING ‘Asylum’ (Ac) What else can you read in situ An account to illustrate the behaviours of inmates which I saw as the local community split into 2 camps:Pro Office and Anti.
16. GRIFFIN SUSAN ‘A Chorus of Stones’ A sweeping sensitive scholarly theoretical overview of autobiographical literature . Definitely worth a read and

refer.(Ac MIT OCW Theory of Autobiography and Practice)
17. CONWAY JILL KER’When Memory Speaks:Reflections on Autobiography. Another wonderful volume from our academic friends at MIT OCW School of Writing and Humanistic Studies. (Ac MIT OCW).
18. PLATO ‘The Republic’ A Mummy Volume. (Extensive Libraries to raid). Platos Platonic Idealism results in many people being thrown on the scrapheap as Society worships at various altars (Youth Perfection etc No Breakdowns etc). I feel this is an inaccurate but challenging account given propensity of people to break down and worse. A Homework Volume.
19. ANGELOU MAYA ‘I know why a Caged Bird sings’ Virago(MIT OCW Autobiography( ibid) An inspiring account of a young woman who perchance has soared to heights one can only dream of (randomly however!) A true Heroine.
20. THODY PHILIP ‘A Biographical Introduction to Sartre’ Leaders in Modern Thought. A thorough commendation to the Biographical Introduction in showing you how a particular flava of don arrived at his or her philosophical and or theoretical conclusion. An eye opener.
21. SENNETT RICHARD ‘ The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism’ Norton New York 1998 A magnificent but disturbing account of the New Capitalism and its consequences for character. Its enough to put you off the job market.
22. VOLTAIRE CANDIDE’ Wordsworth Classics Plain Vanilla Edition with minimal footnotes (Footnotes and Bibliograpy providing essential reading en route) A ‘Homework’ book like the Sennett above.
23. MILLS C WRIGHT ‘THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION’ OXFORD 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A book to use to’ scan ‘the University System and re-read again and again. This book has opened my eyes to what I shall call ‘academic sociology’ i.e Research based Sociology. And see it in action from the outside looking in.
24. GOLDTHORPE JOHN LOCKWOOD DAVID ‘THE AFFLUENT WORKER IN CLASS STRUTURE’ CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY 3 1971 An excellent well written thesis of the phenomenon of the ‘affluent worker’ (might CHAVS and an increasingly aspirational working class mean this thesis is revised for 21C?). Lockwood and Goldthorpe demonstrate excellent scholarship, readable prose (cf C Wright Mills Sociological Imagination)and sound research basis. A book to learn from.

25. SYLVIA PLATH THE BELL JAR

VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SHOULD BE ON EVERYONES READING LIST.

26. BAILEY TOM ‘WRITING SHORT STORIES’ MIT OCW ‘Exploring Self in Society’ Text Book. Bailey takes you through the whole process of writing short stories. An enabling and scholarly book.

27. NIVEN DAVID ‘THE MOONS A BALLOON’

Highly recommended autobiography. Add to Autobiography MIT OCW resources as an aid to working out Autobiographical theory and practice.

1. PLATO THE SYMPOSIUM Oxford World Classics my edition.Began slow

2. BALTER MARIE autobiography READ

3. CROSSELY ‘Contesting Psychiatry’ READ

4. BECKER Howard ‘The Tricks of the Trade’ one or two chapters to go

5. BERGER Peter The Sociology of Religion very difficult read very technical badly written.

6. FRIERE ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ finish off Chapter 3 proceed to Chapter 4 end

7. EHRENREICH BARBARA ‘Nickled and Dimed’ Granta 2001 Self and Society READ A searing account which exposes the holes in Welfare to Work Policies.

8. COMELY ET AL ‘Fields of Reading’ ‘Self and Society ‘near end another 100pages?

9. GLASER AND STRAUSS ‘The Discovery of Grounded Theory’ began a challenging looking read.

10. FOUCAULT ‘Madness and Civilisation’ Greek Latin and French throw me off track.

11. FOUCAULT ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge’

12. PORTER’ A Short History of Madness ‘Included? READ

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Current Count:(34 )Books
Mummy says a Book/CD/Equipment Fast for three months. I am lusting after an IPOD because Apple are profiteering bastards requiring you buy an IPOD despite poor performance and atrocious Customer Service.
I hope The Consumer gets his own back on Apple and that IPOD’s will be transformed into devices worthy of good reviews the Company dies for.
Plato Symposium so far is interesting raising some very key questions. Phaedrus speech.

Current Count:(34 )Books

44 Books last year 2006 brought. All I need is to tot up costs and then I have a figure.
I must get figures for previous Years.

Like others I am an Amazon devotee and I am in love with my Amazon Wish List and Amazon in general. An unthreatening environment in which to buy Academic Texts especially Citable*** in an safe way. No wonder Amazon has its fans!

Current Count:(34 )Books 100 2007 Target like Mummy in Academic Texts % not determined

Judith Levene ‘My Year without Shopping’ A two day read.

This lady obviously is a Scholar and it shows up in her perspectives and how they inform this most challenging of tasks that of NOT shopping for a Year. From what she said if you are like me depending on Public Libraries, Free Art Galleries etc etc in other words the Public Goods and the Government is on a Privatisation spree then one’s enjoyment of being free of Shopping is going to be hindered. The people who will need to abstain from Shopping dangerously are those most in need of this book the poor, the lower income classes and those who are’nt in the Middle Classes.
Levene is thoroughly and shamelessly middle-class and so this book may not appeal to those who are offended by this degree of culture. But if you are like the ladies I have met then this book can only inspire one to attempt such a thing.

Later Edit: This book shows what is available to those seeking to spend no money from a middle class perspective. Privatisation takes away free public goods worsening state of those seeking to live on as little money as possible

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Current Count:( 31 )Books

32 Becker Tricks of the Trade or Writing for the Social Science READ, READ.

33 Porter Madness a History READ
34 Capote Novel Journalism in finest form
35 Oxford Popular History PARTIAL READ

Wednesday 7 Jan 2009.

Later Edit. Somewhere along the line I lost the plot, lost my line of progress and came undone on the Project.

Why?

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Current Count:( 30 )Books of First Hundred (Eighty in stock,Library fine remainder to pay to access, Mummy’s Library, and then Daddy and Sheilas Libraries. Fear of scarcity abounds.

Howard Becker Tricks of the Trade: How to do your Research without really thinking about it. Last section to go on Logic.( Book 31)
Roy Porter: Madness, a Brief History (Book 32) 5 Chapters to go
Oxford Popular History of Great Britain 770pp plus Index nearly at end of Chapter One.(Book 33)
Capote Truman In Cold Blood About half way though I have scanned to the end.(Book 34)

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Current Count:( 30 )Books 50 plus

The Big 30 Target has been reached with Marie Balter and Richard Katz ‘Nobodys Child’

Marie Balter was institutionalised for 20 years and out of that impossible circumstances has risen to become a leading pioneer/advocate for the Mentally ill, to the point of new thinking, new ideas. One to watch.
What she did is LITERALLY something out of NOTHING

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Hunger of Memory part of Autobiography Theory and Practice MIT OCW bless em!

LATER EDIT: Friday 2nd Jan 2008

I have to in other words play Professor Lecturer and assess my learning-as if we could replace the Proffessoriate- in order to make some kind of Assessment of my Work.

Current Count:( 27 )Books out of First Hundred Academic with Literary Breaks
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Books I have read 24 Last one: NIVEN Book 27 out of First Hundred (Academic with Literary Breaks)

Thursday, 13 April 2006
8:34:47 PM

1. DAHL ‘On Democracy’ Yale Noto Bene Very good indeed, well written readable prose (Ac)
2. WEST AND WEST ‘Four Texts on Socrates, Plato, and Aristophanes’ MIT OCW. Political Theory Course(Ac)
3. BURKE EDMUND ‘Reflections of the Revolution in France’ Oxford World Classics. An old Political Theory Classic (Essex)(Ac)
4. MILLET KATE ‘The Loony Bin Trip’ Kates searingly honest, disturbing account of her forcible sections on account of her mental illness. A vivid account of how a Professor is stripped of her academic identity in order to ‘fufill’ the perceived ID forced on her by concerned relatives. A book to induce campaigning.(MH)
5. MARTEL YAN ‘The Life of Pi’ An absolutely riveting story of a young Zoo Keeper/Zoologists account of being marooned at sea with Richard x a Tiger. Storytelling to open ones eyes.(LG)
6. TREMAIN ROSE ‘Music and Silence’ An excellent account of a forbidden love affair conducted in the German courts.(LG)
7. WOOLF VIRGINIA ‘Orlando’ A book for all those in Supported Housing considering time travel and inhabiting various successful identities.(LG)
8. HOLLINGHURST ALAN ‘The Line of Beauty’ Gay Love and Deep friendships with our friends the aristos of Notting Hill.(LG)
9. ROY ARUNDATI ‘The God of Small Things’ Booker Winner. I DID NOT like this book I persevered all the same. Something about the prose-style.(LG)
10. AMIS MARTIN’ The War against Cliché’ Vintage Random . A top class read that can be used to guide you into other worthwhile literary endevours.
11. PULLMAN PHILIP’The Amber Spyglass’(LG) His reading and academic background show in the quality of the story and length and breadth of imagination. This was a later book I wasn’t aware of previous volumes to be read prior to Amber Spyglass.
12. TAYLOR GP’Shadowmancer’ Or the most evil side of vicars you have ever seen. A disturbing but inadequate account of evil in the Church. GP Taylor a God TV Rick Joyner Cross Rhythms friend is just the sort of writer they need in their crusade against us.
13. LEVY ANDREA ‘Small Island’ (LG) A riveting account of love between the races in seedy run down London lodgings.
14. TAN AMY ‘The Bonesetters Daughter’(LG) MIT OCW Autobiographical Genre Author. (Ac) Life amongst the Chinese Bonesetters.
15. GOFFMAN ERVING ‘Asylum’ (Ac) What else can you read in situ An account to illustrate the behaviours of inmates which I saw as the local community split into 2 camps:Pro Office and Anti.
16. GRIFFIN SUSAN ‘A Chorus of Stones’ A sweeping sensitive scholarly theoretical overview of autobiographical literature . Definitely worth a read and refer.(Ac MIT OCW Theory of Autobiography and Practice)
17. CONWAY JILL KER’When Memory Speaks:Reflections on Autobiography. Another wonderful volume from our academic friends at MIT OCW School of Writing and Humanistic Studies. (Ac MIT OCW).
18. PLATO ‘The Republic’ A Mummy Volume. (Extensive Libraries to raid). Platos Platonic Idealism results in many people being thrown on the scrapheap as Society worships at various altars (Youth Perfection etc No Breakdowns etc). I feel this is an inaccurate but challenging account given propensity of people to break down and worse. A Homework Volume.
19. ANGELOU MAYA ‘I know why a Caged Bird sings’ Virago(MIT OCW Autobiography( ibid) An inspiring account of a young woman who perchance has soared to heights one can only dream of (randomly however!) A true Heroine.
20. THODY PHILIP ‘A Biographical Introduction to Sartre’ Leaders in Modern Thought. A thorough commendation to the Biographical Introduction in showing you how a particular flava of don arrived at his or her philosophical and or theoretical conclusion. An eye opener.
21. SENNETT RICHARD ‘ The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism’ Norton New York 1998 A magnificent but disturbing account of the New Capitalism and its consequences for character. Its enough to put you off the job market.
22. VOLTAIRE CANDIDE‘ Wordsworth Classics Plain Vanilla Edition with minimal footnotes (Footnotes and Bibliograpy providing essential reading en route) A ‘Homework’ book like the Sennett above.
23. MILLS C WRIGHT ‘THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION’ OXFORD 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A book to use to’ scan ‘the University System and re-read again and again. This book has opened my eyes to what I shall call ‘academic sociology’ i.e Research based Sociology. And see it in action from the outside looking in.
24. GOLDTHORPE JOHN LOCKWOOD DAVID ‘THE AFFLUENT WORKER IN CLASS STRUTURE’ CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY 3 1971 An excellent well written thesis of the phenomenon of the ‘affluent worker’ (might CHAVS and an increasingly aspirational working class mean this thesis is revised for 21C?). Lockwood and Goldthorpe demonstrate excellent scholarship, readable prose (cf C Wright Mills Sociological Imagination)and sound research basis. A book to learn from.
25. SYLVIA PLATH THE BELL JAR
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SHOULD BE ON EVERYONES READING LIST.
26. BAILEY TOM ‘WRITING SHORT STORIES’ MIT OCW ‘Exploring Self in Society’ Text Book. Bailey takes you through the whole process of writing short stories. An enabling and scholarly book.
27. NIVEN DAVID ‘THE MOONS A BALLOON’
Highly recommended autobiography. Add to Autobiography MIT OCW resources as an aid to working out Autobiographical theory and practice.