Wed 2 Jan 2008
It’s a new year and I just got back from home. That means many of things, one of which is that I have a new list of books for the new year. Here’s what’s new on my shelf and in deck:
- The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life: Tom Reiss (about Lev Nussimbaum, aka, Kurbain Said).
- The Girl from he Golden Horn: Kurbain Said
- The Travels of Ibn Battutah: edited by Tim MacKintosh
- The Game of Forgetting: Mohamed Berrada
- The Radiance of the King: Camara Laye
- Water for Elephants: Sara Gruen
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics: Marisha Pessl
- Civilization: A New History of the Western World: Roger Osborne
- Double Negative: David Carkeet
- Common Errors in English Usage: Paul Brians
