What ten books do you own that you think no one else on your friends list does?
- All Fishermen Are Liars: True Adventures at Sea by Linda Greelaw
- The Book of the Sword, Richard Burton
- The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them), Peter Sagal
- The Complete Tightwad Gazette, Amy Dacyczyn
- Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, Tony Horwitz
- Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World, Kenneth Kamler
- Don't Call Me Brother: A Ringmaster's Escape from the Pentacostal Church, Austin Miles
- Ghost of the Hardy Boys, Leslie McFarlane
- How to Lose a Battle: Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders, Bill Fawcett
- I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact, Bill Sloan
- On Fencing, Aldo Nadi
6 comments:
My wife has The Complete Tightwad Gazette! (And the original three books as well, separately.)
Blast! Proved me wrong. I should have guessed that I wouldn't be the only person embracing the frugal lifestyle nowadays.
Darn handy book series, isn't it?
And we have Confederates in the Attic, which Maureen loves and I still haven't managed to get around to reading.
Paul - Interesting! It's a great book; an honest & in-depth look at some of those Southern folks that the rest of us can hardly believe still exist. What does the KKK look like nowadays? A lot different than 100 years ago, that's for sure.
I'm surprised though, I wouldn't have thought that book would be of interest to folks overseas; it seems like such a uniquely American phenomenon. I'm glad Maureen enjoyed it!
Karen, you have to remember that I've co-written a book on the American Civil War and Maureen is a student of American literature (most specifically, at the moment, native American literature), so it's exactly the sort of book we're likely to have around the house.
Paul - that's very cool, I didn't know that! My father is big into Civil War history, so I absorbed a lot of it growing up. He was working on a history of our small Maine town's involvement for years. We'll have even more to talk about the next time I see you both.
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