I am re-activating this blog post.  I have continued enjoying a fairly broad spectrum of reading since my last post here, nearly 4 years ago, but I have failed to take the time to record my thoughts and impressions.  Unfortunately.  I think it’s valuable to me to digest and then write down a few impressions after each book I read, and perhaps these impressions will be of interest to others. Time to start again.

Below is a list of the books I’ve read since reading Portrait of the Artist as Young Man, by James Joyce – my last post.  If anyone wants to discuss or share a thought with me about any of these, let me know. I’ll try to post a few brief impressions of the last few books I’ve read, just to get this blog started again.  And to force me to do a bit more digesting of what I’ve spent so much time doing.

Books I’ve read since then which are not reviewed here:

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
• Ploughman of the Moon, by Robert Service
• Harper of Heaven, by Robert Service
• What it is like to go to War, by Karl Marlantes
• The Heart and the Fist, by Eric Greitens
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
• Gather together in my Name, by Maya Angelou
• Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
• The War that Killed Achilles, by Caroline Alexander
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
• Where do we go from here, by Orr Kelley
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, (2nd time) by Solzhenitsyn
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (3rd time), by Ken Kesey
• Source, by Leon Jaworski
• Fearless, by Eric Blehm
• Lolita, by Nabokov
• War is a Racket, by Smedly Butler
• Way out Here, by Richard Leo
• Vagabond of Verse, by James Mackay
• King Rat, by James Clavell
• Life of Pi, (2nd time) by Yann Martel
• Laura Ingalls Wilder – a Writer’s life, by Pamela Smith Hill
• Ishi in Two Worlds, by Theodora Kroeber
• Who moved my Cheese, Spencer Johnson
• Tribal Leadership, Logan
• The General, by CS Forrester
• Good bye to all that, by Robert Graves
• Rainforest Innovation, by Horowitt and Hwang
• Great by Choice (2nd time), Jim Collins
• Poisonwood Bible (2nd time) Barbara Kingsolver
• The Road Past Mandalay, by John Masters
• The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter
• No Easy Day, by Mark Owen
• The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway
• The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki
• Heart Earth, by Ivan Doig (17 May)
• This House of Sky, by Ivan Doig (1 Jun)
• My Uncle, Butch Cassidy by Bill Betenson (8 Jun13)
• Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger (17 Jun13)
• Angela’s Ashes (2nd time) by Frank McCourt (29 Jun 13)
• Sailing the Wine Dark Seas – Why the Greeks Matter, (21 July 13) by Thomas Cahill
• ‘Tis, by Frank McCourt (2nd time) (1 Aug 13)
• The Sparrow (8 Sep 13) Mary Doria Russell
• Master and Commander (Oct 13) by Patrick O’Brian
• Caleb’s Crossing (12 Oct 13) by Geraldine Brooks
• Tortilla Flat, (28 Oct 13) by John Steinbeck
• Damn Few, by Rorke Denver 20 Nov 13
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe 8 Nov 13
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Nov 13
• To A God Unknown, by Steinbeck (2nd time) 1 Jan 14
• Crossing the Unknown Sea – work as a Pilgrimage, by David Whyte 26 Dec 13
• The Moon is Down, by John Steinbeck 12 Jan 14
• Teams on the Edge, by Shawn Stratton 14 Jan 14
• High Altitude Leadership, by Schminke and Ward 24 Jan 14
• The Son, by Philipp Meyer     22 Feb 14
• What is the What, by Dave Eggers 18 Mar 14
• One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Keith & Proenneke Apr 14
• Travels with Charlie,(2nd time) by John Steinbeck
• Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón  16 Apr 14
• Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson 15 June 14
• Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber  July 2014
• Snow, by Orhan Pamuk  Sept 9 2014
• Children of God, by Maria Doria Russell Oct 2014
• The Great Santini, by Pat Conroy  Oct 22 2014
• Adultery, by Paolo Cuelho  Oct 2014
• In Paradise, by Peter Matthiessen 21 Nov 2014+
• Man’s Search for Meaning,(4th time) by Viktor Frankl
• Kingdom of Ice, by Hampton Sides  2 Jan 15
• Shadow Lessons, Tim Reardon Feb 15
• Legacy, James Kerr 23 Feb 15
• Change the Culture, Change the Game, by Connors and Smith  23 Feb 15
• No Hero, by Mark Owen  23 Mar 15
• Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackay 23 Mar
• Innes of my Soul, by Isabelle Allende  Apr 15
• Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy  Mar 15
• Turn the Ship Around, by David Marquet Apr 15
• Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway Apr 15
• One of Ours, by Willa Cather – May 15