Winter Reads – 2008-2009 – Batch IX

A further quick update on my ninth batch of books read so far during my 12 month reading log. I have added the previous lists a cumulative list to help me keep track of my reading goals:

Earth Abides, by George Stewart
Better to Beg Forgiveness, by Michael Z. Williamson
One Second After, by William R. Forstchen
How to Survive the End of the World As We Know I, by James Wesley Rawles
Radio Orienteering – The ARDF Handbook, by Bob Titterington, G3ORY, David Williams, M3WDD and David Deane, G3ZOI

Previously Read This year:

1. Seed to Seed – Seed Saving & Growing Techniques, by Suzanne Ashworth
2. Molon Labe – Come and Take Them (A Novel), by Kenneth W. Royce
3. Everything You Know is Wrong, by Russ Kick (ed.)
4. YASME – The Danny Weil & Colvin Radio Expeditions, by James D. Cain
5. Earth Sheltered Houses, by Rob Roy
6. Small Strawbale – Natural Homes, Projects & Designs, by Bill Steen & Others
7. Building Green, by Clarke Snell & Tim Callahan
8. The Age of Bede, by Betty Radice (ed.)
9. Ten Years Behind the Mast – The Voyage of Theodora R, by Fritz Damler
10. The Polically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, by Kevin Gutzman
11. When All Hell Breaks Loose, by Cody Lundi
12. Transfer (A Novel), by Jerry Furland
13. The Electric Car, by Michael Westbrook
14. The Adventure Motorbiking Handbook, by Chris Scott
15. Getting Things Done – The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen
16. Patriots – Surviving the Coming Collapse, by James Wesley Rawles
17. The Unthinkable – Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – And Why, by Amanda Ripley
18. Celsius 7/7, by Michael Gove
19. The Blacksmith’s Craft – A Primer of Tools and Methods, by Charles McRaven
20. Leaving the Left, by Keith Thompson
21. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science
22. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades
23. Rocket Mass Heaters – Superefficient Woodstoves You Can Build, by Ianto Evans & Leslie Jackson
24. Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental, by Marc Gerstein & Michael Ellsberg
25. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, by Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman
26. The Third Revolution, by Anthony F. Lewis
27. Dreaming of Jupiter , by Ted Simons
28. Middle America, by Anthony F. Lewis
29. The Last of the Mountain Men – Sylvan Hart, by Harold Peterson
30. Tappan on Survival, by Mel Tappan
31. Radicals for Capitalism, by Brian Doherty
32. Carbon in the Solution Not the Problem , by Donald VanDusen
33. American Farmstead Cheese , by Paul Kindstedt
34. The Cheese Primer, by Steven Jenkins
35. Brotherhood of Darkness, by Dr Stanley Monteith
36. The Driver, by Garet Garrett
37. Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
38. Mad Science, by Theodore Gray
39. The Secure Home, by Joel Skousen
40. Boston’s Gun Bible, by Boston T. Party
41. Managing Interstation Interference (Rev. 2nd Ed.), by George Cutsogeorge W2VJN
42. Terrorist Trail – Backtracking the Foreign Fighter, by H. John Poole
43. Adventure Motorcycling, by Robert Wicks
44. Torch, by Lin Anderson
45. Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
46. Wicked Plants, by Amy Stewart
47. Term Limits, by Vince Flynn
48. Another Place to Die, by Sam North
49. The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression and the New Deal, by Robert Murphy
50. Sweet and Sour Pie – A Wisconsin Boyhood, by Dave Crehore
51. Gaia’s Garden – A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway
52. How to Build with Grid Beam, by Jergenson, Jergenson & Keppel
53. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, by Robert P. Murphy
54. A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M Miller Jr.
55. Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank

I am continuing to better my goal of reading a book-a-week, and it looks like continued effort will let maintain the pace.

Let me know if you want information on a specific title, as unless it is Amateur Radio focused they won’t be reviewed here.

73 & Happy Reading

Steve
K9ZW