Jan 7 - My Problem With Doors (Southard) My first professional audiobook, read for iPublish Press of Canada!
Jan 9 - Peter the Great - His Life and World (Massie) A magisterial history!
Jan 11 - British Battleships 1939-1945 II
Jan 25 - The Maze in the Mirror (Chalker)
Jan 28 - The Sixth Fleet - Seawolf (Meadows)
Feb 7 - Shadows of Steel (Brown)
Feb 9 - Beasts, Men and Gods (Ossendowski) read for LV
Feb 12 - Aftermath (Webster) An eye-opening book on what remains in the ground after the armies go by
Feb 16 - Phoenix Sub Zero (Demercurio)
Feb 21 - Piranha Firing point (Demercurio)
Feb 25 - Voyage of the Devilfish (Demercurio)
Mar 1 - William Tell Told Again (Wodehouse) for LV
Mar 13 - Galileo's Dream (Robinson) quite an inventive tale, with verifiable history too
Mar 18 - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Peters) My first introduction to the "Brother Cadfael" series
Mar 23 - A Corpse Too Many (Peters) a Cadfael book
Mar 25 - The River War (Churchill) For LV. Dry, but not bad as a history written by a great statesman
Mar 26 - The Devil's Novice (Peters) a Cadfael book
Apr 1 - Deadman's Ransom (Peters) a Cadfael book
Apr 4 - The Confession of Brother Haluin (Peters) a Cadfael book
Apr 8 - The Battle for Life (Dickens) For LV.
Apr 12 - Brother Cadfael's Penance (Peters) a Cadfael book
Apr 18 - The Hermit of Eynton Forest (Peters) a Cadfael book
Apr 27 - The Royal Book of Oz (Thompson) For LV. A canonical Oz book, the first not written by Baum
Apr 28 - Modern Warship Design & Development (Friedman) A serious text
Apr 30 - Conquest Over Time (M. Shaara) For LV
May 4 - The Heretic's Apprentice (Peters) a Cadfael book
May 11 - Warrior Class (Dale Brown)
Jun 4 - No Apology (Romney) The first book I've ever read by a politician; it was very good!
Jun 4 - Robinson Crusoe (DeFoe) For LV, the third of the great castaway stories I've read
Jun 12 - The Koran - A Very Short Introduction (Cook) Not short enough! I didn't learn what I'd hoped to, and was bored doing it
Jun 17 - This World is Taboo (Leinster) For LV. My 50th solo!
Jul 3 - Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung (Appleton II) for LV.
Jul 21 - Creative Photoshop Landscape Techniques (Meehan) A pretty complete compendium, nicely illustrated.
Jul 23 - Words On Tape (Byers) Supposedly a good text on producing audio works for profit. Very dated now.
Jul 29 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle) for LV
Jul 31 - Air Combat Reader (Boyne & Handleman)
Aug 11 - The Fall of Hyperion (Simmons) A difficult book. I read Hyperion last year, and too much time elapsed in between.
Aug 26 - The Kama Sutra (Vatsyayana) for LV. This has an enduring reputation as a sex manual, but it's a taxonomy of behaviors, arranged as lists.
Sep 2 - Dreadnought (Massie) A long, complicated history, giving a good look at historical persons 1895-1915 or so, but hindered by repeatedly following one narrative and then backing up in time to start another.
Sep 7 - The White Feather (Wodehouse) for LV. Not so funny as your usual Wodehouse.
Sep 21 - A Lion Among Men (Maguire) The story of the Cowardly Lion.
Sep 29 - White Fang (London) for LV. Dog's-eye view of growing up as a wolf.
Oct 4 - Forty Rules of Love (Shaflak) An engaging historical novel of a Sufi mystic, by a Middle-Eastern author.
Oct 9 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Rowling) I know, I know! I fell behind the series!
Oct 15 - The Call of the Wild (London) for LV. The flip side to White Fang, a gently-raised dog gets shipped to the Yukon.
Oct 25- Pirate Latitudes (Crichton) Really off-beat for Crichton, but fun. Assembled after his death.
Oct 26 - Time's Eye (A. Clarke & S. Baxter) Can't recommend. Disappointing book from two sci-fi greats.
Nov 1 - Patton's Panthers (Sasser) A really engaging narrative of a black tank unit in WWII. It will rouse your indignation for the treatment the black soldiers endured.
Nov 3 - Spy Hook (Deighton) Picks up from his Game-Set-Match trio.
Nov 11 - The Cobra Event (Preston) An acclaimed novel of bio-terrorism... but I found the writing quality really substandard.
Nov 15 - The Defiant Agents (Norton) A Time Agent novel from well-known sci-fi author Andre Norton. Recorded for Audio Books by Mike Vendetti, soon to be available on Audible.com! My second pro production!
Nov 19 - Killing Rommel (Pressfield) A WWII historical novel that I found especially gripping for its scenes of survival in the North African deserts. One of the absolute best books I've read in a long time!
With this book, I've attained 52 books read for the year. Finally, the elusive one-a-week accomplished! And almost a month and a half left in the year! Yay!
Nov 26 - Design Ideas for Curb Appeal (Connolly) Nicely illustrated
Dec 7 - The Virtues of War (Pressfield) Curious that I finished a book of this title on Pearl Harbor Day! Like Pressfield's other book above, this was excellent! They are #1 & #2 best books for 2010... but I can't decide which is which!
Dec 12 - Tyrannosaur Canyon (Preston) This was a fun read.
Dec 28 - Antietam (Reasoner) Absolute WORST book I read this year. He wrote a multi-book series; this is #3 in it. I will read nothing else by him. He knows nothing of the Civil War except dates.
Dec 30 - The Digital Photography Book, vol 3 (Kelby) Looks very handy if you have a DSLR and a studio; I don't.
That's the list for 2010 - 57 books completed!
I Listened to the LibriVox book Mr. Trunnel 1st mate of the ship Pirate, and it was great. I discovered LibriVox about two years ago and it has become a great friend. I really enjoyed your reading and have been looking for other books that you have read for recording.
ReplyDeleteWould appreciate a list, or how know how to find others that you've read.
Thanks
Stan L.
Hi Mark,
ReplyDeleteI just finished listening to my first LibriVox audiobook, which happened to be your Huck Finn recording and I just have to say that it was such an enjoying listen.
I see that you have done professional audiobook recording(s) so it should not be a surprise to you but your voice and rendition of the various characters was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Thanks a lot, Mark!
/Nicolai
Stan L. -
ReplyDeleteYou can find links to all my LibriVox solos here:
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search_advanced.php?type=Solo&reader=Kaffen&action=Search
Thanks for listening!
Mark