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PAUL "BLOWFISH" LOVELL

1 - Poincares's Prize George Szprio 2007 The quest to solve a 100 year old topology conjecture. Very Good.
2 - Socrates Cafe Christopher Phillips 2001 A philosopher starts philosophy discussion groups in public places for the general public.
3 - I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Glen Matlock 2012 The story of the group from bass player Glen.
4 - 10 Masterpieces of Music Harvey Sachs 2021 Close analysis of some classical pieces.
5 - The Real Thing Tom Stoppard1984 Play.
6 - Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth Tom Stoppard 1979 Play.
7 - Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 2018 Novel. Unusual. I liked it.
8 - The Cerebral Symphony William Calvin 1989 Theories on how the brain works. Talks about working in Woods Hole, MA.
9 - Homicide at Rough Point Peter Lance 2021 The story of Doris Duke running over Edwardo Tirella in Newport 1966.
10 - The Mountains Wild Sarah Stewart Taylor 2020 Mystery set in Ireland. It was well reviewed, I liked it somewhat.

11 - How Do We Look   Mary Beard  2018   This was a wider range of art than usual for this type of critical look. Very good.
12 - Vineland Reread   Peter Coviello  2020   A reappreciation of Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland.
13 - Lightning Strikes   Lenny Kaye  2022   The writing was good, but the subject matter (Elvis, grunge, Punk, London 1967) are well worn.
14 - The Invention of Love   Tom Stoppard 1997   Play about A.E. Housman.
15 - Long Players   Peter Coviello 2018  Author of #12 above. I did not like. Did not relate to any of the story.
16 - Plato: Five Dialogues   Plato 400 BC   Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo.
17 - The Black Box   Michael Connelly  2012   Mystery. Audio book.
18 - Pond   Claire-Louise Bennett 2015   Well reviewed novel. Didn't like. Odd perceptions of main character are unrelatable and unrealistic.
19 - 20 Poems To Nourish Your Soul   Douglas Hofstadter  2006   Poems followed with inspiring life lessons.
20 - Walk This Way   Stephen Davis   1997  Story of Aerosmith. Done in interview style.

21 - Goethe: Life as a Work of Art   Rudiger Safranski 2021   Huge bio. Very good.
22 - The Wasteland   Martin Rowson 2012   Graphic novel this is a mash up of T.S. Eliot's poem and noir a la Raymond Chandler.
23 - Henry Moore: Life and Work.   Donald Hall  1966   Bio and a look into how he worked.
24 - Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere   George Perec 2003   Recently found first novel of Perec, dealing with art forgery.
25 - We Are But Your Children   Shawn Driscoll 2022   Oral history of the Boston nightclub ManRay.
26 - Pure Stoke   John Grissim  1982  Musings on surf culture and lifestyle. Profiles of Shawn Tomson and Mickey Dora.
27 - The Prague Cemetery   Umberto Eco 2011   Loads of conspiracies in late 1800s in France, mostly.
28 - Architecture Boston   Boston Society of Architects 1976   Overview of architecture in the city. Uninspiring - lot of blah buildings is the overall impression. Dated.
29 - Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.   Ali Salami 2018  Subtitled: Delevzian Reading of Pynchon Language. It was a scholarly review of Pynchon's style.
30 - The Philosophy of Walking   Frederic Gros 2014   Walking seen through poets and philosophers.

31 - I Am Ozzy   Ozzy Osbourne 2009  A colorful life to say the least. He has bad personality traits he blames on too much drinking.
32 - The Anomaly   Herve La Tellier 2021   Novel with intriguing premise.
33 - Promise Land   Robert Parker 1976   Spenser novel, reread for me.
34 - Repair   C.W. Williams 1999   Won Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2000. Down to earth daily thoughts. Liked it.
35 - A Trouble of Fools   Linda Barnes  1987   Mystery set in Boston.
36 - Prints " Facts and Collecting   Randy Rosen  1578   Large format book, plenty of photos.
37 - Between the World and Me   Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015  Personal toll of racism.
38 - W.B. Yeats: Collection of Poems   Yeats  1997   Very good. Got the sweep of his work from this.
39 - The Death of Mrs. Westaway   Ruth Ware 2018   Mystery in the Agatha Christie style.
40 - Praise   Robert Hass  1978   Poetry. Hass was the NSA poet laureate of the USA from 1995 to 1997.

41 - Confessions of an Art Addict   Peggy Guggenheim 1960   Breezy account. She knew every modern artist. Was married to Max Ernst.
42 - The Catch   Archer Mayor 2008.   Mystery/crime novel.
43 - Selfwolf   Mark Halliday 1999   Current poetry.
44 - The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts   Milan Kundera 2007   Analysis/history of the novel. Excellent.
45 - The Street of Clocks   Thomas Lux  2001   Current poetry. Didn't like.
46 - A Theft   Saul Bellow 1989   Novel. Did not get involved with the characters or story.
47 - Justine   Alice Thompson  1996   A pretentious Goth novel. Didn't make the grade.
48 - Keats: Truth an Imagination   Ed by KE Sullivan 1996   Selected poems with Illustrations. Very good.
49 - Shades of Grey   Clea Simon 2011   Mystery set in Harvard Square.
50 - Techniques of Modern Art   Collings/Welchman/Chandler 1983  Specific details on how modern artists made their paintings from Cezanne to Hockney.

51 - Borderlines.   Archer Mayor 1990   Mystery with Vermont backdrop.
52 - Sugartown   David Rivard  2006   Current poetry.
53 - Wind Song   Carl Sandburg 1960   Poems for Children.
54 - Herbie Hancock  Hancock/Dickey 2014  Autobio of Hancock.
55 - Perfect Storm   Sebastian Junger  1997   Audiobook. About the storm, and lives of the Gloucester fishermen.
56 - Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)   Jeff Tweedy 2018   I liked this bio of Tweedy of Uncle Tupelo/Wilco fame.
57 - Five Years Ahead of My Time   Seth Bovey 2019  History of Garage Rock from 1950 to present.
58 - Laugh Lines   Alan Zweibel 2020   Writer for SNL and Gary Shandling.
59 - A Bit O' Love   John Galsworthy 1915   Play. Funny, but predicable.
60 - A Spy in the House of Love   Anais Nin 1954  Artful and romantic.

61 - Angels & Insects   A.S. Byatt 1994   Two novellas. Good.
62 - Ignorance   Milan Kundera 2000  About Cech exiles, reminds one of the current Ukrainian exiles. .
63 - Paper Doll  Robert B. Parker 1993   A Spenser novel.
64 - A Cathedral Courtship   Kate Douglas Wiggin  1893   Humorous romantic tale told in diary form.
65 - Tag Man   Archer Mayor 2011   Crime story set in Brattleboro, VT.
66 - The Doors: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics   Doors 1991   Includes some articles.
67 - Bowie Sucks   Karmellah Howlett  2021   Teenage vampire story, a la Buffy.
68 - George Washington   Bruce Chadwick  2005   Engrossing, as much about human nature as history.
69 - Philosophy The Day After Tomorrow   Stanley Cavell 2005   Didn't get much at all from this modern philosopher.
70 - Apollo's Fire   Michael Sims  2007   Reviewing a day with science, literature and myth.

71 - The Dark Place   Aaron Elkins  1983  Mystery set in the Pacific Northwest.
72 - To Hell and Back   Walter Lure/Thompson  2020   The inside story of the Heartbreakers.
73 - Uncommon People   Paul Hepworth 2017  Examining the phenomenon of rock stardom from 1955 to 1995.
74 - The Voyages of Captain Cook   Paul Hamlyn 1968   Coffee table book . Very interesting.
75 - House Made of Dawn   N. Scott Momaday 1968   Won Pulitzer Price. Illuminated the Indian culture and living in a world outside it.
76 - The Uncommon Reader   Alan Bennett  2007   Humor. Queen Elizabeth starts to read and everything changes. .
77 - Shrink Rap   Robert B Parker 2002  Sunny Randall series.
78 - Facing Death   Sandra L. Bertman  1991   Images and insights on dealing with death.
79 - Make No Bones   Aaron Elkins 1991   Mystery Novel.
80 - Writings in Bronze   Will Murray  2012   The History of Doc Savage pulp hero and its author Lester Pent.

81 - Final Gifts   Callanan/Kelly 1992   Stories of the dying and how to understand their needs.
82 - Questions That Matter   L. Miller 1990   Exploring some of the main points of philosophy. Very good.
83 - Coyote   Linda Barnes 1990   Mystery with Boston backdrop.
84 - Cry Perfume   Sadie Dupuis 2022   Poetry by singer of rock group Speedy Ortiz..
85 - Once Upon a Number   John A Paulos 1998   The hidden mathematical logic of stories. Lots of logic and statistics...more than I bargained for.
86 - Dear Cyborgs   Eugene Lim 2017   Experimental novel. Read like a young adult novel. The author is well reviewed.
87 - This Light In Oneself  J. Krishnamurti  1999   Speeches/lectures on meditation .
88 - IQ   Joe Ide  2016 Mystery novel. Set in Long Beach CA.  
89 - While Justice Sleeps   Stacy Abrams  2021   Political thriller. Audio book.
90 - Lost Time: Lectures On Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp   Jozef Czapski  1981   As the tittle says - lectures done to keep the spirits up of the POWs..

91 - Me   Elton John 2019   Some talk of music but mostly drugs and lifestyle stories.
92 - Whose Art Is It?   JNW Kemwe 1994   Controversy about public art/sculptures in the South Bronx. Lots of issues to think about.
93 - Haroum and the Sea of Stories   Salman Rushdie 1990   A fairy tale. Didn't like it.
94 - Twenty Blue Devils   Aaron Elkins 1997   Mystery set in Tahiti.
95 - Light on Bone   Kathryn Lasky  2022   Mystery wit Georgia O'Keefe as main character.
96 - On Time and Being   Martin Heidegger  1969   I knew I wouldn't understand it, but I tried.
97 - The ABC Murders   Agatha Christie 1936  Entertaining. Audio book.
98 - Mindless   Simon Head 2014   How computer software systems are controlling workers. Eye opening.
99 - Pastoralia   George Saunders 2000   Short stories with an absurdist bent. Well thought of writer.
100 - A Maze of Death   Philip K Dick 1970  A few mind twisters from PDK.

101 - Artie Shaw: King of the Clarinet   Tom Nolan 2011   Bio of the Big Band musician. Very good.
102 - Spoon River Anthology   Edgar Lee Masters 1915   Classic American poetry. Some sobering life lessons.
103 - Dark Passage   David Goodis 1946   Noir crime novel.
104 - Julius Caesar   Shakespeare 1600   Classic.

Short stories/plays or books I didn't give full attention to.

Galaxy   Sci Fi magazine Feb 1960 
2BR02B Kurt Vonnegut 1962 
Aaron Trow   Anthony Trollope  1863   Short story.
Spenser   Robert Parker 2007    Profile/interview with the fictional Spenser.
Jack of Spades Joyce Carol Oats 2015  Horror novel about a writer with an alter ego.