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PAUL "BLOWFISH" LOVELL

1 - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson 2003 Excellent bio.
2 - Philosophy of Existence Karl Jaspers 1971 1937 lectures on Existentialism.
3 - To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 Classic.
4 - Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms Hannah Fry 2018 Horror stories of when algorithms fail.
5 - World Within A Song: Music that Changed My Life, and Life That Changed My Music Jeff Tweedy 2023 50 songs and the memories they trigger.
6 - The Geography of the Imagination Guy Davenport 1997 40 essays by noted polymath. Perceptive, erudite and serpentine .
7 - Do Something Guy Trebay 2024 Magazine writer tells tales of growing up in 1970s NYC.
8 - Piano Pieces Russel Sherman 1977 Essays on classical piano playing, performance and repertoire.
9 - The Floating Opera John Barth 1956 Novel with dark humor and nihilist philosophy.
10 - People of Darkness   Tony Hillerman  1980   Mystery with Jim Chee.

11 - What!   John Cooper Clarke  2024   Poetry.
12 - Language, Truth & Logic   Alfred Jules Ayer 1936   Using philosophy to explain knowledge in math and science.
13 - Listen: On Music, Sound and Us   Michel Faber 2023   Well known novelist writes on why we listen to the music we do and the general world of popular music.
14 - Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol   Gyles Brandreth 2013   Mystery with Wilde in the detective roll.
15 - First Things to Hand   Robert Pinsky  2006  Short poetry book.
16 - Modern Art: Paint/Sculpture/Architecture   Hunter/Jacobus 1992   Large format book - history with excellent reproductions and writing.
17 - Aeschylus   Aeschylus 500 BC   Four plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians.
18 - Euripides   Euripides 400 BC   Three plays: The Bacchae, Medea, Hippolytus.
19 - The Poetry of Greek Tragedy   Richard Lattimore 1958   Focus on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
20 - The Creation   Edward O. Wilson   2006  Humanity's effect on nature. The work of Naturalists.

21 - Westerly   Will Schutt 2013   Poetry.
22 - The Second Mouse   Archer Mayor  2006   Mystery in Brattleboro, VT.
23 - Hot Rods   Genat/Burger/Gingerelli/Benford 2006   Large format book, the world of Deuce Coups and Bucket T's.
24 - Midsummer   Derek Walcott 1984   Poetry. Very good.
25 - After the Death of Poetry   Vernon Shetley 1993   Critical analysis of contemporary poetry. Focus on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbury.
26 - Franny and Zooey   J.D. Salinger  1957  Substantive story.
27 - The Story of Contemporary Art   Tony Godfrey 2020   Overlook and review of 115 worldwide contemporary artists. Excellent.
28 - A Marianne Moore Reader   Marianne Moore 1961   Poems and essays. Excellent.
29 - Even Money   Dick/Felix Francis  2009  Enjoyable mystery. Audiobook.
30 - Incarnadine   Mary Szybist 2013   Poetry. Good.

31 - Art Power   Boris Groys 2008  Modern art theories. Sharp writing.
32 - Beloved   Toni Morrison 1987   Modern classic.
33 - A Study of Poetry   Don Wolfe  1977   Poems with short analysis.
34 - The Monk   Matthew Lewis  1796   Gothic novel. Lots of fun. Ghosts, sorcery and forbidden monk sex.
35 - The Human Chain   Seamus Heaney  2010   Poetry. Very good.
36 - Blacktop Wasteland   S.A. Cosby  2020   Thriller novel.
37 - The Winter's Tale   Shakespeare 1600  Classic.
38 - Art & Wonder   Metropolitan Museum/K. Farrell  2010   Art from MMOA matched with classic poetry .
39 - The Expendable Man   Dorothy B. Hughes 1963   Mystery.
40 - Weapons of Math Destruction   Cathy o'Neal 2016   How algorithms are unforgiving. Big Data gets weaponized. Eye opening.

41 - The Virgin in the Ice   Ellis Peters 1982   Mystery with Cadfael the Medieval Monk.
42 - Stranger than Fiction   Edwin Frank 2024.   Critiques of notable 20th century novels. Excellent.
43 - Matter and Consciousness   Paul M. Churchland 1996   Issues of the mind like dualism, materialism, self-knowledge. The biology of the brain is covered.
44 - The Decagon House Murders   Yukito Ayatsuji 2007   Mystery novel. Didn't like.
45 - 3 Shades of Blue - Miles/Coltrane/Evans James Kaplan   M 2024   Miles and jazz in the 50s and 60s. Excellent.
46 - Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel   Michael Barson  1988   26 radio show scripts of the Marx Brothers from 1930s.
47 - Mrs. Dalloway   Virginia Woolf   1925   Classic. Great.
48 - His Final Battle   Joseph Lyveld  2016   Last months of FDR's life. Audiobook.
49 - Living and Dying with Marcel Proust   Christopher Prendergast 2022   An x-ray of the novels. It examines subject matter and techniques.
50 - The Other Side   Alfred Kubin  1908  Early proto surrealistic novel. Precursor to Kafka and Huxley.

51 - Circe   Madeline Miller 2018   The imagining of Circe's life from the Odyssey tale.
52 - The Eighth Detective   Alex Pavesi   2020   Current mystery novel.
53 - Tabloid City   Pete Hamill 2011  Novel steeped in NYC atmosphere.
54 - Behind the Grove and Beyond the Pale  Robert Moses 2024  Autobiography of author who grew up in 'The Grove' section of West Roxbury, MA.
55 - Camus, a Romance   Elizabeth Hawes  2009   A loose bio of Camus combined with personal musings.
56 - Mantissa   John Fowles 1983   The story depicts a fantastical interaction with the author's Muse.
57 - Ape and Essence   Aldous Huxley  1948  Novel depicting mankind's plight after WWII.
58 - Elegy on Toy Piano   Dean Young  2005   Contemporary poetry.
59 - The Cheap Seats   J Scott Poole  1999   Contemporary poetry.
60 - Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest   Jack Nisbet 2015  People, legends, geography of the Pacific Northwest.

61 - The Meurasault   Kamel Daoud  2013   Retelling of The Stranger with an Arab viewpoint.
62 - The Leavenworth Case   Anna K. Green 1878  Influential early mystery.
63 - Proust  William Sansom 1973   A short look at Proust's life and times with many photos.
64 - Bury the Lead   Archer Mayor 2018   Crime novel with Brattleboro, VT as back drop.
65 - Ordinary Grace   William Kent   2013   Mystery with Minnesota backdrop, circa 1961.
66 - Whale Day   Billy Collins 2020   Poetry.
67 - Looking for The Stranger   Alice Kaplan 2016   Excellent history of The Stranger by Camus.
68 - Faithful Place   Tana French 2011   Mystery set in Dublin.
69 - The Temptation of Saint Anthony   Gustave Flaubert 1874   A long series of False gods, devils, mythological beasts and heretics temp St. Anthony.
70 - Hamnet   Maggie O' Farrell 2020   Imagined life of Shakespeare's song Hamnet. Did not like.

71 - The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop   Edmund S. Morgan 1958  The Puritan story in Massachusetts.
72 - The World of Marcel Proust   Andre Maurois 1960   200 photos with detailed text.
73 - Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects   Eric Clark/Nicholas Cook 2004  New technics in musicology.
74 - Guide to Infinite Jest   Stephen Burn 2003   Insights into Infinite Jest by David Forster Wallace. Structure and references.
75 - The Yellow Arrow   Victor Pelevin 1993   Russian author. Parable of people who live on a train that never stops.
76 - Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead   Rick Meyerowitz 2010   Profile and works of National Lampoon Magazine.
77 - The Feeling of What Happens   Antonio Damasio 1999  The building blocks of consciousness from a neuroscience perspective.
78 - Your House Will Pay   Steph Cha  2019   Mystery. Novelization of 1991 LA riots and aftermath.
79 - The Walk   Robert Walser 1917   Walser uses the story of a walk by a bad writer to utilize some odd writing of his own.
80 - The Sense of Style   Steven Pinker  2014   Updated grammar guide and writing tips.

81 - Everything I Never Told You   Celeste Ng 2014   Mystery with Ohio backdrop. Did not like.
82 - The Mystery of Consciousness   John Searle 1997   Essays of modern theories of consciousness.
83 - Mendelssohn: A Life in Music   R. Larry Todd 2003   Large bio with many musical examples to explore.
84 - Essays - One   Lydia Davis 2019   Davis is an author/translator. Essays are wide ranging from good writing habits to rambling digressions on various subjects.
85 - The Sanctuary Sparrow   Ellis Peters 1983   Mystery with Cadfael the medieval monk.
86 - To Fight Against This: On Fascism and Humanism   Rob Rieman 2018   The rise of fascism - causes and cures.
87 - The Final Solution : A Story of Detection  Michael Chabon 2004   Mystery novel.
88 - Flow" The Psychology of Optimal Experience   Mihaly Csikszentmihaly 1990 Pop psychology book. Happiness is a state of mind accessed by mindful challenge.  
89 - Sprinter Runs the Marathon   Dave Morrison  2025   Poetry from ex Boston rocker.
90 - The Given and the Made   Helen Vender  1995   Strategies of poetic redefinition. Insights into four poets: Lowell, Berryman, R. Dove and Josie Graham.

91 - The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told   Bill Janovitz 2019   Lots of local stories. Well done rock bio.
92 - Nietzsche On Love   Ed by Ulrich Baer 2020   An accounting of all quotes Nietzsche has on Love.
93 - The New Leviathans   John Gray  2023   Quotes from Hobbes' Leviathan lead to musings on politics and art.
94 - Brother Cadfael's Penance   Ellis Peters 1994   Mystery with Cadfael the medieval monk.
95 - Hard Boiled Anxiety   Karen Huston Karydes  2016   Freudian analysis of Chandler, MacDonald and Hammett..
96 - Woman in the Dark   Dashiell Hammett  1933  Noir novel.
97 - Eye in the Sky   Philip K. Dick 1957  Tricks with alternative realities that Dick does so well - but also deals with politics and religion. Audio book.

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

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics   Carlo Rovelli 2016 
The Landscape About Us South Coast Anthology 2024 
Shakespeare In Love   Stoppard and Norman  1998   Screenplay.
Study Guide for Franny and Zooey
Study Guide for Beloved
Study Guide for The Winter's Tale   Shakespeare
Fantasy and Science Fiction mag Various 2014 
The Barthes Fantastic   John Lurz 2025    A study on Barthes literature views.
Californium R D Johnson 2016  Young adult novel with Punk in storyline.
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine   Various 2003   

The String Quartets of Beethoven   Great Courses 1980   24 lectures on CD (18 hours).
Weird Science Vol 4 Comic book collection. 1950s 
Autumn Sonata   Ingmar Bergman  1978   Script to movie.
The Operas of Mozart: Great Courses   R Greenberg Year?    24 Lectures on CD (18 hours).
The Spider's Web: Doc Savage Comic Roberson/Raze K. 2016  Comic book.