Since the weather has turned, I’ve been taking the bus, and reading more. Almost more books in the last month than I read all summer:

1 Breakup – Dana Stabenow When I read paperback mysteries, I read ones set in Alaska
2 Ecology for Beginners – Stephen Croall & William Rankin For beginners, written by Marxists
3 The Highest Tide – Jim Lynch yay! the magical wonder of marine biology!
4 Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization – Hilary French
5 Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder & Lessons of Pacific NW Animals & Plants – William Dietrich This was a collection of newspaper collumns, reminding me that newspapers are supposed to be written at a sixth grade reading level.
6 Eden – Stansislav Lem

Then, of course, the more I read the more books there are on the list to be read…

Books Alex has left me:
1 Generation X – Douglas Coupland
2 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
3 The Cyberiad – Stanislav Lem
4 Tales of Pirx the Pilot – Stanislav Lem
5 Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins
6 Why Things Bite Back: technology and the revenge of unintended consequences – Edward Tenner
7 “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!” – RIchard P. Feynman
8 Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
9 Three Men on the Bummel – Jerome K. Jerome
10 The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
11 It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
12 The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You – Harry Harrison
13 The Brothers K – David James Duncan
14 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, vols. 1 & 2

Books I have aquired but not yet read:
1 Major Problems in American Environmental History – Merchant
2 A Primer for Environmental Literacy – Golley
3 Under the Sea Wind – Rachel Carson
4 The Final Frontiersman – James Campbell
5 Happy Hour – Don Porter
6 The Dragon Wakes – Christopher Hibert
7 Of Dreams and Demons – Singh
8 Ellen Minnow Pea – Dunn
9 Children of Glasnost: growing up Soviet – Landon Pearson
10 The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11 War and Peace – Lev Tolstoy
12 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
13 Last Love in Constantinope – Milorad Pavic
14 Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
15 Out of Africa – Isaak Dinesen
16 Fury – Salman Rushdie

Books on my library list:
Environmental:
1 The Blue Planet: a natural history of the oceans – Andrew Byatt, et all
2 Cadillac Desert: the American West and its disappearing water – Marc Reisner
3 Earth in mind: on education, environment and the human prospect – David Orr
4 The Empty Ocean: plundering the world’s marine life – Richard Ellis
5 The End of Nature – Bill McKibben
6 Voyage of the Turtle: in pursuit of the Earth’s last dinosaur – Carl Safina
7 any number of oceans books

Magical Realism & other novels:
1 The Bone People – Keri Hulme
2 Don Quixote, which was a dream – Kathy Acker
3 Götz and Meyer – David Albahari
4 Ilywhacker – Peter Carey
5 Immortality – Milan Kundera
6 Landscape Painted With Tea – Milorad Pavic
7 Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
8 The Palm-wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola
9 The Place of the Skull – Chingiz Aitmatov
10 Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
11 True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
12 The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
13 Waterland – Graham Swift
14 Winter’s Tale – Mark Helprin
15 The Wooden Sea – Jonathan Carroll

It’s that old paradox — so many books, so little time. Maybe I should start taking a longer bus route…