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I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!
Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.
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Author: St. Aubyn, Edward
| 2004-03-22 | 0434734535 | Bad News | St. Aubyn, Edward | | | | How I learned about this book is in the entry for Never Mind.
In this book Patrick, who's grown up to be perhaps what you'd expect the son of evil David Melrose to be, learns his father is dead. | | 2004-03-22 | 0749398396 | Never Mind | St. Aubyn, Edward | | | | I read about this book and its two sequels, Bad News and Some Hope, in the New York Review of Books (my uncle subscribes and gives it to me after he's read it). The article actually reviewed the American edition, published as a trilogy, but I couldn't find that. I did, however, find the original British editions through OhioLink, a wonderful state resource that not only provides university students with access to electronic subscription journals and databases but also enables us to borrow books from any participating college in the state.
David Melrose is the star of Never Mind, and watching him take delight in being evil to the people around him is pretty entertaining, despite the effects his evil has on his son Patrick, who stars in the latter two books. | | 2004-03-22 | 0434734543 | Some Hope | St. Aubyn, Edward | | | | How I learned about this book is in the entry for Never Mind.
This is the third in the trilogy. I haven't read it yet, but it will be interesting to see how Patrick turns out. | |
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