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7/04?
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The Prince has a Booboo
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|
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23/10/05
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Hop on Pop
|
Dr. Seuss
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|
11/05
|
Eight more simple books
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|
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1/06
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Winnie the Witch
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|
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1/06
|
4 Henry and Mudge books (they have chapters!)
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|
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1/07
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Mr. Popper's Penguins (got halfway)
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|
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12/07
|
El Libro Inclinado
|
Peter Newell
|
5
|
|
4/18/08
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Esio Trot (After allowing Adrian to read in bed another half hour, Adrian begins reading in a big way)
|
Roald Dahl
|
4
|
|
4/08
|
El Princepito
|
Saint-Exupery
|
4
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|
4/08
|
Un Tren Cargado de Misterios
|
Augustin Fernandez Paz
|
3
|
|
4/08
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox
|
Roald Dahl
|
4
|
|
4/08
|
The Giraffe, the Pelly, and Me
|
Roald Dahl
|
4
|
|
4/08
|
Winne-the-Pooh (original)
|
A.A.Milne
|
4,5
|
|
5/08
|
the house at pooh corner
|
A.A. Milne
|
4,5
|
|
5/08
|
rats on the range and other storys
|
James Marshall
|
5
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|
5/08
|
The Twits
|
Roald Dahl
|
5
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|
5/08
|
One Day in the Tropical Rainforest
|
Jean creaighead george
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3
|
|
5/08
|
One Day in the Woods
|
Jean creaighead george
|
3
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|
6/08
|
The Forgetful Robot (halfway)
|
paul w. fairman
|
1
|
|
6/08
|
The BFG
|
Roald Dahl
|
5
|
|
7/08
|
Matilda
|
Roald Dahl
|
4
|
|
8/08
|
The fantom tolbooth
|
Norton Juster
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6
|
|
9/08
|
alice in wonderland
|
Lewis Carrol
|
5
|
|
9/08
|
The Cricket in Times Square
|
George Seldon
|
4
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|
9/08
|
The ghost of the auto graveyard (Longer Berenstein bear book)
|
Stan and Jan Berenstein
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4
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|
9/08
|
Giant bat cave(Berenstein bear scouts)
|
Stan and Jan Berenstein
|
4
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|
9/08
|
Ghost versus ghost(Berenstein bear scouts)
|
Stan and Jan Berenstein
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4
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|
10/08
|
The haunted hayride (Berenstein bears)
|
Stan and Jan Berenstein
|
4
|
|
11/08
|
Comics break (lots of Mortadelo & Filemon, then Calvin & Hobbes, and Bloom County)
|
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1/09
|
Wind in the willows
|
Kenneth Grahame
|
4
|
|
1/09
|
the magic finger
|
Roald dahl
|
4
|
|
1/09
|
Pablo Diablo y el dinero
|
Francisca Simon
|
3
|
|
3/09
|
En el reino de la fantasia
|
Geronimo Stilton
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4
|
|
4/09
|
Through the loking glass
|
Lewis Carol
|
5
|
|
4/09
|
Stuart Litle
|
E.B.White
|
4
|
|
5/09
|
My side of the mountain
|
Jean creaighead george
|
3
|
|
5/09
|
Les millors aventures 1
|
Emiel Bluton
|
4
|
|
5/09
|
Charlie and the chocolate factory
|
Roald Dalh
|
5
|
|
6/09
|
El vampiro del toreon
|
?
|
4.5
|
|
7/09
|
James and the Giant Peach
|
Roald Dahl
|
4.5
|
|
8/09
|
Henry Huggins
|
Beverly Cleary
|
4
|
|
8/09
|
Some quick books: Krappy Kartoons, Captain Underpants, Klutz Tricky Video
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|
|
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8/09
|
Superfudge
|
Judy Bloom
|
4.5
|
|
9/09-12/09
|
a bunch of others I can't remember
|
|
|
|
12/09
|
Darwin and other Seriously super Scientists
|
Dr. Mike Goldsmith
|
5
|
|
1/10
|
The boy in the dress
|
David Walliams
|
3.5
|
|
1/10
|
The beak speaks
|
Jeremy Strong
|
4.5
|
|
9/10
|
Huckleberry Finn (after we read Tom Sawyer together)
|
Mark Twain
|
5
|
|
7/11
|
The Prydain series (5 books). First fantasy books (among other fantasy sets from Han)
|
LLoyd Alexander
|
3.5
|
|
11/11
|
The Chronicles of Narnia series (7 books)
|
CS Lewis
|
4.5
|
|
12/11
|
The Black Stallion
|
Walter Farley
|
5
|
|
12/11
|
Going Solo
|
Roald Dahl
|
4.5
|
|
12/11
|
Other short books: From now on, only great books and classics get in to the list
|
|
|
|
1/12
|
Robinson Crusoe(greatly written and great story)
|
Daniel Defoe
|
5
|
|
2/12
|
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (kind of boring, beetween action they talk about the fish in each sea)
|
Jules Verne
|
2.5
|
|
3/12
|
the Forgetful Robot (complete, and great! I just didn't get it 4 years ago, and it's really short)
|
Paul Fairman
|
5
|
|
4/12
|
Frankenstein (not scary in the least, just sad and a bit goofy)
|
Mary Shelley
|
3.5
|
|
5/12
|
The Hobbit (funny precual of The Lord of the Rings)
|
J.R. Tolkien
|
4.5
|
|
2012
|
Original Batman Comics (really funny) (read a few every friday in tne library, and was followed by reading Superman, X-men, Spiderman, Captain America, etc.)
|
Bob Kane and Bill Finger
|
5
|
|
8/12
|
El Último Trayecto de Horacio Dos (funny)
|
Eduardo Mendoza (mom's favorite author)
|
4.5
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/07
|
Todos Los Besos
|
|
|
4/08
|
Parts of Green Eggs and Ham
|
Doctor Seuss
|
|
4/08
|
Footprints in the Snow
|
|
|
7/08
|
Donna la Cervatilla
|
Gill Davies
|
|
10/08
|
Green Eggs and Ham (complete)
|
Doctor Seuss
|
|
|
1/09
|
Clasicos con Pictogramas (234 pages)
|
Ana Serna-Vara
|
|
|
1/09
|
Teo en Avion
|
(Teo leyendo de verdad ahora)
|
|
|
2/09
|
The Cat in the Hat
|
Dr. Seuss
|
|
|
3/09
|
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
|
Dr. Seuss
|
|
|
6/09
|
Viaje al Reino de la Fantasia
|
Geronimo Stilton
|
|
|
8/09
|
Captain Underpants vols. 1 - 8 (even pages. Dad read the odd)
|
Dav Pilkey
|
5
|
|
10/09
|
The Secrets of Droon: Quest for the Queen (a serious book! In September, he said he likes to read.)
|
Tony Abbott
|
3
|
|
1/10
|
The Complete Adventures of Curious George (all 7 books)
|
H.A. Rey
|
5
|
|
7/10
|
The Dr. Seuss Collection (13 books)
|
Dr. Seuss
|
|
|
9/10
|
The BFG
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
9/3/11
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
10/3/11
|
The Giraffe, the Pelly, and me
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
11/3/11
|
the Twits
|
Roald Dahl
|
6
|
|
12/3/11
|
Dirty Beasts
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
12/3/11
|
Enormous Crocodile
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
12/3/11
|
Magic Finger
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
12/3/11
|
Esio Trot
|
Roald Dahl
|
|
|
4/11 - 6/11
|
After his burst of willpower, Teo kinda lost interest in reading.
|
|
|
|
6/11
|
Charlie and Willy Wonka (both)
|
Roald Dahl
|
4.5
|
|
9/11
|
Danny, the Champion of the World
|
Roald Dahl
|
4
|
|
10/11
|
The Witches
|
Roald Dahl
|
5
|
|
3/12
|
Phantom Tollbooth
|
Norton Juster
|
5
|
|
|
Favorite children's books:
Where the Wild Things Are
The Phantom Tollbooth
All Doctor Seuss
|
|
|
|
|
As a 13-year-old, I would raid my sister's collection, especially her Kurt Vonnegut books (my favorite was Cat's Cradle)
|
|
|
|
| 1976?
Cat's Cradle
|
Kurt Vonnegut
|
6
|
|
Summer, 1980
|
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes
|
Conan Doyle
|
5
|
|
1981?
|
The Frogs
|
Aristophanes
|
5
|
|
1979 - 1988
|
School kinda killed the fun of reading.
|
|
|
|
8/89
|
Diva (Mark Webster got me reading novels again)
|
??
|
4
|
|
12/89
|
Galapagos
|
Kurt Vonnegut
|
2
|
|
1/90
|
Siddharta
|
Hesse
|
2
|
|
1/90
|
The Anxious Object
|
(some art critic)
|
2
|
|
2/90
|
City of Joy (Calcutta)
|
|
1
|
|
3/90
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
|
Pirsig
|
6
|
|
4/90
|
A Prayer for Owen Meany
|
Irving
|
4
|
|
4/90
|
Cider House Rules
|
Irving
|
2
|
|
5/90
|
Our Man in Havana
|
Graham Greene
|
5
|
|
5/90
|
The Crying of Lot 49
|
Pynchon
|
3
|
|
?/90
|
Catcher in the Rye
|
Salinger
|
3
|
|
?/90
|
Even Cowgirls get the Blues
|
Robbins
|
2
|
|
?/90
|
Burmese Days
|
Orwell
|
4
|
|
?/90
|
(book on Haiti)
|
|
3
|
|
?/90
|
Drumming at the Edge of Magic
|
Hart
|
4
|
|
3/91
|
Ragtime
|
Doctorow
|
3
|
|
4/91
|
Focault's Pendulum
|
Eco
|
1
|
|
5/91
|
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
|
Hijuelos
|
2
|
|
7/91
|
If the River was Whiskey
|
Boyle
|
3
|
|
8/91
|
One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
Garcia Marquez
|
5
|
|
9/91
|
The Heart of the Matter
|
Graham Greene
|
5
|
|
9/91
|
Gandhi Today
|
Shepard
|
3
|
|
10/91
|
Divine Memories of Sathya Sai Baba
|
Baskin
|
2
|
|
10/91
|
End of the Affair
|
Graham Greene
|
4
|
|
10/91
|
A Policy of Kindness
|
Dalai Lama
|
3
|
|
11/91
|
The Accidental Tourist
|
Tyler
|
3
|
|
12/91
|
Pictures of Fidelman
|
Malamud
|
5
|
|
12/91
|
The Immoralist
|
Gide
|
1
|
|
12/91
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
Huff
|
1
|
|
12/91
|
Manchild in the Promised Land
|
Brown
|
4.5
|
|
12/91
|
Cakes and Ale
|
Maugham
|
2
|
|
1/92
|
The Bushwhacked Piano
|
McGuane
|
2
|
|
1/92
|
The Trial
|
Kafka
|
3
|
|
2/92
|
El Princepito (in Spanish)
|
Saint-Exupery
|
4
|
|
5/92
|
The Power and the Glory
|
Graham Greene
|
5
|
|
6/92
|
The Closing of the American Mind
|
Bloom
|
4.5
|
|
9/92
|
War and Peace (abridged)
|
Tolstoy
|
4
|
|
11/92
|
Tin Drum
|
Hesse
|
4.5
|
|
1/93
|
What's Bred in the Bone
|
Davies
|
3.5
|
|
2/93
|
The New Confessions
|
Boyd
|
3.5
|
|
2/93
|
The Assistant
|
Malamud
|
4
|
|
3/93
|
The Edges of Science
|
Morris
|
3
|
|
3/93
|
All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten
|
Fulghum
|
1
|
|
3/93
|
The Joke
|
Kundera
|
4
|
|
4/93
|
Myths to Live By
|
Campbell
|
3
|
|
4/93
|
How to Reassess your Chess
|
Silman
|
-
|
|
7/93
|
The March of Folly
|
Tuchman
|
4
|
|
7/93
|
A Single Pebble
|
Hersey
|
2
|
|
8/93
|
Lila
|
Pirsig
|
5
|
|
9/93
|
Journey to Ixtlan
|
Castaneda
|
1
|
|
9/93
|
Into the Heart (Yanomama)
|
Good
|
5
|
|
10/93
|
A Sort of Life
|
Graham Greene
|
3
|
|
11/93
|
Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon
|
Amado
|
5
|
|
12/93
|
The Mosquito Coast
|
Theroux
|
5
|
|
12/93
|
Les Miserables (abridged)
|
Hugo
|
4.5
|
|
1/94
|
Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer
|
Conrad
|
4
|
|
3/94
|
Las Brujas (in Spanish)
|
Dahl
|
4
|
|
7/94
|
The Old Patagonian Express
|
Theroux
|
1.5
|
|
11/94
|
Expresionismo (in Spanish)
|
Elger
|
-
|
|
1995 - 1996
|
? Just lovin', no readin'?
|
|
|
|
1/97
|
Moby Dick for Kids (Spanish)
|
|
|
|
2/97
|
The Sun Also Rises
|
Hemingway
|
|
|
1/99
|
The Broken Spears
|
Leon Portilla
|
|
|
7/99
|
Midnight's Children
|
Salman Rushdie
|
5
|
|
4/01
|
Alice in Wonderland
|
Lewis Carroll
|
6
|
|
4/01
|
Through the Looking Glass
|
Lewis Carroll
|
5
|
|
8/01
|
Arrancados del Raiz (Spanish)
|
Puri Chavez
|
|
|
9/01
|
Incident at 20 Mile
|
Trevanian
|
|
|
2002-2003
|
Must have read something . . . tired eyes from programming . . .
|
|
?/03
|
Blue Plate Special [right thing at the right time, simple enough for a complicated life -- thanks, Walter]
|
Walter Sorrells
|
4
|
|
?/03
|
Cold Trail
|
Walter Sorrells
|
|
|
?/03
|
The Blind Man of Seville
|
Wilson
|
|
|
?/03
|
Free Lunch
|
Smith
|
4
|
|
?/04
|
Proof of Intent
|
Walter Sorrells
|
|
|
?/04
|
Witches of Eastwick
|
John Updike
|
4
|
|
?/04
|
Various - left by renters in Vidrio apartment
|
|
|
|
/0
|
A Trap of Fools
|
Cross
|
2
|
|
1/05
|
The Road Between the Wars
|
Goldston
|
4
|
|
2/05
|
Search Engine Optimization for Dummies
|
|
|
|
10/05
|
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
|
Gottman
|
4
|
|
?/06
|
Search Engine Marketing
|
|
|
|
9/06
|
two more books - titles?
|
Walter Sorrells
|
|
|
12/06
|
The Healing Drum
|
Yaya Diallo
|
3
|
|
1/07
|
Palestine Peace or Apartheid
|
Jimmy Carter
|
2
|
|
1/07
|
The Moon's a Balloon (random books I get hold of in Spain)
|
David Niven
|
4
|
|
5/07
|
The Conquest of Mexico
|
Bernal Diaz
|
6
|
|
6/07
|
She Comes First
|
Kerner
|
2
|
|
8/07
|
Roma Eterna
|
Robert Silverburg
|
1
|
|
11/07
|
The Name of the Rose
|
Eco
|
3.5
|
|
3/08
|
The Diary of Anne Frank
|
Anne Frank
|
4
|
|
8/08
|
The Course of Empire
|
Bernard DeVoto
|
5
|
|
11/08
|
The History of the Conquest of Peru
|
William Prescott
|
4
|
|
12/08
|
Krazy Kat (1927-1928)
|
G. Herriman
|
4
|
|
1/09
|
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant [interesting, but heavy on battles]
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
3
|
|
2/09
|
Wind in the Willows
|
Kenneth Grahame
|
4
|
|
4/09
|
Business Nightmares [one of Pura's business books, quite interesting, if literary skills lacking]
|
Rachel Elnaugh
|
3
|
|
6/09
|
Robert Moses (first 750 pages)
|
Robert Caro
|
5
|
|
8/09
|
Husbandry
|
Stephen Fried
|
3
|
|
8/09
|
Web Copy That Sells [so used to selling herself . . .]
|
Maria Veloso
|
2
|
|
9/09
|
Risk/Fear [maybe not perfectly written, but it changed my thinking like few books have]
|
Dan Gardner
|
4
|
|
10/09
|
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
|
Junot Diaz
|
4
|
|
11/09
|
Gaudi
|
Gijs Van Hensbergen
|
2
|
|
1/10
|
The Dynasties of China [A good read -- didn't try to cover it all.]
|
Bamber Gascoigne
|
4
|
|
3/10
|
India: A History [a bit dry. A faithful history.]
|
John Keay
|
3
|
|
4/10
|
Think and Grow Rich
|
Napoleon Hill
|
5
|
|
5/10
|
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
|
Frederick Douglass
|
4
|
|
6/10
|
Tom Sawyer (read to Adrian. A page turner.)
|
Mark Twain
|
5
|
|
7/10
|
Biomimicry [too much chemistry. A novice in writing.]
|
Janine Benyus
|
2.5
|
|
9/10
|
Journey to the Ants [an engaging read]
|
Bert Holldobler and Edward Wilson
|
3.5
|
|
10/10
|
Life Ascending: The ten great inventions of evolution [Real smart guy -- some fascinating ideas about consciousness and death.]
|
Nick Lane
|
4
|
|
12/10
|
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [first 800 pages]
|
Ed Gibbon
|
4
|
|
1/11
|
Into Thin Air [A book hasn't gotten me this obsessed since Bernal Diaz. Waking up at 4am reviewing what happened.]
|
Jon Krakauer
|
4
|
|
5/11
|
The Periodic Table [A misc collection with good observations. Makes me want to read his first book.]
|
Primo Levi
|
4
|
|
7/11
|
Out of Poverty [Needs editing, but I completely agree with his ideas. Energizing]
|
Paul Povak
|
5
|
|
7/11
|
The Wizard of Menlo Park [First 60 pages real good. I guess biographies all tend to get boring when the person gets old.]
|
Randall Stross
|
3
|
|
9/11
|
Going Solo [Autobiography written for kids, but amazing story of 3 years of his life.]
|
Roald Dahl
|
4
|
|
11/11
|
Throwim Way Leg
|
Tim Flannery
|
4
|
|
1/12
|
Reefer Madness
|
Eric Schlosser
|
4
|
|
2/12
|
Miracle at Philadelphia [Surprisingly engaging]
|
Catherine Drinker Bowen
|
4
|
|
4/12
|
Time Wars [I don't need apocalyptic books at the moment.]
|
Jeremy Rifkin
|
2.5
|
|
5/12
|
American Shaolin
|
Matthew Polly
|
4
|
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5/12
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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell
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3.5
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7/12
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Frankenstein [I liked the picture of the final agreed-upon chase.]
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Mary Shelley
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4
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9/12
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Origins
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Richard Leakey & Roger Lewin
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3.5
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Adrian