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My bookshelves
I’ve posted photos of some of my bookshelves online at http://www.robincamille.com/bookshelves/. I love looking at other people’s books. Maybe you do, too. You may also be interested in the annotated...
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Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 1]
In the whaling days of Moby-Dick, splashy scenes like the above could be infrequent. Many long days could pass between whales, and indeed any long sea journey was marked by tedium. While ship-masters...
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Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 2]
Yesterday, I wrote about sailors who were also readers in the 19th century, and their economy of book exchanges at sea. Today, let’s look at what a few mariners were actually reading! Both lists were...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2011
I read 18 books in 2011. It was a pretty good reading year, although I read fewer books than in 2010 (21) and 2009 (59!), which is worrisome. None of these are for class, and I will point out that I’ve...
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In reading more of Hester Blum’s very interesting The View from the Masthead (2008), I came across another list of books a 19th-c whaler read. His name was James C. Osborn of Edgartown, Mass., second...
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Reading Experience Database text mining project
Cross-posted at my Day of DH 2012 blog. About the project I have really been enjoying Dr. Cathy Blake‘s Text Mining class this semester, in a large part because I’ve been given access to data that...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2012
I read 24 books this year, slightly more than 2011 (18) and 2010 (21) but not as many as 2009 (59, in my last full year of Brown’s English program). Here they are below, listed in the order I read...
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Per my yearly tradition, here’s a look at the books I read for pleasure in 2013. It felt like I read a ton more this year, although my list is only 21 books long, about average for me. My subway...
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Digital & paper journaling
TL;DR: I now keep a digital journal. I had it printed & bound. It turned out awesome. Paper My grandmother’s 1943 diary, a family treasure Since the year 2000, I’ve regularly kept a personal...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2014
I read 24 books for pleasure in 2014. Bold = favorites * = rereads Don’t Tell Alfred (Nancy Mitford) The Orphan Master’s Son (Adam Johnson) Goliath (Tom Gauld) Antigonick (Anne Carson) American Born...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2015
I read 26 books for pleasure in 2015. Bold = favorites * = rereads 10:04 (Ben Lerner) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Anna Bond) * All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2016
I read 34 books for pleasure in 2016, the most I’ve read in one year since 2009. Bold = faves (doesn’t include rereads) * = rereads A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah) All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld)...
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