2011 Reading List

(Year End Reading List)

1.  Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser January 19, 2011

2.  Turn Right at Istanbul by Tony Wright [Abridged] January 23, 2011 (audiobook)

3.  King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard January 25, 2011

4.  The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg (Abridged) January 27, 2011 (audiobook)

5.  King Richard III by William Shakespeare January 31, 2011 (audiobook)

6.  Flashman’s Lady by George MacDonald Fraser February 2, 2011

7.  Free-Born John by Pauline Gregg March 17, 2011

8.  Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser March 29, 2011

9.  Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell April 4, 2011

10.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll April 21, 2011 (audiobook)

11.  Culture Smart! Cambodia by Graham Saunders May 2, 2011

12.  Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser June 12, 2011

13.  The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham June 25, 2011

14.  To Kill a Tsar by Andrew Williams July 11, 2011

15.  The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia by John F. Cady July 18, 2011

16.  The Game by Neil Strauss October 27, 2011

17.  Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport November 3, 2011

18.  The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia by Milton E. Osborne November 10, 2011

For an explanation of why I'm posting this now, see HERE. 

Playlist HERE: 

Weekly Reading Vlog #44: Herodotus p.412-416, Exodus 4-12, The Two Towers p.790-828, Tik-Tok of Oz

(Weekly Reading Vlog)

   

Books (64 pages this week)

The Histories by Herodotus p.412-416 (4 pages) 

Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum (finished) (reviewed) (from The Complete Stories of Oz) 

Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum p.776-788 (from The Complete Stories of Oz) (12 pages)

The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien p.790-828 (from The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings Box Set by J.R.R. Tolkien) (38 pages)

The Book of Exodus p.64-72 (Exodus 4-12) (From The Bible) (8 pages)

The Grammar Book by Marianne Celce-Murcia and Diane Larsen-Freeman p.266-268 (2 pages)

Tieng Viet 123: Vietnamese for Beginner p.10-11 (not yet complete.  Still studying.  Audio HERE)

Podcasts and Audiobooks: (Not mentioned in the video)

The Histories By Herodotus Book 1, 

Revolutions Season 3: The French Revolution 2nd Listening From: 3.16 The Society of 1789 To 3.28- Provincial Revolt (from Revolutions Podcast)

Revolutions Podcast (New Episodes): 10.82- The House of Special Purpose: Time to tie up some loose ends.

For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE.

Relative Clauses: Grammar ESL Listening

(TESOL Materials--Grammar ESL Listening, Relative Clauses)

Youtube Video: Relative Clauses: Grammar: ESL Listening, Slideshow: slides, pub

2010 Reading List

(Year End Reading List)

1.  Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris January 1, 2010

2.  Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice January 8, 2010

3.  The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson February 19, 2010

4.  Three Empires on the Nile by Dominic Green March 10, 2010 (audiobook)

5.  The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker March 20, 2010

6.  Down Under by Bill Bryson March 24, 2010

7.  Introducing Chomsky by John Maher and Judy Groves March 31, 2010

8.  Kim by Rudyard Kipling April 7,  2010 (audiobook)

9.  Monarchy From the Middle Ages to Modernity by David Starkey April 25, 2010 (audiobook)

10.  Flashman by George Macdonald Fraser May 2, 2010

11.  Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser June 23, 2010

12.  The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope July 12, 2010

13.  Flash for Freedom by George Macdonald Fraser July 27, 2010

14.  Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes August 3, 2010

15.  Flashman at the Charge by George Macdonald Fraser September 1, 2010

16.  The Butterfly in Amber by Kate Forsyth September 29, 2010 (audiobook)

For an explanation of why I'm posting this now, see HERE. 

Playlist HERE:  

Dane's review of The Patchwork Girl of Oz (We're doing this series as a buddy reads).

L. Frank Baum - The Patchwork Girl of Oz [REVIEW/DISCUSSION]

My review of The Patchwork Girl of Oz is HERE.

Công Viên Ven Sông (Phu My, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

(travelogues)

Công Viên Ven Sông (Phu My, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam): Travel Videos

2009 Reading List

(Year End Reading List)

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke January 1, 2009

2. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions by James R. Gaines February 16, 2009 (audiobook)

3. Revolutions of 1848 by Priscilla Robertson February 28, 2009
4. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Masters or Ph.D. by Robert L. Peters Ph.D. March 17, 2009

5. Napoleon's Egypt by Juan Cole March 24, 2009 (audiobook)

6. Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography by Francis Wheen April 2, 2009 (audiobook)

7. The First Total War by David Bell April 6, 2009

8. Wagner: A Documentary Study edited by Herbert Barth, Dietrich Mack, Egon Voss May 15, 2009

9. Napoleon by Felix Markham May 24, 2009

10. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne June 23, 2009

11. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm July 10, 2009

12. The Greek War of Independence by David Brewer September 9, 2009

13. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy October 25, 2009

For an explanation of why I'm posting this now, see HERE.  

Playlist HERE: