July book round-up
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bedlamsbardThis month I read a fair number of books! Go me. I actually managed to read something for my dissertation every day, or if I didn't read something, at least I was typing up notes from something I'd read. Given my procrastination tendencies, this is actually a big deal for me.
The complete list (finished books):
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, Dennis D. Hughes
Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession, Ida Ostenberg
Star Wars: Planet of Twilight, Barbara Hambly
The Roman Triumph, Mary Beard
City of Lost Souls, Cassandra Clare
Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones
Fiddler Fair, Mercedes Lackey
The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones
Outlaw, Angus Donald
Conrad's Fate, Diana Wynne Jones
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
Glass Houses, Rachel Caine
Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425, Kyle Harper
The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Slavery, F. Hugh Thompson
The Butcher and the Vegetarian, Tara Austen Weaver
Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guards, Michael Speidel
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch
Representations of War in Ancient Rome, Sheila Dillon and Katherine Welch (eds.)
Crazy Aunt Purl: Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair, Laurie Perry
Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson
Debating Roman Demography, Walter Scheidel (ed.)
Novellas and short stories:
"Through this House", Seanan McGuire
"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea", Mira Grant
"The Bane Chronicles: The Midnight Heir", Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan
"The Cockpit", Ben Aaronovitch
TPBs/graphic novels:
Hawkeye: Little Hits, Matt Fraction
Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Articles:
Alston, R., 2001. Urban population in Late Roman Egypt and the end of the ancient world.
Branigan, K., 1991. Images - or mirages - of empire? An archaeological approach to the problem.
Dillon, S., 2006. Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and the visual language of Roman victory.
Edwards, C., 2003. Incorporating the alien: the art of conquest.
Edwards, C., and Woolf, G., 2003. Cosmopolis: Rome as World City.
Frier, B.W., 2001. More is worse: some observation son the population of the Roman empire.
Harris, W.V., 2006. Readings in the narrative literature of Roman courage.
Hodkinson, S., 2008. Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective.
Holscher, T., 2006. The transformation of victory into power: from event to structure.
Jongman, W., 2003. Slavery and the growth of Rome. The transformation of Italy in the second and first centuries BCE.
Klar, L.S., 2006. The origins of the Roman scaenae frons and the architecture of triumphal games in the second century B.C.
Koorbojian, M., 2006. The bringer of victory: imagery and institutions at the advent of empire.
Kousser, R., 2006. Conquest and desire: Roman Victoria in public and provincial sculpture.
Lo Cascio, E., 2001. Recruitment and the size of the Roman population from the third to the first century BCE.
Lusnia, S., 2006. Battle imagery and politics on the Severan Arch in the Roman Forum.
McDonnell, M., 2006. Roman aesthetics and the spoils of Syracuse.
Miller, J.C., 2008. Slaving as historical process: examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic.
Morley, N., 2003. Migration and the metropolis.
Mosley, D.J., 1991. Calgacus: clash of Roman and native.
Patterson, O., 2008. Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis.
Petre-Grenouilleau, O., 2008. Processes of exiting the slave systems: a typology.
Rohll, T., 1996. The origin and establishment of Ancient Greek slavery.
Roth, J.P., 2006. Siege narrative in Livy: representation and reality.
Schiedel, W., 2001. Progress and problems in Roman demography.
Scheidel, W., 2008. The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world.
Shaw, B.D., 2001. The seasonal birthing cycle of Roman women.
Welch, K.E., 2006. Domi militiaeque: Roman domestic aesthetics and war booty in the Republic.
Books in progress (as of August 1):
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davis
Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World, Youval Rotman (trans. J.M. Todd)
Indexing, Seanan McGuire (serial)
Did Not Finish:
The Dead Girls' Dance, Rachel Caine
Purchased:
The Magicians of Caprona, Diana Wynne Jones
The Magicians Guild, Trudi Canavan
Tart It Up! Sweet and Savoury Tarts and Pies, Eric Lanlard
The Vintage Tea Party Book, Angel Adoree
Rose Under Fire, Elizabeth Wein
Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch
Hawkeye: Little Hits, Matt Fraction
Star Wars: Children of the Jedi, Barbara Hambly
(Also some ebooks, but I don't keep track of those the way I do with physical books.)
In typing this up, I realized that when I'd made my initial list to keep track of what I was reading for my diss (it's in a separate word file, properly cited in Harvard, with notes to indicate what I haven't finished, what still needs to have the notes typed up, and what was totally fucking useless), I'd actually written "geography" instead of "demography" for everything from the Scheidel book. FAIL, BEDLAM.
I read a lot, not enough useful stuff, if I remember correctly, that break in the middle where there are a bunch of fiction books but no Greco-Roman books was actually when I was reading articles or chapters but not the whole book; I didn't have a span of a week and a half where I read nothing for my diss.
In conclusion: see if you can guess what my dissertation is on from the clues herein.
The complete list (finished books):
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, Dennis D. Hughes
Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession, Ida Ostenberg
Star Wars: Planet of Twilight, Barbara Hambly
The Roman Triumph, Mary Beard
City of Lost Souls, Cassandra Clare
Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones
Fiddler Fair, Mercedes Lackey
The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones
Outlaw, Angus Donald
Conrad's Fate, Diana Wynne Jones
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
Glass Houses, Rachel Caine
Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425, Kyle Harper
The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Slavery, F. Hugh Thompson
The Butcher and the Vegetarian, Tara Austen Weaver
Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guards, Michael Speidel
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch
Representations of War in Ancient Rome, Sheila Dillon and Katherine Welch (eds.)
Crazy Aunt Purl: Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair, Laurie Perry
Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson
Debating Roman Demography, Walter Scheidel (ed.)
Novellas and short stories:
"Through this House", Seanan McGuire
"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea", Mira Grant
"The Bane Chronicles: The Midnight Heir", Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan
"The Cockpit", Ben Aaronovitch
TPBs/graphic novels:
Hawkeye: Little Hits, Matt Fraction
Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Articles:
Alston, R., 2001. Urban population in Late Roman Egypt and the end of the ancient world.
Branigan, K., 1991. Images - or mirages - of empire? An archaeological approach to the problem.
Dillon, S., 2006. Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and the visual language of Roman victory.
Edwards, C., 2003. Incorporating the alien: the art of conquest.
Edwards, C., and Woolf, G., 2003. Cosmopolis: Rome as World City.
Frier, B.W., 2001. More is worse: some observation son the population of the Roman empire.
Harris, W.V., 2006. Readings in the narrative literature of Roman courage.
Hodkinson, S., 2008. Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective.
Holscher, T., 2006. The transformation of victory into power: from event to structure.
Jongman, W., 2003. Slavery and the growth of Rome. The transformation of Italy in the second and first centuries BCE.
Klar, L.S., 2006. The origins of the Roman scaenae frons and the architecture of triumphal games in the second century B.C.
Koorbojian, M., 2006. The bringer of victory: imagery and institutions at the advent of empire.
Kousser, R., 2006. Conquest and desire: Roman Victoria in public and provincial sculpture.
Lo Cascio, E., 2001. Recruitment and the size of the Roman population from the third to the first century BCE.
Lusnia, S., 2006. Battle imagery and politics on the Severan Arch in the Roman Forum.
McDonnell, M., 2006. Roman aesthetics and the spoils of Syracuse.
Miller, J.C., 2008. Slaving as historical process: examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic.
Morley, N., 2003. Migration and the metropolis.
Mosley, D.J., 1991. Calgacus: clash of Roman and native.
Patterson, O., 2008. Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis.
Petre-Grenouilleau, O., 2008. Processes of exiting the slave systems: a typology.
Rohll, T., 1996. The origin and establishment of Ancient Greek slavery.
Roth, J.P., 2006. Siege narrative in Livy: representation and reality.
Schiedel, W., 2001. Progress and problems in Roman demography.
Scheidel, W., 2008. The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world.
Shaw, B.D., 2001. The seasonal birthing cycle of Roman women.
Welch, K.E., 2006. Domi militiaeque: Roman domestic aesthetics and war booty in the Republic.
Books in progress (as of August 1):
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davis
Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World, Youval Rotman (trans. J.M. Todd)
Indexing, Seanan McGuire (serial)
Did Not Finish:
The Dead Girls' Dance, Rachel Caine
Purchased:
The Magicians of Caprona, Diana Wynne Jones
The Magicians Guild, Trudi Canavan
Tart It Up! Sweet and Savoury Tarts and Pies, Eric Lanlard
The Vintage Tea Party Book, Angel Adoree
Rose Under Fire, Elizabeth Wein
Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch
Hawkeye: Little Hits, Matt Fraction
Star Wars: Children of the Jedi, Barbara Hambly
(Also some ebooks, but I don't keep track of those the way I do with physical books.)
In typing this up, I realized that when I'd made my initial list to keep track of what I was reading for my diss (it's in a separate word file, properly cited in Harvard, with notes to indicate what I haven't finished, what still needs to have the notes typed up, and what was totally fucking useless), I'd actually written "geography" instead of "demography" for everything from the Scheidel book. FAIL, BEDLAM.
I read a lot, not enough useful stuff, if I remember correctly, that break in the middle where there are a bunch of fiction books but no Greco-Roman books was actually when I was reading articles or chapters but not the whole book; I didn't have a span of a week and a half where I read nothing for my diss.
In conclusion: see if you can guess what my dissertation is on from the clues herein.