SeanO'Leary

Personal Stuff at: [OfficeMonkey]

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Note to others: I haven't been reading Bookshelved regularly. If you're interested in contacting me, the best bet is through bookshelved at officemonkey dot org.

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Notes to self: the proper way to write your name in this wiki is [[SeanO'Leary]]. Although you may just want to use SeanO now that you've done the redirect.

Another note to self: the proper way to write an interwiki link to Wikipedia is WikiPedia:Johnny_Mercer.

Third note to self: to link to an external website use [http://www.officemonkey.org OfficeMonkey].

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Currently Reading

I've been on a reading binge lately... I just finished:

• [The Time Traveller's Wife]? by Audrey Niffenegger
• [The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay]? by Michael Chabon

My Disaster Trilogy

I work in Emergency Management and I've gotten on a "Books related to Disasters" kick. Here are the last three books I've read.

• IsaacsStorm -- About the United States' deadliest hurricane.
• [The Great Influenza] -- About the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.
• [Rising Tide] -- About the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927.

This may rival my Annual Jazz Biography described below.

/Fiction

I've just spent the last 20 minutes sorting my fiction bookshelf and I'm taking a break before I hit the non-fiction side. Since this is the first time the whole bookcase is in alphabetical order by author, I decided to celebrate by entering it into Bookshelved...

/Jazz

I like jazz. I like reading. I like reading about Jazz.

Annual Jazz Biography:

I make a habit of reading at least one jazz biography a year.

• 2004: Skylark: Biography of Johnny Mercer.
• 2003: LushLife?: Biography of Billy Strayhorn.
• 2002: FaithInTime: about Little Jimmy Scott. Also, DeepInADream about Chet Baker.
• 2001: Girl Singer: about Rosemary Clooney
• 2000: Nat King Cole, about um... Nat King Cole.

There were others, but I can't recall the names and exactly when... I'm going through by bookcase this weekend, maybe more will be revealed.

/Computers

I'm a book learner.

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Books I Read:

• Cryptonomicon by NealStephenson
• TheDaVinciCode by DanBrown: A good old summer pageturner that reads partly like a Ludlum book and partly like UmbertoEco's FoucaultsPendulum.
• AllAboutAllAboutEve?: This is a "Making of" Book about the movie All About Eve. It's a fairly good chronicle of the backstory of this entertaining movie.
• TheNakedCartoonist by Robert Mankoff
• TheRiseOfTheCreativeClass? by RichardFlorida?
• OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish by DrSeuss
• HopOnPop by DrSeuss
• Mr Brown can Moo! Can You? by DrSeuss

Books I Liked:

Fiction

• TheMoonIsAHarshMistress by RobertAHeinlein
• InColdBlood, by TrumanCapote
• Lots of things by DashiellHammett

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Hi Sean ! Beyond the fact that I simply like to have visitors here, seeing you in particular gives me an additional (though silly) pleasure : I can tell you "welcome here"... and know that you already feel welcome insofar as our Wiki:WikiEngine offers a way around the Wiki:ApostropheCatastrophe. -- LaurentBossavit

Yes, I was quite happy about that!! I'm glad to be here! -- SeanO

If you enjoy reading about jazz, you might like BirthOfTheCool?: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde [ISBN 0684813548 (amazon.com, search)]. -- ElizabethWiethoff

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