Stephen King

I have a weird collection - I go around to different used book stores and the like, looking for as many different editions of Stephen King books as I can find. What I am hoping to do here is to make a list of all of the different covers on this blog. The book images I am going to post (this may take a while, so don't expect much right away) are the books that I already own and I will edit this post when I can add more. My hopes are that I will eventually have a comprehensive list of the many, many different editions of Stephen King's works. One of the reasons is for the art that is used - book cover art is underappreciated, I would like to acknowledge the art as much as I can. I still have a long way to go. images will be posted at a later date

U.S. Presidents Reading Project

I am now doing different reading challenges on Shelfari and other blog sites. One that I am following is the U.S. Presidents Reading Project, simply put - you just have to read one book about each president. For more information, go to: http://uspresidentsreadingproject.blogspot.com/

My list so far:

1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan - (James Buchanan(The American Presidents) by Jean H. Baker)
16. Abraham Lincoln - (Lincoln by David Herbert Donald)
(The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop)
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22, 24. Grover Cleveland -(Grover Cleveland (The American Presidents)by Henry F. Graff )
23. Benjamin Harrison
25. William McKinley - (William McKinley (The American Presidents)by Kevin Phillips )
(Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America by Eric Rauchway )
26. Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt: (The American Presidents Series) by Louis Auchincloss
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford - (Gerald R. Ford by Douglas Brinkley)
39. Jimmy Carter - (The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture by Jimmy Carter)
40. Ronald Reagan - (Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan )
41. George H. W. Bush
42. Bill Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama (PRESIDENT-ELECT 2009)