end of the year reflections overview  book list 

Every year at this time a year I like to reflect back on the year before what I had done what movies I had seen what books I had read where I have traveled and what I have accomplished this year for the first time I’m going to blog about this so here are my end-of-the-year book list movie list and travel list.

books read during 2018

books read

Movies Watched During 2018

Cosmos’s Music Play List 2018

publication updates

movies list

new Yorker List Best Books of the Year

good read choices

First let’s look at the book list. This is the list of books I have read this year.

reading goal for this year included 

5 to 6  books per month  -2 from library one from Kindle  one from own library
1 SF or thriller
1 world lit including Korean, Latin American, Indian novels 
1 poetry
1 history or current event
Read 19^th classic novels 
Read all my classic books as well
One Korean history book
One writing craft book
One Spanish language book
One Korean book   

for next year continue as before but read more Korean and Spanish books

The List

1. AC Fuller   The Anonymous Source
2. AC Fuller   the Inverted Pyramid
3. AC Fuller   the Mocking Bird Drive 
4. AC Fuller   the Shadow File 
5. AC Fuller  The Last Journalist
6. AC Fuller Cutline
7. Earnest Howard The Atlantis Stone
8. Down in the Dirt 2018 Anthology Natural Light includes my poem
9. Down in the Dirt 2019 Literary Review my poem Strangeness in the Air appears November 
10. Snarling Cup of Coffee My Chapbook as published in Poetry Superhighway give away
11. David Balladaci Winner
12. Making Out in Korean
13. Vietnam Lonely Planet
14. .Vietnam Cambodia Lonely Planet
15. .Vietnam Easy Travel Guide
16. .Continuing Korean
17. .Advanced Korean
18. Conspiracy Theory JD Oliva  Kindle
19. .Museum Attack Jim Heskett Kindle
20. .Jamie Thornton Germination did not finish Kindle
21. Steve Konkoly Red Dragon Kindle
22. Nathan Van Cooper In Times Like These Kindle
23. Earnest Dempsey The Secret of the Stones Kindle
24. Braddon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy Kindle
25. .Bida Ernie Howard Kindle 
26. .Howard Finn Adventures of Robin Hood Kindle
27. .Nick Jones The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman Kindle
28. .Stephen Tharp the Western DMZ Paju
29. .Icebergs Alistair Morgan
30. An Ordinary Soldier Gramma Joyce  erotic shorts 
31. The Camera and the Cobra erotic shorts
32. .Substitutes Viet Dinh erotic shorts
33. The Nursery Kirstein Sundberg erotic shorts
34. Tell Him About Brother Joe Manuel Munoz erotic shorts
35. Isabelle’s Daughter Karin Brown erotic shorts
36. Purple Bamboo Park EV Slate erotic shorts
37. This is Not Your City  Caitlin Horroks erotic shorts
38. The Visitor Marisa Silver erotic shorts
39. .The Bell Ring John Burnside erotic shorts
40. .The House Behind A Weeping Cherry Ha Jin erotic shorts
41. . And We Will Be Here  Paul Yoon erotic shorts
42. Uncle Musto Takes A Mistress erotic shorts
43. .Darkness  Andrew Sean Greer erotic shorts
44. .Kind LE Miller erotic shorts
45. .The Order of Things Judy Troy erotic shorts 
46. Wildwood Junot Diaz  erotic shorts
47. A Beneficiary Nadine Gordimer erotic shorts
48.  Blasphemy Douglas Preston erotic shorts
49.  .Michael Robinson The Alpha Plague erotic shorts
50.  .The Enigma Stain Nick Thacke erotic shorts
51. . Captain Bartholomew Quasar  Miles James Fowl erotic shorts
52. .Kill Switch Steve N Lee – did not finish – a bit too violent for my taste
53. .Second Chances Lincoln Cole Gripping emotional family drama – quite well done
54. The Alpha Plague Michael Robinson – so so Zombie thriller
55.  Strike Jim Heskett Did not finish
56.  Tech Fall Austin Drago
57. TS Elliot Complete poems and Plays
58. Stuart Woods Skin Game – finished  YS Library 
59. .Stuart Woods Desperate Measures 
60. John Grisham The Reckoning YS 
61. .David Poyer Deep Water
62. .Bill Clinton/James Paterson The President Is Missing
63. James Elroy This Story
64. .Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
65. .Nick Thacker the Depths
66. The Green Ghost Johnston Mc Cullety Shadow Justice
67. Mr Death Takes the Wheel G Wyman Jones Shadow Justice
68. The Emperor Runs the Gauntlet Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
69. the Shadow Smith Investigations Owen Fox Jerome Shadow Justice
70. Fireball Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
71. the Crimson Mask Scorpion Trail Frank Johnson Shadow Justice
72. The Reaper City of Thirst William Glass Shadow Justice
73. The Mask of Cypher fireball adventure  Shadow Justice
74. The emperor Marked for Death  Shadow Justice
75. .Milo James Captain Bartholomew Quasar
76. .Lincoln Cole Second Chances
77. .Steve Lee Kill Switch
78. .Michale Robinson the Alpha Plague
79. .Micha Caridad Time Trap
80. .Jim Hesket Strike
81. .Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
82. .Ransom Riggs Hollow City
83. .Ransom Riggs library of Souls
84. .James Elroy American Tabloid
85. .James Elroy The Cold Six  Thousand
86. .James Elroy Blood Requiem
87. .David Poyer Deep Water 
88. .Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
89. .Nick Thacker the Depths
90. Micha Caridad Time Trap
91. .Minnie’s Diary my poem included the Market Rules Us All
92. Poetry Explosion News letter – My poem Fears included
93. .Poets Against the Wall – my poem Take Down this Wall included 
94. .Best American Poetry 2017
95. .Best American Poetry 2018
96. .Best American Poetry 2019
97. Easy Thai
98. .Fundamentals of Thai Language
99. .Thai Phrasebook
100. Scales Fall All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
101. the Ant Tower All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
102. Heft All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
103. the first acolyte of the Upshot All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
104. Bronwells Dowry All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
105. the Spider and the Darkness All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
106. The Dowager’s Largress All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
107. Therjiac All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
108. the Red Flame of Death All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
109. The Blue Breeze All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
110. The Rakam All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
111. Arthur Doyle Lost World
112. Franklin Autobiography
113. Craig McDonnough Destination Roswell
114. Clare Littermore FLow
115. Incheon Travel Guide
116. Gangnam style  Yangchechong Stream
117. His forbidden touch ten Shades of Sexy
118.  Heaven’s fire ten Shades of Sexy
119. just Perfect ten Shades of Sexy
120. the Games ten Shades of Sexy
121. Taken by the Cowboy ten Shades of Sexy
122. Lips that Touch Mine ten Shades of Sexy
123. Justin ten Shades of Sexy
124. Hidden Crimes ten Shades of Sexy
125. Trust Me ten Shades of Sexy
126. Ten Shades of Sexy ten Shades of Sexy
127. Mathew Mather Dark Net
128. Austin Dragon Tek Fail
129. Austin Dragon Liquid Cool
130. Dean F WIlson Cool Hand Luke
131. Austin Dragon Hollow Blood
132. Duncan Simpson Dark Horizon
133. AJ Ramsey Apocalypse Rise of the Machines
134. Bobby Adair Freedom Fire
135. Bobby Adair Slow Burn
136. Alice May Bell Hot Wife
137. Robert Peace Scout

Other

Other James Elroy read

The Underworld USA Trilogy

American Tabloid
the Cold Six  Thousand
Blood Requiem

LA Quartet

black Dahlia
The Big Nowhere
LA Confidential

To read

Whitman Leaves of Grass
Dickenson Collected Poems
the Wrinkle in Time five volume Series
       Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period)
       Poetry for dummies
The Poets Companion
Art and Craft of Poetry
Crafting Scenes
Creating Plot
Ben Nyberg One Way to Write Short Stories
James n Frey How to Write Damn Good Novel
Rittenberg Your First Novel
Myeongo’s korean reader
the lion the witch and the ward-row in Spanish and english
Kim Soo Sijo In Korean and English
Robert Collins North Korean Organization and Guidance Department
Robert Collins Denied Human Rights at the Local Level
Courtland Robinson Lost Generation
Federalist Papers

the End