Chester & Greta




books read in 1999

"Pulp" by Charles Bukowski
"Emperor of the Air" by Ethan Canin
"Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
"The Insider's Guide to Getting Published" by John Boswell
"The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan" by Daikichi Irokawa [translated by Mikiso Hane and John K. Urda]
"Butterflies of the Night: Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve" by Lisa Louis
"Conservation of Paintings" by David Bomford
"Black Rain" by Masuji Ibuse
"Everyday Life in Traditional Japan" by Charles J. Dunn
"Exploring Kyoto: On Foot in the Ancient Capital" by Judith Clancy

books read in 1998

"A Concise History of Modern Painting" Herbert Read
"Sumo: A Pocket Guide" by David Shapiro
"The Discoverers" by Daniel J. Boorstin
"Deception Well" by Linda Nagata
"The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester
"A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"Slant" by Greg Bear
"The Year’s Best Science Fiction 14" edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein
"Black Mist and other Japanese Futures" edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Ferrell
"The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories" edited by John L. Apostolou and Martin H. Greenberg
"Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling
"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards
"Van Gogh" by Melissa McQuillan
"Watercolor" by Duane R. Light
"Watercolor and Acrylic Painting Materials" by William F. Powell
"Oil Painting: Impressionism" by Keith Ward
"Pastels" by Leslie B. DeMille
"Behind the Japanese Bow" by Boye Lafayette De Mente
"Audrey Hepburn’s Neck" by Alan Brown
"Home, Sweet Tokyo" by Rick Kennedy
"The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture" by Mark Schilling
"Living and Working in Japan" by Ron Davidson
"Making it in Japan" by Mark Gauthier
"Practical Watercolor Painting" by Gerald Woods
"Practical Oil Painting" by Gerald Woods
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
"The Wonderful World of Sazae-san Vol. 1" by Machiko Hasegawa
"The Wonderful World of Sazae-san Vol. 2" by Machiko Hasegawa
"The Wonderful World of Sazae-san Vol. 3" by Machiko Hasegawa
"The Wild Sheep Chase" by Haruki Murakami
"Insider’s Guide: Japan" by Peter Popham
"Japan for the Improverished" by Jim Rickman
"Frommer’s Japan 3rd Edition"
"Japan-Think, America-Think" by Robert J. Collins
"Make a Mil-¥en: Teaching English in Japan" by Don Best
"New Japan Solo" by Eiji Kanno and Constance O’Keefe
"Tokyo Museums" by Thomas and Ellen Flannigan
"Frommer’s Walking Tours: Tokyo"
"The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff
"Instructions to the Cook" by Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields
"Points in Time" by Paul Bowles
"Teaching English: Japan" by Jerry O’Sullivan
"Culture Shock: Japan" by Rex Shelley
"A Guide to Drawing" by Daniel M. Mendelowitz
"Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting" by Sister Wendy Beckett
"Picasso" by Ingo F. Walther
"Van Gogh" by René Huyghe
"Nippon Pop" by Steve McClure
"New Worlds" edited by David Garnett