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I own an enormous number of books, and have not read them all *cough*. In 2010 or 2011, I decided to work on "reading down" the large piles of books "not yet read." So I tried "every other" or "two for one" (two not-yet-read books for every "fun" book). Worked pretty well, really. I've had lapses at times, for sure. And I indulge during the holidays.
I've also worked hard to not buy as many books, and instead borrow from the library. (Which means I buy only those books from the library that I REALLY, REALLY liked (^_^); if only there weren't still so many!)
In any case, since I no longer own all the books I read, I decided to document what I've read—hence this list!
2018-06-17: in Japanese this phenomenon of an accumulation of unread books is called "tsundoku:" 積ん読 (Wikipedia). It's a portmanteau aka combination of:
(1) 「積んでおく」 tsunde-oku (to pile things up ready for later) and
(2) 「読書」 dokusho (reading books).
2019-01-27: How interesting. My reading really slowed down this past month of January. Sure, I was studying A LOT for an interview. But, I think, to be honest, it's also about knuckling down and choosing one of the books from the aforementioned tsundoku pile: "I want to read it, but I don't."
The Gone-Away World - Nick Harkaway
Finished 2013-01-07
History of Japan, Volume 1 - antiquity to XYZA - George Sansom
Started early January (and *cough* put down)
Crucible of Gold - Naomi Novik
Finished 2013-01-23
Palestine - Joe Sacco
Finished 2013-01-29
..
Scandal - Shusaku Endo
Silence - Shusaku Endo (read only the Introduction; decided I'd had enough for now; this one is particularly weighty)
The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain
Finished 2013-02-18
The Wikkeling - Steve Arntson
Finished 2013-02-19
City of Ember - Jeanne Duprau
Finished 2013-02-22
The People of Sparks - Jeanne Duprau
Finished 2013-02-28
..
Sharpening Made Easy
Finished repeatedly, early March
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Finished early March
Samurai William - Giles Milton
Started mid March
Finished early May (?)
Sandman Vol 3: (also reviewed Vols 1: Preludes and Nocturnes and 2: The Doll's House)
Neil Gaiman
Mimi - Lucy Ellman
Started week of 3/25
Sandman Vol 4: A Season of Mists
Neil Gaiman
Finished 3/27
Sandman Vol 5: A Game of You
Neil Gaiman
Finished 3/28
Sandman Vol 6: Fables and Reflections
Neil Gaiman
Finished 3/30
..
Hmm.what about April? Ah.
Antifragility Nicholas Nassim Taleb (through Ch 16 or so)
..
Libyrinth Pearl North
Finished 5/11
Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
Finished 5/17
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple
Finished 5/24
..
The Accursed Joyce Carol Oates
The Blue Book A. L. Kennedy
Monkey Brain Sushi (compiled Alfred Birnbaum)
Bone Jeff Smith #1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The Magicians Lev Grossman
Finished 7/11
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro
Finished 7/22
Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart
Finished 8/1
Tropical Classical Pico Iyer
Started 8/2
Finished 10/18
Dance with Dragons George R.R. Martin
Finished 8/23
Mongoliad, Volume 3 Neal Stephenson and team
Finished 9/7 ish
Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. LeGuin
Finished 9/16
Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. LeGuin
Finished 9/20
The Farthest Shore
Finished 9/22
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle
Started 9/25
Finished (when bought) 11/1
Girl Genius Vol 9
Finished 9/27
Girl Genius Vol 10
Finished 9/29
Tehanu Ursula K. LeGuin
Started 10/1
The Wind's Twelve Quarters Ursula K. LeGuin
Started 10/19
Finished near Halloween
Tales of Earthsea Ursula K. LeGuin
Started before Halloween, saved last tale till had read all of Twelve Quarters
A Wind in the Door Madeleine L'Engle
Finished 11/6
Tokyo Underworld Robert Whiting
Finished 11/12
Coraline Neil Gaiman
Finished 11/14
Low City, High City
Edward Seidensicker
Started 11/14
The Black Cauldron (Chronicle of Prydain, Vol 2)
Lloyd Alexander
Started 11/15
Finished 11/21-ish
The Book of Three (Chronicle of Prydain, Vol 3) Lloyd Alexander
Started 11/22
Finished (don't remember)
Bone books (all 9)
Jeff Smith
Re-read over Thanksgiving Week
Olympians v1: Zeus
Olympians v4: Hades
Catching Fire
Started 11/30
Finished 12/??
Olympians v3: Hera
The Other Wind
Ursula K. LeGuin
Started 12/1
Finished 12/4
Olympians v2: Athena
Olympians v5: Poseidon
The Magician King, by Lev Grossman
Started
Finished 12/15?
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Started 12/16
Finished 2/28 (in the wee hours from Thursday)
Daughter of the Sword
Steve Bein
Started 12/19
Finished 12/27?
The Odyssey (graphic novel gifted to Haemish by Tevan and Petra)
Gareth Hinds
Some Xmas break day following Christmas (^_^)
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Andrew Sean Greer
Started 12/28 (but not very enthusiastically)
Finished late Jan (ended up really enjoying it)
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol 1
Started 12/30
Finished 1/2
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol 2
Started 1/2
Finished 1/3
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol 3
Started 1/3
Olympians, Vol 6: Aphrodite
Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
Started
Finished early Feb
This one took a long time, primarily due to crazy work hours
The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars
Started 3/2
Finished 3/23
Tales of Nevèrÿon
Started 3/3
Finished 3/10
Promethea, Volume 1
Started 3/13
Finished 3/17
LXG Century
Vol 1 (re-read)
Vol 2
Vol 3
Read all from 3/21-3/23 FUN!
(Hmm...something else here? From here on is me remembering on 6/14 (!) what I've read since 3/23...geez)
The Art of Soviet Cooking
The Female Man
Fables
v18: Cubs in Toyland
v17: Inherit the Wind
v18: Snow White
Werewolves in the Heartland
Fairies/Fairest v1: Wide Awake
Cinderella v1: From Fables With Love
Cinderella v2: Fables are Forever
Peter and Max: a Fables Novel
Before Watchmen: The Owl and Dr. Manhattan
Saga, v1, v2
Tom Strong, v1
Promethea, v2
Saga, v3
The Dissertation (started early to mid June)
Obelix and Co.
Asterix and the Picts
Grandville, v2
The Cold Commands - finished Sat AM, 7/19
Finished Promethea, v2
The Age of Bronze, V1: A Thousand Ships (started)
Grandville, v3
Promethea, v3
Grandville, v1
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce, finished 8/3 -> be sure to get the next two!
Started Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany ~9/5
Promethea, v4, 8/24-26
Started Castle Waiting, finished 9/8
Quick dalliance with "Windows for the Crown Prince" (Elizabeth Vining, 1952) - didn't actually read much
Gaijin, American Prisoner of War, by Matt Faulkner (graphic novel), finished 9/11
Promethea, v5 - started 9/14
Castle Waiting, v2 - started 9/16
Zita the Space Girl - read 10/15 (^_^)
Finished Dhalgren 10/16
Dreadnought - started; finished 10/23
Fables, v20 ("Camelot") started 10/19, finished 10/21
Artemis Fowl (graphic novel), read 10/25
King Solomon's Mines, finished 11/15
Un Lun Dun, by China Mieville, started 11/16, finished 11/29
Bartimaeus: The Amulet of Samarkand (graphic novel), read 11/26
Asterix in Corsica, read 11/27 (Thanksgiving)
The Golem and the Jinni - started 11/30; finished 12/13
Ancillary Justice - started 12/15; finished 12/18 WOW
The Tipping Point - started 12/19 (half-heartedly); this is a re-read for work "book club"
Finished ~12/30
The Dark Defiles - started 12/27 finished 1/5 -- woohoo!
Men Explain Things to Me - started 1/6, finished 1/7
Alison Dare (GN) - read 1/7
The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg - started 1/8, finished 1/19
World War Z by Max Brooks - started 1/18, finished 1/24
Here There Be Dragons, v1 - started 1/20, aborted 1/25 (too YA)
The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen, started 1/26, finished 2/13
Neveryóna, by Samuel. R. Delany, started 2/14
See next then back here (recursion!)
Resumed 3/13, finished 3/20
The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell, started 2/23 (unexpectedly arrived from library)
See next then back here
Resumed 3/2, finished 3/12
The Peripheral, by William Gibson, started 2/25 (ditto!), finished Sun, 3/1
Unto a Good Land, by Vilhelm Moberg - started 3/23, finished 4/9
The Eternity Code (graphic novel) - 4/10
The Magician's Land, by Lev Grossman - started 4/11, finished 4/16 - fast! (^_^)
Saga v4 - started 4/14, finished 4/15 (faster than intended )
(In here, spread among the days and weeks:
Lone Wolf and Cub, books 5-8
Hellboy 1-6)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell - started 4/17, finished 5/16
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie - bought/started 5/17, finished 5/26 (so good!)
Biography of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, by Edward Rice - started 5/28, finished 7/5
Distant Stars (short story collection), by Samuel R. Delany - started 6/18, finished 7/6
Read most right away...drew out the last two
Read the borrowed "Astonishing X-Men" v1, 2 by Whedon/Cassady, finished 7/5
Read volumes 3 and 4 -- and 5, done by 7/11
How We Learn, by Benedict Carey - started ~7/10, resumed post 7/27 during commutes
finished 8/16
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami - started 7/17, with two interruptions; see next
resumed post 7/27, finished 8/8 or 8/9 (on boat)
Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe - started 7/18, finished 7/20
Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe - started 7/24, finished 7/27
Sword of the Lictor, by Gene Wolfe - started 8/9, finished 8/15
(lots of movies here; eventually started the following...)
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin, started 8/27
Cowboy Ninja Viking (graphic novel), read 8/31
Storm Dogs (graphic novel), read 9/1
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, finished 9/12 (?)
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton, started 9/15-ish, slow going
The Cloudspotter's Guide, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney - dabbled but put down, to review later
The Green Shadow (graphic novel)
ElseWhere Vol 3
Speak, by Louise Hall, finished 10/3
The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi, finished 10/7
The Physics of Superheros, by James Kakalios, started 10/9 or so -- HUZZAH: finished 2016-11-09
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, started 10/13, finished 10/17
More of Kakalios
The Settlers (Immigrants, v3) by Vilhelm Moberg, started 10/22, finished 12/10
Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson, started 10/25, finished 11/7
Clockwork Angels, by Neil Peart, started 11/9, finished 11/14
Another chapter of Kakalios
(Continued The Settlers)
Saga Volume 5
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, by Philip Pullman, started 12/11
The Collector (graphic novel), by Sergio Toppi, started 12/13
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, started late Dec, just occasional perusals, didn't finish (later: bought from UBS Bellevue)
The Citadel of the Autarch, by Gene Wolfe (finished 1/2)
Read some of the Concordance book, Lexicon Urthus, over holidays, too
The Greenglass House, Kate Milford, 1/3 to 1/7
Ancillary Mercy, started 1/8, finished ~1/13?
BTW, have six books going now, plus the override immediately above:
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
Physics of Superheros, by James Kakalios
Low City, High City, by Edward Seidensticker
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nicholas Nassim Taleb,
The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, by Philip Pullman, started 12/11
Ganymede, by Cherie Priest 1/14 to 1/18
The Boneshaker, NOT by her but by Kate Milford, 1/19 to 1/24
Falling in Love with Hominids, by Nalo Hopkinson, 1/25 to (don't remember; did finish)
Usagi Yojimbo v1 - 1/26 finished 1/28
The Atlas of Remote Islands - resumed 1/28 (not sure when started, but within last 2-3 weeks; only read a few pages of the Introduction then) FINISHED 2/16
Finished Low City, High City by Edward Seidensticker 2/19 on the bus FINALLY (started years ago (2013); see above, very top)
FIVE books going now:
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
Physics of Superheros, by James Kakalios
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nicholas Nassim Taleb,
The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling - finished 3/17
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, by Philip Pullman, started 12/11
...focusing on Kipling
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Rope (a Flavia De Luce book, #2), by Alan Bradley, roughly 3/8 to 3/13
How Music Got Free, by Scott Weir (sp?), 3/5 to 3/14 (work book club)
The stack as of 3/18...
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
Physics of Superheroes, by James Kakalios
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nicholas Nassim Taleb,
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, by Philip Pullman, started 12/11, finished 6/1 (see below)
The Trilogy of Two, by Juman Malouf, 3/18 to 3/21 (woulda been 3/20 but instead watched more of GWTW)
The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi, 3/22 to 3/26 wow!
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown, 3/27 to 4/8 (returned 4/9)
(During Spring Break, 4/11-15, didn't really read any brought books; read magazines and the gaming stuff I bought; worked lots on two D&D campaigns)
4/18 resumed Pullman's Brothers Grimm for a week or so
then more of Physics of Superheroes
(anything else in here?)
Yes! I read "A Study in Scarlet" the first Sherlock Holmes book, all on my phone
4/22 started Marcus Aurelius' Meditations ("MAM") referred to me by Frank Johnson (reading on phone; need to get a physical copy)
Interestingly, I did not read this at Reed in the year-long Humanities course, although we read so much else
5/10 - obtained and read parts of Thinking Fast and Slow
Introduction
Conclusion
Appendix A (the original 1974 paper in Science)
Spot-read a few chapters (featuring Taleb and/or WYSIATI)
5/15-5/20 - read and finished Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
Alias, Volume 1
5/22 - read all in one evening the (short) "Confessions" by Rabee Jaber, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
More of Pullman's Grimm Tales
Alias, Volume 2
Finished Pullman's Grimm Tales on bus about 6/1?
Read The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by (for work book club)
Excession by Iain M. Banks, from ~6/2 to 6/10
The Revenant, by Michael Punke, 6/11 to 6/14
Dark Knight, Volume 2 (3 short graphic novels), 6/14
H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald, 6/15 to 6/28 (morning) -- somber, beautiful, hard to rush through
100 years: Wisdom from Famous Writers, by Joshua Prager and Milton Glaser, 6/22-23
The House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski, 6/30 to
Sharazde, Arabian Nights, by Sergio Toppi, 7/5-7/6
Meridian, Vol 1 - Flying Solo - by XYZ, 7/7
The Making of Star Wars, by Rinzler, 7/2-7/?
Bought this book mid-September 2016
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, by Paisley Rekdal, 7/7 (sampled this, about 30 mins)
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, by Paisley Rekdal, 7/10 (started but did not finish)
(Hmm...what about 7/10 to about 7/27??? Ah yes: more of House of Leaves (above))
7/12 A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, finished 7/20ish
(Not actually sure when I read this, might have been anytime in previous 60-90 days)
7/27 Kraken by China Mieville, finished 7/31
8/1 Flight from Nevèrÿon (#3) - savored slowly; read The Mummer's Tale on 8/28 for example
Finished 10/10/2016
8/6 Baltimore v1: Plague Ships
Oddly Normal v1-3
The Lost Boy -- finished 8/9
8/9 Orcs: Forged for War, finished 8/10
8/12 Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch, by Neil Gaiman
8/12 Also started "Cursed Pirate Girl" -- so intricate, put it down to read slowly
8/13 The Sign of Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, finished 11/12/2016
8/14 Fables vLast
8/16 Trinity of Sin: Curse of something (Pandora) BAD stopped
8/18 Neverwhere Graphic Novel, by Neil Gaiman
8/20-23 Intro and several chapters of "You're Favorite Band Is Killing Me" (which I didn't much care for, and am glad I ended up skipping work book club of)
In September 2016 I decided to try a new format, to better document whether and when I'd finished the book. If only HTML tables were easier to work with!
Note: There is much concurrent or overlapping reading.
Hmm...it's too bad I haven't been tracking what I've been reading to the kids for Story Time each night.
—The Last Battle, by C. S. Lewis (having read all the others in publish order)
—The Ruby in Smoke, by Philip Pullman
—Libyrinth, by Pearl North
—The Boy from Ilysies, by Pearl North
—Vol 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket, from 9/24 to 10/2
—The Book of the Night, by Pearl North, from ~10/5/2016 to 11/17/2016
—A Walk Out of the World, by Ruth Nichols, from 11/18/2016 to 12/31/2016
Finished right before watching NYC Times Square show!
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
| The World According to Star Wars |
Cass Sunstein |
2016-08-24 |
2016-08-27 |
| The Silmarillion |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
2016-08-28 |
(TBD) |
Originals
For Work book club; actually VERY interesting!)
Re-read key portions on 11/10 |
Adam Grant |
2016-09-01 |
2016-09-22 |
| Railsea |
China Mieville |
2016-09-09 |
2016-10-25 |
| Meridian, Vol. 2 "Going To Ground" (graphic novel) |
Various |
2016-09-28 |
2016-10-12 |
| Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights |
Kenji Yoshino |
2016-10-01 |
2016-10-17 |
| The Sorcerer's House |
Gene Wolfe |
2016-10-06 |
2016-10-09 |
| Meridian, Vol. 3 "Taking the Skies" (graphic novel) |
Various |
2016-10-13 |
2016-11-12 |
The Animal Family
(Short and delightful! Reading slowly to savor...
SO GOOD! Finished here in November |
Randall Jarrell
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak |
2016-10-15 |
2016-11-10 |
| Bread & Wine |
Mia Wolff and Samuel R. Delany |
2016-10-22 |
2016-10-22 |
| Empire of Signs |
Roland Barthes |
2016-10-26 |
2016-11-01 |
An Evil Guest
My last unread GW novel! What shall I do?
Well, except for: Home Fires and The Land Across
which I don't own yet |
Gene Wolfe |
2016-10-28 |
2016-10-30 |
| Girl Genius, Vol. 10: The Guardian Muse (re-read) |
Phil and Kaja Folio |
2016-11-02 |
2016-11-02 |
| Girl Genius, Vol. 11: The Hammerless Bell (re-read) |
Phil and Kaja Folio |
2016-11-03 |
2016-11-03 |
| Girl Genius, Vol. 12: The Siege of Mechanicsburg (re-read) |
Phil and Kaja Folio |
2016-11-04 |
2016-11-04 |
| Girl Genius, Vol. 13: The Sleeping City |
Phil and Kaja Folio |
2016-11-05 |
2016-11-06 |
The Physics of Superheroes, 2nd Edition
Main entry near bottom of 2015 (above)
|
James Kakalios |
See above in 2015 |
2016-11-09 |
| Indeh (graphic novel) |
Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth |
2016-11-10 |
2016-11-10 |
The Sign of Four
*Now* I get to crack open my big collected works book...
|
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
About 8/13/2016 |
2016-11-12 |
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
11/5/2017: And now this is a movie! Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. I plan to see it.
|
Jill Lepore |
2016-11-13 |
2016-12-03 |
| ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times (graphic novel) |
Andrew MacLean |
2016-11-25 |
2016-11-25 |
| The Lives of Tao |
Wesley Chu |
2016-11-26 |
2016-12-07 |
| Saints (graphic novel; companion to Boxers) |
Gene Luen Yang |
2016-11-27 |
2016-11-27 |
| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children |
Ransom Riggs |
2016-11-30 |
2016-12-03 |
| Odd and the Frost Giants (graphic novel) |
Neil Gaiman (writer), Chris Riddell (illusrator) |
2016-12-03 |
2016-12-04 |
| What the Luck? The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives |
Gary Smith |
2016-12-08 |
2016-12-22 |
| Encyclopedia Harnica, Vols 4-6 |
Columbia Games |
2016-12-10 |
2016-12-18 |
| The Urth of the New Sun |
Gene Wolfe |
2016-12-20 |
2016-12-30 |
| Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
J. K. Rowling and team |
2016-12-26 |
2016-12-27 |
This year's improvement to the format: books that I read with the kids have their own section here at the top. (O woe is me: if ONLY I had started this part 10 years ago!)
2017-12-30: This daily practice of ~30 mins reading to the kids, which I have done for 13-14 years, slowly died over the last 4-6 months of 2017. Perhaps twice a month my younger child, Haemish, asks for story-time...I am *clinging*to it! So, continued in 2018 below...
Books read to/with my kids this year...
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
| The Edge Chronicles, Vol 1: Beyond the Deepwoods |
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell |
2017-01-02 |
2016-02-15 |
The Edge Chronicles, Vol 2: Stormchaser
My son finished this on his own, plus Book 3, so I just quickly read the last ~25 pages myself for closure.
|
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell |
2017-02-16 |
2017-07-06 |
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland
In a Ship of Her Own Making |
Catherynne M. Valente |
2017-07-07 |
Continued at the top of 2018 below |
Books I read for myself this year...
2017 was a *magnificent* year for reading. *Lots* of "virtue reading," lots of fun, too.
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
Robinson Crusoe
I cannot get over how this was published in 1719! The first novel of the English language...
Picked up late March after finishing People's History
|
Daniel Defoe |
2017-01-03 |
2017-04-09 |
Spider-Man: Black Cat (graphic novel)
So-so. Art not so great. Total sex object or "empowered woman?"
(My kids borrowed it from the library.)
|
Jen Van Meter, Javier Pulido, Javier Rodriguez |
2017-01-04 |
2017-01-04 |
A People's History of the United States
Put aside Robinson Crusoe when this came up from the library
|
Howard Zinn |
2017-01-09 |
2017-03-27 |
The Magicians
Pulled irresistibly back to re-reading this (by TV show)
Read very slowly, savoring, except last 50 pages FAST
Unhappy with how resolutely immature Quentin is and stays.
|
Lev Grossman |
2017-01-09 |
2017-01-24 |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War |
Thucydides |
2017-01-22 |
(TBD) |
| Abel's Island |
William Stieg |
2017-01-28 |
2017-01-30 |
| Death: The High Cost of Living (graphic novel) |
Neil Gaiman |
2017-02-12 |
2017-02-28 |
| Tuck Everlasting |
Natalie Babbitt |
2017-02-13 |
2017-03-19 |
The Prague Cemetery
My main book for our DC trip
|
Umberto Eco |
2017-02-19 |
2017-02-25 |
Master and Commander
Decided to re-read this series...only got through Book 7 or 8 the first time...
|
Patrick O'Brian |
2017-02-25 |
2017-03-25 |
The Alchemist
A really tight novella -- fantasy genre no less!
|
Paolo Bacigalupi |
2017-02-26 |
2017-02-27 |
Pump Six and Other Stories
Working hard to read just one per night...SO GOOD |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
2017-03-01 |
2017-03-12 |
| Angel Catbird, Volume One (graphic novel) |
Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, Tamra Bonvillain |
2017-03-19 |
2017-03-19 |
| Angel Catbird, Volume Two (graphic novel) |
Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, Tamra Bonvillain |
2017-03-24 |
2017-03-25 |
| The White Cat and the Monk (based on Pangur Ban) |
Jo Ellen Bogart, illustrated by Sydney Smith |
2017-03-25 |
2017-03-25 |
| Nimona (graphic novel) |
Noelle Stevenson |
2017-03-26 |
2017-03-26 |
| The Phantom Tollbooth |
Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer |
2017-03-27 |
2017-04-08 |
The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
So...ended up putting this down after a day or two—because it's volume 2; doh!
|
Mark Hodder |
2017-04-11 |
(Will try again sometime) |
| Whiskey Tango Foxtrot |
David Shafer |
2017-04-13 |
2017-04-22 |
| Rocannon's World |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-04-23 |
2017-04-27 |
| The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack |
Mark Hodder |
2017-04-25 |
2017-05-22 |
| Planet of Exile |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-04-27 |
2017-04-29 |
| City of Illusion |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-04-29 |
2017-05-02 |
| Lotus Blue |
Cat Sparks |
2017-05-02 |
2017-05-07 |
| The Word for World is Forest |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-05-07 |
2017-05-09 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-05-23 |
2017-05-28 |
| Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (a poetic translation) |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-05-28 |
(TBD) |
| Buffalo Girls, Won't You Come Out Tonight? (Standalone hardback) |
Ursula K. LeGuin
Illustrations by Susan Boulet |
2017-05-28 |
2017-05-28 |
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them |
J. K. Rowling |
2017-05-29 |
2017-05-30 |
Four Ways to Forgiveness (4 novellas)
--Betrayals
--Forgiveness Day
--A Man of the People
--A Woman's Liberation
THESE WERE SO DAMN GOOD, and interlinked! |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-06-01 |
2017-06-08 |
| The Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
2017-06-04 |
2017-06-30 |
| The Dispossessed |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-06-08 |
2017-06-22 |
The Found and the Lost (Collection of Novellas)
--Vaster Than Empires, and More Slow
I've read this one before (2013 - Wind's Twelve Quarters); *love* it: "EXTREME SURVEY" - 256 lightyears away!
Note: I will read the rest another time (some were in Four Ways to Forgiveness above, some were standalone)
--(6/22-23) Hernes - a story of Klatsand (in Oregon); beautiful
--(6/25-26) The Matter of Seggri - a semi-feudal world culture with 14:1 female to male birth ratio
--(6/27) Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea - set on O, where Japanese culture was prevalent; a mix of ancient lore and "what if" time travel based on "churten" (simultaneous transport of matter, the next evolution of ansible)
--(7/2-3) Old Music and the Slave Women - accompanies the Four Ways to Forgiveness stories above
--(7/4-5) The Finder - a tale of old Earthsea; so cool (read before)
--...and then had to return it to the library. Oh well. More another time!
-- SEE below in May 2019
|
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2017-06-11 |
2019-05-29 |
The Knight with the Lion: The Story of Yvain
Wow! This children's book reminded me of my high school obsession with King Arthur! Le Morte D'arthur, Mists of Avalon, etc.
|
John Howe |
2017-07-10 |
2017-07-10 |
| The Three-Body Problem |
Cixin Liu, trans. by Ken Liu |
2017-07-07 |
2017-07-13 |
| Norse Mythology |
Neil Gaiman |
2017-07-15 |
2017-07-20 |
| Saga, Volume 6 (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples |
2017-07-15 |
2017-07-15 |
| Amelia Cole and the Unknown World (graphic novel) |
Adam P. Knave, Nick Brokenshire, Rachel Deering |
2017-07-15 |
2017-07-15 |
| The Search for WondLa (YA novel, book 1 of 3) |
Tony DiTerlizzi |
2017-07-16 |
2017-07-16 |
| The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire |
Edited by Ramiro Matos Mendieta and Jose Barreiro |
2017-07-19 |
(TBD) |
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
My maternal grandfather gave this to me; I wish only that I'd read it while he still lived.
Took a break in September into October...now mid-October...back at this.
11/5: Huzzah! I have finished it. SO amazing. MUCH that is boring. SO important! Complicated (well, benign racist colonial-like...)
|
Edited by Bernard DeVoto |
2017-07-20 |
2017-11-05 |
Gödel, Escher, and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th Anniversary Edition)
I have the original edition as well -- since high school! Only this time I *shall* make it through!
|
Douglas R. Hofstadter |
2017-07-25 |
(TBD) |
Elric of Melniboné, Volume One of the Elric Saga
OMG this takes me back to high school, devouring countless "classic" works of high fantasy and science fiction...
|
Michael Moorcock |
2017-08-04 |
2017-08-08 |
| The Shattered World |
Michael Reaves |
2017-08-11 |
2017-08-19 |
| Hatter M: Far from Wonder (graphic novel) |
Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, Ben Templesmith |
2017-08-14 |
2017-08-24 |
| Understanding Comics (graphic novel) |
Scott McCloud |
2017-08-20 |
2017-09-05 |
Neonomicon (graphic novel)
This was...amazing and horrid and disgusting and disturbing...genius!
|
Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows |
2017-08-20 |
2017-08-22 |
| Luminae (graphic novel) |
Bengal |
2017-08-24 |
2017-08-25 |
| The Sailor on the Seas of Fate: Volume Two in the Elric Saga |
Michael Moorcock |
2017-09-03 |
(TBD) |
| Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Volume One (graphic novel) |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2017-09-01 |
2017-09-03 |
Doctor Strange: The Way of the Weird (graphic novel)
These graphic novels are a welcome if brief break from the harder works: Lewis & Clark Journals; Goedel, Escher, and Bach; etc.
|
Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo |
2017-09-09 |
2017-09-09 |
| The Graveyard Book - graphic novel version - Volume 1 |
Neil Gaiman and many illustrators |
2017-09-15 |
2017-09-23 |
| The Graveyard Book - graphic novel version - Volume 2 |
Neil Gaiman and many illustrators |
2017-09-27 |
2017-09-30 |
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
On a whim decided to take a break from the Lewis & Clark Journals -- and it's fascinating!
|
Norman Ohler |
2017-09-30 |
2017-10-15 |
| The Walking Dead, Volume 4: The Heart's Desire (graphic novel) |
Robert Kirkman and team |
2017-10-18 |
2017-10-20 |
| Between the World and Me |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2017-10-18 |
2017-10-21 |
| The Legend of Bold Riley (graphic novel) |
Leia Weathington |
2017-10-22 |
2017-10-24 |
| Envisioning Information |
Edward R. Tufte |
2017-10-24 |
See May 2023 |
The Walking Dead, Volume 1: Days Gone Bye (graphic novel)
Ironically, I bought this 8-12 months ago (or more) but never read it After starting the TV show and reading Vol 4 above, had to do it -- and really enjoyed it!
|
Robert Kirkman and team |
2017-10-25 |
2017-10-26 |
| Octopus Pie, Volume One (comic strip anthology) |
Meredith Gran |
2017-10-27 |
2017-10-29 |
The Beautiful Struggle
This book is SO good...such a visceral representation of life in the 80s, in Baltimore.
Heh. As I write this (7:30pm on 11/5), he is speaking here in Seattle!
|
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2017-10-28 |
2017-11-02 |
| The Gene: an Intimate History |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
2017-11-04 |
(TBD) |
J. S. Bach's Musical Offering
Whoa. This book is from 1945 (it's referenced in GEB). The library book has old school binding, and an actual "checkout card" inside! Anyway, I read the first four chapters...and will stop there; the rest is so very theoretical and technical!
|
Hans Theodore David |
2017-11-06 |
2017-11-06 |
| A Month in the Country |
J. L. Carr |
2017-11-07 |
2017-11-09 |
| Mockingjay |
Susan Collins |
2017-11-10 |
2017-11-14 |
| The Bach Reader, Revised Edition |
Edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel |
2017-11-15 |
(Not likely to finish) |
| The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage |
Philip Pullman |
2017-11-15 |
2017-11-25 |
| The Walking Dead, Volume 2 (graphic novel) |
Robert Kirkman and team |
2017-11-20 |
2017-11-21 |
| The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood |
James Gleick |
2017-11-25 |
(TBD) |
| Lazarus, Volume One: Family (graphic novel) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2017-12-02 |
2017-12-02 |
| Lazarus, Volume Two: Lift (graphic novel)(via Hoopla!) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2017-12-03 |
2017-12-03 |
Abe Sapien, Volume Two: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories (graphic novel)
(via Hoopla, on phone - ugh)
|
Mike Mignola |
2012-12-04 |
(TBD) |
| Lazarus, Volume Three: Conclave (graphic novel) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2017-12-04 |
2017-12-04 |
| Lazarus, Volume Four: War (graphic novel) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2017-12-06 |
2017-12-06 |
| Lazarus, Volume Five: Cull (graphic novel) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2017-12-10 |
2017-12-10 |
| Paper Girls, Volume One (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang |
2017-12-17 |
2017-12-17 |
| Walking Dead, Volume 3 (graphic novel) |
Robert Kirkman and team |
2017-12-10 |
2017-12-10 |
| Paper Girls, Volume Two (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang |
2017-12-17 |
2017-12-17 |
| Death (graphic novel) |
Neil Gaiman and many illustrators |
2017-12-17 |
2017-12-21 |
| We Were Eight Years in Power |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2017-12-17 |
2017-12-28 |
| Walking Dead, Volume 5 (graphic novel) |
Robert Kirkman and team |
2017-12-21 |
2017-12-21 |
| Provenance |
Ann Leckie |
2017-12-28 |
2017-12-30 |
Books read to/with my kids this year...
Here's hoping I get to read occasionally to Haemish just a little longer (see the entry under 2017 above).
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland
In a Ship of Her Own Making |
Catherynne M. Valente |
2017-07-07 |
2018-01-21 |
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland
and Led the Revels There
Well, even though I got to read this to him 6-8 additional times, especially when he wasn't feeling well, eventually (mid-summer?) this died. Doh! It marks the end of an era! I even stopped storing it in his room, "just in case."
|
Catherynne M. Valente |
2018-01-21 |
(TBD) |
A Wizard of Earthsea
7/15: I've been wanting Haemish to read this himself forever, but this warm summer's eve, having just read Chapter One to him, I grant it's *not* YA. And...even days later, he didn't want me to continue, so this was just a one-time dalliance. Sigh.
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
2018-07-14 |
(TBD) |
Books I read for myself this year...
2018-02-24: Heh. I'm going a really good job so far this year of NOT reading my 80-book pile. Keep distracting myself with books from the library...
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
No Time to Spare
Really enjoyed this personal collection of essays and blog posts. Going through it again to extract her book references!
1/23: Oh no! I just learned that Ms. Le Guin *died* yesterday, 1/22, age 88. I admired her so greatly. Wished I *had* written a letter!
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
2018-01-01 |
2018-01-04 |
| Saga, Volume 7 (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples |
2018-01-01 |
2018-01-01 |
Space:1999 Aftershock and Awe (graphic novel)
(Won't finish; didn't like)
LOL—This is an example of parataxis
|
Gaska - Morrow - Hueso - Miki |
2018-01-03 |
Not applicable |
| The Fractal Prince |
Hannu Rajaniemi |
2018-01-04 |
2018-01-09 |
| Confederates in the Attic |
Tony Horwitz |
2018-01-10 |
2018-02-10 |
| Valerian, the Complete Collection, Volume 1 (graphic novel) |
Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mezieres |
2018-01-13 |
2018-01-19 |
| Scott Pilgrim, Volume One: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (graphic novel) |
Bryan Lee O'Malley |
2018-01-20 |
2018-01-20 |
| Scott Pilgrim, Volume Two: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (graphic novel) |
Bryan Lee O'Malley |
2018-01-20 |
2018-01-20 |
The Thief
Really, super good!
|
Megan Whalen Turner |
2018-01-20 |
2018-01-21 |
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
(Quasi-graphic novel) |
Julia Wertz |
2018-01-22 |
(TBD) |
Girl Genius Second Journey, Volume One (graphic novel)
(What I also call GG v14)
|
Phil and Kaja Foglio |
2018-01-23 |
2018-01-30 |
| Scott Pilgrim, Volume Three (graphic novel)
(This one is my favorite; it's the funniest!)
|
Bryan Lee O'Malley |
2018-01-26 |
2018-01-26 |
| Scott Pilgrim, Volume Four (graphic novel) |
Bryan Lee O'Malley |
2018-01-27 |
2018-01-27 |
| Scott Pilgrim, Volume Five (graphic novel) |
Bryan Lee O'Malley |
2018-01-27 |
2018-01-27 |
| Scott Pilgrim, Volume Six (graphic novel) |
Bryan Lee O'Malley |
2018-01-28 |
2018-01-28 |
| Baghdad without a Map |
Tony Horwitz |
2018-02-05 |
2018-02-25 |
| Valerian, the Complete Collection, Volume 2 (graphic novel) |
Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mezieres |
2018-02-03 |
2018-02-10 |
| NHHT: Raid of No Return (graphic novel) |
Nathan Hale |
2018-02-10 |
2018-02-11 |
| Flora of Middle-Earth |
Walter S Judd & Graham A. Judd |
2018-02-11 |
(TBD) |
| The Little Prince |
Antoine De Saint Exupery |
2018-02-14 |
2018-02-25 |
Altered Carbon
My first re-read since 2002, sparked by the Netflix show, of course
|
Richard K. Morgan |
2018-02-17 |
2018-02-21 |
| The Tea Dragon Society (Quasi-graphic novel) |
Kate O'Neill |
2018-02-20 |
2018-02-17 |
| The Sculptor (graphic novel) |
Scott McCloud |
2018-02-23 |
2018-02-24 |
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
I ran out of time; read only Intro, Epilog, Ch1, parts of Ch 2 and 4, and all of Ch 5 about women.
Likely to buy this someday, and read the rest then.
|
Dario Fernandez-Morera |
2018-02-26 |
2018-03-04 |
| Saga, Volume 8 (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples |
2018-02-26 |
2018-02-26 |
The Last Letter Home
Heh. Read the first three all in 2015...only now reading the last one!
Strangely, this contains much of the Book 3 material...what's up? Stopping...
Aargh. Original edition has 3 and 4 in same volume. And now there are revised editions, which are bigger! Well, going to read only this original 4th book.
|
Vilhelm Moberg |
2018-03-05 |
(TBD) |
| Decelerate Blue (graphic novel) |
Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro |
2018-03-05 |
2018-03-05 |
| The Jump-Off Creek |
Molly Gloss |
2018-03-08 |
2018-03-15 |
| Her Body and Other Parties: Stories |
Carmen Maria Machado |
2018-03-12 |
2018-03-19 |
Alan Moore's Complete WILDC.A.T.S (graphic novel)
Won't finish; just not my cup of tea. Actually donated it away...
|
Alan Moore and Travis Charest |
2018-03-13 |
(Not applicable) |
| Here Is New York |
E. B. White |
2018-03-20 |
2018-03-20 |
| Half World |
Hiromi Goto, illusrated by Jillian Tamaki |
2018-03-20 |
2018-03-24 |
Writing Ground Zero: Japanese literature and the atomic bomb
(I bought this new the year of its publication, 1995; I'd taken some classes from him at UW) So enjoyable!
|
John Whittier Treat |
2018-03-23 |
(TBD) |
Girl Genius Second Journey, Volume Two (graphic novel)
(What I also call GG v15)
Took my sweet time finishing this; i.e., SAVORED it!
|
Phil and Kaja Foglio |
2018-03-24 |
2018-04-14 |
| Palimpsest |
Catherynne M. Valente |
2018-04-13 |
2018-05-03 |
| Astro City: Local Heroes (graphic novel) |
|
2018-04-21 |
2018-05-05 |
Ancillary Justice
(An indulgent re-read, triggered by Miriam reading it! SO GOOD)
|
Ann Leckie |
2018-05-06 |
2018-05-13 |
| The Fifth Season |
N. K. Jemisin |
2018-05-13 |
2018-05-19 |
| Grandville: Force Majeure (graphic novel) |
Bryan Talbot |
2018-05-19 |
2018-05-27 |
| The Book of Five Rings (a graphic novel) |
Miyamoto Musashi, Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada |
2018-05-29 |
2018-06-14 |
| Unbearable Splendor (poetry) |
Sun Yung Shin |
2018-05-30 |
2018-06-13 |
| Valerian, the Complete Collection, Volume 3 (graphic novel) |
Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mezieres |
2018-05-30 |
2018-05-30 |
| The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. |
Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland |
2018-05-31 |
2018-06-12 |
| The Housekeeper and the Professor |
Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder |
2018-06-15 |
2018-06-16 |
| Limber |
Angela Pelster |
2018-06-17 |
2018-06-19 |
| Hot Seat: the Startup CEO Guidebook |
Dan Shapiro |
2018-06-19 |
2018-07-03 |
Three Moments of an Explosion
As expected, this contained some remarkable pieces. I particularly liked "The Design."
|
China Mieville |
2018-06-23 |
2018-07-15 |
| Convenience Store Woman |
Sayaka Murata |
2018-07-01 |
2018-07-02 |
The Founder's Dilemmas
Dan Shapiro's condensation in Hot Seat (above) is better; this is the original, academic source (read: weighty tome)
Saturday morning, 7/14, finished the last of the parts I wanted to read now.
|
Noam Wasserman |
2018-07-09 |
2018-07-14 |
Trans*
Checked this out for Miriam, but too lofty/academic for them BUT very good/concise, so now will read it myself
|
Jack Halberstam |
2018-07-09 |
2018-07-28 |
| HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups |
Various Authors |
2018-07-11 |
2018-07-19 |
| Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture |
Roxane Gay |
2018-07-15 |
2018-08-08 |
| Atlantis: Three Stories |
Samuel R. Delany |
2018-07-28 |
2018-09-04 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People |
Dale Carnegie |
2018-08-09 |
2018-08-25 |
Trigger Warnings
Had to return this before done. But these are *so* enjoyable, if eerie/dark...
|
Neil Gaimain |
2018-08-09 |
(TBD) |
| The Obelisk Gate |
N. K. Jemisin |
2018-08-11 |
2018-08-13 |
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan
Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
I did not read the whole thing; was a thorough skim, read 8-9 carefully. Impressive!
|
Paul Hawken (Editor) |
2018-08-14 |
2018-08-15 |
| The Long Tail |
Chris Anderson |
2018-08-18 |
2018-09-01 |
| Things That Make White People Uncomfortable |
Michael Bennett with Dave Zirin and Martellus Bennett |
2018-08-21 |
(TBD) |
| Natural Language Understanding (1st Edition) |
James Allen |
2018-08-27 |
(TBD) |
C# Programming
Skimming/reviewing for concepts
|
Jesse Liberty |
2018-08-28 |
(TBD) |
Lazarus, Volume Five: Cull (graphic novel)
Ooh, an indulgent re-read. LOVE this series. Miriam has been reading them...
|
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2018-08-29 |
2018-08-29 |
| Wayward, Volume One: String Theory (graphic novel) |
Zub, Cummings, Rauch, Bonvillain, Dillon |
2018-09-01 |
2018-09-02 |
| Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (graphic novel) aka Volume 01 |
Tony Cliff |
2018-09-01 |
2018-09-02 |
| Wayward, Volume Two: Ties That Bind (graphic novel) |
Zub, Cummings, Bonvillain, Dillon |
2018-09-03 |
2018-09-03 |
| Wayward, Volume Three: Out From the Shadows (graphic novel) |
Zub, Cummings, Bonvillain, Dillon, Davisson |
2018-09-04 |
2018-09-04 |
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand
It took me a while to get into this. Then I realized each story was interconnected. And it ends with Hernes, an amazing cross-generational story, interconnected with the rest of the book. SO COOL!
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
2018-09-06 |
2018-10-18 |
Million Dollar Consulting, Revised 5th Edition
Got through about 60% of this before had to return it to the library. I plan to buy a copy.
|
Alan Weiss |
2018-09-06 |
2018-09-19 |
Olympians, Volume 10: Hermes, Tales of the Trickster (graphic novel)
My log above omits Vols 7-9, but I *have* read them.
|
George O'Connor |
2018-09-06 |
2018-09-06 |
| Wayward, Volume Four: Threads and Portents (graphic novel) |
Zub, Cummings, Bonvillain, Dillon, Davisson, O'Regan |
2018-09-06 |
2018-09-06 |
| Wayward, Volume Five: Tethered Souls (graphic novel) |
Zub, Cummings, Bonvillain, Dillon, Davisson, O'Regan |
2018-09-07 |
2018-09-08 |
| Girl Genius, Volume 16 aka Second Journey, Volume 3 |
Kaja and Phil Foglio |
2018-09-10 |
2018-09-15 |
| Clementine |
Cherie Priest |
2018-09-16 |
2018-09-19 |
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Did a very thorough skim of the entire book, chapter by chapter, page by page. It's so good (if now perhaps out of date)
|
Manning and Schutze |
2018-09-17 |
2018-09-30 |
| Call Them By Their True Names |
Rebecca Solnit |
2018-09-19 |
2018-10-04 |
| Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling (graphic novel) aka Volume Two |
Tony Cliff |
2018-09-23 |
2018-09-25 |
The Hidden Life of Trees
Less scientific than I'd like, but still very appealing. Of course there's so much complexity we haven't appreciated!
Ahem. Not sure I'll read the whole thing. Read about 40% of it.
|
Peter Wohlleben |
2018-09-25 |
2018-09-25 |
Stuck Rubber Baby (graphic novel)
This great work from 1995 is incredibly detailed and dense. Not going to finish at this time.
|
Howard Cruse |
2018-09-25 |
2018-10-09 |
The Inner Life of Animals
Same thing: just going to read a sampling to get a taste.
|
Peter Wohlleben |
2018-09-26 |
2018-10-02 |
| Girl Genius, Volume 17 aka Second Journey, Volume 4 |
Kaja and Phil Foglio |
2018-09-26 |
2018-10-07 |
Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules (graphic novel) aka Volume Three
This was just SO fantastic. The best of them all yet! |
Tony Cliff |
2018-10-03 |
2018-10-11 |
Locke and Key Volume One: Welcome to Lovecraft (graphic novel)
This was really good, if rather dark (duh). I thought I'd read a bunch of these, but then decided to wait and do one per quarter or so...
|
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez |
2018-10-05 |
2018-10-10 |
Inequality
As good as this is, I need to postpone to another time, so returned 10/29.
|
Anthony B. Atkinson |
2018-10-18 |
2018-10-29 |
Cracking the PM Interview
This was even better than I'd expected or hoped. What an invaluable resource!
Re-read sections many times, extracted notes, finally returned 2018-11-10
|
Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro |
2018-10-18 |
2018-10-26 |
Tros, Volume One of Tros of Samothrace
2018-12-24: I regret not reading these much earlier in my life! Yes, kinda pulpy like Conan -- but SO literary and nuanced, too! The detail about leadership and ship-handling, among other qualities!
|
Talbot Mundy |
2018-10-19 |
2018-12-23 |
D&D 5e - Player's Handbook
Been meaning to read this carefully for ages, PLUS I may get to play myself soon!
|
Wizards RPG Team |
2018-10-22 |
2018-12-09 |
| How Would You Move Mount Fuji? |
William Poundstone |
2018-10-26 |
(TBD) |
The Stone Sky
This conclusion to the Broken Earth trilogy is truly epic. Its many answers demonstrate extreme speculative imagination!
|
N. K. Jemisin |
2018-11-04 |
2018-11-09 |
Crudo: a Novel
This was a very brief (~150 page) delight; perhaps this explains its title.
|
Olivia Laing |
2018-11-23 |
2018-11-24 |
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
This book is great; it's fantastic to have one's preconceptions identified AND that reality is better.
2018-12-24: Funny thing, though...after Thanksgiving I went into overdrive on music matters, and found myself reading very little. I did manage to finish Tros (above).
|
Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund |
2018-12-12 |
2018-12-26 |
| The Once and Future Queen, Volume One: Opening Moves (graphic novel) |
Knave & Kirkbride, Brokenshire, Cvetkovic |
2018-12-20 |
2019-01-02 |
Hounded, Volume One of the Iron Druid Chronicles
This referral from my friend, Scott, is going to be at least one of the "fun books" I read this holiday break.
|
Kevin Hearne |
2018-12-21 |
2018-12-28 |
The Albany Carousel: a dream come round
This was a great gift from my mother-in-law; she knows what a fan of the Albany Carousel I am!
|
Mid-Valley Media Group |
2018-12-25 |
2018-12-25 |
A Darker Shade of Magic
Ooh, this was *quite* enjoyable. Loved the "schools" of magic, the clothes, the attitude and repartee between the leads. Was it YA? I think it thinks not, but...
|
V. E. Schwab |
2018-12-28 |
2019-01-01 |
D&D - Art & Arcana: A Visual History
Happiness is! My good friend, BenB, gave this to me as a Christmas gift; yay! Thus it squeaked in as the last 2018 book I started...
|
Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Sam Witwer |
2018-12-31 |
2019-01-23 |
Books read to/with my kids this year...
Well, I have to admit this activity (and thus this section) died in 2018. This will be the last time this brief-lived section appears...oh well.
Books I read for myself this year...
2019-02-18: The weekend of Feb 16-17 was good for reading: I finished Every Thing On It, Uprooted, *and* Man Vs. Markets. *And* I read 1/6 of Faustus. While all this was satisfying, it does highlight that I need to return utterly to the discipline of reading down my Tsundoku pile. *cough*
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
Every Thing On It
This was such fun. *Definitely* the "B" sides...not in quality, but acceptability to kids. Very fun to savor. Very nostalgic
|
Shel Silverstein |
2019-01-01 |
2019-02-16 |
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
I got this for the kids from the library upon discovering it existed. Such an interesting concept. Then Maureen found a pristine copy at FOSPL!
|
Randall Munroe |
2019-01-02 |
(TBD) |
| Aigi Volume One: Fathoms of the Fenlake (Finnish mythology and folktales) |
Ante Aikio |
2019-01-12 |
(TBD) |
| The Snow Hunters |
Paul Yoon |
2019-01-27 |
2019-02-03 |
| Doctor Faustus |
Christopher Marlowe |
2019-01-27 |
2019-09-07 |
| Man vs. Markets: Economics Explained (Plain and Simple) |
Paddy Hirsch |
2019-02-05 |
2019-02-17 |
Uprooted
Sigh. I just can't help myself: this was for the kids, but they weren't reading it, and I know the author is really good, and wasn't in the mood for the other stuff. At least I'm alternating chapters with Uprooted...
|
Naomi Novik |
2019-02-08 |
2019-02-16 |
| Vacation (original title: Nos Vacances) - a wordless graphic novel |
Albim Michel Jeunesse |
2019-02-12 |
2019-02-12 |
| Thin Air |
Richard K. Morgan |
2019-02-23 |
2019-03-02 |
Head First PMP
I made it through the Time Management chapter, and then got distracted/sidetracked into learning Scrum...exactly one month later (3/25), I'd passed the CSM exam -- huzzah! So...back to PMP now.
6/21: finished the last couple chapters (Stakeholders, Procurement, Ethics). Now to review...and go through the practice exams...
|
Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman |
2019-02-25 |
2019-06-21 |
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Speak with White People about Racism
This book is just so well-written...so filled with Truth, and excellent strategies for action.
Read first couple and last couple chapters in March. Got it again early April, read it all in entirety in three days.
SO GOOD and IMPORTANT!
|
Robin DiAngelo |
2019-03-08 |
2019-04-15 |
| Homo Deus |
Yuval Noah Harari |
2019-03-12 |
2019-03-23 |
The Phoenix Guards
Ah, another indulgent nostalgia re-read...from 1991! But SO damn good! Makes me want to speak all flowerly-like...
|
Steven Brust |
2019-03-23 |
2019-03-27 |
The Ravenmaster
This was enjoyable, but I had to return it, and it is light fun, so I'm not likely to return. |
Christopher Skaife |
2019-04-06 |
2019-04-17 |
| Space Opera |
Catherynne M. Valente |
2019-04-07 |
2019-04-22 |
The Great Gatsby
Audiobook - read by the inestimable Tim Robbins: he does a different accent for each character!
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
2019-04-09 |
2019-04-19 |
| The Massive, Volume One: Black Pacific (graphic novel) |
Wood, Donaldson, Brown, Stewart |
2019-04-12 |
2019-04-13 |
| The Massive, Volume Two: Subcontinental (graphic novel) |
Wood, Donaldson, Stewart, Bellaire, Erskine, Shalvey, Zezeu |
2019-04-15 |
2019-04-17 |
| Yugen (children's book) [幽玄] |
Mark Reibstein, Ed Young |
2019-04-17 |
2019-04-17 |
| PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge) |
PMI.org |
2019-04-17 |
(TBD) |
| The Massive, Volume Three: Longship (graphic novel) |
Wood, Brown, Bellaire |
2019-04-18 |
2019-04-19 |
| The Massive, Volume Four: Sahara (graphic novel) |
Wood, Brown, Bellaire |
2019-04-19 |
2019-04-20 |
| The Massive, Volume Five: Ragnarok (graphic novel) |
Wood, Brown, Bellaire |
2019-04-20 |
2019-04-21 |
The Raven Tower
Not quite as compelling as her SF. That said, I did stay up 90 mins too late Saturday night to finish it! Her "gods" very similar to how the AIs could be in her SF. INTERESTING!
|
Ann Leckie |
2019-04-23 |
2019-04-27 |
Eight Dates
Read up through first "date," had to take back (this was a "Peak Pick"); my hold is still forthcoming.
|
Gottman, Gottman, Abrams, Abrams |
2019-04-23 |
2019-04-30 |
Choose Not to Fail
A great little gem; literally short and concise. Great analogies/stories/metaphors.
|
Peter Jerkewitz |
2019-04-28 |
2019-04-28 |
| Memetic (graphic novel) |
James Tynion IV, Eryk Donovan, Adam Guzowski |
2019-04-29 |
2019-04-29 |
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Extraordinary! So lucid and clear, and pleasantly objective, really. Liked especially the chapter on Secularism.
|
Yuval Noah Harari |
2019-05-02 |
2019-05-17 |
| Baltimore, Volume 4: Chapel of Bones (graphic novel) |
Mignola, Golden, Stenbeck |
2019-05-11 |
2019-05-11 |
| DMZ Volume 2: Body of a Journalist (graphic novel) |
Wood, Burchielli |
2019-05-11 |
2019-05-12 |
| The Wild Piano: A Philemon Adventure (graphic novel) |
Fred |
2019-05-19 |
2019-05-19 |
It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals
Skimmed this; took away that I'm doing good things, and I am getting better. Yay!
|
Jack Bellis and Suparna Damany |
2019-05-20 |
2019-05-20 |
The Sandman: Ouverture
Decided I'll return and finish this later, sometime.
|
Neil Gaiman and many illustrators |
2019-05-19 |
(TBD) |
Promise of Blood
Read Chapter 1. I don't doubt it's excellent, but I decided I should return and be faithful to "reading down my pile," so I will forego this for now.
|
Brian McClellan |
2019-05-19 |
(TBD) |
| Abe Sapien Volume 3: Dark and Terrible, and The New Race of Man (graphic novel) |
Mignola, Allie, Arcudi and Fiumara |
2019-05-20 |
2019-05-20 |
Black Road, Volume 1: The Holy North (graphic novel)
Added this to "birthday time" 2019 on 8/15/2020; apparently I never entered it. Not actually sure when I read it...bought it used with one other thing...hmm...what WAS that?
|
Brian Wood, Garry Brown, and Dave McCaig. |
2020-08-15 |
2020-08-15 |
The Found and the Lost (Collection of Novellas)
See Jun 2017 above for majority entry.
--5/22: The Finder - re-read the ending. What a thrill.
--5/23: On the High Marsh - so good. Had read this before, too.
--5/24: Dragonfly - ditto, part of Tales of Tehanu.
(Only one story remains: Paradises Lost. But then there IS the other volume with this two-book set...
--5/29: Finished this last story. Very poetic, very thought-provoking about "generation ship" concepts.)
|
Ursula K. LeGuin |
2019-05-22 |
2019-05-29 |
Jhegaala, Vlad Taltos Book 11
Very indulgent. So fun and entertaining. Seriously thinking about reading from here to Vallista. I SHOULD!
|
Steven Brust |
2019-05-24 |
2019-05-25 |
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
I started by simply flipping through this masterwork. Whoa.
--5/31: Firelight - the one "as yet unpublished" Earthsea story. Beautiful, and poignant.
--6/3: I ordered this to own; yay!
|
Ursula K. Le Guin and Charles Vess |
2019-05-30 |
(TBD) |
D&D 5e - Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
I'll get the proper author list later. Borrowed from the library. This was a "detailed scan" rather than a true reading. Cool enough, even though it's a mostly a re-packaging of material from prior editions.
--6/3: I ordered this to own; yay!
|
Wizards of the Coast |
2019-05-30 |
2019-06-01 |
Iorich, Vlad Taltos Book 12
See above under "Phoenix Guards;" this one ends with a Deleted Scenes chapter, which ends with a self-referential joke about PG's flowery language. Heh.
|
Steven Brust |
2019-05-31 |
2019-06-09 |
D&D 5e - Storm King's Thunder
Borrowed from the library. Another "detailed scan." This one is *really* good; likely only 25-40% a re-packing of prior material, or maybe even simply "inspired by." Very glad to finally peruse it.
|
Wizards of the Coast |
2019-06-01 |
2019-06-02 |
| Baltimore, Volume 2: The Curse Bells (graphic novel) |
Mignola, Golden, Stenbeck, Stewart |
2019-06-05 |
2019-06-05 |
| Baltimore, Volume 3: A Passing Stranger and Other Stories (graphic novel) |
Mignola, Golden, Stenbeck, Stewart, Robbins |
2019-06-08 |
2019-06-08 |
| Tiassa, Vlad Taltos Book 13 |
Steven Brust |
2019-06-11 |
2019-06-16 |
D&D 5e - Tyranny of Dragons, Part 1 of 2: Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Another "detailed scan" (borrowed from the library). This is the "first adventure/campaign published for 5e. Looks good.
|
Wizards of the Coast |
2019-06-01 |
2019-06-02 |
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
I had to return this before I got very far, what with all the other reading I'm doing. I will return someday!
|
Jared Diamond |
2019-06-16 |
(TBD) |
| Hawk, Vlad Taltos Book 14 |
Steven Brust |
2019-06-17 |
2019-06-21 |
D&D 5e - Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica
I have to admit that this is VERY cool, this cross-over effort to bridge Magic: The Gathering with D&D. The art is amazing, the maps particularly gorgeous.
|
Wizards of the Coast |
2019-06-22 |
2019-06-29 |
Vallista, Vlad Taltos Book 15
A "step back" in time, to right before Hawk, and SO good: quite the puzzle, for both Vlad and the reader.
|
Steven Brust |
2019-06-22 |
2019-06-23 |
D&D 5e - Tales from the Yawning Portal
An in-depth skim; it IS "just" a compilation of seven adventures, six I've long owned.
It is admittedly handy to have them converted to 5e. But man, the maps are all so SMALL! (It's just my aging eyes, I'm sure of it.)
|
Wizards of the Coast |
2019-06-24 |
2019-06-24 |
| Codex |
Lev Grossman |
2019-06-25 |
2019-06-30 |
Cracking the PM Interview
Re-read particularly Chapter 6 (Behind the Scenes) and 12 (Product question) sections many times, updated my notes.
|
Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro |
2019-06-26 |
2019-07-03 |
| The First 90 Days |
Michael D. Watkins |
2019-06-29 |
2019-07-12 |
| The Ogre-Gods, Book One: Petit (graphic novel) |
Hubert and Gatignol |
2019-07-15 |
2019-07-15 |
| Faith Volume One: Hollywood and Vine (graphic novel) |
Houser, Portela, Sauvage, Dalhouse |
2019-07-02 |
2019-07-05 |
The Effective Executive
This was an in-depth, concentrated skim in about 60-75 minutes.
|
Peter F. Drucker |
2019-07-05 |
2019-05-05 |
| The Laws of Simplicity |
John Maeda |
2019-07-05 |
2019-05-06 |
Japanese Fairy Tales
Wow, wow, wow! This is the most gorgeous little edition, with woodblock print-based art.
Delightful and nostalgic. Beautiful visually and emotionally!
|
Lafcadio Hearn and Others, Illustrated by Ruth McCrea
For the Peter Pauper Press |
2019-07-06 |
2019-07-26 |
| Mistborn: The Final Empire (Era One, Book One) |
Brandon Sanderson |
2017-07-07 |
(TBD) |
| Start with Why |
Simon Sinek |
2019-07-12 |
2019-07-17 |
| The Standard for Program Management, 4th Edition |
PMI.org |
2019-07-15 |
(TBD) |
| The Ogre-Gods, Book Two: Half-blood (graphic novel) |
Hubert and Gatignol |
2019-07-15 |
2019-07-15 |
| Exhalation |
Ted Chiang |
2019-07-16 |
2019-07-28 |
| Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity |
Arlene Stein |
2019-07-18 |
2019-07-28 |
| We Stand On Guard |
Brian K. Vaughn |
2019-07-30 |
2019-07-31 |
Underland: a Deep Journey
This book is SO so good. Beautifully, evocatively written. Great stories of breathtakingly amazing natural phenomena and spaces.
|
Robert MacFarlane |
2019-08-02 |
2019-09-05 |
| Paper Girls, Volume 2 (graphic novel) - for the second time |
Brian K. Vaughn |
2019-08-04 |
2019-08-04 |
| Paper Girls, Volume 3 (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn |
2019-08-05 |
2019-08-06 |
| Paper Girls, Volume 4 (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn |
2019-08-07 |
2019-08-08 |
Everfair
I enjoyed this whim "pick," an alternate speculative fiction "steampunk" history of Congo, but ultimately decided I wanted to focus on other things.
|
Nisi Shawl |
2019-08-03 |
2019-08-07 |
Radical Candor
I read the first few chapters in detail, and plan to finish it when I can get it back from the library, or purchase it.
My goodness -- I started a new job on 8/12, and lo, indeed, my time spent reading has greatly diminished!
|
Kim Malone Scott |
2019-08-29 |
2019-09-01 |
The Coaching Habit
Another library loan I didn't get to; I skimmed it, and will seek to get it again.
|
Michael Bungay Stanier |
2019-09-07 |
2019-09-07 |
Ancillary Justice
An indulgent re-read. SO DAMN GOOD!
|
Ann Leckie |
2019-09-09 |
2019-09-17 |
| Turbulence |
David Szalay |
2019-09-19 |
2019-09-20 |
The Dark Side of the Moon
Her voice and attitude are really compelling...angry, incisive, seeking justice.
|
Joanna Russ |
2019-09-22 |
2019-09-28 |
The Doomsday Book
I have pretty much decided not to finish this. I'm in what my wife calls "the long slow middle." And I'm really challenged by the strange future 2054 as envisioned in 1992 that's very much insufficiently futuristic enough...
|
Connie Willis |
2019-10-01 |
See 11/4 below |
| The Umbrella Academy, Volume One: Apocalypse Suite (graphic novel) |
Way, Ba |
2019-10-03 |
2019-10-07 |
| The Umbrella Academy, Volume Two: Dallas (graphic novel) |
Way, Ba |
2019-10-10 |
2019-10-11 |
Helma, Volume Two of Tros of Samothrace
Wow. This was just incredibly good. All the historic realism, the characters, the situations. Wow!
|
Talbot Mundy |
2019-10-14 |
2019-11-12 |
| Long Walk to Valhalla (graphic novel) |
Adam Smith and Matthew Fox |
2019-11-01 |
2019-11-01 |
| Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (graphic novel) |
Dylan Horrocks |
2019-11-01 |
2019-11-01 |
| The Maxx, Volume One: Maxximized (graphic novel) |
Sam Kieth and William Messner-Loebs |
2019-11-03 |
2019-11-09 |
The Doomsday Book
Resumed this after all (see above 8-10 entries), about 11/4.
Finally finished this! The last 60-80 pages are VERY exciting. They *almost* make you forget about the ~120 pages of boring that precede them. In any case, I can see how this book won such awards.
|
Connie Willis |
2019-11-04 |
2019-11-22 |
| Graph Algorithms: Practical Examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j |
Amy E. Hodler, Mark Needham |
2019-11-15 |
(TBD) |
| Lazarus, Volume Five: Cull (graphic novel) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2019-11-17 |
2019-11-17 |
| Saga, Volume 9 (graphic novel) |
Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples |
2019-11-17 |
2019-11-17 |
| Return to Neveryon (fka: The Bridge of Lost Desire), Vol 4 of The Neveryon Series |
Samuel R. Delany |
2019-11-25 |
2019-11-29 |
| Good Omens |
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett |
2019-11-30 |
2019-12-06 |
A Confederacy of Dunces
Well, this really does have amazing writing, language, and characters. I laugh out loud regularly. But the protagonist is SO unlikable. So I am putting it down for now...
|
John Kennedy Toole |
2019-12-08 |
(TBD) |
| The Somnambulist |
Jonathan Barnes |
2019-12-18 |
(TBD) |
| Lazarus X+66 (graphic novel) |
Greg Rucka and many illustrators |
2019-12-18 |
2019-12-21 |
| Fairest, Volume 4: Of Men and Mice (graphic novel) |
Bill Willingham and Marc Andreyko |
2019-12-27 |
2019-12-28 |
| Blackbird, Volume 1 |
Sam Humphries and Jen Bartel |
2019-12-27 |
2019-12-27 |
Books I read for myself this year...
Wow. 2020. What a year, already (I'm writing on April 4th). January witnessed Vegas for CES, and a 10-day trip to Nanjing and Tokyo for business. Then February had a 9-day vacation over mid-winter break with my family -- in Tokyo. All as Coronavirus and COVID19 was unfolding. And a promotion from the end of December 2019 that led to much increased and higher level of work. Whoa. Suffice to say, I have read...less. And, I must admit: watched a whole lot more television (well: Netflix, HBO Max, and so on)!
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
The Book of the New Sun, consisting of:
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
...and crowned by: The Urth of the New Sun
As mentioned (I think), earlier in this list, I re-read this series ever 2-3 years. I needed it this year. And it worked nicely with all the travel.
|
Gene Wolfe |
2020-01-05 |
2020-02-26 |
| Astoria |
Peter Stark |
2020-03-02 |
2020-04-07 |
| Alien Legion, Volume One (48 pages) |
|
2020-04-06 |
2020-04-09 |
| The Tale of Genji, Volume One |
Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward G. Seidenstecker |
2020-04-08 |
(TBD) |
| Alien Legion, Issue Two |
|
2020-04-11 |
2020-04-11 |
| Alien Legion, Issue Two |
|
2020-04-13 |
2020-04-13 |
Stories from Shakespeare
Since Markus is reading MacBeth, I decided to read Ms. Chute's synopsis.
|
Marchette Chute |
2020-04-16 |
(TBD) |
| Home Fires |
Gene Wolfe |
2020-04-21 |
2020-04-26 |
| Alien Legion, Issue Three |
|
2020-04-13 |
2020-04-13 |
| The Insomnia Solution |
Michael Krugman |
2020-04-29 |
(TBD) |
The Atlas of Remote Islands
A re-read (or skim): Felt like some quasi-escapism, maybe inspired by the recent read of Astoria, which involved *almost* marooning folks at The Falklands...
|
Judith Schalansky |
2020-05-12 |
2020-05-18 |
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (graphic novel) aka Volume 01
A re-read: Haemish and Markus gave it to me for my birthday!
|
Tony Cliff |
2020-05-15 |
2020-05-15 |
Stories of Your Life and Others
My dear friend, Benjamin, gave this to me for my birthday!
I need to savor these stories; they are SO so good. SO intelligent.
2020-05-18: Tower of Babylon
2020-05-19: Understand - so amazing: a rendition of massive intelligence
2020-05-20: Division by Zero
2020-06-06: finally read the flagship story, The Story of Your Life, inspiration for the movie, Arrival.
2020-06-27: Seventy-two Letters
Forgot to track the rest, took my sweet time, though...
|
Ted Chiang |
2020-05-18 |
2020-07-12 |
The Steel Remains
A re-read: I tempted Markus with these, and he's dived in, and I. Just. Couldn't. Resist!
|
Richard K. Morgan |
2020-05-25 |
2020-06-03 |
| How to draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps |
Jared Blando |
2020-06-04 |
(TBD) |
Heap House, The Ironmonger Trilogy Volume One
Really, very surprisingly imaginative and creative: Edward Gorey and Gormenghast together indeed!
|
Edward Carey |
2020-06-18 |
2020-06-27 |
She He They Me
Read several threads or paths, and decided I'd read enough.
|
Robin Ryle |
2020-07-05 |
2020-07-11 |
| Lazarus, Volume 6: Fracture (graphic novel) |
Rucka, Lark, Arcas |
2020-07-11 |
2020-07-11 |
Heh...been watching a lot of TV
Specifically, Watchmen (2019) and The Prisoner (2009) |
|
|
|
The Wicked and the Divine, Volume One: The Faust Act (graphic novel)
Read this in one sitting, in Corvallis, the day after Markus and I found it. Nice!
|
Gillen McKelvie Wilson Cowels |
2020-07-27 |
2020-07-27 |
| Alien Legion, Issue Four |
|
2020-07-28 |
2020-07-28 |
| Austerlitz |
W. H. Auden |
2020-08-07 |
(TBD) |
Olympians, Volume 2: Athena (graphic novel)
A re-read; found excellent copy for $5 in Corvallis
|
George O'Connor |
2020-08-15 |
2020-08-15 |
| Black Road, Volume 2: A Pagan Death (graphic novel) |
Brian Wood, Garry Brown, and Dave McCaig. |
2020-08-15 |
2020-08-15 |
| Ichiro |
Written and illustrated by Ryan Inzana |
2020-08-22 |
2020-09-06 |
Corto Maltese, Volume Three: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Maureen gave this to me two years ago (?); I'd started it then.
"Over-savored it;" so started over. Really quite good, semi-reminiscent of ZBS radio plays...
|
Hugo Pratt |
2020-08-18 |
2020-09-15 |
Queen & Country, Definitive Edition, Volume One
2020-11-24: I must be getting old. Or my eyes are. As cool as this is, so much of the lettering is "so small!" The final chapter's physical rendering of Tara is...disappointingly sexist, too.
|
Greg Rucka (and a host of illustrators and letterers) |
2020-08-29 |
2020-11-24 |
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
I found this thoroughly amazing and excellent. Truly like a mashup of Gene Wolfe, Samuel R. Delany, and Ghostface Killah (like one of its blurbs said). Immediately ordered not one but TWO copies.
|
Kai Ashante Wilson |
2020-09-04 |
2020-09-18 |
| Stranger Planet |
Nathan W. Pyle |
2020-09-14 |
Not sure, but surely |
Infinite Jest
Not going to start this in earnest; tried, but it's more than I want now.
This is actually something I'd placed on hold pre-pandemic, and it happened to be "in queue" and so first when they resumed fulfilling holds.
|
David Foster Wallace |
2020-09-12 |
(TBD) |
Annihilation, Book One of the Southern Reach Trilogy
I loved the movie. The book is tight, concise, and very good...the filmmaker ran with some things, rather well, I think.
2022-03-06: re-watched the film a week ago. Thd director dropped a LOT. It's still really good. And so beautiful.
|
Jeff Vandermeer |
2020-09-19 |
2020-09-20 |
| The Incrementalists |
Steven Brust and Skyler White |
2020-09-24 |
2020-09-28 |
| Desdemona of the Deeps |
C.S.E. Cooney |
2020-10-01 |
2020-10-19 |
| Caste |
Isabel Wilkerson |
2020-10-03 |
(TBD) |
| Prosper's Demon |
K.J. Parker (Tom Holt) |
2020-10-04 |
2020-10-12 |
| Maths Squared: 100 Concepts You Should Know |
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas |
2020-10-18 |
(TBD) |
| The Tangled Lands |
Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell |
2020-10-08 |
2020-10-15 |
| Black Imagination |
Natasha Marin |
2020-10-10 |
(TBD) |
| The Land of Stone Flowers |
Sveta Dorosheva |
2020-10-12 |
(TBD) |
| The City We Became |
N. K. Jemisin |
2020-10-13 |
(TBD) |
Doctor Strange, Vol 1, The way of the weird (graphic novel)
A re-read from 2017, inspired by the MCU...Ultimately, I've decided not to continue reading this series. Okay, *maybe* I'll return to it someday.
|
Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo |
2020-10-26 |
2020-10-31 |
The Bed of Procrustes
A re-read (well, skim or perusal) from way up higher in this list
|
Nicholas Nassim Taleb |
2020-11-08 |
(TBD) |
Vesper Flights
From the library; so very enjoyable. Depressing, with its almost nostalgic focus on the shrinking of Nature, but still elegiacally beautiful. Had to return it before I was done. Aiming to buy...
|
Helen Macdonald |
2020-11-15 |
(TBD) |
| Practical Seamanship |
Linda and Steve Dashew |
2020-11-17 |
(TBD) |
A Taste of Honey
Another excellent novella. Brilliant incorporation of psionics amidst "barbaric" or pre-modern civilization.
|
Kai Ashante Wilson |
2020-11-29 |
2020-12-01 |
A Memory Called Empire
This year's Hugo winner. Really very, very good. TONS about language, politics, otherness, .
|
Arkady Martine |
2020-12-06 |
2020-12-11 |
| Tokyo Ghost, Volume One: The Atomic Garden (graphic novel) |
Remender, Murphy, and Hollingsworth |
2020-12-26 |
2020-12-27 |
| Accidentally Wes Anderson |
Wally Koval |
2020-12-27 |
(TBD) |
The Last Days of New Paris, a novella
Oh man. SO good. Such a deep, deep dive into (Surrealist) Art History. Mieville is SO well read. Incredible.
|
China Mieville |
2020-12-29 |
2021-01-02 |
Books I read for myself this year...
Writing on January 2nd, 2021, reflecting on the previous year: Wow. 2020. What a year. "Funny," or ironic, or something, to start the same again. SO GLAD it's done.
| Title |
Author |
Started |
Finished |
| Stranger Planet |
Nathan W. Pyle |
2021-01-01 |
2021-01-02 |
| Changing Planes |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
2021-01-02 |
(TBD) |
| Lady Mechanika, Volume One (graphic novel) |
Joe Benitez et al |
2021-01-04 |
2021-01-10 |
| Agency, a novel |
William Gibson |
2021-01-04 |
2021-01-11 |
| Authority, Book Two of the Southern Reach Trilogy |
Jeff Van der Meer |
2021-01-18 |
2021-01-27 |
| The Black Tides of Heaven, The Tensorate Series, Volume One |
Jy "Neon" Yang |
2021-01-30 |
2020-02-06 |
| Distrust That Particular Flavor |
William Gibson |
2021-02-01 |
(TBD) |
Middlegame
A reco from my older son, I had never heard of this prolific author. Clearly good, but not in the mood. May return to it some day
|
Seanan Maguire |
2021-02-07 |
Won't Finish |
Piranesi
Unbelievably, spectacularly good. Devoured this in two days over the Big Snow of 2021. The pacing, the reveal, the IMAGERY.
|
Susanna Clarke |
2021-02-10 |
2021-02-11 |
Dune
I haven't read this since high school. I'm "getting" more of it now (of course). So prescient that he postulated a future that distrusted computers, AI, etc., in favor of genetically enhanced super-geniuses. Can't wait for the Villeneuve two-part film remake! Heh. Stayed up very late the last night to finish it.
|
Frank Herbert |
2021-02-19 |
2021-03-19 |
| Remote Control
Short and *very* good. A very pleasant 90 mins...
|
Nnedi Okorafor |
2021-03-20 |
2021-03-20 |
Shit, Actually
Got this from the library on a whim. I can tell it's very entertaining...but I have other priorities.
|
Lindy West |
2021-03-21 |
Won't Finish |
(Was there something else in here? Life got pretty busy for a while...)
I know that I read more of Distrust That Particular Flavor—but didn't finish it still, yet. |
|
|
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| Too Like the Lightning |
Ada Palmer |
2021-04-19 |
2021-06-05 |
| Labyrinths
Finished only the first section (Short Stories); savored them!
|
Jorge Luis Borges |
2021-04-26 |
2021-07-21 |
Ambergris Trilogy (just re-pub'd as a single HB)
1. City of Saints
2. Shriek: An Afterword
3. Finch |
Jeff Vandermeer |
2021-05-02 |
(TBD) |
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Super-interesting. Devoured this in about a week, all but the last chaper, lol. And then it sat.
Finished that last chapter on Feb 25, 2022, while on break. Felt good, and right, and suitable for thinking about both
Management and Leadership philosphies.
|
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer |
2021-05-17 |
2022-02-25 |
| Le Ton Beau de Marot |
Douglas K. Hofstadter |
2021-05-26 |
(TBD) |
| Acceptance |
Jeff Vandermeer |
2021-06-03 |
2020-06-13 |
Project Hail Mary
Q3 2021: on one hand, I could dig the "Martian-"like attention to science detail. But other books were more engaging.
*cough* A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE (next)
Q1 2022: I returned to this, and more excitedly made it to the end. Decreasingly patient, and thus skimming the science, but plot-wise: WOW.
Very glad we didn't ever actually get to see--- oh well, don't want to spoil anything. Like the humanity of it.
|
Andy Weir |
2021-06-23 |
2022-02-24 |
ANYTHING ELSE IN HERE??? Wow...not since 6/24
But, OTOH, had the Ozette hike, and Harmonia = VERY BUSY
I finished Labyrinths (well, the first section)
|
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| A Desolation Called Peace |
Arkady Martine |
2021-08-01 |
2021-08-06 |
| Double Blind |
Edward St. Aubyn |
2021-08-04 |
2021-08-21 |
| Her Kind of Case, a Lee Isaacs, Esq. novel |
Jeanne Winer |
2021-08-22 |
2021-08-25 |
| Lady Mechanika, Volume Two (graphic novel) |
Joe Benitez et al |
2021-08-30 |
2021-08-31 |
| Blacksad, Volume One (graphic novel) |
Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist) |
2021-09-01 |
2021-09-02 |
| Blacksad, Volume Two (graphic novel) |
Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist) |
2021-09-03 |
2021-09-03 |
| Lady Mechanika, Volume Three (graphic novel) |
Joe Benitez et al |
2021-09-04 |
2021-09-04 |
| Blacksad, Volume Three (graphic novel) |
Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist) |
2021-09-06 |
2021-09-06 |
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Volume Two)
1. I'm fairly appalled: no books since early September
2. This books is really, really good. REALLY GOOD! On level of Richard K. Morgan's Steel Remains
3. I have been watching a ton of very good television:
Y: the Last Man (Hulu), The Leftovers (HBO Max), Ragnarok (Netflix)
Oh yeah: and I've been singing in both groups again. Whoa. Busy! |
Patrick Rothfuss |
2021-10-28 |
2021-11-18 |
| The Magicians: Alice's Story (Graphic Novel) |
Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges, and Pius Bak |
2021-11-20 |
2021-11-23 |
Rat Queens, Vols 1-8 (whoa)
Wow...these are awesome. Especially Vols 1-3.
I immediately dashed out to buy 1-3, then arranged 4-8 from multiple libraries!
These kept me real happy -- until the next book came available...then back and forth!
1. Sass and Sorcery
2. The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'Rygoth
3. Demons
4. High Fantasies
5. The Colossal Magic Nothing
6. The Infernal Path
7. The Once and Future King
8. The God Dilemma
|
Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch. Until Ryan Ferrier took over mid-2019.
The 2013–2016 run was drawn by Roc Upchurch, Stjepan Šejić, and Tess Fowler. |
2021-11-24 |
2021-12-28 |
The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Volume Two)
Unexpectedly got to this sooner; yay! H got from Ballard Library, and read it first.
Heh. Finished this in Hotel Zags' lobby in PDX on vacation!
|
Patrick Rothfuss |
2021-12-05 |
2021-12-29 |
| Old Souls (graphic novel) |
Brian McDonald and Les McClaine |
2021-12-14 |
2021-12-20 |
Crowded, Volume One: Soft Apocalypse (graphic novel)
O.M.G. This is SO good. And eats your brain. A-ma-zing
|
Sebela, Stein, Brandt, Farrell, Rae |
2021-12-22 |
2021-12-23 |
Crowded, Volume Two: Glitter Dystopia (graphic novel)
LOL. This one has an endorsement from Ryan Reynolds on the front. It IS even better than Volume One, to be sure.
|
Sebela, Stein, Brandt, Farrell, Rae |
2021-12-24 |
2021-12-25 |
MADI: Once Upon a Time in the Future (graphic novel)
Whoa. Maureen found this amazing collection online (Kickstarter).
Holy Cow! This is actually part of the same universe as movies, Moon, and Mute; this is "volume 3."
|
Duncan Jones and Alex de Campi (and many others) |
2021-12-25 |
2022-01-24 |
| Ruby Falls (graphic novel)
| Ann Nocenti, Flavia Biondi, Lee Loughridge |
2021-12-26 |
2021-12-26 |
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Wow. So cool. Hadn't even known this existed -- till I read his blog.
Then happily, found it the very next day at Powell's in Portland!
Truly quite beautiful and haunting -- and indeed, the wordplay is excellent.
|
Patrick Rothfuss |
2021-12-30 |
2021-12-31 |
Well, I sure didn't read as much in 2021. Exhausted from the pandemic, and SO MUCH excellent TV and film.
Writing on January 2nd, 2022, looking back...and looking at the even bigger list of Books Not Yet Read to which I added massively in just the last week. Fun! And yet I really need to start reading/working down that list...
| The Instinct for Cooperation (graphic novel) |
Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Wilson, and Eliseu Gouveia |
2022-01-01 |
2022-01-02 |
Cheshire Crossing (graphic novel)
Heh. Yes, this is the same Andy Weir. He wrote this long before The Martian. It's good. |
Andy Weir and SArah Andersen |
2022-01-02 |
2022-01-02 |
| Shifting the Silence |
Etel Adnan |
2022-01-03 |
2022-01-03 |
| Wishful Drinking |
Carrie Fisher |
2022-01-04 |
2022-01-06 |
Name of the Wind, 10th Anniversary Edition
Focusing on its Appendices and other extras; yay! Savored them.
The point being that this trilogy is uniquely excellent...up in my top 10. |
Patrick Rothfuss |
2022-01-10 |
2022-01-15 |
| Serenity Volume 4: Leaves on the Wind (graphic novel) |
Zach Whedon, Georges Jeanty, and Fabio Moon |
2022-01-11 |
2022-01-12 |
Termination Shock
Of COURSE this was massively excellent: funny, clever, richly worded and plot-convoluted. Pure Neal! |
Neal Stephenson |
2022-01-13 |
2022-02-04 |
Lifeformed Volume Two: Hearts and Minds (graphic novel)
Didn't realize this is not Volume One. Putting aside for now. |
Matt Mair Lowery and Cassie Anderson |
2022-01-15 |
2022-01-15 |
| Bad Girls (graphic novel) |
Alex de Campi, Victor Santos |
2022-01-20 |
2022-01-20 |
| Constantine: 30-year Anniversary (graphic novel) |
(Big list) |
2022-01-21 |
2022-02-13 |
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ack! Alarming/confirming of long-held suspicions (and affirming of my choices to be on only one social network: LinkedIn). |
Jaron Lanier |
2022-01-29 |
2022-02-19 |
Master of the Eclipse
I'm totally bewitched. What language, mood, sentiment, imagery.
Ah my. I managed to finish this, on Valentine's Day, in time to return it. Beautiful, elegiac. Sad. |
Etel Adnan |
2022-01-29 |
2022-02-14 |
| Livewire, Volume One: Fugitive (graphic novel) |
Vita Ayala (Author), Raul Allen (Artist), Patricia Martín (Artist) |
2022-02-11 |
2022-02-11 |
| Hexwives (graphic novel) |
Ben Blacker, Mirka Andolfo, Marissa Louise |
2022-02-16 |
2022-02-24 |
| Spill Zone v1 (graphic novel) |
Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland |
2022-02-19 |
2022-02-19 |
Project Hail Mary
I was a good boy and finished this that I'd started last June *cough*
|
See in 2021: June |
|
|
No Rules Rules
Finally finished this. It's really good. Of course, makes me a little performane-anxiety-ridden, but for..GOOD
|
See in 2021: May |
|
|
| Old Guard: Tales Through Time, Volume One (graphic novel) |
Greg Rucka and many, many collaborators |
2022-02-25 |
2022-02-25 |
| All the Birds in the Sky |
Charlie Jane Anders |
2022-02-26 |
2022-03-07 |
Brown Girl in the Ring
I enjoy this author very much. Possibly her debut, it was indeed rich in Caribbean (and Canadian) elements. Less so on the sci-fi, which I could tolerate. What I struggled with was the quite horrific torture violence. I'm all for realism, but it seemed overmuch. I almost put it down. But...did not! |
Nalo Hopkinson |
2022-03-20 |
2022-04-03 |
| Passport (graphic novel) |
Sophia Glock |
2022-04-05 |
2022-04-06 |
Gnomon
The book's blurbs compare it to Inception and The Matrix. And it is SO MUCH more.
Filled with literary references, particularly to the Ancient World, and also 1970's Ethiopia, and art history...
Even expecting brilliance, it is astonishing!
Started this on the plane to NYC for Spring Break family vacation. 667 pages, and very dense.
Compelling as it is, I still was too distracted by filmed entertainment (or generally exhausted)!
So: what to read next?!?
6/30: Heh. Lent this to Margo on Memorial Day; got it back on 6/26 in Corvallis!
|
Nick Harkaway |
2022-04-09 |
2022-05-21 |
Time is a Mother (poetry)
Read some along the river in Portland, and finished on the ride home; Markus drove part-way!
|
Ocean Vuong |
2022-05-22 |
2022-05-30 |
| Aurelia, Aurélia |
Kathryn Davis |
2022-05-22 |
2022-05-28 |
The Killing Moon
Stalled out in early June. Picked it up again in mid-July.
|
N.K. Jemisin |
2022-05-30 |
(TBD) |
The Forbidden Harbor (graphic novel)
This was really spectacularly good. SO well researched. Such a moving story.
I want to buy and give it to all my friends!
|
Teresa Radice and Stefano Turconi |
2022-06-03 |
2022-06-23 |
| Under Lock & Skeleton Key |
Gigi Pandian |
2022-06-08 |
2022-08-28 |
How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages
Decided I wouldn't finish this at this time. An interesting idea. I kept waiting for it to "get good," though... |
Cait Stevenson |
2022-06-09 |
2022-07-09 |
| Velocity Weapon |
Megan E. O'Keefe |
2022-06-17 |
Won't Finish |
The Silmarillion (audiobook)
Got this from the library for the trip SEA to CVS/EUG
Had started this in 2016, but decided to start from the beginning.
Heh. Alternated every disc ("hour") with The Road; see next
On the round trip, got through ~5 hours of this, and ~3 of the Road
2 July: listened to more while driving out to Duvall. Re-found place in the book.
|
J. R. R. Tolkien |
2022-06-24 |
(TBD) |
The Road (audiobook and book)
Per immediately above, started as an audiobook to EUG. Finished as a book (so much faster! :grin:)
I learned a handful of new words! Patteran, Salitter, Crozzled, Loess
|
Cormac McCarthy |
2022-06-24 |
2022-07-03 |
Letters to Camondo
Started to read this during a solo ramen dinner in Eugene, on June 25, the day of a particularly meanfingul Celebration of Life...
And I finished it on Sunday, July 10, in my home on a beautiful, sunny summer day...the eigth day of COVID; I'm nearly all better! I got my sense of smell back this morning, for example. I'm grateful for that. This book makes me quite introspective...
|
Edmund De Waal |
2022-06-25 |
2022-07-10 |
Sea of Tranquility
This book blew me away. My first, reading one of hers. (I am a passionate fan of the HBO series, Station Eleven, her previous book.)
She at least in this work, and perhaps the others, has little inter-novel references and even characters. Made this book better. Now to track down her others.
I also particularly liked her in-novel address about "why post-apocalyptic fiction has such appeal?"
|
Emily St. John Mandel |
2022-06-28 |
2022-07-02 |
The Labyrinth (quasi-graphic novel)
Ooh, so very cool and unsettling. Really a short story augmented by powefully haunting art. I can see why Tales of the Loop was so popular.
(Another post-apocalyptic story...hmmm...)
|
Simon Stålenhag |
2022-07-01 |
2022-07-01 |
Maps and Legends
I should be reading books from my Tsundoku pile *cough* but this and these caught my eye. And lo! It contains an essay about The Road, no less. How timely!
|
Michael Chabon |
2022-07-06 |
See below 2024 |
The All-New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Been yearning for guidance like this for years; i.e., I felt the disparity between conservatives' intentional framing and progressives' "jsut the facts, surely" approaches. Was very glad to find this. And then didn't start reading it till too close to the end of the checkout period, and others wanted it. SO -- will buy it and/or arrange to get it again. |
George Lakoff |
2022-07-08 |
(TBD) |
| Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism by Two Sisters |
Aph Ko and Syl Ko |
2022-07-07 |
(TBD) |
The Four Profound Weaves
It took me a while to wrap my head around the gender switching (which characters, when), but eventually I did, and eventually it REALLY picked up, and was EXTREMELY cool and innovative; i.e., with respect to unusual fantasy culture depicted. I strongly recommend this!
|
R. B. Lemberg |
2022-07-07 |
(TBD) |
| Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception |
Cass R. Sunstein |
2022-07-10 |
(TBD) |
Noor
8/6: need to return this before completion. I'm kind of on the fence. Will get it again another time.
|
Nnedi Okorafor |
2022-07-21 |
(TBD) |
A Master of Djinn
8/6: need to return this before completion. I'm kind of on the fence. Will get it again another time.
Continued below in early October!
|
P. Djeli Clark |
2022-07-21 |
(TBD) |
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
My goodness. A real novel. Perhaps "literature," even. I'm fascinated. I don't usually read this. I stick with Sci-fi, with its looking-ahead, more (much) more rarely, fantasy, with its looking-back. Ms. Mantel has won the Booker Prize, for Wolf Hall. I can already tell this is going to be good. Heh. It was published in 1988. So it's not only culture travel but time travel. And it started in southern Africa, another spot of culture travel. So fascinating!
|
Hilary Mantel |
2022-07-23 |
2022-08-01 |
Ultralight Backpackin' Tips
Did very close but thorough scan of the entire book. Wow. Quite the mindset shift. Very, very interesting. I'm compelled. Will BUY this.
|
Mike Clelland |
2022-08-01 |
2022-08-01 |
| Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision |
George Lakoff |
2022-08-02 |
(TBD) |
Things Fall Apart
Found this gem in a Little Free Library in Manitou Springs, CO, of all places. Started it on the plane, DEN->SEA |
Chinua Achebe |
2022-08-03 |
(TBD) |
Things from the Flood
|
Simon Stålenhag |
2022-08-03 |
2022-08-05 |
Index, A History of the
|
Dennis Duncan |
2022-08-05 |
(TBD) |
Tales from the Loop
|
Simon Stålenhag |
2022-08-11 |
2022-08-12 |
The Liar's Dictionary
|
Eley Williams |
2022-08-29 |
2022-10-01 |
Paradise Lost (!)
|
Milton (whoa) |
2022-09-05 |
(TBD) |
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
VERY cool. Had several stories I'd never encountered. And whoa, indeed, the art is so cool and trippy! |
Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire |
2022-09-06 |
(TBD) |
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories
|
Osamu Dazai, translated by James O'Brien |
2022-09-11 |
(TBD) |
Speaking of Indigenous Politics
|
|
2022-09-12 |
(TBD) |
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes
|
James O'Brien
(a different one) |
2022-09-12 |
(TBD) |
Chomsky for Beginners
|
David Cogswell and Paul Gordon |
2022-09-15 |
(TBD) |
Siegfried III: Twilight of the Gods (graphic novel)
This was a quicker read than I expected. The environment / wide lens shots are AMAZING. Cool story, to be sure, represented in a modern, flash way.
9/17: I'll just take this opportunity to say I finally had the clever idea to add this "comment" code to the template! |
Alex Alice |
2022-09-15 |
2022-09-15 |
Now Do You Know Where You Are (Poetry)
|
Dana Levin |
2022-09-23 |
(TBD) |
Siegfried I: Siegfriend (graphic novel)
|
Alex Alice |
2022-10-04 |
2022-10-06 |
The Thirteen Clocks
Wonderful! Similar to The Phantom Tollbooth: full of excellent wordplay. And it has clever, inspired plotting, with only a few deus (dei, I suppose) ex machina. |
James Thurber |
2022-10-04 |
2022-10-09 |
47 Ronin (graphic novel)
The joke here is that Stan Sakai was depicting actual humans, not anthropomorphic animals |
Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai |
2022-10-08 |
2022-10-09 |
Cosmic Nature
This is, of course, really amazing. Shot in the New York Botanical Gardens. |
Yayoi Kusama |
2022-10-08 |
2022-10-17 |
Every Good Boy Does Fine
I'm two days older than this world-class pianist, who also can write a very funny autobiography! |
2022-10-09 |
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(TBD) |
Siegfried II: The Valkyrie (graphic novel)
|
Alex Alice |
2022-10-10 |
2022-10-12 |
Castle in the Stars, Volume One: The Space Race of 1869 (graphic novel)
Another series by Alex Alice. The art is so beautiful, especially the backgrounds and landscapes!
|
Alex Alice |
2022-10-19 |
2022-10-19 |
Castle in the Stars, Volume Two: The Moon-King (graphic novel)
The beautiful adventure continues...
|
Alex Alice |
2022-10-22 |
2022-10-22 |
D'Aulaire's Greek Mythology
|
Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire |
2022-10-24 |
(TBD) |
A Midsummer Night's Dream (manga)
I was impressed it was the full text, but I decided I cared not for the visual style after all. |
Shakespeare, and Crystal S. Chan |
2022-10-27 |
Won't finish in this format |
Senso (戦争) (graphic novel)
Super-fun and poignant "bridge" story that ends (?) the Usagi Yojimbo story line. Why yes, it DOES mimic or instantiate the War of the Worlds -- in feudal Japan! (^_^)
|
Stan Sakai |
2022-10-26 |
2022-10-26 |
Klara and the Sun
Another "literature" person who actually writes science fiction. Beautiful, poignant, deeply touching. |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
2022-11-03 |
2022-11-28 |
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Volume One (graphic Novel)
|
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2022-11-05 |
2022-11-07 |
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Volume Two (graphic Novel)
|
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2022-11-07 |
2022-11-08 |
Howl's Moving Castle
I think I'll switch to the movie.
|
Diana Wynne Jones |
2022-11-10 |
2022-12-01 |
Black Panther: Long Live the King (graphic novel)
|
Nnedi Okorafor |
2022-11-12 |
2022-12-03 |
The Passenger
So, so incredibly good. |
Cormac McCarthy |
2022-11-14 |
2022-11-24
Thanksgiving |
Bootblack (graphic novel)
Really good, if a bit melodramatic. The art is AMAZING. |
Mikaël |
2022-11-16 |
2022-11-19 |
Gender Queer: A Memoir (graphic novel)
Really interesting and important, and surprisingly effective as a graphic novel. I heard them intereviewed on the radio about a month later. |
Maia Kobabe |
2022-11-20 |
2022-11-25 |
Basho: The Complete Haiku
|
Jane Reichold |
2022-11-20 |
(TBD) |
Wanderlust, a Royal Academy of the Arts publication
Extremely cool Museum book about guy who made "memory boxes," etc." |
Lynda Hartigan, Sarah Lea, Jasper Sharp, Ben Street |
2022-11-25 |
(TBD) |
FTL, Y'all
Interesting idea. I am a fan of a couple of the contributors (Maia Kobabe). Decided not to read this exhaustively.
|
Editors: C. Spike Trotman, Amanda LaFrenais |
2022-11-29 |
2022-12-02 |
Lily Renée, Escape Artist (graphic novel)
Not only a graphic novel, but historic photos and lessons. Very cool.
|
Trina Robbins |
2022-12-03 |
2022-12-05 |
Allow Me to Retort
Very engaging and really important. Need to buy or get from the library again
|
Elie Mystal |
2022-12-02 |
2022-12-07 |
House Made of Dawn
This is Pulitzer prize-winner that caught my eye at the local library. I'm very glad to read it.
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N. Scott Momaday |
2022-12-08 |
2022-12-29 |
Neuromancer
The book that put William Gibson on the map, mainstream. IT IS SO SO SO GOOD. So ahead of its time. Cyperpunk, cyberspace...TO THE MAX. Beautiful.
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William Gibson |
2022-12-18 |
2022-12-25 |
Fascinating (children's book)
A biography of Leonard Nimoy!
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Richard Michelson |
2022-12-19 |
2023-12-19 |
Burning Chrome
Yup, on a little William Gibson roll here...
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William Gibson |
2022-12-26 |
2023-01-02 |
Frankenstein: the 1818 Text
I was very much inspired by seeing the 2010 Cumberbatch/Miller Theater of London production (in a film theater). In all honesty, I must confess that at this time I merely skimmed this book, read several of the "extra" bits, etc.
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Mary Shelley |
2022-12-30 |
(TBD) |
Megalophilia (メガロフィリア)
This is a *marvelous* art book featuring paintings with Huge or "Dire" versions of regular animals. Mostly. There are some dragons, monsters, and nightmares, too.
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Mono Kubo (もの久保) |
2022-12-26 |
(TBD) |
Never Split the Difference
Subtitle: Negotiating as If your Life Depended on It. Pretty clickbaity, but OTOH, full of excellent content. I think I'll buy this.
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Chris Voss with Tahl Raz |
2022-12-30 |
(TBD) |
I have 64 entries for 2023, of which I finished most.
Battle of the Linguist Mages
Was utterly delighted to discover this in a recent visit to Powell's. And originally it was a play! Yet, hmm, the writing style is a bit offputting, even for me...
2023-02-13: I decided I couldn't tolerate its verbosity, about which I feel some self-reproach: I'm notoriously verbose!
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Scotto Moore |
2023-01-05 |
Not going to finish |
The Peripheral
I devoured this re-read. So different, and of course better, than the TV show.
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William Gibson |
2023-01-08 |
2023-01-13 |
Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe
This included two stories by Gene Wolfe. I read those. I'll look to buy this book and gradually read the others, most likely also reading the GW stories that inspired them.
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Editors: J. E. Mooney and Bill Fawcett (founder of Mayfair Games!) |
2023-01-18 |
2023-01-19 |
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
This really is just super good, and oh so nostalgic for my high school and college years spent playing video games.
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Gabrielle Zevin |
2023-01-20 |
(TBD) |
Dying of Politeness, a Memoir
Had to return this to the library before I really got to it. Skimmed it. Wow, she lived abroad in Sweden, has some fluency! Wow, she is a nationally ranked archer (!?!)
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Geena Davis |
2023-01-23 |
2023-01-23 |
Doing Data Science (O'Reilly)
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Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt |
2023-02-01 |
(TBD) |
Weapons of Math Destruction
No typo. About the evils and perils of Big Data, no joke.
|
Cathy O'Neil |
2023-02-01 |
2023-04-19 |
Kanazawa
I stumbled across this author...I think it was in an email from his book publisher (Stonebridge Press). He and I have some similarities, or well, I aspire to what he actually does! My wife and I visited this city back in 1997. It was so charming, and yes, different from Tokyo. Indeed, this book has the *feel* of a literary novel, in the style of some Japanese authors. I came to not care for one of the major plot points. Maybe I'll finish this in the future...
2023-02-16: I wrote the above on 2/15. I decided to pick it up, after all.
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David Joiner |
2023-02-02 |
2023-02-27 |
Foster
This was a charming if poignant short story, a whim "checkout" at the library. Very glad I did!
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Claire Keegan |
2023-02-05 |
2023-02-06 |
Beautiful Evidence
One of Prof. Tufte's now-five Great Works on Design and Presentation. Pretty damn cool
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Edward Tufte |
2023-02-06 |
2023-02-27 |
The Seven Ages (poems)
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Louise Gluck |
2023-02-12 |
2023-03-25 |
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
I skimmed this. That was enough.
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Temple Grandin |
2023-02-13 |
2023-02-13 |
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--your Brain's Silent Killers
I skimmed this more thoroughly, looking at nearly every page. Might look at it more again later.
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David Perlmutter |
2023-02-13 |
2023-02-13 |
Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars®, Lego®, and Rubber Ducks
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Will Kurt |
2023-02-17 |
2023-04-13 |
The Baron of Magister Valley
Oh my, another book in the Steven Brust romances -- that I didn't know about! Huzzah!
Ah, finished this late on Pi Day. So, so fun! And best of all, a little zinger/reveal at the very end, tying one of the main characters to a prominent supporting character in the Vlad Taltos series. SO great!
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Steven Brust |
2023-02-23 |
2023-03-14 |
In the Bear's House
Cool little book of poems, stories, and dialogs about Bear (the Spirit)
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N. Scott Momaday |
2023-03-05 |
2023-03-05 |
Good Guys
|
Steven Brust |
2023-03-12 |
2023-03-25 |
The Old Guard, volume two: Force Multiplied
|
Greg Rucka |
2023-03-26 |
2023-03-27 |
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
|
N. Scott Momaday |
2023-03-17 |
2023-03-27 |
The Skill of Our Hands (Incrementalists v2)
So talky! Nicely concerned with social justice, with a historical perspective
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Steven Brust with Sklyer White |
can't remember |
2023-04-15 |
Killadelphia: Sins of the Father, v1 (graphic novel)
I appreciated the centering on Black characters.
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Marshal Dillon and Jason Shawn Alexander |
2023-04-03 |
2023-04-05 |
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook. Volume One (graphic novel)
Nice to see Sherlock's older brother featured.
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Kareemk Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld, Joshua Cassara |
2023-04-16 |
2023-04-18 |
Low, volume one (graphic novel)
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Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini |
2023-05-02 |
2023-05-06 |
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Help Save the Earth
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Nancy Marie Brown |
2023-04-29 |
(TBD) |
Poe, Stories and Poems, a graphic novel adaptation
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Gareth Hinds |
2023-05-06 |
2023-05-06 |
Running Wild: Inspirational Trails From Around the World
O.M.G. *Such* gorgeous and inspiring photos.
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Julie and Simon Freeman |
2023-05-06 |
2023-05-06 |
Corto Maltese, Volume 4: Beyond the Windy Isles (graphic novel)
These are just so damn fun. Each book comes with a gorgeous color map of the northern coast of South America. This one is originally from 1970.
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Hugo Pratt |
2023-04-27 |
2023-05-08 |
Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York Maître D'
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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina |
2023-05-03 |
(TBD) |
Ivory Vikings
An earlier book
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Nancy Marie Brown |
2023-05-07 |
(TBD) |
Babel (audiobook)
Started this masterpiece on a drive to Missoula; SO GOOD, especially the fine touches on the audio format
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R. F. Kuang |
2023-05-12 |
(TBD) |
Tsalmoth
Book 16 in the Vlad Taltos Cycle!
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Steven Brust |
2023-05-24 |
2023-05-30 |
Corto Maltese, Volume 1: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Whoa. He started all the way in Polynesia. He gets around (^_^)
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Hugo Pratt |
2023-05-31 |
2023-06-01 |
Envisioning Information
Vividly read a chunk on July 28th while waiting for code to compile...
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Edward Tufte |
2023-05-31 |
2023-07-28 |
The Talk (graphic novel)
Incredibly important. Points extremely well made
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Darrin Bell |
2023-06-12 |
2023-06-16 |
Love & Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
She is just a few years older than I am, the younger sister of Dave Dederer, whom I know slightly from work. I'm fascinated by her "local author" fame. And astuteness.
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Claire Dederer |
2023-06-20 |
(TBD) |
The City in the Middle of the Night
Just kept getting better and better. Perhaps a little long, but explainable
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Charlie Jane Anders |
2023-07-03 |
2023-07-16 |
Villainy (poems)
I just couldn't find enjoyment.
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Andrea Abi-Karam |
2023-07-08 |
WON'T FINISH |
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
So fun to read these...many are the seeds from which her novels sprang and developed
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NK Jemisin |
This time: 2023-06-08
Originally: 2020-11-03 |
2023-06-29 |
Translation State
Long awaited and anticipated
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Ann Leckie |
2023-07-11 |
2023-07-18 |
Trash Sex Magic
When my favorite author, Gene Wolfe, raves about a book, well, I gotta try it...
I finished this three weeks shy of one year later. Really strange. Really, really cool. Loved the dynamics between the people. The downright sexiness. The idea that "white trash" were so SO powerful. Made me think about the outcast women, the "witches" of European and English tradition.
I look forward to re-reading it someday
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Jennifer Stevenson |
2023-07-24 |
2024-07-04 |
Low, Volume 2: Before the Dawn Burns Us (graphic novel)
Kinda enjoyed V1, decided not to finish this volume
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Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini |
2023-07-28 |
2023-07-28 |
The Escapists (graphic novel)
Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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Brian K. Vaughn, Steve Rolston, Philip Bond, Jason Shawn Alexander, Eduardo Barreto |
2023-08-02 |
2023-08-04 |
The Incal: Dying Star (graphic novel)
The Incal created by Jodorowsky and Moebius
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Dan Watters and Jon Davis-Hunt |
2023-08-10 |
2023-08-10 |
Preacher, Book One (graphic novel)
I'm almost embarrassed to include this. Graphic, crude, raunchy, clever yet still toxically masculine and somewhat puerile.
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Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon |
2023-08-10 |
2023-08-11 |
The Mushroom at the End of the World
On the possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
A genre-defying or interdisciplinary approach...I really wanted to enjoy this. Too tired...
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing |
2023-08-13 |
Maybe later? |
Berlin (graphic novel)
This was magnificent. Really it is the big hardcover compilation of three shorter volumes. Such an expressive illustrator, in black & white, no less. SO good.
Finished this after taking Markus back to Missoula; whoa.
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Jason Lutes |
2023-08-11 |
2023-08-22 |
In life, big increase in Pagliacci shifts...
Which mostly were "start at 3, 4, or 5, and ran till 9, 10, 11, or midnight!"
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My amount |
of reading |
DECLINED |
Unreasonable Hospitality
Read about 40% before I had to return it to the library. Great story, and interesting principles, to be sure.
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Will Guidara |
2023-08-23 |
(TBD) |
The Man Who Fell to Earh (graphic novel)
I found this fascinating. I've still never seen the movie, but this gave me a solid taste. Plus it had pics from the film at the back.
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TBD |
2023-08-28 |
2023-08-28 |
My Own Devices, a Memoir
An autobiographical collection of essays by this Minneapolis and NYC-based Artist I'd discovered recently.
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Dessa |
2023-09-05 |
2023-09-24> |
The Master of Djinn
Just kept getting more and more over the top. Arguably too much, but still, really fun.
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P. Djeli Clark |
2023-10-09 |
2023-10-15 |
Wildwood
I've read this before, I'm sure of it. But it's not on this list, so since it was published 2011, maybe that year or 2012?
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Colin Meloy and and Carson Ellis |
2023-10-15 |
(TBD) |
Even Greater Mistakes
Excellent collection of short stories
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Charlie Jane Anders |
2023-10-19 |
2023-11-25 |
The 99% Invisible City
Very cool collection of one-page essays; only read a few of them, skimmed the rest
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Roman Mars |
2023-11-05 |
2023-11-12 |
Bone Swans
With foreword by *Gene Wolfe* and so glowing! Savored EVERY drop/word. Wow!
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C.S.E. Cooney |
2023-11-08 |
2023-12-02 |
We Need New Myths
Stopped p86 before Ch4
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Nesrine Malik |
2023-11-17 |
(TBD) |
How to Be Right
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James O'Brien |
2023-11-17 |
(TBD) |
The Search for Wondla
I read this back in 2017, but seeing I Am Mother on Netflix, wondered if they were related...finally figured out how to figure out this story's title!
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Tony DiTerlizzi |
2023-11-18 |
(TBD) |
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2023
Can't look away; read two articles, skimmed the rest
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Harvard Business Review Press |
2023-11-28 |
2023-12-04 |
Touched
2023-12-091
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Walter Mosley |
2023-12-01 |
2023-12-08 |
Ancillary Justice
It's just...SO GOOD
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Ann Leckie |
2023-12-10 |
2023-12-21 |
The Two of Them
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Joanna Russ |
2023-12-22 |
(TBD) |
Loot
Really cool, but now is not the time for yet another fantasy, even a historical one
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Tania James |
2023-12-27 |
Maybesomeday |
The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up
Finally, finally, I have started to read this
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Marie Kondo |
2023-12-27 |
(TBD) |
I did great in 2023, after thinking I had not. Really quite a few real books.
Instead of my bi-/tri-annual re-read of The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe, instead I succumbed to the Excellence that is Ann Leckie's Raadch trilogy. 'Nuff said
Ancillary Sword
While not as breathtakingly amazing as Book One: Ancillary Justice, still really, really bracing
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Ann Leckie |
2024-01-01 |
2024-01-05 |
Ancillary Mercy
SO great to be able to read them bam bam bam; i.e., NOT wait two years between each
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Ann Leckie |
2024-01-06 |
2024-01-09 |
Saga Volumes 8, 9, and 10!
As with the next item, I'd forgotten I was anticipating 10 and 11...
COUNT AS THREE, yo
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Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples |
2024-01-12 |
2024-01-12 |
Making It So (memoir)
Such a delight!
|
Patrick Stewart |
2024-01-18 |
(TBD) |
We Who Are About To
Started this up in Vancouver, BC on one of my trips; here the first one of 2024, lol, for the 16pers thing!
Finished it not quite just over two weeks later. Pretty interesting, particularly Samuel R. Delany's introduction and analysis
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Joanna Russ |
2024-01-25 |
2024-02-10 |
Crowded, Vol 3: Cutting-edge Desolation (graphic novel)
Oh my! Delighted to find this the library. (I forgot I've) been waiting for this!
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Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Triona Farrell, Cardinal Rae |
2024-01-27 |
2024-02-03 |
The Alliance of the Curious (graphic novel)
One of these recent French ones...
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Philippe Riche |
2024-01-28 |
2024-01-29 |
Centralia (graphic novel)
Really quite weird, phantasmagoric, yet strangely historical...a western?
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Miel Vandepitte |
2024-01-30 |
2024-01-31 |
DMZ Vol 1: On the Ground (graphic novel)
A re-read. I own this. Ah, the real reason: I've been watching the HBO Max "DMZ" S1.
Indeed, it's quite different. Alma/Zee, played by the inestimable Rosario Dawson, is a supporting character in the books
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Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli |
2024-01-31 |
2024-02-01 |
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Heard him interviewed on CBC. Loved the idea. Wondered if mabye H would read it. Didn't. Then I didn't either.
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Adam Grant |
2024-01-31 |
2024-02-21 |
DMZ Vol 2: Body of a Journalist (graphic novel)
So brutal. The TV show made choices to be less "on"--because the budget for that, wow, would be absurd!
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Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli |
2024-02-02 |
2024-02-02 |
DMZ Vol 3: Public Works (graphic novel)
Hmm...not happy with the main plot arc in this one, nor its casual sexism.
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Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli |
2024-02-03 |
2024-02-04 |
Emergent Properties
Very innovative. Tech-speak writing a big hard to follow, even for a techie.
April 3rd: Decided I'm not going to finish this. Glad I tried it, though
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Aimee Ogden |
2024-02-17 |
2024-03-03 |
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting in
Written by friend and high school classmate. I had tried it in 2016.
Wow, wow, wow! I had no idea she'd traveled so widely in Asia, at about the same times I did. Cool!
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Paisley Rekdal |
2024-02-21 |
2024-02-23 |
Six Girls Without Pants (poetry)
Really cool. Loved the Atalanta stuff, and the ones inspired by the Girl and Octopus paintings
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Paisley Rekdal |
2024-02-24 |
2024-04-03 |
Bodies (graphic novel)
The book on which the Netflix Original series is based
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Si Spencer and many artists, letterers, et al |
2024-02-27 |
2024-03-01 |
Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems
Translated by...
April 21st: Decided I won't finish this now. I'll keep the Sung Poetry item, and look to buy soon the (vintage) collection that inspired Dreams of India
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William Radice |
2024-02-28 |
2024-04-21 |
What do YOU Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Started on Leap Day, at the border with Canada...
March 16th: decided to send back to the library in favor of Surely You're Joking
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Richard P. Feynman |
2024-02-29 |
(TBD) |
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
This finally arrived from the library, so switching to it (it's the first book)
April 4th: doh, this needed to go back. I think I've read enough for now.
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Richard P. Feynman |
2023-03-10 |
(TBD) |
My Effin' Life
Wow I'm pretty thrilled to get this. Heard him interviewed on CBC a month ago...
April 3rd: Didn't finish this before it had to go back to the library. Really cool to learn things like...their process on creating each album
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Geddy Lee |
2023-03-10 |
(TBD) |
The Left Hand of Darkness (audiobook)
Counting/listing here, even though it's audio. Last read this in 2017 (see above)
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
2023-03-15 |
2024-05-10 |
Saga, Volume 11 (graphic novel)
So good. Oh my...at least one unfortunate death!
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Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples |
2023-03-16 |
2023-03-16 |
The Private Eye (graphic novel)
Quite interesting look at privacy in or vs. our surveillance society
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Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Matrin, Muntsa Vicente |
2023-03-21 |
2023-03-22 |
All One Life (book collection of paintings)
Whoa: in 3-D!
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Jon Strongbow |
2024-03-21 |
2024-03-21 |
The God of Endings
Got this from the library upon Seattle Times' Mix review. Good enough, but not that I wanted to read the whole thing (so I sped-read/skimmed it). I've always liked vampire stories. I appreciated this novel take.
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Jacqueline Holland |
2024-03-23 |
2024-03-23 |
Denison Avenue (novel and graphic novel in one)
Pretty cool, about Cantonese-speaking immigrants to eastern Canada, and their (hard) time assimilating.
Difficult to read transcriptions, but valuable. Decided not to finish.
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Christina Wong and Daniel Innes |
2024-03-25 |
2024-04-18 |
The Private Eye, the Cowboy, and the Very Naked Girl: Movies from Cleo to Clyde
A collection of the author's film reviews, published in 1967. "Trawled" due to Private Eye (see above)
Really pretty interesting. I read a few of movies, classics or cults, from that era that I like, to get her impression.
But decided not to finish...just wasn't picking it up again...
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Judith Crist |
2024-03-27 |
2024-04-18 |
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (poetry)
The title, of course, caught my eye. Fun and sharp collection from a Black woman
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Morgan Parker |
2024-04-11 |
2024-04-11 |
Age of Bronze (graphic novel)
I flipped through this many times. Got it on a whim due to my recent Cassandra singing experience. But decided I wasn't really going ot read it
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Eric Shanower |
2024-03-28 |
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Clytemnestra: A Novel
Loved the idea, inspired again by my recent Cassandra singing experience, but decided I didn't want to spend time this way.
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Costanza Casati |
2024-04-14 |
2024-04-21 |
Woman Life Freedom (Jim, Jîyan, Azadî)
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Created and collected by Marjane Satrapi |
2024-04-17 |
(TBD) |
The Narrow Road Between Desires
Ah, what joy. While I'll snarkily call it another "tide me over" while waiting interminably for Book 3, it's still a delight, of course!
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Patrick Rothfuss |
2024-04-18 |
2024-04-19 |
The Death of Expertise
Got this on a whim when picking up other holds. Preaching to the choir.
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Tom Nichols |
2024-04-19 |
2024-04-21 |
A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors
Got this (I'm 99% sure) since it contains an essay by friend, Paisley Rekdal. Read only a couple other entries.
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Edited by Annie Liontas and Jeff Parker |
2024-04-20 |
2024-04-21 |
Woman, Life, Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women's Protests in Iran
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Malu Halasa, editor |
2024-04-27 |
(TBD) |
Limitarianism: the Case Against Extreme Wealth
Very articulate and well researched
|
Ingrid Robeyns |
2024-05-01 |
(TBD) |
The Wager (audiobook)
Started this on the way to Missoula, delivering the Volvo.
A multiply unbelievable and engrossing tale!
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David Grann |
2024-05-05 |
2024-05-27 |
Burma Sahib
Fascinating. "Historical (fictional) biography." I'd done an in-depth report on George Orwell in high school...
Had to give it back before I finished it. Got it back in September, but ultimately, chose not to finish (!)
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Paul Theroux |
2024-05-06 |
2024-09-27 |
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(TBD) |
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(TBD) |
The Tusks of Extinction
This is a novella or novelette. I made myself go slow, and really savored it.
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Ray Nayler |
2024-05-08 |
2024-05-11 |
Binti (audiobook)
Short story, just two hours. Very fun to get African flavor, and of course, great showcasing of women/girls in tech!
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Nnedi Okorafor |
2024-05-16 |
2024-05-17 |
Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: A Chapter Guide
Utterly amazing. Such scholarship -- but of course it goes back to the 70's or 80's...SO happy to lay hands on it
I read a TON of this while flying to/from Rochester, NY to visit RIT. And re-read, and re-read. Admittedly still need to read the Short Sun portions...
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Andre Michel-Driussi |
2024-05-16 |
2024-06-11 |
The Overstory (audiobook)
Started this on the return from Vancouver, BC this bi-weekly trip (heh: after the Aikido FFO!) Same trip as Binti above.
Hmm. No obvious plot. The first section is 5-7 generations of an immigrant family from Austria to the Midwest, and they plant an eastern Chestnut...
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Richard Powers |
|
(TBD) |
Lake of Souls
Oh my gosh! What a treat!
2024-06-01: Finished this today. So so so so SO good -- especially all the stories about gods (AI?) who must tell the truth
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Ann Leckie |
2024-05-20 |
2024-06-01 |
Turn Around Time, poems
I *loved* the Introduction. I'm struggling with the poems.
2024-05-31: Decided I'm not going to finish these. They just don't speak to me. Got about halfway...
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David Guterson |
2024-05-25 |
2024-06-01 |
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head, poems
Wow! I really enjoyed these poems. I re-read most of them several times...
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Warsan Shire |
2024-05-25 |
2024-08-21 |
The Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
I'm focused on the sub-collection, Stray Birds, which are a bit like haiku. So beautiful and loving. I first heard them spoken in the ZBS Radio Play, Dreams of India. Wonderful!
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Rabindranath Tagore |
2024-05-27 |
(TBD) |
Station Eleven
I've been looking forward to reading this FOREVER. Finally got it for a recent birthday. I *loved* the HBO TV show.
I finished this yesterday. I'm *fascinated* by the many differences the show took. I think they did the book great honor, to be sure. I just have one quibble about The Prophet...
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Emily St. John Mandel |
2024-06-01 |
2024-06-11 |
The Broken Country
Remarkable! This is one of the best, and most concise, looks into the immigrant experience; i.e., to me it goes far beyond the Vietnamese in the US. Wow!
Read more of this July 5th, in Vancouver, BC. Savoring it!
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Paisley Rekdal |
2024-06-08 |
2024-08-16 |
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
Maureen read this first. I'd seen it in the library. Giving it a try
But...ultimately, decided it wasn't for me. Not with everything else clamoring for attention
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Shubnum Khan |
2024-06-12 |
2024-08-18 |
36 Streets
A gift from Myles. Really super-excellent (and graphically violent *cough*). So fun to learn about the Hanoi Old Quarter
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T. R. Napper |
2024-07-15 |
2024-07-17 |
Harlem (graphic novel)
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2024-07-26 |
2024-07-29 |
Revenge: Stories
A recommendation from my younger son. And he pointed out all the stories are inter-connected, if subtly sometimes
I have done a concordance for the first 8-9 stories, to better see the interconnection; will I finish that?
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Yoko Ogawa |
2024-08-02 |
2024-08-09 |
A Wizard of Earthsea
OMG so good. A re-read, of course, indulgently for my vacatoin to San Diego. I almost cried by about Ch3 or 4!
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
2024-08-02 |
2024-08-06 |
The Tombs of Atuan
Excellent. I appreciate this so much more as an adult.
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
2024-08-06 |
2024-08-07 |
The Cloud Atlas
Not to be confused with "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell, also excellent.
The history part is so great. Very interesting for a Japanologist like me. The Yup'ik stuff cool, too
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Liam Callanan |
2024-08-19 |
2024-10-18 |
The Morningside
Sounded so intriguing, like upper Manhattan. Plus, I'd been meaning to read The Tiger's Wife
But like Burma Sahib, I ended up stopping this
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Tea Obreht |
2024-10-01 |
2024-10-06 |
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Aha, I do own this! And, in early November, I took it to NYC on the plane; fun!
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Translated by Horace Gregory |
2024-10-02 |
(TBD) |
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Paisley recommends this version
I'm reading these side-by-side, to compare choices. Amazing. Had to return 11/17
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Translated by Stephanie McCarter |
2024-10-02 |
(TBD) |
Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Always wanted to read this...beatiful. Really cool. Want to get again, or buy a copy
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Intro and Notes by Robert D. Richardson |
2024-10-08 |
(TBD) |
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
Really new, published this year. I read the Introduction and couple essays. Wow!
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Editors: Frank Abe and FLoyd Cheung |
2024-10-17 |
(TBD) |
Reservoir Bitches (anthology)
11/26: decided I wasn't going to finish this. I did read 50-60% of it
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Dahlia de la Cerda |
2024-10-20 |
Won't Finish |
Ovid's Metamorphoses
A "middle" version, apparently very well-regarded
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Translated by Denis Raeburn |
2024-10-20 |
(TBD) |
The Message: the Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message (children's book)
Intrigued, having just read the essay by Neal Stephenson about underwater data cables
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Michael Emberley |
2024-10-21 |
2024-10-21 |
Some Remarks
Oh my gosh! What a thrill to discover essays and stories of his I hadn't read before. Plus the amazing "Mother Earth, Mother Board" article about the history and current practice of transoceanic telecomm and data cable laying, which I'd first read in Wired when originally published. Amazing
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Neal Stephenson |
2024-10-23 |
2024-11-10 |
Cimarronin (graphic novel)
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Neal Stephenson and a cast of many |
2024-10-24 |
(TBD) |
Myths and Enchantment Tales
Oh my -- this is one of my childhood books. I've saved it in the garage for decades. Simplified versions of (only some of) the Metamorphoses, with elegant illustrations.
A Rand McNally editions
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Margaret Price and Evelyn Urbanowich |
2024-10-28 |
(TBD) |
Maps and Legends
Bought this in 2022 and read only one essay -- the one about McCarthy's "The Roard," or only a couple. Took with me to NYC, and read much more!
Ah, so lovely. Now I need to read more, nay, ALL of his works. I even have right now a collection of ACLU-friendly essays co-edited by him and his wife, Ayelet. And I'm listening to it on audiobook!
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Michael Chabon |
2022-11-02 |
2024-11-17 |
The Bhagavad Gita
I know, right? Second of three to NYC
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Translated by Juan Mascaro, foreword by Simon Brodbeck |
2024-11-05 |
(TBD) |
Welcome to the New World (graphic novel)
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Jack Halpern and Michael Sloan |
2024-11-10 |
2024-12-30 |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest
I've read, and I think, own all its predecessors, but wow, this one is weird...we'll see!
12/2: Wow. These guys need an editor. I *love* the earlier books. I gave up about mid-way through Part Four (of Six). Okay, I *did* very much like the Elric and Stormbringer cameo!
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Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill |
2024-11-10 |
2024-12-01 |
Arctic Play (graphic novel)
Recommended in the Seattle Times. And: a local artist. She got to visit the Arctic, north of Svalbard!
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Mita Mahato |
2024-11-11 |
2024-11-11 |
Lyorn
Yay! The latest...Book 17 no less, of 19 planned...
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Steven Brust |
2024-11-24 |
2024-11-30 |
The Electric State
Another from this author; dark story and visually arresting
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Simon Stålenhag |
2024-12-01 |
2024-12-01 |
Nightingale (poetry)
One of Paisley's works, this one inspired by and centered around Ovid's Metamorphoses
I've gotten it from the library a few times this year, most recently here in December
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Paisley Rekdal |
2024-12-05 |
(TBD) |
Program or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands for A Digital Age (2nd Edition)
Made me think of the Jaron Lanier book above. First edition 2010; this one brand new in late 2024
|
Douglas Rushkoff |
2024-12-05 |
(TBD) |
Animal Eye (poetry)
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Paisley Rekdal |
2024-12-05 |
(TBD) |
Top 10 (graphic novel)
Clever take on the superhero team -- as cops
|
Alan Moore |
2024-12-06 |
2024-12-16 |
Polostan, Volume One of the Bomb Light Trilogy
Whoa -- the latest from super-fave author. Shorter than most of his work, lol. Still a history lesson -- and that's okay!
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Neal Stephenson |
2024-12-06 |
2024-12-15 |
The Great When
Wow. Dense writing; great vocabulary
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Alan Moore |
2024-12-10 |
(TBD) |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Volume II (graphic novel)
I'm on an M. R. James jag, and this is something the Seattle Public Library had. Hmm. Well, I appreciate its creators good intentions, but I think its horrors are best served by the *imagination*. Not that it isn't a fine adaptation. But still...
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Leah Moore and John Reppion |
2024-12-07 |
2024-12-07 |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Volume I (graphic novel)
Again, not that these are particularly good, but I'm a completist
|
Leah Moore and John Reppion |
2024-12-14 |
2024-12-28 |
Orbital
This year's winner of the Booker Prize; whoa! Very short. Quite beautiful.
|
Samantha Harvey |
2024-12-19 |
2024-12-24 |
Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically
Her latest, out quite recently!
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Paisley Rekdal |
2024-12-24 |
(TBD) |
All Systems Red (Murderbot #1)
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Martha Wells |
2024-12-25 |
2024-12-26 |
Artificial Condition (Murderbot #2)
|
Martha Wells |
2024-12-26 |
2024-12-27 |
Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3)
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Martha Wells |
2024-12-27 |
2024-12-27 |
Good Girls Go to Hell (graphic novel)
Coming of age story by an Orthodox Israeli woman. Got this in early November (along with "Welcome to the New World" above)
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Tohar Sherman-Friedman |
2024-12-27 |
2024-12-29 |
Autocracy, Inc.
A really important analysis. I read the Intro and the Conclusion, and would like to get it from the library again.
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Anne Applebaum |
2024-12-30 |
(TBD) |
Penguin Readers: The Locked Room and Other Horror Stories (Level 4)
Lol. A month or so ago while in my M. R. James obsession, I requested this book as a hold. It has some stories no other collection I could acquire has. VERY simplified: "1700 headwords." So...quite amusing. Great stories!
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M. R. James, retold by Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones |
2024-12-30 |
2024-12-30 |
The Age of Magical Overthinking
When I looked to put on hold the book, Wordslut, this was suggested. Its focus is Kahneman and Tversky's Biases. A bit too "lay-oriented" or pop culture, so I read the Intro and skimmed the rest, and have no intention of finishing it. Still, interesting, and I appreciate that the author self-describes as a linguist!
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Amanda Montell |
2024-12-30 |
2024-12-30 |
To be analyzed, commented upon...
AGAIN: instead of my bi-/tri-annual re-read of The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe, this year I will read (probably the Chronicles of Prydain, then maybe also Narnia...)
2025-Jun-05: whoa. I just did a HUGE update. Turns out I'd missed tons each month. Well, I *have* been busy, or had been, Q1...Anyway: very satisfying
Cat-eyed Boy, Volume One (graphic novel)
My older son was home for Christmas break, and got some unusual graphic novels out from the library. I checked them out. I'm not into horror, so I put this one down quickly.
Japanese, and from 1967; whoa!
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Kazuo Umezz |
2025-01-01 |
2025-01-01 |
renée (graphic novel)
Panel-less. Very spartan. A bit gross. Full of despair. I read the first 30-40 pages, then skimmed the rest of its entirety.
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Ludovic Debeurme |
2025-01-01 |
2025-01-01 |
firebugs (graphic novel)
About the challenges of the trans experience, and romance
|
Nino Bulling |
2025-01-01 |
2025-01-01 |
Sounds: a Comics Anthonlogy (graphic novel)
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2025-01-01 |
(TBD) |
Anfield Road (graphic novel)
This is one I chose, on a whim. Because it's about 1980's Liverpool. It's good.
|
Chris Shepherd |
2025-01-03 |
2025-01-03 |
Derborence: When the Mountain Fell (graphic novel)
Quite an artistic take on an apparently classic European novel
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C. F. Ramuz (text); Fabian Menor (art) |
2025-01-04 |
2025-01-04 |
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham
Unbelievably, this is volume TWO (!)
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Leslie S. Klinger, editor |
2025-01-05 |
2025-01-11 |
Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4)
The final part of the initial arc. In typical fashion, even more very clever, and terrifying, discussion of future tech
|
Martha Wells |
2025-01-06 |
2025-01-07 |
The of Three: Book One of the Chronicles of Prydain
Oh my, such nostalgia! Such simplistic yet artful writing! "High fantasy" the genre coined by no less than the author himself. What I'm reading here in January instead of my more typical re-read of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun
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Lloyd Alexander |
2025-01-04 |
2025-01-10 |
Collected Ghost Stories
Really good
|
M. R. James |
2025-01-05 |
2025-01-11 |
Yellow Cab (graphic novel)
Delightful for many reasons; mostly because I/we have lived in NYC, and were there in November
|
Benoit Cohen |
2025-01-09 |
2025-01-09 |
The Black Cauldron: Book Two of the Chronicles of Prydain
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Lloyd Alexander |
2025-01-11 |
2025-01-12 |
The Castle of Llyr: Book Three of the Chronicles of Prydain
Interesting trivia: the "ll" consonant is special, possibly unique to Welsh. It's an "l" simultanously pronounced with "s" that has a retroflex element!
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Lloyd Alexander |
2025-01-14 |
2025-01-16 |
Lovecraft Country
I loved, Loved, LOVED the HBO TV series, especially after I got past "the hump" (self-imposed bloc) around ep4. But -- decided I didn't need to read it, especially so soon. (But I just wanted to keep experiencing it!)
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Matt Ruff |
2025-01-15 |
2025-01-28 |
The Wood at Midwinter
Her latest! Hmm, very short. Really cool. Almost a children's book...but not for children!
|
Susanna Clarke |
2025-01-16 |
2025-01-19 |
Pogue's Basics: Money
I've been a fan of this author since *cough* the 90's
|
David Pogue |
2025-01-18 |
(TBD) |
Morningstar (graphic novel)
Brand new at the library; picked up on a whim based on its blurb...hoping it isn't Horror, since it kinda looks like it could be
(ha! spoiler alert)
Happily, it was not Horror. Well, not really. More science fiction if anything else. But, indeed, plenty traumatic...but it has a happy ending
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Andry, Daniel Finnegan, Wordie, Birch |
2025-01-26 |
2025-01-27 |
Absolution, a Southern Reach novel
I was very excietd about this. I loved Annihilation, and the trilogy overall. BUT -- I did not care for the first 5-6 chapers of this. Sending it back
|
Jeff Van Der Meer |
2025-01-27 |
2025-01-27 |
Anything missing here?
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(TBD) |
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic
This was SUPER-weird. Kinda paired with The Great When (see December 2024, above)
|
Alan Moore |
2025-02-04 |
2025-02-16 |
Manga Stories, Volume 2 (graphic novel)
|
Haruki Murakami |
2025-02-10 |
2025-02-14 |
The Bright Sword
SO so good
|
Lev Grossman |
2025-02-22 |
2025-03-06 |
Baltimore, Volume 4: Chapel of Bones (graphic novel)
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Mignola, Golden, Stenbeck, Bergting, Stewart |
2025-02-23 |
2025-02-23 |
Undiscovered Country, Vol 1: Destiny (graphic novel)
|
Snyder, Soule, et al |
2025-03-02 |
2025-03-10 |
Local Man, Volume One: Heartland
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Fleecs, Seeley, Simpson, Sobrerio |
2025-03-08 |
2025-03-16 |
Adulthood his a Myth (graphic novel)
|
Sarah Andersen |
2025-03-07 |
205-03-15 |
Pocket Full of Rain, and Other Stories (graphic novel)
|
Jason |
2025-03-07 |
205-03-15 |
Network Effect, volume 5 of Murderbot Diaries
Finally: novel-length. So good! New challenges, of course
|
Martha Wells |
2025-03-07 |
2025-03-13 |
Witchfinder vol 4: City of the Dead (graphic novel)
Even more "literary" inspired; fun
|
Mike Mignola and crew |
2025-03-15 |
2025-03-16 |
Undiscovered Country, Vol 2: Unity (graphic novel)
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Snyder, Soule, et al |
2025-03-16 |
2025-03-18 |
Buried Deep and Other Stories
Really delightful; had to give back on/around April 8th before I was done; doh
Yay: got this again near the end of May, so resumed...
|
Naomi Novik |
2025-03-18 |
(TBD) |
Asterios the Minotaur (graphic novel)
Authored in France: different sensibility. Very cool treatment of the myth, from his birth, to death
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Serge Le Tendre and Frédéric Peynet |
2025-03-22 |
2025-03-22 |
Local Man, Volume 2 (graphic novel)
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Fleecs, Seeley, Simpson, Sobrerio |
2025-03-22 |
2025-03-22 |
Abundance
Been curious about Ezra Klein's work for some time...
|
Ezra Klein and David Thompson |
2025-03-22 |
(TBD) |
Baltimore, Volume 5: The Apostle and the Witch of Harju (graphic novel)
|
Mignola, Golden, Stenbeck, Bergting, Stewart |
2025-03-23 |
2025-03-23 |
Baltimore, Volume 6: The Cult of the Red King (graphic novel)
|
Mignola, Golden, Bergting, Stewart |
2025-03-23 |
2025-03-23 |
Hmm...what here? Anything else?
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(TBD) |
Adulthood his a Gift (graphic novel)
|
Sarah Andersen |
2025-03-24 |
2025-03-24 |
We Do Not Part
2024 Nobel prizewinner; another cool thing: she's a 1970 baby, in November
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Han Kang |
2025-04-09 |
2025-04-26 |
Hilda and the Bird Parade (graphic novel)
Recommended by Ben!
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Luke Pearson |
2025-04-24 |
2025-04-24 |
Imaginary Peaks, the Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
from The Mountaineers Press
|
Katie Ives |
2025-04-17 |
(TBD) |
Hilda and the Black Hound (graphic novel)
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Luke Pearson |
2025-04-26 |
2025-04-26 |
Fight of the Century (graphic novel)
Actually, I've been listening to this since early 2024. I'm not done, but I decided to switch to the book, which I own. So this is when I *returned* the audiobook
The audiobook is extra-cool, of course, because each chapter/essay is read by a different voice actor, and some of them are particularly good!
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Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman |
2025-04-26 |
(TBD) |
The River Has Roots
Delightful if semi-tragic riff on Faerie, and Grammar / Grammarye
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Amal El-Mohtar |
2025-04-29 |
2025-04-30 |
Mexican Gothic
Oh my! Made me think "vampire," but it's SO. MUCH. Worse/Grosser! Yay!
|
Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
2025-05-03 |
2025-05-04 |
Hilda and the Stone Forest (graphic novel)
|
Luke Pearson |
2025-05-03 |
2025-05-08 |
Video Game Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds
Whoa. Pretty cool. Analysis by a professor and architect
I must admit I found this only by looking for "Luke Pearson;" this one is different!
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Luke Caspar Pearson and Sandra Youkhana |
2025-05-06 |
2025-06-05 |
Hollow Kingdom
|
Kira Jane Buxton |
2025-05-08 |
(TBD) |
Hilda and the Midnight Giant (graphic novel)
Wow. This one was really great. Perhaps my favorite, though Black Hounds is pretty excellent. Hard to decide!
|
Luke Pearson |
2025-05-08 |
2025-05-08 |
Fairy Tale Comics (collection)
I am reading all of them, but enjoying most those I recognize: Luke Pearson, Raina Telgemeier
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Edited by Chris Duffy |
2025-05-08 |
(TBD) |
Adventure Time: Finn
Oof. Did not like. Found and read just those by people I recognized: Luke Pearson, ND Stephenson
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(Collection) |
2025-05-08 |
2025-05-08 |
The Dark Eidolon and Other Stories
Wow. Indeed, just like Robert E. Howard and HP Lovecraft. Fantastic!
Researched him, let myself get pulled all over in Wikipedia; e.g., Lord Dunsany, Hill of Tara, and more
|
Clark Ashton Smith |
2025-05-08 |
(TBD) |
The Magnificent Ruins
Recommended in the paper
|
Nayantara Roy |
2025-05-09 |
(TBD) |
Hilda and the Troll (graphic novel)
This was the first one, I think? Pretty good
|
Luke Pearson |
2025-05-27 |
2025-05-27 |
City Summer, Country Summer (children's book)
I heard about this on CBC Radio when driving up, as I do, to Vancouver, BC, for two days every two weeks. Sounded really good!
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Kiese Laymon and Alexis Franklin |
2025-05-28 |
2025-05-28 |
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (graphic novel)
Been looking forward to this, especially after seeing the Lewis & Tolkien play earlier this year
|
John Hendrix |
2025-05-27 |
2025-06-22 |
Miso Magic (children's book)
I love miso, especially in ramen!
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Moni Ritchie Hadley and Mizuho Fujisawa |
2025-05-28 |
2025-05-28 |
My Mother's Tongues: a Weaving of Languages
This book was written when the author was 19; impressive! She just graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton
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Uma Menon and Rahele Jomepour Bell |
2025-05-28 |
2025-05-28 |
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Really timely; primary author is a Comp Ling prof at UW!
|
Emily Bender and Alex Hanna |
2025-06-01 |
(TBD) |
Kapaemahu (children's book)
Featured in a recebt weekend's Sunday Mix section
Incidentally, the creators are very interesting people; please look them up!
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Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson |
2025-06-03 |
2025-06-03 |
The Quest for Z (children's book)
Pretty funny: The Lost City of Z -- for kids! A bit pedantic, or flat, in tone, I thought
|
Greg Pizzoli |
2025-06-03 |
2025-06-03 |
Trees, Vol 1: In Shadow (graphic novel)
Very cool "visitation/infestation by aliens who don't acknowledge us," combined with LGBTQ+ aspects
|
Warren Ellis and Jason Howard |
2025-06-03 |
2025-06-04 |
Wolverine: Not Dead Yet (graphic novel)
Originally the 2009 Wolverine #119-122
Hmm...not bad, not great. Had wanted more from the Writer.
Really reinforced how much I hate the Fundamental Comics Conundrum of
having constantly to come up with new and different challenges
and enemies. This story dates from an "in between" time when
Wolverine doesn't have adamantium on his claws or skeleton.
'Nuff said.
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Warren Ellis and Leinil Yu |
2025-06-06 |
2025-06-06 |
Trizophrenia
By the creator of Frazz, which I absolutely love. Was simply curious. I'm not in the slightest into triathlons (the subject of this book)
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Jef Mallett |
2025-06-06 |
Just a skim |
Bestiary Dark (poetry)
From a 2019 Fulbright in Australia. Super-creative. Pretty weird.
|
Marianne Boruch |
2025-06-06 |
Just an (in-depth) skim |
Trees, Vol 2: Two Forests (graphic novel)
Not quite as engaging, but some questions answered and plots points progressed...
|
Warren Ellis and Jason Howard |
2025-06-09 |
2025-06-09 |
Karnak, Volume One: The Flaw in All Things (graphic novel)
Wow. What an anti-hero / monk / "super-hero" LOVED IT
|
Ellis, Zaffino, Boschi, Brown |
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(TBD) |
Supreme Blue Rose (graphic novel)
Yes, on a Warren Ellis jag
|
Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay |
2025-06-11 |
2025-06-11 |
Unsupervised: A Crabrass Comics Adventure
I think I can call this Volume Two (?)
Read this while waiting for Pete on Thursday evening. Really delightful!
|
Tauhid Bondia |
2025-06-12 |
2025-06-12 |
The Language of the Night (essays), Second Edition (2024)
O.M.G one of UKL's works I haven't read. Excited!
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
2025-06-13 |
(TBD) |
Injection, Volume One (graphic novel)
Heh: available only on Hoopla. Delightful!
|
Ellis, Shalvey, Bellaire |
2025-06-19 |
2025-06-19 |
Injection, Volume Two (graphic novel)
Ah, but this I have in physical
|
Ellis, Shalvey, Bellaire |
2025-06-20 |
2025-06-21 |
Injection, Volume Three (graphic novel)
These have just been SO good.
|
Ellis, Shalvey, Bellaire |
2025-06-23 |
2025-06-23 |
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (poetry)
His first publication?
|
Ocean Vuong |
2025-06-24 |
(TBD) |
British Ice (graphic novel)
Presented as historically accurate, but instead more a "could have been," or "probably this happened" -- over and over
|
Owen D. Pomeroy |
2025-06-25 |
2025-06-25 |
Eat the Rich (graphic novel)
Whoa. Normally I'm not squeamish, but I really don't like Horror. I'm not likely to finish this
|
Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, Roman Titov |
2025-06-25 |
(TBD) |
Crabgrass Comic Adventures (graphic novel)
OMG. Hysterical. So clever. Reminiscent of Calvin & Hobbes
|
Tauhid Bondia |
2025-06-26 |
2025-06-25 |
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Read just 2-3. I'm sure they'll grow on me
|
Ken Liui |
2025-06-26 |
(TBD) |
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Oof. Words fail. He's so right. The Liberal West, of which I count myself, is a lie, and a failure.
And when he finished writing was probably mid-2024. Israel has killed over 55,000 people in Gaza as of last week,
with signs, if anything, of accelerating their genocide, their settler-colonialism. Things *were* terrible during
the Biden Administration, shamefully, but now of course they are so much worse. (The last 1.5-2 weeks are when
Israel fired missiles into Iran, Iran fired back, and then the US dropped bunker busters on three sites?!?)
|
Omar El Akkad |
2025-06-26 |
(TBD) |
James Bond, Volume Two: Eidolon (graphic novel)
Wow. Truly just so good. And the irony: I had BOUGHT Volume One 6-7 years ago BUT still haven't read it
I could have discovered Warren Ellis YEARS ago, and did not. DUMB!
|
Warren Ellis, Jason Masters, Guy Major, Simon Bowland |
2025-06-27 |
2025-06-27 |
Firefly: River Run (graphic novel)
Half of this is a graphic novelization of the rescue sequence shown in Serenity (). The other half is a "Christmas Special." Hmm.
Okay, sure, I got this on Total Whim™. What WAS interesting: a plot point of "Mal's disappeared, and the crew has split in half." Hmm...
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Booher, Jensen, Genolet, Pérez, Federici, Mascolo |
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