MLiberty49's books off the shelf 2017

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MLiberty49's books off the shelf 2017

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1MLiberty49
Editado: Out 26, 2017, 7:51 am

2MLiberty49
Maio 29, 2017, 2:50 pm

Magic in the Backyard - I think I must have grabbed the ebook when I was following the author's blog in college. Lots of pretty word images, but ultimately insubstantial stuff.

3MLiberty49
Set 9, 2017, 9:03 pm

Got seduced by a bunch of library books over the summer, but I finished Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776 in August and Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia earlier this month. The former was fun but for some reason really easy to put down, and I did wish there were more extensive notes/citations. BWaM was a delight and made me wish I'd picked it up sooner.

4MLiberty49
Set 14, 2017, 8:18 am

Add The Martian and Wise Blood to September. The Martian was fun, but I had a hard time getting into it; it seemed better suited to be a movie, so I'll probably check out the adaption soon. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed Wise Blood. It's a really bizarre book and feels like reading an extended nightmare. Everything is distorted and out of proportion, but in ways that make it impossible to look away.

5MLiberty49
Out 26, 2017, 7:50 am

So far in October:

The Monster of Florence
Fatal North
Under the Wide and Starry Sky

MoF was one I started years ago and never finished, so I just began again. I liked it, but Spezi's perspective would have been more interesting, due to his closer involvement in how utterly nuts the case got.
Fatal North was a surprisingly fast read and really interesting; the unsolved murder of the captain of the failed polar expedition is the focus, but there are so many other interesting elements, like the jockeying over personnel and the expedition's aims.
UtWaSS was overall enjoyable, but the beginning was really clipped and disjointed- it didn't get really engaging until about 200 pages in.

6MLiberty49
Dez 2, 2017, 11:53 am

For November:

Breath, Eyes, Memory
Chicago Lives: Men and Women Who Shaped Our City
Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
My Life in France
Tam Lin

And that's just for off-the-shelf -- turns out you get a lot more reading done when you're working a job that doesn't eat up your entire life. Chicago Lives was started in October, and I read that one a bit more sporadically than the others and finished it in November.

Favorite of the bunch was Tam Lin for fiction and Ada Blackjack for nonfiction, but all of them were great, and I'm glad I hung onto them all over the months/years.

7MLiberty49
Dez 27, 2017, 2:58 pm

For December:

Elon Musk (the Ashlee Vance biography)
The Silkworm
The Ghost Bride
Mississippi Solo

The Elon Musk bio was great and my favorite nonfiction installment, but I'll have to revisit due to being really sick when I tackled the latter half. I really enjoyed the Robert Galbraith mystery (a lot more than I would have expected given the gruesome subject matter), but Ghost Bride was my surprise favorite in fiction for the month.

So that's 34 books owned for six months or more taken out for 2017! And... 63 (give or take one or two) more to go, and that number will probably grow as books stay on the shelf.