tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46306677927038815052024-03-19T20:29:56.446-04:00I'm hyper, therefore I craftI keep my hands busy so I don't kick people. Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-77972875738518650612024-02-16T12:46:00.003-05:002024-02-16T12:46:48.500-05:002023 BooksI did NOT read as much in late 2023 as I usually do. Have been knitting more than reading. Have also had a lot of DNF books, due to lack of attention span or obsession with knitting. Guessing that since work has been requiring a lot more attention I've had less attention to give to books. That has continued on to 2024, as it's February and my list is SHORT. Failed miserably at the Sealey Challenge, both times I tried. Maybe I should try for twice in 2024 - March and August. Maybe. Also need to organize my projects, clear out the ones that are finished or hibernating. I have more knitting goals than reading goals in 2024. Plus weaving. Really need to finish my sampler and start another. Anyway. Work calls, then I need to go for a titty panini. List: <div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Prose Books Read in 2023</h2><div>001. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton</div><div>002. Warbears, Margaret Atwood and Ken Steacy</div><div>003. Paws and Effect, Leighann Dobbs</div><div>004. Bright, Kiki Petrosino</div><div>005. Trampoline, Robert Gipe</div><div>006. Angel Catbird, Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, and Tamra Bonvillain</div><div>007. Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune</div><div>008. Weedeater, Robert Gipe</div><div>009. Probable Paws, Leighann Dobbs</div><div>010. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, Kris Newby</div><div>011. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live, Danielle Dreilinger</div><div>012. The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi</div><div>013. Whisker of a Doubt, Leighann Dobbs</div><div>014. Laughter at the Academy, Seanan McGuire</div><div>015. Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree</div><div>016. Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au</div><div>017. They Drown Our Daughters, Katrina Monroe</div><div>018. Pop, Robert Gipe</div><div>019. The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia</div><div>020. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat, Sofie Kelly</div><div>021. The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence, Frank Figliuzzi</div><div>022. The Last Garden in England, Julia Kelly</div><div>023. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher</div><div>024. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, C.M. Waggoner</div><div>025. Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid</div><div>026. Little Pieces of Me, Alison Hammer</div><div>027. It Won't Always Be Like This, Malaka Gharib</div><div>028. A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird, Rosemary Mosco</div><div>029. I Was Their American Dream, Malaka Gharib</div><div>030. The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris</div><div>031. No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood</div><div>032. Out There, Kate Folk</div><div>033. East of West, Vol 1-10, Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta</div><div>034. The Push, Ashley Audrain</div><div>035. A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske</div><div>036. Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo</div><div>037. Instructions for a Heatwave, Maggie O'Farrell</div><div>038. All Signs Point to Yes, G. Haron Davis, Cam Montgomery, and Adrianne White, eds.</div><div>039. A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark</div><div>040. West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge</div><div>041. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster, Andrea Mosqueda</div><div>042. The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean</div><div>043. Home Bound:An Uprooted Daughter's Reflection on Belonging, Vanessa A. Bee</div><div>044. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir</div><div>045. Spells & Stitches, Barbara Bretton</div><div>046. A Siege of Bitterns, Steve Burrows</div><div>047. Gender Queer: Maia Kobabe</div><div>048. The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health, Lina Zeldovich</div><div>049. OMFG, BEES! Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why, Matt Kracht</div><div>050. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, US Navy</div><div>051. We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry</div><div>052. A Pitying of Doves, Steve Burrows</div><div>053. A Cast of Falcons, Steve Burrows</div><div>054. Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects, Jonathan Balcombe</div><div>055. The Wife, Meg Wolitzer</div><div>056. Pussy, King of the Pirates, Kathy Acker</div><div>057. Never Saw Me Coming, Vera Kurian</div><div>058. The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs, Leslie Kirk Campbell</div><div>059. The Crying Book, Heather Christle</div><div>060. White People on Vacation, Alex Miller</div><div>061. The Survivalists, Kashana Cauley</div><div>062. The Fraud Squad, Kyla Zhao</div><div>063. The Last Beekeeper, Julie Carrick Dalton</div><div>064. Opening My Eyes Under Water, Ashley Woodfolk</div><div>065. Everyman, M. Shelly Conner</div><div>066. A New Race of Men From Heaven, Chaitali Sen</div><div>067. Bookworm, Robin Yeatman</div><div>068. All-Night Pharmacy, Ruth Madievsky</div><div>069. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Annalee Newitz</div><div>070. Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls</div><div>071. The In-Betweens, Davon Loeb</div><div>072. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained, Colin Dickey</div><div>073. Ladyparts, Deborah Copaken</div><div>074. A Shimmer of Hummingbirds, Steve Burrows</div><div>075. My Real Children, Jo Walton</div><div>076. Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder</div><div>077. Scion of the Fox, S.M. Beiko</div><div>078. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, Dean Jobb</div><div>079. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Deborah A. Miranda</div><div>080. Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez</div><div>081. The Boy with the Bookstore, Sarah Echavarre Smith</div><div>082. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, Isaac Fitzgerald</div><div>083. One True Loves, Taylor Jenkins Reid</div><div>084. The Blurry Years, Eleanor Kriseman</div><div>085. If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, Gregg Olsen</div><div>086. Things We Do In the Dark, Jennifer Hillier</div><div>087. The Latinist, Mark Prins</div><div>089. Blood on the Tracks, Barbara Nickless</div><div>090. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, Alexis Hall</div><div>091. The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings</div><div>092. A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History, Baba the Cat and Paul Koudounaris</div><div>093. Written in Dead Wax, Andrew Cartmel</div><div>094. The Run-Out Groove, Andrew Cartmel</div><div>095. Drugs and Other Things to do in Cleveland, Francis Elizabeth</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Poetry Books Read in 2023</h2><div>001. Blood Snow, dg nanouk okpik</div><div>002. Tanka and Me: Poems, Kaethe Schwehn</div><div>003. Poems for My People and Me, Monica Sekhmet Grant</div><div>004. The Kissing of Kissing, Hannah Emerson</div><div>005. White Bull, Elizabeth Hughey</div><div>006. Loose Strife, Quan Barry</div><div>007. Lives, CJ Evans</div><div>008. Rotura, José Angel Araguz</div><div>009. Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix</div><div>010. The Wanting Way, Adam Wolfond</div><div>011. Field Study, Chet'la Sebree</div><div>012. Team Photograph, Lauren Haldeman</div><div>013. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi</div><div>014. Calenday, Lauren Haldeman</div><div>015. Invasive Species, Marwa Helal</div><div>016. Thot, Chanté L. Reid</div><div>017. Revenge Body, Rachel Wiley</div><div>018. Unshuttered, Patricia Smith</div><div>019. Bluets, Maggie Nelson</div><div>020. Mistress, Chet'la Sebree</div><div>021. Witch Wife, Kiki Petrosino</div><div>022. Emergency Brake, Ruth Madievsky</div><div>023. I'm Always So Serious, Karisma Price</div><div>024. 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, Karyna McGlynn</div><div>025. Fort Red Border, Kiki Petrosino</div><div>- SEALEY CHALLENGE -</div><div>026. Birds of the Cuyahoga, 2022 Edith Chase Poetry Reading</div><div>027. American Mastodon, Brad Ricca</div><div>028. Alive at the End of the World, Saeed Jones</div><div>029. Freedom Knows My Name, Kelly Harris-DeBarry</div><div>030. Studies of Familiar Birds, Carrie Green</div><div>031. Take Me To the Water, Irene Vásquez</div><div>032. Hush, Nikki Ummel</div><div>032. Birds Don't Fly for Pleasure, Táíwò Hassan</div><div>033. The Alpinist Searches Lonely Places, Kyle Vaughn</div><div>- SEALEY SEPTEMBER DO-OVER -</div><div>034. Against Which, Ross Gay</div><div>035. The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, Eleanor Rand Wilner</div><div>036. Urbanshee, Siaara Freeman</div><div>- HAHAHAHAHA LIFE SAYS NO SEALEY THIS YEAR, IT'S ALMOST NOVEMBER </div></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-87990979269618502832023-01-02T13:11:00.000-05:002023-01-02T13:11:04.548-05:002022 BooksZoey is number one:<div> 111111111111111111111111111<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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</script><div><br /></div></div><div>(She is helping me work today, and stood on the keyboard.) </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, it's 2023. Somehow. Read a decent bit in 2022. Still have a TONNE of library books to read in 2023, and my purchased TBR stacks are still enormous. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Prose Books Read in 2022</b></div><div>001. Flash Fire, T.J. Klune</div><div>002. The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune</div><div>003. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America, Michael Ruhlman</div><div>004. My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson</div><div>005. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia</div><div>006. The Northern Reach, W. S. Winslow</div><div>007. Big Sex Little Death, Susie Bright</div><div>008. Meet Cute Diary, Emery Lee</div><div>009. Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky</div><div>010. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases, Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman, eds.</div><div>011. Light Years From Home, Mike Chen</div><div>012. Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife, Rodney Stotts with Kate Pipkin</div><div>013. Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz</div><div>014. The Chosen One, Echo Brown</div><div>015. Shoutin' In the Fire: An American Epistle, Danté Stewart</div><div>016. Cherish Farrah, Bethany C. Morrow</div><div>017. Somebody's Daughter, Ashley Ford</div><div>018. Period. End of Sentence: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice, Anita Diamant</div><div>019. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s, Kathleen M. Blee</div><div>020. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, Michael Schur</div><div>021. Meet Me in Another Life, Catriona Silvey</div><div>022. The Cold Blue Blood, David Handler</div><div>023. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness: Kristen Radtke</div><div>024. Intimacies, Katie Kitamura</div><div>025. Casting Spells, Barbara Bretton</div><div>026. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, Elie Mystal</div><div>027. Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke</div><div>028. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Axie Oh</div><div>029. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu</div><div>030. Don't Breathe a Word, Jordyn Taylor</div><div>031. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School, Kendra James</div><div>032. Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart</div><div>033. Firestorm, Nevada Barr</div><div>034. Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr</div><div>035. A Superior Death, Nevada Barr</div><div>036. Ill Wind, Nevada Barr</div><div>037. A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge</div><div>038. Carry Me Home, Janet Fox</div><div>039. Yonder, Jabari Asim</div><div>040. Bonds of Brass, Emily Skrutskie</div><div>041. Calamities, Renee Gladman</div><div>042. D (A Tale of Two Worlds), Michel Faber</div><div>043. Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia</div><div>044. Insomnia, Sarah Pinborough</div><div>045. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen</div><div>046. Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby</div><div>047. Cyber Mage, Saad Z. Hossain</div><div>048. Dead Collections, Isaac Fellman</div><div>049. Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn</div><div>050. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl, Jonathan C. Slaght</div><div>051. Donut Fall in Love, Jackie Lau</div><div>052. Spear, Nicola Griffith</div><div>053. Dear Damage, Ashley Marie Farmer</div><div>054. Forging a Nightmare, Patricia A. Jackson</div><div>055. D'Vaughn & Kris Plan a Wedding, Chencia C. Higgins</div><div>056. The Wolf and the Woodsman, Ava Reid</div><div>057. The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik</div><div>058. Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde</div><div>059. The Taking of Jake Livingston, Ryan Douglass</div><div>060. The Merciful Crow, Margaret Owen</div><div>061. Where the World Ends, Geraldine McCaughrean</div><div>062. Witchlings, Claribel A. Ortega</div><div>063. Feral Creatures, Kira Jane Buxton</div><div>064. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind, Kermit Pattison</div><div>065. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past, Meave Leakey</div><div>066. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, Toni Jensen</div><div>067. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be, Nichole Perkins</div><div>068. Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse</div><div>069. Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning Through Making, Anna Ploszajski</div><div>070. Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them, Mary Cappello</div><div>071. Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley</div><div>072. Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell</div><div>073. Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, Augustine Sedgewick</div><div>074. Crier's War, Nina Varela</div><div>075. Iron Heart, Nina Varela</div><div>076. We Are Not Broken, George M Johnson</div><div>077. Battle of the Bands, Lauren Giraldi and Eric Smith, eds.</div><div>078. The Self-Made Widow, Fabian Nicieza</div><div>079. So Many Beginnings, Bethany C. Morrow</div><div>080. The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal</div><div>081. The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd</div><div>082. The Innocence of the Devil, Nasal El Saadawi</div><div>083. Stormsong, C.L. Polk</div><div>084. When We Were Mermaids, Barbara O'Neal</div><div>085. The Many Meanings of Meilan, Andrea Wang</div><div>086. Laced with Magic, Barbara Bretton</div><div>087. Ghostly Paws, Leighann Dobbs</div><div>088. Spun by Sorcery, Barbara Bretton</div><div>089. Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, Jennifer Finney Boylan</div><div>090. These Toxic Things, Rachel Howzell Hall</div><div>091. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe, Keith O'Brien</div><div>092. Within These Wicked Walls, Lauren Blackwood</div><div>093. The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina — Separating the Myth from the Medicine, Jen Gunter, MD</div><div>094. The Taste of Sugar, Marisel Vera</div><div>095. The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor</div><div>096. The Donut Trap, Julie Tieu</div><div>097. Mother Daughter Widow Wife, Robin Wasserman</div><div>098. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan</div><div>099. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood, Frederick Joseph</div><div>100. Kismet, Amina Akhtar</div><div>101. Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All, Laura Bates</div><div>102. The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe</div><div>103. Book Lovers, Emily Henry</div><div>104. Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, Paul Koudounaris</div><div>105. Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey, Freddie Gershon</div><div>106. Hither, Page, Cat Sebastian</div><div>107. Telling, Marilyn Reynolds</div><div>108. Hopeless, Maine (1 & 2), Tom & Nimue Brown</div><div>109.# FashionVictim, Amina Akhtar</div><div>110. Big Hard Sex Criminals, Vols. 1-3, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky</div><div>111. The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui</div><div>112. One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, Charity Adams Earley</div><div>113. The Dawnhounds, Sasha Stronach</div><div>114. A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers</div><div>115. Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne Valente</div><div>116. A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross</div><div>117. A Man and His Cat, Vols 1-6, Umi Sakurai</div><div>118. The Great Offshore Grounds, Vanessa Veselka</div><div>119. Below, Laurel Hightower</div><div>120. African Europeans, Olivette Otele</div><div>121. A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow</div><div>122. Writers & Lovers, Lily King</div><div>123. Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, Jori Lewis</div><div>124. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means To Be Alive, Carl Zimmer</div><div>125. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers</div><div>126. Fiebre Tropical, Juliana Delgado Lopera</div><div>127. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, Tiya Miles</div><div>128. What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher</div><div>129. Set My Heart To Five, Simon Stephenson</div><div>130. Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture, Anneliese Abbott</div><div>131. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke</div><div>132. Number One Fan, Meg Elison</div><div>133. If This Gets Out, Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich</div><div>134. The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat</div><div>135. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Ruth Ben-Ghiat</div><div>136. Root Magic, Eden Royce</div><div>137. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong</div><div>138. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Lindsey Fitzharris</div><div>139. The Wicked and the Divine, Vols 1-9, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie</div><div>140. Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk</div><div>141. The Forest of Stolen Girls, June Hur</div><div>142. One True Loves, Elise Bryant</div><div>143. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik</div><div>144. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing, KC Davis, LPC</div><div>145. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Talia Lavin</div><div>146. The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow</div><div>147. We Were Witches, Ariel Gore</div><div>148. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May</div><div>149. Love Times Infinity, Lane Clarke</div><div>150. She and Her Cat, Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa, Ginny Tapley Takemori, trans</div><div>151. A Spirited Tail, Leighann Dobbs</div><div>152. Lost and Found, Kathryn Schulz</div><div>153. Crooked House, Agatha Christie</div><div>154. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and Half a Century of Silence, Becky Cooper</div><div>155. Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak</div><div>156. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell</div><div>157. The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses, Paul Koudounaris</div><div>158. Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us, Paul Koudounaris</div><div>159. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters</div><div>160. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's, Tiffany Midge</div><div>161. Black Birds In the Sky: The Story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Brandy Colbert</div><div>162. A Mew to a Kill, Leighann Dobbs</div><div>163. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, Laura Warrell</div><div>164. The Very Nice Box, Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Poetry Books Read in 2022</b></div><div>001. Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar</div><div>002. Dreaming of You, Melissa Lozada-Oliva</div><div>003. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, John Murillo</div><div>004. Little Girl Blue, Sequoia Maner</div><div>005. Against Heaven, Kemi Alabi</div><div>006. The Rootwork Stretched, mant¿s</div><div>007. The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson</div><div>008. A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Monica Sok</div><div>009. Body Facts, Joey S. Kim</div><div>010. Rare Birds, Shelley Wong</div><div>011. Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens, Corey Van Landingham</div><div>012. Imago, Dei, Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose</div><div>013. Can You Sign My Tentacle? Brandon O'Brien</div><div>014. All the Gay Saints, Kayleb Rae Candrilli</div><div>015. Nightingale, Paisley Rekdal</div><div>016. Sixteen Rabbits, Maryan Nagy Captan</div><div>017. Space Struck, Paige Lewis</div><div>018. Shutter, Taylor Byas</div><div>019. A mouthful of sky, Anu Mahadev</div><div>020. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire</div><div>021. All the Stars Aflame, Malik Abduh</div><div>022. 28,065 Nights, Katie Manning</div><div>023. Latch, Jen Stewart Fueston</div><div>024. Rare Encounters with Sea Beasts and Other Divine Phenomena, Nick Gregorio</div><div>025. Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Tongo Eisen-Martin</div><div>026. Blood on the Fog, Tongo Eisen-Martin</div><div>027. Nothing but Skin, Quartez Harris</div><div>028. Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong</div><div>029. We Made It to School Alive, Quartez Harris</div><div>030. Time Is a Mother, Ocean Vuong</div><div>031. The January Children, Safia Elhillo</div><div>032. Nothing Burns as Bright as You, Ashley Woodfolk</div><div>033. Whereas, Layli Long Soldier</div><div>034. Living Nations, Living Words, Joy Harjo, ed.</div><div>035. More Salt Than Diamond, Aline Mello</div><div>036. Eat Or We Both Starve, Victoria Kennefick</div><div>037. City Eclogue, Ed Roberson</div><div>038. The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry, Ruth Awad & Rachel Mennies, eds.</div><div>039. C+nto & Othered Poems, Joelle Taylor</div><div>-- SEALEY CHALLENGE --</div><div>040. The Colored Page, Matthew E. Henry</div><div>041. Every Song a Vengeance, Chloe N Clark</div><div>042. Our Gods Are Hungry for Elegies, Honora Ankong</div><div>043. Letters In a Bruised Cosmos, Liz Howard</div><div>044. The Wet Hex, Sun Yung Shin</div><div>045. Each One a Furnace, Tolu Oloruntoba</div><div>046. Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie</div><div>047. Black Under, Ashanti Anderson</div><div>048. Set the Garden on Fire, Chen Chen</div><div>049. Hallelujah Science, Kelli Stevens Kane</div><div>050. Patient., Bettina Judd</div><div>051. Sick, Jody Chan</div><div>052. Two Brown Dots, Danni Quintos</div><div>053. The Tradition, Jericho Brown</div><div>054. Burn Down Your House, Angelique Zobitz</div><div>055. The Bitter Seasons' Whip, Lee Yuk Sa, Seyko Nam Haines, translator</div><div>056. Prelude, Brynne Rebele-Henry</div><div>057. Hex & Howl, Simone Muench and Jackie K White</div><div>058. Wild Invocations, Ysabel Y González</div><div>059. Unbelonging, Gayatri Sethi</div><div>060. Concentrate, Courtney Faye Taylor</div><div>061. Miedo al Olvido: Poems from an Uprooted Girl, Ana Hurtado</div><div>062. Lace & Pyrite, Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil</div><div>063. Exercise in Desire, Francesca Kritikos</div><div>064. Sweetbitter, Stacey Balkun</div><div>065. Department of Elegy, Mary Biddinger</div><div>066. Groundcover, Molly Kugel</div><div>067. Rat Queen, Katie Jean Shinkle</div><div>068. Head of a Gorgon, Raegen Pietrucha</div><div>069. Paring, Travis Chi Wing Lau</div><div>070. The Autobiography of Absence, Ephraim Nehemiah</div><div>-- SEPTEMBER --</div><div>071. To See the Earth Before the End of the World, Ed Roberson</div><div>072. The Venus Hottentot, Elizabeth Alexander</div><div>073. Loom, Sarah Gridley</div><div>074. Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology, Wendy & Tyler Chin-Tanner, eds</div><div>075. Pebble Swing, Isabella Wang</div><div>076. All Our Wild Wonder, Sarah Kay</div><div>077. Goldenrod, Maggie Smith</div><div>078. Ask the Brindled, No‘u Revilla</div><div>079. Set to Music a Wildfire, Ruth Awad</div><div>080. Counting Descent, Clint Smith</div><div>081. Asked What Has Changed, Ed Roberson</div><div>082. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón</div><div>083. Tryst, Angie Estes</div><div>084. Circa, Hannah Zeavin</div><div>085. Return Flight, Jennifer Huang</div><div>086. Hot With the Bad Things, Lucia LoTempio</div><div>087. Casual Conversation, Renia White</div><div>088. Night Is a Sharkskin Drum, Haunani-Kay Trask</div><div>089. Light in the Crevice Never Seen, Haunani-Kay Trask</div><div>090. Poor Anima, Khaty Xiong</div><div>091. Cannibal, Safiya Sinclair</div><div>092. The Symmetry of Fish, Su Cho</div><div>093. Relinquenda, Alexandra Lytton Regaldo</div><div>094. Intimacies, Received, Taneum Bambrick</div><div>095. Girls That Never Die, Safia Elhillo</div><div>096. Harbinger, Shelley Puhak</div><div>097. The Lost Words, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris (ill.)</div><div>098. The Lost Spells, Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris</div><div>099. Pili's Wall, Philip Levine</div><div>100. Golden Ax, Rio Cortez</div><div>101. Bluest Nude, Ama Codjoe</div><div>102. Extinction Theory, Kien Lam</div><div>103. Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, Nicky Beer</div><div>104. Little Big Bully, Heid E. Erdrich</div><div>105. The Octopus Game, Nicky Beer</div><div>106. Boneshepherds, Patrick Rosal</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-63598753877790565172022-01-04T13:48:00.001-05:002022-01-04T13:48:25.721-05:002021 Books2021 was an interesting year. (These are Interesting Times.) I read enough poetry that I started keeping a separate list. I might have a few in the wrong places, but hey, they're on a list.<div><br /></div><div>Anyway, I have read 3(?) books in 2022, so I should post this and move on. And maybe someday I will finish some of my draft posts. And clear out my knitting/spinning projects. I should probably just give up on tagging/tracking yardage, as I still have things from 2020 to deal with. Possibly 2019. Blah. Obviously I like making things more than I like doing data entry.<br /><script type="text/javascript">
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The Life and Medieval Times of Kit Sweetly, Jamie Pacton</div><div>019. The Smallest Lights in the Universe, Sara Seager</div><div>020. Don't Look for Me, Wendy Walker</div><div>021. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Elle Cosimano</div><div>022. The Beauty in Breaking, Michele Harper</div><div>023. High School, Sara Quin and Tegan Quin</div><div>024. A Keeper, Graham Norton</div><div>025. Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo</div><div>026. This Accident of Being Lost, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson</div><div>027. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison</div><div>028. The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel</div><div>029. Confessions on the 7:45, Lisa Unger</div><div>030. Grown, Tiffany D. Jackson</div><div>031. Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby</div><div>032. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett</div><div>033. Charming As a Verb, Ben Philippe</div><div>034. Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam</div><div>035. Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse</div><div>036. A Beginning at the End, Mike Chen</div><div>037. Day One, Kelly deVos</div><div>038. American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson</div><div>039. New Waves, Kevin Nguyen</div><div>040. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, Lulu Miller</div><div>041. Crashing the A-List, Summer Heacock</div><div>042. Witchmark, C. L. Polk</div><div>043. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert</div><div>044. Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, Craig Brown</div><div>045. We Could Be Heroes, Mike Chen</div><div>046. Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan</div><div>047. Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge</div><div>048. Fighting Words, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</div><div>049. The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi</div><div>050. Untamed, Glennon Doyle</div><div>051. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, Melody Moezzi</div><div>052. Thin Girls, Diana Clarke</div><div>053. The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya</div><div>054. This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers, Jeff Sharlet</div><div>055. The Burning, Laura Bates</div><div>056. The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins</div><div>057. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, Sy Montgomery</div><div>058. Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones</div><div>059. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, J. Drew Lanham</div><div>060. The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life, Melody Moezzi</div><div>061. The Book of Delights, Ross Gay</div><div>062. What A Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, Jonathan Balcombe</div><div>063. It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage, Arlan Hamilton with Rachel L. Nelson</div><div>064. Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome, Ty Tashiro</div><div>065. Even As We Breathe, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle</div><div>066. The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom</div><div>067. This Is My America, Kim Johnson</div><div>068. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen, Dexter Palmer</div><div>069. Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar</div><div>070. Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo</div><div>071. Animal, Lisa Taddeo</div><div>072. Deadly Education, Naomi Novik</div><div>073. vN, Madeline Ashby</div><div>074. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff</div><div>075. Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden</div><div>076. Wham! George Michael & Me, Andrew Ridgeley</div><div>077. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North</div><div>078. The Unreality of Memory, Elisa Gabbert</div><div>079. Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor</div><div>080. The Everlasting, Katy Simpson Smith</div><div>081. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, Rebecca Hall</div><div>082. Orfeo, Richard Powers</div><div>083. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction, Gabrielle Moss</div><div>084. City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert</div><div>085. Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger</div><div>086. Blacktop Wasteland, S. A. Cosby</div><div>087. The Blade Between, Sam J. Miller</div><div>088. Gloryland, Shelton Johnson</div><div>089. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas</div><div>090. Scattered Lights, Steve Wiegenstein</div><div>091. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline</div><div>092. Proxies, Brian Blanchfield</div><div>093. Blackout, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon</div><div>094. Walking on Cowrie Shells, Nana Nkweti</div><div>095. Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh</div><div>096. Suburban Dicks, Fabian Nicieza</div><div>097. Only Mostly Devastated, Sophie Gonzales</div><div>098. Unsettled Ground, Claire Fuller</div><div>099. Tremendous Things, Susin Nielsen</div><div>100. Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas</div><div>101. From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Janae Marks</div><div>102. Finding Junie Kim, Ellen Oh</div><div>103. Big Girl Plus..., Meg Elison</div><div>103. Ophie's Ghosts, Justina Ireland</div><div>104. The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia</div><div>105. Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship, Catherine Raven</div><div>106. Pax, Sara Pennypacker</div><div>107. Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings</div><div>108. Hex, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight</div><div>109. Disappear Dopplegänger Disappear, Matthew Salesses</div><div>110. The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna</div><div>111. Hurricane Summer, Asha Bromfield</div><div>112. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Anna Merlan</div><div>113. Excavation, Wendy C. Ortiz</div><div>114. Sex Education, Jenny Davis</div><div>115. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, Kerri Arsenault</div><div>116. A Universe of Wishes, Dhonielle Clayton, ed.</div><div>117. In a Holidaze, Christina Lauren</div><div>118. Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto</div><div>119. Her Dark Lies, J.T. Ellison</div><div>120. The Various Haunts of Men, Susan Hill</div><div>121. Matrix, Lauren Groff</div><div>122. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, Cat Sebastian</div><div>123. Pax: Journey Home, Sara Pennypacker</div><div>124. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner</div><div>125. Feathered, Laura Kasischke</div><div>126. The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling</div><div>127. The Hidden World of the Fox, Adele Brand</div><div>128. The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey</div><div>129. Better Luck Next Time, Julia Claiborne Johnson</div><div>130. The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner</div><div>131. The Kindest Lie, Nancy Johnson</div><div>132. Waiting for the Night Song, Julie Carrick Dalton</div><div>133. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer, Rax King</div><div>134. The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline</div><div>135. For the Wolf, Hannah Whitten</div><div>136. Punch Me Up to the Gods, Brian Broome</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Poetry Books Read in 2021</b></div><div>001. The Emperor's Babe, Bernadine Evaristo</div><div>002. Obit, Victoria Chang</div><div>003. Chlorine Sky, Mahogany L. Brown</div><div>004. Dearly, Margaret Atwood</div><div>- SEALEY CHALLENGE -</div><div>005. Ordinary Beast, Nicole Sealey</div><div>006. We Want Our Bodies Back, jessica Care moore</div><div>007. The Gospel of Barbecue, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers</div><div>008. The Octopus Museum, Barbara Shaughnessy</div><div>009. Unaccompanied, Javier Zamora</div><div>010. Don't Call Us Dead, Danez Smith</div><div>011. The Undressing, Li-Young Lee</div><div>012. Felon, Reginald Dwayne Betts</div><div>013. Bestiary, Donika Kelly</div><div>014. Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky</div><div>015. An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo</div><div>016. Sonata Mulattica, Rita Dove</div><div>017. Homie, Danez Smith</div><div>018. Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert</div><div>019. Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey</div><div>020. Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Alice Walker</div><div>021. Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, Maya Angelou</div><div>022. Power Politics, Margaret Atwood</div><div>023. Mezzanine, Zoë Hitzig</div><div>024. I Will Destroy You, Nick Flynn</div><div>025. Be Recorder, Carmen Giménez Smith</div><div>026. Sentences and Rain, Elaine Equi</div><div>027. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, Patricia Smith</div><div>028. Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang</div><div>029. Lighthead, Terrance Hayes</div><div>030. Semiautomatic, Evie Shockley</div><div>031. We Inherit What the Fires Left, William Evans</div><div>032. Black Girl, Call Home, Jasmine Mans</div><div>- SEPTEMBER -</div><div>033. Maybe the Saddest Thing, Marcus Wicker</div><div>034. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, Morgan Parker</div><div>035. Felicity, Mary Oliver</div><div>036. Midland, Kwame Dawes</div><div>037. Brown, Kevin Young</div><div>038. Hybrida, Tina Chang</div><div>039. Ariel, The Restored Edition, Sylvia Plath</div><div>040. Ariel in Black, Michelle R. Smith</div><div>041. The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib</div><div>042. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes</div><div>043. Playlist for the Apocalypse, Rita Dove</div><div>044. it was never going to be okay, jaye simpson</div><div>045. Peluda, Melissa Lozada-Oliva</div><div>046. White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino</div><div>047. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Morgan Parker</div><div>048. Thrust, Heather Derr-Smith</div><div>049. The Renunciations, Donika Kelly</div><div>050. When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest, Jimmy Santiago Baca</div><div>051. Be Holding, Ross Gay</div><div>052. A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon</div><div>053. Vantage, Taneum Bambrick</div><div>054. Magical Negro, Morgan Parker</div><div>055. The Wilderness, Sandra Lim</div><div>056. What Noise Against the Cane, Desiree C. Bailey</div><div>057. The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth</div><div>058. Incarnadine, Mary Szybist</div><div>059. Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Camille Rankine</div><div>060. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Laure-Anne Bosselaar</div><div>061. Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Claudia Rankine</div><div>062. The 100 Best African American Poems, Nikki Giovanni, ed.</div><div>063. Home Is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo</div><div>064. The Curious Thing, Sandra Lim</div><div>065. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson</div><div>066. The Infinitesimals, Laura Kasischke</div><div>067. Hollywood Forever, Harmony Holiday</div><div>068. Love and Other Poems, Alex Dimitrov</div></div></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-39363382448368644552021-02-16T16:21:00.001-05:002021-02-16T16:21:33.725-05:00Zoey and her purple hatPresented without comment.<script type="text/javascript">
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Junauda Petrus</div><div>002. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo</div><div>003. Little Weirds, Jenny Slate</div><div>004. Winterwood, Shea Ernshaw</div><div>005. The Body in Question, Jill Ciment</div><div>006. Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi</div><div>007. How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones</div><div>008. The Beautiful, Renee Ahdieh</div><div>009. The Night Country, Melissa Albert</div><div>010. Before and After: The Incredible Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate</div><div>011. The Last True Poets of the Sea, Julia Drake</div><div>012. Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, Lucy Dancyger, ed.</div><div>013. Perfect Little Children, Sophie Hannah</div><div>014. Old Bones, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child</div><div>015. Made for Love, Alissa Nutting</div><div>016. Vita Nostra, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey</div><div>017. Good Girls Lie, J.T. Ellison</div><div>018. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel</div><div>019. The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Lucy Cooke</div><div>020. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, Erin Khar</div><div>021. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong</div><div>022. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood, Rose George</div><div>023. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell L. Moore</div><div>024. The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair</div><div>025. Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire</div><div>026. Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson</div><div>027. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Pam Houston</div><div>028. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire</div><div>029. Little, Edward Carey</div><div>030. The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders</div><div>031. Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid</div><div>032. The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi</div><div>033. All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft, Geraldine DeRuiter</div><div>034. The Book Charmer, Karen Hawkins</div><div>035. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, Amanda Montell</div><div>036. Day Zero, Kelly DeVos</div><div>037. Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim, Leah Vernon</div><div>038. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, translated by Hester Velmans</div><div>039. There Will Be No Miracles Here, Casey Gerald</div><div>040. No Country for Old Gnomes, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne</div><div>041. The Red Pencil, Andrea Davis Pinkney</div><div>042. Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey</div><div>043. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Margaret Renkl</div><div>044. Gold Rush Girl, Avi</div><div>045. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T. Kira Madden</div><div>046. The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America, Sarah Kendzior</div><div>047. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid</div><div>048. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge</div><div>049. A Thousand Fires, Shannon Price</div><div>050. A Crown of Wishes, Roshani Chokshi</div><div>051. Emmy in the Key of Code, Aimee Lucido</div><div>052. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi</div><div>053. The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri</div><div>054. House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig</div><div>055. Docile, K.M. Szpara</div><div>056. Buzz Sting Bite: Why We Need Insects, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, translated by Lucy Moffatt</div><div>057. The Black God's Drums, P. Djèlí Clark</div><div>058. Crying Laughing, Lance Rubin</div><div>059. The Editor, Steven Rowley</div><div>060. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz</div><div>061. Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump</div><div>062. The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Chris Enss</div><div>063. Three Women, Lisa Taddeo</div><div>064. The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo</div><div>065. Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi</div><div>066. Real Men Knit, Kwana Jackson</div><div>067. I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal</div><div>068. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live, Heather B. Armstrong</div><div>069. A World Without Bees, Allison Benjamin and Brian McCallum</div><div>070. Orphan Eleven, Gennifer Choldenko</div><div>071. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Michael Zapata</div><div>072. The Princess Beard, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne</div><div>073. A River of Royal Blood, Amanda Joy</div><div>074. The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé</div><div>075. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Julie C. Dao</div><div>076. The Deep, Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes</div><div>077. Afterlife, Julia Alvarez</div><div>078. Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah</div><div>079. Saving Ruby King, Catherine Adel West</div><div>080. Real Life, Brandon Taylor</div><div>081. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado</div><div>082. Meaty, Samantha Irby</div><div>083. Luster, Raven Leilani</div><div>084. Weather, Jenny Offill</div><div>085. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi</div><div>086. Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado</div><div>087. Conjure Women, Afia Atakora</div><div>088. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong</div><div>089. Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford</div><div>090. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson</div><div>091. A Blade So Black, L.L. McKinney</div><div>092. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall</div><div>093. A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow</div><div>094. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton</div><div>095. A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary, eds.</div><div>096. The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker</div><div>097. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, eds</div><div>098. Make Russia Great Again, Christopher Buckley</div><div>099. I Wanna Be Where You Are, Kristina Forest</div><div>100. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, eds.</div><div>101. More Than Maybe, Erin Hahn</div><div>102. Verge, Lidia Yuknavitch</div><div>103. When We Were Magic, Sarah Gailey</div><div>104. Light From Other Stars, Erika Swyler</div><div>105. The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue</div><div>106. Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz</div><div>107. Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, Alia Volz</div><div>108. A Madness of Angels, Or, The Resurrection of Matthew Swift, Kate Griffin</div><div>109. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It, Kamal Ravikant</div><div>110. The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama</div><div>111. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney</div><div>122. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig</div><div>123. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Mona Eltahawy</div><div>124. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</div><div>125. The War I Finally Won, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</div><div>126. Find Layla, Meg Elison</div><div>127. African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, A Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard.</div><div>128. Anxious People, Fredrik Backman</div><div>129. Early Departures, Justin A. Reynolds</div><div>130. Legendborn, Tracy Deonn</div><div>131. Let's Never Talk About This Again, Sara Faith Alterman</div><div>132. His Only Wife, Peace Adzo Medie</div><div>133. Ties That Tether, Jane Igharo</div><div>134. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed.</div><div>135. Cinderella Is Dead, Kalynn Bayron</div><div>136. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho</div><div>137. The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers</div><div>138. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, Mira Jacob</div><div>139. Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots</div><div>140. The Expats, Chris Pavone</div><div>141. The Paris Diversion, Chris Pavone</div><div>142. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here, Hope Jahren</div><div>143. A Million Aunties, Alecia McKenzie</div><div>144. Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender</div><div>145. All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban</div><div>146. The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans</div><div>147. Trust Exercise, Susan Choi</div><div>148. Particulate Matter, Felicia Luna Lemus</div><div>149. Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark</div><div>150. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw</div><div>151. This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Kacen Callender</div><div>152. He Started It, Samantha Downing</div><div>153. Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods</div><div>154. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Charles King</div><div>155. Beasts Made of Night, Tochi Onyebuchi</div><div>156. Crown of Thunder, Tochi Onyebuchi</div><div>157. Mean, Myriam Gurba</div><div>158. The Freezer Door, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore</div><div>159. Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson</div><div>160. 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I feel guilty about making ya'll scroll through three paragraphs to get to the recipe, but hey, at least you won't be forced to close an intrusive video or a pop-up asking you to join my email list. Source recipe is at this link, with all sorts of shit to scroll through before you get to the recipe: <a href="https://www.averiecooks.com/best-broccoli-cheese-soup-better-panera-copycat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">broccoli cheese soup</a>. This is what I did:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>INGREDIENTS (amounts approximate; it's soup):</div><div>1 tablespoon + 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided</div><div>1 onion, diced </div><div>3 cloves garlic, pressed</div><div>1/2 cup all-purpose flour</div><div>4 cups stock (I used water + mushroom bouillon)</div><div>4 cups milk (she used half and half, I prefer keeping that for my coffee)</div><div>1 giant head of broccoli, diced into bite-size pieces</div><div>6 small carrots, trimmed, peeled, and sliced into very thin rounds, about 1/16th-inch</div><div>smoked paprika </div><div>dry mustard powder</div><div>chili powder </div><div>Big chunk of sharp cheddar cheese, grated (half a Costco-sized package)</div><div><br /></div><div>DIRECTIONS:</div><div>Saute the onion in a little bit of butter until it makes you happy.</div><div>Add the garlic and cook a bit longer.</div><div>Add another whack of butter, and after it melts toss in the spices: dry mustard, smoked paprika, and chili powder. </div><div>Let them bloom just a bit, then stir in the flour. </div>Disclosure: I see no point in dirtying another pan in order to make a roux.<br /><div>Add carrots now if you like them best when cooked into oblivion, like I do.</div><div>Slowly add the vegetable stock, whisking constantly. (I used a spoon rather than a whisk.)</div><div>Slowly add the milk, whisking constantly.</div><div>Allow mixture to simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally.</div><div>While mixture is simmering, chop the broccoli. </div><div>When the giant head of broccoli is in small pieces, dump that in.</div><div>Simmer until the texture of the broccoli makes you happy. </div><div>While the soup is cooking, grate the cheese if you aren't using the pre-grated stuff. </div></div><div>Dump in the cheese, stir until it's melted and integrated.</div><div>Eat.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was just told that if I ever have to "get rid of" more broccoli, this soup is an acceptable way to do it, but it needs a sandwich as a side. Or maybe the soup is the side. Whatever. I ate the leftovers, so I don't care what he thinks. (Yes, I am pissy. I was watching a livestream on my tablet and he walked upstairs to tell me he was thinking of buying a projection tv thing so I could watch livestreams on a 100" thing. I don't think he even realized he was interrupting something. So he's getting cauliflower and kale for dinner.)</div><div><br /></div><div>And hey, it's the end, let me share an ugly picture of the soup: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_fs3jC1Fl1wtue1skhpWKMPoBy621o-kY_evGVfXuyyi5b1ETPtw8vZjq7GD5D_fcdv94v1ayLDCMbweT0cyaHweTQamMs0ZM37u43ykZXJ_z6d4IbnVo5nlFQP_nP99v3x977DP6oA/s2048/IMG_20201019_155648394_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2011" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_fs3jC1Fl1wtue1skhpWKMPoBy621o-kY_evGVfXuyyi5b1ETPtw8vZjq7GD5D_fcdv94v1ayLDCMbweT0cyaHweTQamMs0ZM37u43ykZXJ_z6d4IbnVo5nlFQP_nP99v3x977DP6oA/s320/IMG_20201019_155648394_2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-50251015403168494672020-09-25T22:48:00.001-04:002020-09-25T22:48:55.177-04:00Realization! And random nostalgia shit.Tonight was a fundraiser for the Cuyahoga County Public Library. I signed up to attend as soon as I saw the announcement. CCPL is the best, and a fundraiser where I stay home? I'm all in. <script type="text/javascript">
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She's one of the kindest people I know, and I need to make an effort to see her more often. </div><div><br /></div><div>She laughed at me when I told her that I don't enjoy dinners with people I don't know. She doesn't quite believe me that I don't enjoy making small talk with strangers. Somehow she doesn't see how awkward I feel in situations like that. She asked how we became friends if I don't like talking to people.</div><div><br /></div><div>Realization: The people I love most are all open about their passions. You don't have to spend much time with them before they tell you about the things they love - their pets, their partners, their hobbies, their studies - whatever it is they enjoy most. I've known for a long time that I don't like people who can't say anything nice about their family, chosen or otherwise, but hadn't made the connection that I love those who are loving. (And I should have - the other day I watched LeVar Burton tell Jacqueline Woodson that he loved her at the start of an interview, and then I told my husband that I love LeVar Burton. But who doesn't love LeVar Burton?) Duh. </div><div><br /></div><div>She LOVES her cats (and books, and her family), and we met when she was looking for a home for a cat that I ended up fostering for a few days before taking him to his new people. He was a loving little boy, but feline ladies did NOT love him. Her girlcats hated him, and Zoey hissed at me after I snuggled with him when he was staying with us. He's happy and loved where he is, but I kinda wish I had forced Zoey to accept him. He's a lumpa lump of purring love, with the softest paws ever, and I miss him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Life here is mostly the same, current events are stressful because we should know better than to elect toddlers and far too many people don't, but today I picked up books and last night's Quarantine Book Club started with the author saying, "Penises all the way down." Oh! I learned that CCPL will now be using Zoom rather than facebook for their author events. Which makes me VERY happy, because I have Feelings about facebook and avoid it as much as possible. Zoom has its own set of problems, but I'm not forced to witness my father's kool-aid consumption there. </div><div><br /></div><div>This morning I left the house (!) to pick up the food at the library, drop off the unwanted chicken, and stop by a bookstore to collect the books I'd ordered. Since recent news has been making me cry, I listened to music that makes me cry instead. Hence the random nostalgia shit part of the title.</div><div><br /></div><div>My new car (did I tell everyone that I bought a new car last October? Trevor needed a new clutch, and after being held hostage at a local dealership I bought a 2017 Honda Fit from a dealership in Indiana. I called them from the Ohio dealership's office because I do not reward hardball tactics and if you leave me alone me long enough for me to call another vendor I will. I am a knitter, not a doormat.) has a USB port, and I use it. Duh. </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, I have a weakness for angsty late-90s dudes. (And maybe just angsty singers in general. Hmm.) I won't admit how many times I listened to this song today, but it was a lot. (Hint: I lost count.) I've gone into my personal history before (albeit not recently), so if you care to wander through my ramblings you'll find that my husband and I had a hiatus of a few years before deciding that yeah, we could possibly maybe might actually be compatible or something. This song was released when we weren't together and I was heartbroken, and it evokes all those memories. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kI_Y4hgsXYY" width="320" youtube-src-id="kI_Y4hgsXYY"></iframe></div><br /><div>Anyway, I guess I'd rather be sad for personal reasons that I know were resolved than sad about things that I can do very little about. I will still do what I can, but I can't de-program those who have been brainwashed. Facts and reason and logic can't overcome fear, and critical thinking and empathy have become foreign concepts. </div><div><br /></div><div>And on that note, I should try to get some sleep. Tomorrow is a brew day, and I should make sure that some of the Special Brewing Underwear has made the journey from the dryer to the underwear drawer. The things we do for the people we love!</div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-13141891054451878932020-09-11T14:29:00.000-04:002020-09-11T14:29:01.084-04:00September and I'm trying to avoid work<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Costco orders via instacart and standard delivery, work, finishing a book, copying down a recipe I want to make that I can't seem to find the tab for, thinking about another recipe I want to make but need to look up because we've ended up with a ridiculous amount of sweet corn in the fridge, drafting this post, trying to avoid twitter because the randomness that it provides is the sole thing that can hold my attention oh hi there you are again tweeps, scowling at a dude I occasionally have to deal with whom I seriously dislike because he changed something he probably should have changed but I feel like I'm being blamed for not having the information that is inside his head, listening to new albums by Oceanator and Girl Friday, time to read another chapter because this book is far too prescient and I'd like to return it to the library today, scowling some more because simpering dude is simpering and I hate it, and oh, I really ought to drink more because I can feel that I'm dehydrated, and maybe I should delete the commas because they make this run-on sentence slightly more coherent and stream-of-consciousness leads to beautiful things like there is a ceramic cow smiling at me except the cow isn't here it was somewhere I was babysitting decades ago and now I don't think anything is smiling at me, I should probably eat something because it's after lunchtime and where's my calendar, wondering if nextdoor has been taken over by bots because all of the "hi I'm xxx and it's nice to meet you" messages are baffling and slightly unsettling, fuck you dickhead, I hate that people with food blogs think I want to hear all about their kids before I look at the recipe that caused me to click their link, and my email inbox is overflowing and I know my voice mail is full but I can't bring myself to clean it out, I should probably do something productive like clean the bathroom or empty some of the boxes that have accumulated by the front door and dear Bob my workspace is a disaster but decision paralysis is a thing and I am overwhelmed with everything that needs done and maybe I'm not actually doing as well as I thought I was.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, Zoey is very serious about high fives, at least when treats are involved. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHkWf9Oc2X_t2R_hx-W6cr5Cd5ciQaMgOce4dt2XXFiqt7v6nwpHplhkedXp84dn8C0SvRbfSDjvaex73xlombadYiXUwMKfKsAdTjhLwV6O8GzQ0_Ri3QDCZdvKhD9TyIBJn3CGGRDk/s500/highfive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHkWf9Oc2X_t2R_hx-W6cr5Cd5ciQaMgOce4dt2XXFiqt7v6nwpHplhkedXp84dn8C0SvRbfSDjvaex73xlombadYiXUwMKfKsAdTjhLwV6O8GzQ0_Ri3QDCZdvKhD9TyIBJn3CGGRDk/s320/highfive.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03148219348574188174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630667792703881505.post-60539810444010555482020-08-10T14:50:00.001-04:002020-08-10T14:50:13.383-04:00Books and thingsWe're still here, having ridiculous arguments about how he'd rather me chop up peppers and make burritos than stuff peppers because he'd rather have me do the work of cutting peppers for him but he draws the line at me pre-chewing his food because he's not a Ferengi. Also whether fruit, yogurt, and granola should be consumed for lunch or dinner. And that store-bought tortillas shouldn't be stacked because that causes them to stick together. As if they aren't already stacked in the stores. Oh, apparently I should chop vegetables so he can use them to make lunch because he's incapable of using a knife or something. Except he doesn't trust me when I have a knife in my hand because I am clumsy and might stab him. Whatever.<div><br /></div><div>Anyway, apparently the way to encourage me to read is to give me a new stack of library books. Back in March, I checked out all of the books being held for me right before everything shut down. And then my reading rate decreased. When the library opened for returns/drive-thru pickup at the beginning of June, I only had 18 books to return and should have had at least 25. (Tangent: I caused traffic jams at two different library branches while returning and picking up books.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Since then, I've been voraciously reading, partly as an attempt to stay below my allowed limit of checkouts. It hasn't really been working, but most of the library employees have been kind enough to give me however many books are on the shelf waiting for me. </div><div><br /></div><div>And since returns are being quarantined for at least three days, I have been obsessively refreshing my library account on the day books are due to be scanned back in, because apparently it's reassuring to watch the number of my checkouts decrease. I should do that now, brb. Nope, they're not scanned in yet.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, I should have been posting some flash book reviews but haven't. Y'all should read these books:</div><div> </div><div>Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid</div><div>Docile, K.M. Szpara</div><div>Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump</div><div>Three Women, Lisa Taddeo</div><div>The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Michael Zapata</div><div>The Deep, Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes</div><div>Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah</div><div>Saving Ruby King, Catherine Adel West</div><div>Real Life, Brandon Taylor</div><div>In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado</div><div><script type="text/javascript">
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<b>1. Coffee:</b> I don't like sharing my coffee. My coffeepot makes the amount of coffee that I want to drink every day, and I don't like that my husband insists on drinking a cup every day. (It was bad enough when he only demanded coffee on Fridays and weekends.) Clearly this means that he should give up caffeine and leave it all for me, not that I should get over myself and just make more coffee. Duh.<br />
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<b>2. Distraction: </b>He has terrible timing. My focus isn't the greatest at the best of times, and it seems like every time I can concentrate for more than 30 seconds he comes upstairs and distracts me. Doesn't he know that I'm trying to do about eight different work tasks while also making a grocery list, deleting/filing personal emails, browsing Ravelry forums, and doing something else that's slipped my mind due to my lack of focus? Oh, yeah, swearing at the local idiots on nextdoor. Keep your cats inside, people!<br />
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<b>3. Laundry:</b> Inevitably, the day <i>after </i>I've done laundry, he will announce that <i>something</i>, often the shirt he is currently wearing, needs washed. It's not like we're going much of anywhere, so it's not usually as urgent as in the days before social distancing, but since I'm whining I might as well whine, right? Pass me the cheese, please.<br />
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<b>4. Cleaning:</b> Since we've been stuck at home, he's been cleaning and organizing the basement. This sounds like a good thing, right? No. Why? Because he found boxes of my stuff, and is forcing me to go through the piles of WTF from high school. So far I've found a bunch of random notes written during classes, many reminders of our inexplicable love for Mötley Crüe, two suicide notes from the same person (one ending with the statement that her decision was final but we'd talk about it during lunch; facebook informs me that she's still alive and well and hopefully less of a drama queen), and this beautiful piece of found art:<br /><br />
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Perhaps someone will recognize this and tell me what it was in reference to.<br />
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So yeah. Waaaah. All in all, things aren't so bad. They could be a lot worse. I feel like I've made at least a few good life choices.<br />
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In other news, various music is bringing on ALL OF THE FEELS lately. I don't know if anyone cares, but I might ramble on about that in another post.<br />
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Okay. Left you alone for a while while I baked my sourdough and knitted through a virtual happy hour. And then I don't even know. See above re: squirrel on speed. Spent some time today in the Forbidden Room, and found that Zoey missed me so much she curled up against the door to wait for me to come out. Poor lonely kitty. Anyway, the wire shelving I'd used for yarn years ago is now in the closet, and I have space for a glass cabinet that a friend is giving me.<br />
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And now it's several days (weeks? Weeks. Oops.) later, and I'm still scattered. The glass cabinet is in the no-longer-Forbidden Room and is nearly full of spinning fiber. I've made bagels, cookies, pita bread, and many round loaves with Cxaxukluth, my sourdough starter. More dough is rising, and I have starter set aside for peanut butter cookies. Oh, and I have blueberries for a blueberry pie. I've learned how to use the TV as a computer monitor (yay, wifi!), and really need to clean my glasses.<br />
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I've read a bit but not enough, and I definitely haven't been knitting or sewing or spinning enough. Found a crate of cross stitch projects that have been sitting around nearly-finished for something like a decade.<br />
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001. The Reapers Are the Angels, Alden Bell<br />
002. The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad, Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan<br />
003. The Adults, Caroline Hulse<br />
004. The Overstory, Richard Powers<br />
005. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney Cooper<br />
006. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens<br />
007. Going Bovine, Libba Bray<br />
008. Sonora, Hannah Lillith Assadi<br />
009. The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh<br />
010. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones<br />
011. The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz<br />
012. Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler<br />
013. Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin<br />
014. The Field Guide to the North American Teenager, Ben Philippe<br />
015. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, Glory Edim, ed.<br />
016. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton<br />
017. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley<br />
018. Curse of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz<br />
019. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo<br />
020. Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon<br />
021. Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, James R. Doty, MD<br />
022. Citizen, Claudia Rankine<br />
023. Given to the Sea, Mindy McGinnis<br />
024. Unnatural Creatures, Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman with Maria Dahvana Headley<br />
025. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, Stephanie Land<br />
026. All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung<br />
027. Kill the Farm Boy, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne<br />
028. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee<br />
029. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Mackenzi Lee<br />
030. Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married, Abby Ellin<br />
031. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Dani Shapiro<br />
032. The Lost Girls of Paris, Pam Jenoff<br />
033. You, Caroline Kepnes<br />
034. Golden Child, Claire Adam<br />
035. How to Love a Jamaican, Alexia Arthurs<br />
036. The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self, Victoria Price<br />
037. Uprooted, Naomi Novik<br />
038. Dear Mrs. Bird, AJ Pearce<br />
039. Census, Jesse Ball<br />
040. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele<br />
041. Any Man, Amber Tamblyn<br />
042. Munmun, Jesse Andrews<br />
043. Red Clocks, Leni Zumas<br />
044. Zero Sum Game, S. L. Huang<br />
045. In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan<br />
046. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers<br />
047. The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert<br />
048. How to Stop Time, Matt Haig<br />
049. Transcription, Kate Atkinson<br />
050. Tell the Wind and Fire, Sarah Rees Brennan<br />
051. The Pisces, Melissa Broder<br />
052. Less, Andrew Sean Greer<br />
053. Girls Burn Brighter, Shobha Rao<br />
054. The Atomic City Girls, Janet Beard<br />
055. The Gospel of Trees, Apricot Irving<br />
056. We Own the Sky, Luke Allnutt<br />
057. The Talented Ribkins, Ladee Hubbard<br />
058. Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton<br />
059. Westside, W. M. Akers<br />
060. Normal People, Sally Rooney<br />
061. The Hundredth Queen, Emily R. King<br />
062. Good Talk, Mira Jacob<br />
063. Women Talking, Miriam Toews<br />
064. What My Mother And I Don't Talk About, Michele Filgate<br />
065. Valencia and Valentine, Suzy Krause<br />
066. Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea, Anna Badkhen<br />
067. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas<br />
068. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Jacob Tobia<br />
069. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby<br />
070. Tuesday Nights in 1980, Molly Prentiss<br />
071. Notes From a Young Black Chef, Kwame Onwuachi<br />
072. No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco<br />
073. The Day I Died, Lori Rader-Day<br />
074. The Lady Doctor, Ian Williams<br />
075. Raw Material: Working Wool in the West, Stephany Wilkes<br />
076. The Beholder, Anna Bright<br />
077. Patsy, Nicole Dennis-Benn<br />
078. Let Me Hear a Rhyme, Tiffany D. Jackson<br />
079. My Life as a Goddess, Guy Branum<br />
080. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble<br />
081. 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas, Marie-Helene Bertino<br />
082. Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens, Tanya Boteju<br />
083. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, Alison Arngrim<br />
084. Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving<br />
085. The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Theodora Goss<br />
086. Little Big Love, Katy Regan<br />
087. The Dime, Kathleen Kent<br />
088. Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh<br />
089. Recursion, Blake Crouch<br />
090. Sandman Slim, Richard Kadrey<br />
091. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides<br />
092. The Map of True Places, Brunonia Barry<br />
093. The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead<br />
094. Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud, Elizabeth Greenwood<br />
095. Three Things About Elsie, Joanna Cannon<br />
096. One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, Lucy Corin<br />
097. Marilou Is Everywhere, Sarah Elaine Smith<br />
098. When We Were Animals, Joshua Gaylord<br />
099. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, F. C. Yee<br />
100. Unspoken, Sarah Rees Brennan<br />
101. The Girl in Red, Christina Henry<br />
102. Comics Will Break Your Heart, Faith Erin Hicks<br />
103. Ziggy, Stardust & Me, James Brandon<br />
104. Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton<br />
105. The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard<br />
106. Reticence, Gail Carriger<br />
107. Life and Other Inconveniences, Kristan Higgins<br />
108. Cold Storage, David Koepp<br />
109. Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig<br />
110. When All Is Said, Anne Griffin<br />
111. A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, Ben Folds<br />
112. This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone<br />
113. The Child Finder, Rene Denfeld<br />
114. The Butterfly Girl, Rene Denfeld<br />
115. Pet, Akwaeke Emezi<br />
116. Year of the Monkey, Patti Smith<br />
117. The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence<br />
118. No Judgments, Meg Cabot<br />
119. Ask Again, Yes, Mary Beth Keane<br />
120. Cherry, Nico Walker<br />
121. Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls, Lucy Corin<br />
122. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell<br />
123. Orpheus Girl, Brynne Rebele-Henry<br />
124. The Bone Houses, Emily Lloyd-Jones<br />
125. Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey<br />
126. The Girl the Sea Gave Back, Adrienne Young<br />
127. Thick and Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom<br />
128. The Good Luck Girls, Charlotte Nicole Davis<br />
129. All the Bad Apples, Moira Fowley-Doyle<br />
130. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool, Clara Parkes<br />
131. Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson<br />
132. Who Put This Song On?, Morgan Parker<br />
133. Butterfly Yellow, Thanhhà Lai<br />
134. The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher<br />
135. Juliet Takes a Breath, Gabby Rivera<br />
136. A Single Thread, Tracy Chevalier<br />
137. This Is All Your Fault, Cassie Parker, Terra Elan McVoy<br />
138. The Beautiful Ones, Prince, Dan Piepenbring, ed.<br />
139. Michigan vs. the Boys, Carrie S. Allen<br />
140. Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig<br />
141. Travel Light, Naomi Mitchison<br />
142. All-American Muslim Girl, Nadine Jolie Courtney<br />
143. Spare and Found Parts, Sarah Maria Griffin<br />
144. Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring<br />
145. Other Words for Smoke, Sarah Maria Griffin<br />
146. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates<br />
147. Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowiitz<br />
148. Act of God, Jill Ciment<br />
149. Fat Girl on a Plane, Kelly deVos<br />
150. Nice Try, Jane Sinner, Lianne Oelke<br />
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My book recommendation of the year is The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. I have given four copies and have plans to give a few more.<br />
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001. Taste of Marrow, Sarah Gailey<br />
002. A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab<br />
003. Fearless and Free: How Smart Women Pivot and Relaunch Their Careers, Wendy Sachs<br />
004. Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly<br />
005. Wonder, R. J. Palacio<br />
006. Fishbowl, Bradley Somer<br />
007. Crosstalk, Connie Willis<br />
008. True Tales from the Campaign Trail: Stories Only Political Consultants Can Tell, Jerry Austin<br />
009. Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng<br />
010. Swing Time, Zadie Smith<br />
011. The Monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers<br />
012. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward<br />
013. It Devours!, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor<br />
014. The Night Child, Anna Quinn<br />
015. The Hike, Drew Magary<br />
016. Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo<br />
017. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas<br />
018. Imprudence, Gail Carriger<br />
019. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks<br />
020. White Houses, Amy Bloom<br />
022. After the Crash, Michel Bussi<br />
023. The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace, Molly Caldwell Crosby<br />
024. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, W. Kamau Bell<br />
025. Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi<br />
026. The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Mallory Ortberg<br />
027. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates<br />
028. Freebird, Jon Raymond<br />
029. Look for Me, Lisa Gardner<br />
030. Gun Love, Jennifer Clement<br />
031. Swimming Lessons, Claire Fuller<br />
032. Speak No Evil, Uzodinma Iweala<br />
033. The Travelers, Chris Pavone<br />
034. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, Andrea Wulf<br />
035. The French Girl, Lexie Elliott<br />
036. Home Sweet Home, April Smith<br />
037. The Beauty That Remains, Ashley Woodfolk<br />
038. Paris by the Book, Liam Callanan<br />
039. The Astonishing Color of After, Emily X. R. Pan<br />
040. The Fifth Petal, Brunonia Barry<br />
041. Blood Water Paint, Joy McCullough<br />
042. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession, Piper Weiss<br />
043. Tangerine, Christine Mangan<br />
044. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli<br />
045. Picture Us in the Light, Kelly Loy Gilbert<br />
046. Last Seen Leaving, Caleb Roehrig<br />
047. The Lucky Ones, Julianne Pachico<br />
048. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler<br />
049. Tyler Johnson Was Here, Jay Coles<br />
050. The Wild Inside, Jamey Bradbury<br />
051. The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost<br />
052. Books for Living, Will Schwalbe<br />
053. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, Kirk Wallace Johnson<br />
054. Varina, Charles Frazier<br />
055. The Way the Light Bends, Cordelia Jensen<br />
056. White Rabbit, Caleb Roehrig<br />
057. Brightly Burning, Alexa Donne<br />
058. Love and Ruin, Paula McLain<br />
059. The Midnight Cool, Lydia Peelle<br />
060. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hannah Tinti<br />
061. Skyscraping, Cordelia Jensen<br />
062. I See You, Clare Mackintosh<br />
063. H Is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald<br />
064. Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertalli<br />
065. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund<br />
066. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo," Zora Neale Hurston<br />
067. Florida, Lauren Groff<br />
068. Sometime After Midnight, L. Philips<br />
069. Invitation to a Bonfire, Adrienne Celt<br />
070. A Shout in the Ruins, Kevin Powers<br />
071. Providence, Caroline Kepnes<br />
072. Dread Nation, Justina Ireland<br />
073. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander<br />
074. Sky in the Deep, Adrienne Young<br />
075. Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, Paula McLain<br />
076. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, Phaedra Patrick<br />
077. The Real Michael Swann, Bryan Reardon<br />
078. The Diminished, Kaitlyn Sage Patterson<br />
079. The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar<br />
080. The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin<br />
081. The Music Shop, Rachel Joyce<br />
082. The Accusation, Bandi<br />
083. Two Girls Down, Louisa Luna<br />
084. The Secrets Between Us, Thrity Umrigar<br />
085. Mozart's Starling, Lyanda Lynn Haupt<br />
086. A Rising Man, Abir Mukherjee<br />
087. The Island Dwellers, Jen Silverman<br />
088. The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah<br />
089. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara<br />
090. The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ruth Ware<br />
091. Notes of a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin<br />
092. All American Boys, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely<br />
093. Competence, Gail Carriger<br />
094. A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza<br />
095. Vox, Christina Dalcher<br />
096. There There, Tommy Orange<br />
097. The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal<br />
098. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard<br />
099. Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate<br />
100. The Fated Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal<br />
101. The Windfall, Diksha Basu<br />
102. Our House, Louise Candlish<br />
103. She Would Be KIng, Wayetu Moore<br />
104. City of Ghosts, Victoria Schwab<br />
105. Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell<br />
106. Educated, Tara Westover<br />
107. Waiting for Eden, Elliot Ackerman<br />
108. The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker<br />
109. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan<br />
110. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green<br />
111. Eagle and Crane, Suzanne Rindell<br />
112. The Occasional Virgin, Hanan al-Shaykh<br />
113. Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman<br />
114. Washington Black, Esi Edugyan<br />
115. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward<br />
116. The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa<br />
117. The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory<br />
118. Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us About Life and Living, Brandy Schillace<br />
119. The Misfortune of Marion Palm, Emily Culliton<br />
120. Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton<br />
121. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Inga Muscio<br />
122. Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse<br />
123. All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders<br />
124. My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite<br />
125. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis<br />
126. The Spaceship Next Door, Gene Doucette<br />
127. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, Nadia Bolz-Weber<br />
128. How Long 'til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin<br />
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2019 Goals</h2>
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4. Knit down stash into at least four sweaters, preferably more.</div>
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6. Finish some of those WIPs. I have at least three sweaters that just need sleeves. </div>
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