Books read in 2017
I know I say this every year, but wow it went by fast, and it somehow gets faster every year. I loved finally going to Glacier Bay, and having it be even more amazing than I imagined it would be. Kayaking and geocaching, winning $500, meeting someone related to Cherry, and meeting Aimee in Anchorage were some other awesome things that happened. I can't wait to see what awesome things 2018 has in store!
Here are all the books I read this year, with the star rating too (one of my favorite parts of the end of the year haha):
January
The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven (Jan 1-7) (4/5)
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven (Jan 8-12) (4/5)
Tragedy and Triumph: The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott's Last Polar Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott (Jan 13-24) (5/5)
Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing? by Michael Smith (Jan 25-30) (4/5)
Feburary
The Inheritance by Charles Finch (Jan 31-Feb 4) (3/5)
Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition by Leonard F. Guttridge (Feb 5-12) (3/5)
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie (Feb 13-17) (5/5)
Surviving Logan by Erik Bjarnason (Feb 19-22) (3/5)
The Great White South: Traveling with Robert F. Scott's Doomed South Pole Expedition by Herbert G. Ponting (Feb 22-28) (5/5)
March
Peary: The Explorer and the Man by John Edward Weems (March 1-8) (4/5)
The Terror by Dan Simmons (March 9-23) (5/5)
Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil (March 26-31) (2/5)
April
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge (April 5-3) (5/5)
Ordeal by Ice: The Search for the Northwest Passage by Farley Mowat (April 5-15) (3/5)
To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me by Heather Green (April 16-19) (4/5)
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney (April 19-24) (4/5)
From the Deep of the Sea by Charles Edward Smith Harris (April 25-29) (4/5)
May
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie (April 30-May 7) (5/5)
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic by George Seaver (May 7-14) (5/5)
My Life of Adventure by Norman D. Vaughan (May 14-17) (5/5)
With Byrd at Bottom of World by Norman D. Vaughan (May 18-21) (5/5)
Avalanche by Patrick F. McManus (May 22-25) (3/5)
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie (May 27-29) (5/5)
June
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt (May 30-June 11) (3/5)
Lieutenant Castner's Alaskan Exploration, 1898 by Lieut. Joseph C. Castner (June 11-13) (4/5)
Winter Study by Nevada Barr (June 14-20) (4/5)
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer: A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley by Robert Dunn (June 21-26) (1/5)
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun (June 27-30) (3/5)
July
Alfie the Doorstep Cat by Rachel Wells (July 2-4) (5/5)
Murder Off the Beaten Path by M.L. Rowland (July 5-9) (5/5)
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White (July 9-12) (5/5)
Elisha Kent Kane and the Seafaring Frontier (July 12-16) (3/5)
Arctic Explorations by Elisha Kent Kane (July 16-23) (3/5)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (July 23-29) (5/5)
August
High Country by Nevada Barr (July 29-Aug. 1) (3/5)
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America (Aug. 2-7) (5/5)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Aug. 7-10) (4/5)
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (Aug. 11-15) (4/5)
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Aug. 15-17) (5/5)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (Aug. 18) (1/5)
South with Scott by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans (Aug. 21-27) (5/5)
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (Aug. 28-30) (3/5)
September
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley (Aug. 31-Sept. 1) (3/5)
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley (Sept. 4-5) (2/5)
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley (Sept. 6-11) (4/5)
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes by Meredith Hooper (Sept. 12-21) (4/5)
Waiting to Fly: My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica by Ron Naveen (Sept. 22-28) (5/5)
October
The Revenant by Michael Punke (Sept. 29-Oct. 5) (4/5)
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett (Oct. 5-12) (3/5)
The Voyage of the Discovery by Robert F. Scott (Oct. 13-31) (3/5)
November
A Cat Called Alfie by Rachel Wells (Nov. 1-5) (4/5)
Alfie and George by Rachel Wells (Nov 5-9) (3/5)
To the South Polar Regions: Expedition of 1898-1900 by Louis Charles Bernacchi (Nov. 9-13) (4/5)
In the Antarctic: Stories of Scott's Last Expedition by Frank Debenham (Nov. 14-16) (4/5)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Nov. 16-22) (3/5)
Antarctica: Journey to the Pole by Peter Lerangis (Nov. 25-26) (4/5)
Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young (Nov. 26-27) (5/5)
Emperors of the Ice by Richard Farr (Nov. 28-30) (5/5)
December
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (Nov. 30-Dec. 7. LOVED this one!!) (5/5)
The White Desert by Noel Barber (Dec. 8-12) (3/5)
Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole by Helen Thayer (Dec. 13-19) (4/5)
The Family Tree by Cynthia Rinear Bethune (Dec. 19-21. Becky's sister wrote this book!) (5/5)
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin (Dec. 22-26) (4/5)
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeannette by John Muir (Dec. 26-28) (2/5)
The True Book About Captain Scott by Will Hollwood (Dec. 29) (5/5)
In total, I read 66 books, beating my record of 65 from 2015!! Awesome! I read over 20,682 pages. :D Just for fun, here are previous years' stats lol
2012: 27
2013: 31
2014: 44
2015: 65
2016: 52
2017: 66
Awesome :D
I love that Google continued this theme from Christmas! Capture Your 365 was fun, but I just got tired of it by the end lol. I might do some prompts I like in 2018, but I'm going to take a break from it :P
December 1: 'Tis the Season
December 2: Cup Of...
December 3: Tree
December 4: Hung With Care
December 5: Sweet Treat
December 6: The Colors of Christmas
December 7: Holiday Whimsy
December 8: What I'm Reading
December 9: Low
December 10: Christmas Macro
December 11: Bells
December 12: Lights
December 13: Prepare
December 14: Set the Scene
December 15: Where I Stand
December 16: Holiday Shapes
December 17: Santa Sighting
December 18: Bokeh Tree
December 19: Ornament
December 20: Giving
December 21: December Vibes
December 22: Joy!
December 23: Light it Up
December 24: Waiting for Santa
December 25: Gather
December 26: Quiet Moments
December 27: Glisten
December 28: Begin Again
December 29: Having a Laugh
December 30: Evergreen
December 31: Happy New Year
Here are all the books I read this year, with the star rating too (one of my favorite parts of the end of the year haha):
January
The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven (Jan 1-7) (4/5)
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven (Jan 8-12) (4/5)
Tragedy and Triumph: The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott's Last Polar Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott (Jan 13-24) (5/5)
Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing? by Michael Smith (Jan 25-30) (4/5)
Feburary
The Inheritance by Charles Finch (Jan 31-Feb 4) (3/5)
Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition by Leonard F. Guttridge (Feb 5-12) (3/5)
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie (Feb 13-17) (5/5)
Surviving Logan by Erik Bjarnason (Feb 19-22) (3/5)
The Great White South: Traveling with Robert F. Scott's Doomed South Pole Expedition by Herbert G. Ponting (Feb 22-28) (5/5)
March
Peary: The Explorer and the Man by John Edward Weems (March 1-8) (4/5)
The Terror by Dan Simmons (March 9-23) (5/5)
Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil (March 26-31) (2/5)
April
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge (April 5-3) (5/5)
Ordeal by Ice: The Search for the Northwest Passage by Farley Mowat (April 5-15) (3/5)
To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me by Heather Green (April 16-19) (4/5)
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney (April 19-24) (4/5)
From the Deep of the Sea by Charles Edward Smith Harris (April 25-29) (4/5)
May
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie (April 30-May 7) (5/5)
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic by George Seaver (May 7-14) (5/5)
My Life of Adventure by Norman D. Vaughan (May 14-17) (5/5)
With Byrd at Bottom of World by Norman D. Vaughan (May 18-21) (5/5)
Avalanche by Patrick F. McManus (May 22-25) (3/5)
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie (May 27-29) (5/5)
June
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt (May 30-June 11) (3/5)
Lieutenant Castner's Alaskan Exploration, 1898 by Lieut. Joseph C. Castner (June 11-13) (4/5)
Winter Study by Nevada Barr (June 14-20) (4/5)
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer: A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley by Robert Dunn (June 21-26) (1/5)
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun (June 27-30) (3/5)
July
Alfie the Doorstep Cat by Rachel Wells (July 2-4) (5/5)
Murder Off the Beaten Path by M.L. Rowland (July 5-9) (5/5)
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White (July 9-12) (5/5)
Elisha Kent Kane and the Seafaring Frontier (July 12-16) (3/5)
Arctic Explorations by Elisha Kent Kane (July 16-23) (3/5)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (July 23-29) (5/5)
August
High Country by Nevada Barr (July 29-Aug. 1) (3/5)
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America (Aug. 2-7) (5/5)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Aug. 7-10) (4/5)
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (Aug. 11-15) (4/5)
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Aug. 15-17) (5/5)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (Aug. 18) (1/5)
South with Scott by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans (Aug. 21-27) (5/5)
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (Aug. 28-30) (3/5)
September
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley (Aug. 31-Sept. 1) (3/5)
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley (Sept. 4-5) (2/5)
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley (Sept. 6-11) (4/5)
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes by Meredith Hooper (Sept. 12-21) (4/5)
Waiting to Fly: My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica by Ron Naveen (Sept. 22-28) (5/5)
October
The Revenant by Michael Punke (Sept. 29-Oct. 5) (4/5)
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett (Oct. 5-12) (3/5)
The Voyage of the Discovery by Robert F. Scott (Oct. 13-31) (3/5)
November
A Cat Called Alfie by Rachel Wells (Nov. 1-5) (4/5)
Alfie and George by Rachel Wells (Nov 5-9) (3/5)
To the South Polar Regions: Expedition of 1898-1900 by Louis Charles Bernacchi (Nov. 9-13) (4/5)
In the Antarctic: Stories of Scott's Last Expedition by Frank Debenham (Nov. 14-16) (4/5)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Nov. 16-22) (3/5)
Antarctica: Journey to the Pole by Peter Lerangis (Nov. 25-26) (4/5)
Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young (Nov. 26-27) (5/5)
Emperors of the Ice by Richard Farr (Nov. 28-30) (5/5)
December
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (Nov. 30-Dec. 7. LOVED this one!!) (5/5)
The White Desert by Noel Barber (Dec. 8-12) (3/5)
Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole by Helen Thayer (Dec. 13-19) (4/5)
The Family Tree by Cynthia Rinear Bethune (Dec. 19-21. Becky's sister wrote this book!) (5/5)
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin (Dec. 22-26) (4/5)
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeannette by John Muir (Dec. 26-28) (2/5)
The True Book About Captain Scott by Will Hollwood (Dec. 29) (5/5)
In total, I read 66 books, beating my record of 65 from 2015!! Awesome! I read over 20,682 pages. :D Just for fun, here are previous years' stats lol
2012: 27
2013: 31
2014: 44
2015: 65
2016: 52
2017: 66
Awesome :D
I love that Google continued this theme from Christmas! Capture Your 365 was fun, but I just got tired of it by the end lol. I might do some prompts I like in 2018, but I'm going to take a break from it :P
December 1: 'Tis the Season
December 2: Cup Of...
December 3: Tree
December 4: Hung With Care
December 5: Sweet Treat
December 6: The Colors of Christmas
December 7: Holiday Whimsy
December 8: What I'm Reading
December 9: Low
December 10: Christmas Macro
December 11: Bells
December 12: Lights
December 13: Prepare
December 14: Set the Scene
December 15: Where I Stand
December 16: Holiday Shapes
December 17: Santa Sighting
December 18: Bokeh Tree
December 19: Ornament
December 20: Giving
December 21: December Vibes
December 22: Joy!
December 23: Light it Up
December 24: Waiting for Santa
December 25: Gather
December 26: Quiet Moments
December 27: Glisten
December 28: Begin Again
December 29: Having a Laugh
December 30: Evergreen
December 31: Happy New Year