2017 books and QOTD
1) The Republic of Pirates, Colin Woodard
2) Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (electronic)
3) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie (electronic)
4) Rivers of London, vol 2: Night Witch, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero, Rob Steen
5) Two Awesome Hours, Josh Davis (electronic)
6) A Concise History of the Caribbean, B. W. Higman
7) Blue Moon, Laurell K. Hamilton (re-read, electronic)
8) Everland, Wendy Spinale (electronic)
9) The First Two Rules of Leadership, David Cottrell
10) Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch
11) Hook, K. R. Thompson (electronic)
12) Lauren Ipsum, Carlos Bueno (electronic)
13) Redshirts, John Scalzi (electronic)
14) Agent of Change, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (electronic)
15) Smartcuts, Shane Snow (electronic)
16) A Fork in the Road, ed. James Oseland (electronic)
17) A Criminal Defense, William L. Myers Jr. (electronic)
18) Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman (electronic)
19) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (re-read, electronic)
20) Crooked House, Agatha Christie (electronic)
21) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (electronic)
22) Fortune's Formula, William Poundstone (electronic)
23) The Sculptor, Scott McCloud
24) Wet Grave, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
25) The Hanging Judge, Michael Ponsor (electronic)
26) In Light of India, Octavio Paz
27) The Drops of G-d, vol 1, Tadashi Agi, Shu Okimoto
28) Vanity Fare, Megan Caldwell (electronic)
29) Soho Dead, Greg Keen (electronic)
30) Princeless, short stories, Jeremy Whitley, et al.
31) Princeless, vol 3: The Pirate Princess, Jeremy Whitley, Rosy Higgins, Ted Brandt
32) Sphinx, Anne Garreta, trans. Emma Ramadan
33) Alex and Eliza, Melissa de la Cruz (electronic)
34) The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr
35) Days of the Dead, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
36) Dead Water, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
37) Dead and Buried, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
38) Rivers of London, vol 3: Black Mould, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero
39) The Angel Esmeralda, Don DeLillo
40) Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright (electronic)
41) The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman
42) The Seven Wonders, Steven Saylor (electronic)
43) Death Comes to Pemberley, P. D. James (electronic)
44) One Man's Meat, E. B. White
45) Molly Fox's Birthday, Deirdre Madden
46) Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor, Prof. Kenneth Harl (audio)
47) P. S. From Paris, Marc Levy (electronic)
48) A Beautiful Poison, Lydia Kang (electronic)
49) Five Nights in Paris, John Baxter (electronic)
50) Sister Emily's Lightship and other stories, Jane Yolen (electronic)
51) The Furthest Station, Ben Aaronovitch (electronic)
52) The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston (electronic)
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mallorys_camera: Every era you awaken into tries to choke you, tries to derail you with its own urgency, its own frenzy, its own chaos. Meanwhile, off in a corner of your peripheral vision, the truly important things are taking place. -3/19/2017
Bari Weiss: These believers are transforming the campus from a citadel of intellectual freedom into a holy space-where white privilege has replaced original sin, the transgressions of class and race and gender are confessed not to priests but to “the community,” victim groups are worshiped like gods, and the sinned-against are supplicated with “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings.” -3/31/17
Charles Duhigg: snobbery has to be hidden and camouflaged as something else, like an Instagram post from your Iceland spelunking adventure or a lament about how hard it is to find a charging station near Burning Man for your electric sports car. -4/14/17
Ijeoma Oluo: She could not see that there was no amount of lighting that would make her look whiter than that interaction had. Perhaps that itself was the secret to the power of the Dolezal phenomenon-the overwhelming whiteness of it all. -4/19/17
Joel Snape: Pro tip: every time you post a ‘Go hard or go home’ meme on your Twitter feed, someone chooses ‘home’. There are biscuits there. -11/17/16
Anne Garreta (trans. Emma Ramadan): Crystallized at the bottom of my memory remains the recollection of these sleeps and these wakings where one floats between the resurgence of desire and the memory of its satisfaction.
Megan Caldwell: I was a woman, a woman who was occasionally witty, sometimes pretty, always well read.
Rich Lowry: The reality is that Trump will continue to step on his team's message, advertise his worst instincts on Twitter and make whatever might still lurking out there on Russia worse with robustly counterproductive counterpunching. -7/12/2017
Bret Stephens: Only someone with his and Bannon’s transgressive instincts, along with their seeming incapacity for moral and intellectual embarrassment, could have defeated the well-oiled if soulless machine that was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. -7/18/2017
Alexander Hamilton: Beloved by you, I can be happy in any situation, and can struggle with every embarrassment of fortune with patience and firmness. -8/1/1780
Melissa de la Cruz: He had only his wits - his ability to see through to the heart of a situation quickly and to render that truth persuasively in words.
Vann R. Newkirk: it’s hard to square a group of men with Home Depot tiki torches, wrinkled khakis, bad haircuts, and a love of memes who came down to Emancipation Park with the blood-curdling menace of Klansmen in my mind’s eye. -8/12/2017
Megan McArdle: It's like the world’s biggest small town, replete with all the things that mid-century writers hated about small-town life: the constant gossip, the prying into your neighbor’s business, the small quarrels that blow up into lifelong feuds. We’ve replicated all of the worst features of those communities without any of the saving graces, like the mercy that one human being naturally offers another when you’re face to face and can see their suffering. -8/22/2017
Howard Mansfield: In history, unlike heredity, we choose our ancestors.
Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino: Wedding rings and uranium bombs are elemental echoes of these merging neutron stars. -10/16/2017
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2) Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (electronic)
3) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie (electronic)
4) Rivers of London, vol 2: Night Witch, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero, Rob Steen
5) Two Awesome Hours, Josh Davis (electronic)
6) A Concise History of the Caribbean, B. W. Higman
7) Blue Moon, Laurell K. Hamilton (re-read, electronic)
8) Everland, Wendy Spinale (electronic)
9) The First Two Rules of Leadership, David Cottrell
10) Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch
11) Hook, K. R. Thompson (electronic)
12) Lauren Ipsum, Carlos Bueno (electronic)
13) Redshirts, John Scalzi (electronic)
14) Agent of Change, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (electronic)
15) Smartcuts, Shane Snow (electronic)
16) A Fork in the Road, ed. James Oseland (electronic)
17) A Criminal Defense, William L. Myers Jr. (electronic)
18) Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman (electronic)
19) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (re-read, electronic)
20) Crooked House, Agatha Christie (electronic)
21) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (electronic)
22) Fortune's Formula, William Poundstone (electronic)
23) The Sculptor, Scott McCloud
24) Wet Grave, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
25) The Hanging Judge, Michael Ponsor (electronic)
26) In Light of India, Octavio Paz
27) The Drops of G-d, vol 1, Tadashi Agi, Shu Okimoto
28) Vanity Fare, Megan Caldwell (electronic)
29) Soho Dead, Greg Keen (electronic)
30) Princeless, short stories, Jeremy Whitley, et al.
31) Princeless, vol 3: The Pirate Princess, Jeremy Whitley, Rosy Higgins, Ted Brandt
32) Sphinx, Anne Garreta, trans. Emma Ramadan
33) Alex and Eliza, Melissa de la Cruz (electronic)
34) The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr
35) Days of the Dead, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
36) Dead Water, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
37) Dead and Buried, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
38) Rivers of London, vol 3: Black Mould, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero
39) The Angel Esmeralda, Don DeLillo
40) Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright (electronic)
41) The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman
42) The Seven Wonders, Steven Saylor (electronic)
43) Death Comes to Pemberley, P. D. James (electronic)
44) One Man's Meat, E. B. White
45) Molly Fox's Birthday, Deirdre Madden
46) Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor, Prof. Kenneth Harl (audio)
47) P. S. From Paris, Marc Levy (electronic)
48) A Beautiful Poison, Lydia Kang (electronic)
49) Five Nights in Paris, John Baxter (electronic)
50) Sister Emily's Lightship and other stories, Jane Yolen (electronic)
51) The Furthest Station, Ben Aaronovitch (electronic)
52) The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston (electronic)
##
mallorys_camera: Every era you awaken into tries to choke you, tries to derail you with its own urgency, its own frenzy, its own chaos. Meanwhile, off in a corner of your peripheral vision, the truly important things are taking place. -3/19/2017
Bari Weiss: These believers are transforming the campus from a citadel of intellectual freedom into a holy space-where white privilege has replaced original sin, the transgressions of class and race and gender are confessed not to priests but to “the community,” victim groups are worshiped like gods, and the sinned-against are supplicated with “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings.” -3/31/17
Charles Duhigg: snobbery has to be hidden and camouflaged as something else, like an Instagram post from your Iceland spelunking adventure or a lament about how hard it is to find a charging station near Burning Man for your electric sports car. -4/14/17
Ijeoma Oluo: She could not see that there was no amount of lighting that would make her look whiter than that interaction had. Perhaps that itself was the secret to the power of the Dolezal phenomenon-the overwhelming whiteness of it all. -4/19/17
Joel Snape: Pro tip: every time you post a ‘Go hard or go home’ meme on your Twitter feed, someone chooses ‘home’. There are biscuits there. -11/17/16
Anne Garreta (trans. Emma Ramadan): Crystallized at the bottom of my memory remains the recollection of these sleeps and these wakings where one floats between the resurgence of desire and the memory of its satisfaction.
Megan Caldwell: I was a woman, a woman who was occasionally witty, sometimes pretty, always well read.
Rich Lowry: The reality is that Trump will continue to step on his team's message, advertise his worst instincts on Twitter and make whatever might still lurking out there on Russia worse with robustly counterproductive counterpunching. -7/12/2017
Bret Stephens: Only someone with his and Bannon’s transgressive instincts, along with their seeming incapacity for moral and intellectual embarrassment, could have defeated the well-oiled if soulless machine that was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. -7/18/2017
Alexander Hamilton: Beloved by you, I can be happy in any situation, and can struggle with every embarrassment of fortune with patience and firmness. -8/1/1780
Melissa de la Cruz: He had only his wits - his ability to see through to the heart of a situation quickly and to render that truth persuasively in words.
Vann R. Newkirk: it’s hard to square a group of men with Home Depot tiki torches, wrinkled khakis, bad haircuts, and a love of memes who came down to Emancipation Park with the blood-curdling menace of Klansmen in my mind’s eye. -8/12/2017
Megan McArdle: It's like the world’s biggest small town, replete with all the things that mid-century writers hated about small-town life: the constant gossip, the prying into your neighbor’s business, the small quarrels that blow up into lifelong feuds. We’ve replicated all of the worst features of those communities without any of the saving graces, like the mercy that one human being naturally offers another when you’re face to face and can see their suffering. -8/22/2017
Howard Mansfield: In history, unlike heredity, we choose our ancestors.
Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino: Wedding rings and uranium bombs are elemental echoes of these merging neutron stars. -10/16/2017
This post was made on Dreamwidth & crossposted to LJ.
The dreamwidth post is here: https://katestine.dreamwidth.org/1377993.html and has
comments.