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The end of summer approaches! Everyone rejoice!
Hurricane season is here in NC! Everyone move to higher ground!
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
This book taught me that my ultimate comfort read is female-authored 1990s science fiction. Ah, nostalgia.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
We went over these murders in the Native American lit courses I took in college, but no one ever mentioned how the FBI was involved. Lesson: if you're brown and have money, move out of Oklahoma. Some redneck is looking to kill you.
The Black Elfstone, Terry Brooks
Restarting the final Shannara quadrology (is that the word?) because I started the last book and realized I forgot everything that happened before.
The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology, Snorri Sturluson
Iceland's greatest gift to world literature.
Call for the Dead, John le Carré
Turns out Apple County Library did have the first George Smiley book so I can get the Le Carré Completist badge.
The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Restoration and 18th Century, David Damrosch, et al.
I'm making my peace with eighteenth-century literature. I still hate heroic couplets, though.
Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery
Simultaneously the happiest and saddest of the Anne books.
Viking: The Norse Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual, John Haywood
A handy book to have if you want to go around pillaging Europe in the 990s.
Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga
A very short book of short stories about the Rwandan massacres. O_o
The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks
See The Black Elfstone.
The Tower, W.B. Yeats
Finally got my own copy. *hugs it*
Renascence and Other Poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay
I prefer later, cynical Millay but her first book of poetry was great, too.
The Stiehl Assassin, Terry Brooks
See The Skaar Invasion.
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Well-written Virginia Woolf fanfic. I like this much better than I did the first time I read it. I think it's because I'm older now.
The Vikings, James Graham-Campbell & Dafydd Kidd
Chronicle of a museum exhibit proving the Vikings were more than medieval pirates. I wish more of their textile and woodwork survived.
A Delicate Truth, John le Carré
John le Carré was very upset with U.S. foreign policy in the early 2000s and rightly so.
My Ántonia, Willa Cather
One of the most classic of American classics. Give a copy to every girl you know.
Out of Time's Abyss, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The final book in the "Land that Time Forgot" trilogy. Yeah, that was a trilogy. This is the only one I've read but I like it the most because it explains the weird biology of Caprona.
Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight, Katherine Paterson
Fantastic retelling of a medieval epic by the woman who brought us Bridge to Terabithia.
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Oh yeah! Almost forgot the Saturday Shorts!
Foundation Foods: The world's most pointy-voiced narrator explains the seven (7!) food groups which includes butter.
The Gossip: Laura and Jean are best friends until big-mouthed Frieda starts running her big mouth.
Developing Responsibility: There's a guy in this short who will just walk up and give you a dog. Can he be my neighbor?
Understanding Your Ideals: In which Jeff's grandma throws a monkey wrench into Jeff's plans to be popular.
Hurricane season is here in NC! Everyone move to higher ground!
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
This book taught me that my ultimate comfort read is female-authored 1990s science fiction. Ah, nostalgia.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
We went over these murders in the Native American lit courses I took in college, but no one ever mentioned how the FBI was involved. Lesson: if you're brown and have money, move out of Oklahoma. Some redneck is looking to kill you.
The Black Elfstone, Terry Brooks
Restarting the final Shannara quadrology (is that the word?) because I started the last book and realized I forgot everything that happened before.
The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology, Snorri Sturluson
Iceland's greatest gift to world literature.
Call for the Dead, John le Carré
Turns out Apple County Library did have the first George Smiley book so I can get the Le Carré Completist badge.
The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Restoration and 18th Century, David Damrosch, et al.
I'm making my peace with eighteenth-century literature. I still hate heroic couplets, though.
Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery
Simultaneously the happiest and saddest of the Anne books.
Viking: The Norse Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual, John Haywood
A handy book to have if you want to go around pillaging Europe in the 990s.
Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga
A very short book of short stories about the Rwandan massacres. O_o
The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks
See The Black Elfstone.
The Tower, W.B. Yeats
Finally got my own copy. *hugs it*
Renascence and Other Poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay
I prefer later, cynical Millay but her first book of poetry was great, too.
The Stiehl Assassin, Terry Brooks
See The Skaar Invasion.
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Well-written Virginia Woolf fanfic. I like this much better than I did the first time I read it. I think it's because I'm older now.
The Vikings, James Graham-Campbell & Dafydd Kidd
Chronicle of a museum exhibit proving the Vikings were more than medieval pirates. I wish more of their textile and woodwork survived.
A Delicate Truth, John le Carré
John le Carré was very upset with U.S. foreign policy in the early 2000s and rightly so.
My Ántonia, Willa Cather
One of the most classic of American classics. Give a copy to every girl you know.
Out of Time's Abyss, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The final book in the "Land that Time Forgot" trilogy. Yeah, that was a trilogy. This is the only one I've read but I like it the most because it explains the weird biology of Caprona.
Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight, Katherine Paterson
Fantastic retelling of a medieval epic by the woman who brought us Bridge to Terabithia.
~~~~~~~~~
Oh yeah! Almost forgot the Saturday Shorts!
Foundation Foods: The world's most pointy-voiced narrator explains the seven (7!) food groups which includes butter.
The Gossip: Laura and Jean are best friends until big-mouthed Frieda starts running her big mouth.
Developing Responsibility: There's a guy in this short who will just walk up and give you a dog. Can he be my neighbor?
Understanding Your Ideals: In which Jeff's grandma throws a monkey wrench into Jeff's plans to be popular.