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Here's my list of the new books that I read in 2011, if I remembered to write them down, with some commentary on most of them.

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I never posted my 2010 list of books, so here it is--a haphazard list of books that I hadn't read before, if I remembered to write them down, mostly with brief commentary.

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Feed, by Mira Grant (who also writes as Seanan McGuire). Georgia and Shaun are blogging the presidential race in 2040; they grew up after the zombies started terrorizing the world. You wouldn’t think a world with zombies would be particularly relevant, but the parallels with our world are striking. Georgia writes in her blog ( Read more... )

Here is a list of the books I read in 2009, when I remembered to add them. Some are annotated. Those in brackets are ones I was rereading. I already posted a few annotated entries, but include them here again anyway.

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The motion-minded kitchen : step-by-step procedures for designing and building the kitchen you want with the space and money you have,  Clark, Sam.   THE kitchen design and renovation book.  Makes you think about what you do in a kitchen, how to make your kitchen meet your needs, how to think outside the box for kitchen design.

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Wondrous strange : a novel   Livingston, Lesley.  Urban fantasy. Okay, I haven’t quite decided how good this is.  The mixture of theatre and faerie is always fun.  I had a problem with the gratuitous dragging in of mythological or legendary names (like Fenris Ulf) that were not the actual legendary person, and I prefer the usage of Faerie for the ( Read more... )

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Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, March 7, 2009. The Northampton Center for the Arts hall is only just big enough for the crowd that was there on Saturday, but the sound was glorious-occasionally I had to sit back and just let the sound break over my head, rich, resonant, poignantly minor or triumphantly major.

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I'll be going to the huge, glorious Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention this Saturday, and I'm also planning to attend the Vermont singing at the end of the month, at which we'll sing out of the Northern Harmony book (oh, goody!) as well as the 1991 Sacred Harp. Since my family starting singing Sacred Harp music regularly, 11 years ago, I ( Read more... )