Books, long articles/essays and comics I read during 2018. Here's to another good year of words!
1. Whiteout compendium - Greg Rucka & Steve Lieber. The first half had more appeal than the second.
2. No Time to Spare - Ursula K. LeGuin. A lovely little book of essays with some great one-liners.
3. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Required reading for humans of all stripes.
4. Unexplained - Renee Regent. College kids researching unexplained phenomena. Meh.
5. Zoogeomorphology - David Butler. Studies on how animals change the shape of the earth. Woo-hoo!
6. From Here To Eternity - Caitlin Doughty. Not quite anthropological, not quite tourism. A cool look at death.
7. Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith. A look at the evolutionary development of consciousness. Plus, cephalopods!
8 The Tick #2, 3 - Cullen Bunn & Jimmy Z. more oddly translated french.
9. God Complex Dogma #3 - Paul Jenkins & Henry Prasetya. Pretty sure now I don’t like the protagonist.
10. Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil #3, 4 - Jeff Lemire & David Rubin.
11. The Family Trade #3, 4, 5 - Justin Jordan & Nikki Ryan.
12. Scales & Scoundrels #4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 - Sebastian Girner & Galaad.
13. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur vol 4. Girl-Moon - Brandon Montclare & Natcha Bustos. I think I’ve missed some of the story somewhere. Regardless, a black super girl and a t-rex combo is awesome.
14. The Speaker - Traci Chee. Book 2 of sea of ink and gold. I am enjoying the writer’s craft, but liking the characters less and less.
15. Jenny Finn #1-4 - Mike Mignola & Troy Nixon. Odd girl causes those around her to turn into fishy, tentacled monsters. I am fond of all of the random fish lying beached in the backgrounds moaning, “doom.”
16. Descender vol 1 Tin Stars - Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. Robots outlawed and feared. Except that one, he's cute. And that one. He’s deadly.
17. Clade - James Bradley. Global warming crisis as it effects one family and their inability to communicate with each other.
18. Brimstone - Cherie Priest. Ok, so I must gush. I have always liked her writing. But now I like it even more. This book had an item that I had never heard of, that I (geeky librarian) researched, finding out great things, alas, not what said object is. So I wrote her an email and asked. What the hey. AND SHE WROTE ME BACK!!!! Within 24 hours, no less. SHE WROTE ME BACK!
19. Black Plants - Paul Bonine. Doing some research for my goth garden.
20. Scarlett - Helen Powers. I follow her on tumblr and thought I would check out her book. Story is a bit cheesy, a couple of plot disconnects, but well written.
21. Descender Machine Moon - Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. Second volume in the series.
22. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes - Brad Ricca. Biography of Grace Humiston, a new york lawyer and detective who solved cases no one else could. I did not like the way the author arranged the information.
23. Arclight - Marian Churchland & Brandon Graham. Bought it for the art which is fantastic. This is good since the story is fairly incomprehensible.
24. Zoo City - Lauren Beukes. Set in South Africa, criminals are ‘animalled’ - given an animal that has to be with them at all times or else they are in physical pain. Weirdly cool. Oh, and there are superpowers and mysteries to be solved.
25. Sleepless #1, 2, 3, 4 , 5 - Sarah Vaughn & Leila Del Duca. Really promising series full of court intrigue & bodyguards who take vows to never sleep. Art is beautiful.
26. Only the End of the World Again - Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell. The writing flows like a dream. The art is cool - and then, the second half of the book showcases the sketch-to-finished-art by Russell. Well worth it.
27. Cities at Risk - Pierre Fillion, Gary Sands & Mark Skidmore. One of my dad’s books that I bought for the architecture firm, since we live and build in earthquake/fire/flood land. What can I say, my coworkers want to read it too.
28. Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire. Third in the Wayward Children series.
29. The Queen of All Crows - Rod Duncan. Volume one of The Map of Unknown Things. Pretty much picks up where the last series ended.
30. Honky Tonk Samurai - Joe R. Lansdale. Funny. His writing is more crass than I remember, but funny.
31. Chasing the Moon - A. Lee Martinez. The perfect apartment that won’t let you leave, complete with monsters in the closet. Oh, and the world is going to end. His work is wonderfully bizarre.
32. Paper Girls vol.1 - Brian Vaughn & Cliff Chiang. Recommended by a friend. Newspaper delivery girls, time travel, spaceships and dinosaurs. Fun!
33. Storytelling Made Simple - Steelcase. It came from a sales rep. Storytelling as a way of being memorable to your client.
34. Inspector Hobbes and the Blood - Wilkie Martin. First in the unhuman series. Billed as: A reporter with nothing to lose. An inspector with something to hide. Which is better than the book turned out to be.
35. Paper Girls vol.2 - Brian Vaughn & Cliff Chiang. More time travel. More confusion. Tardigrades!!
36. Black Magick 10, 11 - Greg Rucka & Nicola Scott. Continuing on with this coolness.
37. Angelic #1-6 - Simon Spurrier & Caspar Wijngaard. Flying monkeys, porpoise jets, hermit crabs using skulls as shells. I am in love!
38. The Léger Connection - Estelle Ryan. Seventh in a great series.
39. Descender Singularities- Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. Third volume in the series.
40. True Story #15 This Is My Oldest Story - Emily Brisse
41. This Savage Song - Victoria Schwab. Monsters. Feuding families. Private school.
42. Monstress Issue #13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda. Single issues this year. Great series.
43. The Milk Lady of Bangalore - Shoba Narayan. Nonfictional account of one woman’s relationship with the woman whom she buys milk from.
44. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances - Ruth Emmie Lang. Boy, raised by wolves, can control the weather with the help of a unicorn pig. Sooooo much better than that sentence sounds.
45. Tempests and Slaughter - Tamora Pierce. Brand new for 2018. A vacation in Tortall is just what I needed to get me through the end of a trying week.
46. Monster vol 1. - Naoki Urasawa. Brain surgeon accused of mass murder he didn’t commit, but would not have happened if he hadn’t saved that one patient.
47. The Lost Plot - Genevieve Cogman. Book four in the Invisible Library series.
48. Moonstruck #2-5 - Grace Ellis & Shae Beagle. Werewolves in love try to help their centaur buddy get his butt back after a magic show gone wrong. Okay, but not great.
49. Only the Dead - Malcolm Holingdrake. Very good at describing details. Quite bad at stating who the characters are, why we should care, or even what the police case is about. Typical free ebook.
50. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling. Listening to it. I think I read the British version 10+ years ago. Makes sitting on the reception desk all day much more bearable.
51. Black Panther vol #1 A Nation Under Our Feet - Ta-Nehisi Coates. I can tell it is his writing by the rhythm of the words.
52. The 57 Bus - Dashka Slater. True story of an incident that happened a handful of blocks from my house back in 2013.
53. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese. Orphaned at birth the protagonist tries to understand his parents. Lyrical, but bleh at the same time.
54. Chaos Choreography - Seanan McGuire. Fifth in the Incryptid series.
55. The Radium Girls - Kate Moore. Audiobook read by Angela Brazil. I learned on the interblogs that I can adjust the speed of the reader. I am listening at 2x and loving it.
56. Reasons to Love a Nerd Like Me - Becky Jerams. YA highschool drama. Nice in that the protagonist choses kindness over every other option.
57. The Man In the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick. Audio book during the ride to and from Tahoe.
58. Paper Girls vol.3 - Brian Vaughn & Cliff Chiang. More time travel! More weirdness!
59. Our Woman in Havana - Vicki Huddleston. Great memoir from the American Ambassador to Cuba. Covers history from about 1959 to present.
60. Descender Orbital Mechanics- Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. Fourth volume in the series.
61. The Wicked + The Divine Imperial Phase part 2 - Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie. Volume 6 in the series.
62. Descender Rise of the Robots- Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. Fifth volume in the series.
63. The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohleben. Audiobook keeping me company while I am on the front desk.
64. Wynonna Earp season zero - Beau Smith & Tom Rozen. Goofy but good.
65. Archival Quality - Ivy Noelle Weir & Steenz. Cool story of a creepy library and the people who work there.
66. As Brave As You - Jason Reynolds. Two Brooklyn boys get sent to grandparents in VA for a month. One kid is an information nerd. Sweet tale.
67. Wildwood - Colin Meloy. Thick YA novel from the lead singer of the Decemberists. I like it for the goofy adventure elements (baby kidnapped by crows, sword-wielding coyotes) and word usage (dowager, incendiary). I hate it from an adult lens (no, you can’t hide from your parents for over 24 hours the fact that you lost your infant brother; no, you should not get into that truck with the shotgun-wielding old geezer who says he is a postman).
68. Counting By 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan. Could’ve read it in one sitting, but my 14yo made me go to bed at midnight. Great tale of chosen families
69. Lobster Johnson vol 6, A Chain Forged in Life - Mike Mignola etc. Why is this one of my favorite comics? Idk.
70. Wonder - R.J. Palacio. A well done shift among various narrators. A good handling of non-conforming characters. I little too too.
71. Giant Days vol.1 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. College gals navigating drama. Great looking series.
72. LumberJanes: Beware the Kitten Holy - Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson. Book one. Goofier than the Girl Scouts, but definite parallels.
73. Giant Days vol.2 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Second book in the series.
74. Descender #27, 28, 29, 30, 31 - Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen. Single issues now.
75. Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover. Raised in the Idaho wilderness by survivalists, then college educated. A story of change and loss.
76. Sell Out: Aldrich Ames, the Spy Who Broke the CIA - James Adams. Good at laying out the story. Not good at taking a political novice and explaining why certain things matter. You are supposed to know.
77. Spineless - Juli Berwald. An entire book about jellies! And science! Yay!
78. We Ate Wonderbread - Nicole Hollander. I have been a fan of her art/writing for 20+ years.
79. Giant Days vol.3 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Third book in the series.
80. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss. A good adventure tale. Nice world/mythology building. The main character is a bit of a conceited ass at times. I suppose we all are.
81. Magic for Nothing - Seanan McGuire. Sixth in the Incryptid series.
82. Mirror: The Mountain - Emma Rios & Hwei Lim. The art is beautiful, but I found the narration/story hard to follow.
83. True Story # 16 Dirge for the Doubly Dead - Fritz Swanson.
84. Brazen - Penelope Bagileau. Mini-biographies of cool women. Awesome.
85. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World - Brian Walker and David Salt.
86. Burn Bright - Patricia Briggs. Number 5 in the Alpha & Omega series.
87. Watching the World Cup from the Infectious Disease Ward - Erika Robb Larkins. A beautifully written essay I came across while researching hospital food.
88. You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves. - Natalie Angier. New York Times. 4/16/18
89. Creative Non Fiction #66 Dangerous Creations.
90. Greening Health Care - Kathy Gerwig. Hospital food research.
91. The Double Life of Miranda Turner - George Kambadais & Jamie Rich. The dead sister helps to solve her own murder. Goofy.
92. Lighting for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities - ANSI. More research, this time on how light levels effect health. Fun.
93. The Lost Art of Listening - Michael P. Nichols. Audiobook while driving. Recommended during a lunch talk by some sales rep or other. I got sick of listening to it.
94. Biophillic Design - Stephen Kellert et al. More research on light levels stress and architectural design. Specifically chapter 6 written by Robert Ulrich.
95. Giant Days vol.4 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Fourth book in the series.
96. Quackery - Lydia Kang & Nate Pederson. A brief history of the worst ways to cure everything.
97. The Fissure King - Rachael Pollack. Nicely interwoven tales.
98. The Highest House #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , 6- Mike Carey & Peter Gross. Slaves, court intrigue and a mysterious force living inside a rock in the castle basement.
99. Stumptown vol. 2 - Greg Rucka & Matthew Southworth. Private eye comic by a great writer.
100. ISOLA #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Brenden Fletcher & Karl Kerschl. The story is a tad confusing, but the art is spectacular.
101. The Atomic Weight of Love - Elizabeth J. Church. Younger woman married to one of the atomic bomb physicists, struggles to focus on the ornithology of corvids. I thought there would be more in it about birds. Fairly bleh.
102. True Story #17 Unmolested - Michael Lowenthal.
103. Winter Tide - Ruthanna Emrys. A search for sacred texts and family heirlooms that hold a magic craved by mortals, but one they cannot control.
104. Star Trek the Next Generation CATS - by Jenny Parks. Bought it the moment I saw it. Jenny is an artist I know from my time in the GNSI. She is AMAZING.
105. Giant Days vol. 5 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. It is really good or I wouldn’t keep reading it.
106. Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator - Andreas Bernard. Translated from German by David Dollenmayer. I bought it after reading a review in Elevator World Magazine. One of the many fun things I get to do at my job.
107. The Morisot Connection - Estelle Ryan. Eighth in the series.
108. Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire). Mermaids are real, and you don’t want to meet them.
109. Origins of the Sicilian Mafia - Arcangelo Dimico et al. A long article in The Journal of Economic History 77:4. When life gives you lemons, make a mafia.
110. Forgotten Bookmarks - Michael Popek. What it sounds like: cool photos and some stories behind odd items found in old books.
111. The Next Architect - James Cramer & Scott Simpson. An odd motivational tome from over a decade ago with some nice one-liners about the design process.
112. Reflections on Learning and Well-Being - Kit Ratcliff. Written by my boss. Doing vs. being and how the two forces shape our lives.
113. Flavor #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- Joseph Keatinge & Wook Jin Clark. A medieval Top Chef crossed with the Hunger Games. Sort of.
114. Nico’s Fortune - Ryan King & Daryl Toh. Listen to the cat. The Cat knows.
115. Raven the Pirate Princess book one - Jeremy Whitley & Rosy Higgins. All female run pirate ship out to get revenge.
116. The Last Adventure of Constance Verity - A. Lee Martinez. Very fun. Adventure finds her, she can’t turn away, but wishes she could be boring. Though not really.
117. The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst. Man tries to teach his dead wife’s dog to talk. Weird.
118. Exile - Denise Mina. Not my cuppa. My sister-in-law says it is the second in a series, which would explain all of the people who confusingly appear with no introduction.
119. Tricks for Free - Seanan McGuire. Seventh in the Incryptid series.
120. Lost - Ian Phillips. Lost and found pet posters from around the world.
121. Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations - Radvansky, Krawietz & Tamplin. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 64(8), 2011. Because forgetting is science.
122. At Work: The Art of California Labor - Mark Dean Johnson, ed. It has an interesting point that focus used to be on the people doing the labor, but now it is solely on the products of such labor.
123. Blood Orbit - K.R. Richardson. Finally a new book from one of my favorite authors. Harder than I had hoped to get into this new world.
124. Worrier’s Guide to Life - Gemma Correll. A reread to soothe the soul.
125. Giant Days vol. 6 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. It gets better.
126. Raven the Pirate Princess book two - Jeremy Whitley & Rosy Higgins. Still a good story. Some of the characters are hard for me to tell apart.
127. HellCat vol. 1 - Kate Leth & Brittney Williams. A fun take on super-humans who just need to pay the rent. Does assume you know backstory of all characters.
128. True Story #18 Search Party - Stewart Lawrence Sinclair.
129. The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore. Audiobook read by the author. I missed his keynote speech at the conference I was at, due to the timing of my plane departure.
130. Restless - William Boyd. I saw the BBC miniseries first (because, Hayley Atwell) and thought there had to be more to the story, something missing. I was right. The book is better even if it doesn’t have Hayley Atwell.
131. The Accidental Taxonomist - Heather Hedden. Met the author at a conference. It is reminding me of what I know and tossing in the right vocabulary for me to talk to the IT guys. An A+ purchase.
132. The Accidental Data Scientist - Amy Affelt. Met the author at the same conference as above. Less useful for my current work issue than the other accidental book. Still good.
133. Creative Non-Fiction #67 Starting Over.
134. Bandette vol 1. Presto! - Paul Tobin & Colleen Coover. A fun, carefree super-hero who is not shy about relying on and complementing her friends. Plus it is funny and (sort of) French. Awesome.
135. Plutona - Jeff Lemire & Emi Lenox. Group of mismatched teens find a body in the woods and fight about how to deal with it. Better than that sentence sounds.
136. Torn - Rowenna Miller. She sews good luck charms into her rich clients outfits. Her brother is organizing the revolution. I was bored.
137. The Magic Order #1, 2 - Mark Millar & Olivar Coipel. Promising. I do want a character family tree as everyone seems to be related to everyone else.
138. My Boyfriend is a Bear - Pamela Ribon & Cat Ferris. Silly tale of a black bear being the perfect boyfriend.
139. Scarlet Hart, Monster Hunter - Marcus Sedgewick & Thomas Taylor. Typical British orphan carries on their parents legacy tale. Illustrator did the British Harry Potter series.
140. The Kurdles Adventure Magazine #1 - Robert Goodin. Goofy little shorts. My kind of comic.
141. The Vecellio Connection - Estelle Ryan. Ninth in the series.
142. Paper Girls vol.4 - Brian Vaughn & Cliff Chiang. Atari! Giant robots that are time machines! Yay!
143. Jessica Jones, Alias vol. 1 - Brian Bendis & Michael Gaydos. Seems to be the series that the first season of the tv show was based on.
144. True Story #19 Cruel & Inhuman Treatment - Carolyn Edgar
145. You & a Bike & a Road - Eleanor Davis. Graphic novel/diary of one woman’s bike journey from NM to GA. I love the fluidity of the drawings. Touches on huge subjects without belaboring them.
146. Hindle, Richard (2013) Stanley Hart White and the question of ‘What is Modern?’Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 33(3), 170-77. Turns out the brother of author EB White invented the vertical garden in the 1930’s. Wacky.
147. Spider’s Bite - Jennifer Estep. Pure fluff. Author never uses one adjective - always 2 or 3. Not very good at outlining the world’s magic capabilities.
148. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson. Gripping and ethereal. Read this one.
149. The Obsidian Mirror - K.D. Keenan. Set in NoCA, so I am enjoying that. Tech workers discover the mystical undertones of the American continent.
150. Giant Days vol. 7 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Like catching up with old friends..
151. First Grave on the Right - Darynda Jones. I saw a book at the library, which turned out to be 8th in the series. I don’t like to start in the middle. I finally tracked down the first to begin properly. I like the idea, but not the execution.
152. The Elements of Style - Strunk, White & Kalman. Rereading this classic, now illustrated by Maira Kalman.
153. Bandette vol 2 Stealers, Keepers! - Paul Tobin & Colleen Coover. I am loving this. Funny, carefree...
154. Leaning into Six Sigma - Barbara Wheat et al. Trying to understand LEAN and how it applies to hospital design & construction. Ignore me.
155. Paper Girls #21, 22, 23, 24- Brian Vaughan & Cliff Chang. Single issues now.
156. Giant Days Extra Credit vol 1 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Parallel universes!
157. Ghost Fleet, the Whole Goddamn Thing - Donny Cates & Daniel Johnson. Found this one in my tbr pile. I don’t really know what I was thinking when I bought it.
158. The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman. Good. Well written. Story has too many obvious coincidences for my taste.
159. Hosseini, Bahareh, and Ali Namazian.(2012) "An overview of Iranian ice repositories, an example of traditional indigenous architecture" METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 29(2)
160. Growing Urban Orchards - Susan Poigner. Figuring out how to take care of mine.
161. Giant Days vol 8 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. This comic is amazing in the way it shows friendships changing over time
162. True Story #20 6”3” Man with Doritos - Matthew Clark.
163. Vazquez et al. (2018) “A Zombie LIF Gene in Elephants Is Upregulated by TP53 to Induce Apoptosis in Response to DNA Damage” Cell Reports 24(7), 1765–1776.
164. One Man’s Meat - E.B. White. I was reading about his brother Stanley and this title caught my eye. I am glad it is not the porn sandwich it sounds like.
165. PYG: the Memoirs of Toby the Learned Pig - Russell Potter. Goofy. The pig is kind of an ass.
166. Bandette vol 3. The House of the Green Mask - Paul Tobin & Colleen Coover. Ah yes! The celebratory candy bar of victory!
167. I Only Killed Him Once - Adam Christopher. Third in the L.A. Trilogy. Robot noir in 1960s Los Angeles.
168. Palkopouloua, E. et al. (2018) “A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants” PNAS, 115(11).
169. Treehouses of the World - Pete Nelson. Okay, so I read the first 20 pages (the bulk of the text) and then looked at the photos, reading captions and descriptions of the coolest houses. So would you.
170. Giant Days - Non Pratt. A novel based on the comic book I love. How could I say no?
171. Connected - Nicolas Christakis & James Fowler. A book about the analytical mathematics behind social networks and how one person is influenced by others. I can see how it has been applied in social media since it was published in 2009.
172. A Conspiracy in Belgravia - Sherry Thomas. Second in the Lady Sherlock series.
173. Check Please! book one #Hockey - Ngozi Ukazu. A comic about hockey and pie written by a southern black woman educated at Harvard. How perfect is that?
174. Monstress volume three - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda. Connects all of the single issues plus extra art!
175. The Sandman Universe #1 - Neil Gaiman et al. The comic is starting up again. Woo-hoo! This is the intro issue to the 4 pronged revival.
175a. The Dreaming #1, 2, 3 - Simon Spurrier & Bilquis Evely.
175b. House of Whispers #1, 2, 3 - Nalo Hopkinson & Domo Stanton
175c. Books of Magic #1, - Kat Howard & Tom Fowler
175d. Lucifer #1, 2 - Dan Watters & Max Fiumara
176. Loot - Jude Watson. Thieves, sudden family, cursed jewels. Cute fluff.
177. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown - Seanan McGuire. A sequel of sorts to Sparrow Hill Road.
178. The Books of Magic - Gaiman, Reiber, Gross etc. Collects everything from 1993-5.
179. Coda volume 1 - Simon Spurrier & Matias Bergara. I liked Spurrier’s writing on the Dreaming, so I thought I’d try this. (Anything that is recommended by Neil Gaiman and Jeff Lemire is bound to be a good investment). Weird, but good.
180. Bikequity: Money, Class & Bicycling - Elly Blue ed. The reading for the October meeting of the book club I want to go to.
181. Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius Or Anything - Steve Cotler. Goofy YA novel I bought to give as a birthday gift. Need to read it first to see if it is any good.
182. The Witch Doctor’s Wife - Tamar Myers. How can a book be both sympathetic and condescending? I did not finish it.
183. LEAN Hospitals - Mark Graban. Still trying to understand this process that means a lot to the people I work with.
184. Edinburgh Twilight - Carole Lawrence. The cover design for the series (by Ed Bettison) caught my eye. Kind of glad the ebook was free with Prime. Uses one of my least favorite tropes.
185. True Story #21 On Running - Megan Baxter.
186. The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank. The whole cover and design makes it look like it is about lesbians. It is not. It is also not about fishing. Or hunting. Talk about trust issues. This book is the reading equivalent of oatmeal raisin cookies.
187. Postcards from Impossible Worlds - Peter Chiykowski. This is awesome. I am so glad I supported his kickstarter and got a copy of this book. Find it on Amazon, etc. and buy it.
188. The Imago’s Shell - Leland Smithson. Unpublished manuscript written by a co-worker’s SO. How do I get myself into these things?
189. Between Pacific Tides -John Steinbeck. Reread, specifically the foreward written about Ed Ricketts.
190. A Living Bay - Lovell & Libby Langstroth. Reread. Looking for migrational movement to use as symbolism for a kinesiology lab. Woohoo!
191. The Uccelo Connection - Estelle Ryan. Tenth in the series. Like coming home.
192. Infinite City - Rebecca Solnit. Reread, I think. Ecology of place. Specifically Cow Hollow. I love my job.
193. Piglettes - Clementine Beauvais. YA novel for my book club. Three girls deal with cyberbullying by ignoring it and bicycling to Paris.
194. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse. Flips btw 1029 and 2005. Very well researched. So well it is almost boring at first. Hang on through the first switch back to 2005. Pace improves after that.
195. The Culinary Cyclist - Anna Brones. A cookbook and companion for the good life.
196. Pedal, Stretch, Breathe - Kelli Refer. The yoga of bicycling.
197. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman. Nothing is as it first seems. Unreliable narration done well.
198. Pedal Zombies - Elly Blue ed. 13 feminist bicycle science fiction stories.
199. Around the World on Two Wheels - Peter Zheutlin. True story of Annie Londonberry’s bike ride around the world in 1895.
200. Neon Octopus Overlord Trilogy - L.A. Johnson. All three volumes in one ebook. Silly fluff.
201. Spider Gwen - Seanan McGuire & Rosi Kampe. Comics by a favorite author.
202. The Wicked + The Divine Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie. Vol 7 in the series.
203. Creative NonFiction #68 Risk
204. Counterweight Maneuver - Richie De-Benham. I read a review of this scifi book in Elevator World magazine of all places. A secret elevator to space, alien invasions, the usual.
205. The Crazy School - Cornelia Read. Not what I expected. Not dramatic fiction, but more of a murder mystery.
206. Night and Silence - Seanan McGuire. Twelfth in the series.
207. The Snooty Bookshop - Tom Gauld. These single panel gems appeared in Guardian, mostly. Not only do I get to read them, but they are postcards I can send out!
208. Coping Skills Because Sometimes Life Is Some Serious Bullshit - Faith Harper. Nothing I haven’t already heard, but it is refreshing to find writing by a doctor of psychology who swears like a sailor.
209. True Story #22 Lethe - Leanna James Blackwell
210. X-men Black Mystique #1 - Seanan McGuire & Marco Failla. More comics from a favorite writer.
211. Giant Days #44 - John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Single issues now because I have no chill.
212. Doctor Who: the thirteenth doctor #1 - Jodi Houser & Rachael Stott. Because comics.
214. Surviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws At You - Faith Harper. Worth reading for the words dickitude and fucktrumpet.
215. The Black God’s Drums - P. Djeli Clark. New Orleans steampunk with a black female protagonist.
216. How Not To Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists - Set Sytes. He gets it.
217. Likely Stories - Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham. Ghost stories.
218. Alive With Vigor! - Robert Earl Sutter III. Short stories or essays or whatever. The font and the violet- grey print make it difficult to read. Several misspellings.
219. Viscious - VE Schwab. Sequel to Vengeful, I believe. The time frame is given at the start of each chapter, but I find this does not mean anything to me, so it is disjointed at best.
220. Self-compassion - Kristen Neff. I do not like that there are multiple exercises per chapter. Living is hard enough.
221. UnFuck Your Brain - Faith Harper. Both the book and the workbook. Why not.
222. Life is Strange #1 - Emma Vieceli & Claudia Leonardi. One character keeps slipping from one reality to another. Hard to know what is real in 20 pages.
223. Giant Days Not on the Test edition, Spring Semester- John Allison & Lissa Tremain. Some of them I have read, but the rest are new. I wish I could keep better track....
224. Baracoon - Zora Neale Hurston. She couldn’t get it published during her lifetime. A good read.
225.Territory - Emma Bull. Reread. I’d forgotten it was about the Earps.
226. X-men Gold Annual 2 - Seanan McGuire & Marco Failla. Kitty Paine!
227. The Elusive Language of Ducks - Judith White. I thought it was boring until the duck talked. Then it was just weird.
228. The Velocipede Races - Emily June Street. Corsets. Bikes. Social impropriety. A lark of a ride.
229. Bikes Not Rockets - Elly Blue ed. Intersectional feminist bicycle science fiction stories.
230. Deep Work - Cal Newport. A Jungian look at how to focus and work amidst distraction.
231. Biophillic Cities - Timothy Beatley. A look at urban design integrating nature, what works, what doesn’t.
232. Deep Roots - Ruthanna Emrys. The sequel to Winter Tide.
233. Malice of Crows - Lila Bowen. Third in a fantastic series. Highly recommended.
234. This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us - Edger Cantero. Funny. Detectives. Odd personalities. Gang wars. Awsome.
235. What the Hell Did I Just Read? - David Wong. Weirdly wonderful.
236. Art Matters Because Your Imagination Can Change the World - Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell. Awesome. I have to buy 10 more copies as gifts...
237. How Long ‘till Black Future Month - N.K. Jemison. Short sci fi stories. Love it!
238. True Story #23 The Sixteenth Tape - Sean Madigan Hoen
239. Giant Days Where Women Glow and Men Plunder #1 - John Allison. Ed Gemmell goes to Australia. Good, but I like stories about the trio better.
240. Die #1 - Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans. Creepy fun D&D comic.
241. Giant Days Early Registration - John Allison. I don’t like his drawings as much as Lissa Tremain’s, but the story is still good.
242. Alice Isn’t Dead - Joseph Fink. Serial killers and cannibalism. Surprisingly easy to read
243. Kicking Ice - Stephanie Phillips & Jamie Jones. A comic I helped kickstart, about girls playing hockey.
244. Paper Girls vol.5 - Brian Vaughn & Cliff Chiang. The combined single issues, many of which I missed.
245. Indexing - Seanan McGuire. Fairytale cops chasing the narrative as it rages or of control. Highly recommend.
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