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Let's talk about books!
I made my "read 100 books in a year" challenge last week! I've been tracking it on Goodreads, because I'm finding it a lot easier to track reading separately from tracking ownership, but I imported the first hundred to LibraryThing because LibraryThing is still just a much more powerful database, so you can see them all under my Read 2014 tag. I've been reviewing them on Goodreads as I go, when I can, but if you would like me to blather at you in comments about any of the books on that list, here is your chance. :P
I've also been keeping an actual to-read list for the first time ever. I only started it a couple weeks ago, and it only includes media that are available at the library where I work, and it hit 100 items today. (Don't ever work at a library if you want to keep your to-read lists under control.) It's under the cut. If you would like to blather at me in a comment about any of these, here is your chance! (But don't count on me getting around to reading them anytime soon. This just the "check out from library" list. It doesn't include the 50-book-high to-read pile at home, or the 21 books in the 'currently reading' list, or the shelf of withdrawn books I want to read before I sell them on, or----) It also only includes things I've never read/watched/listened to before, and it has a lot of cases where one item is a stand-in for a whole series....
Genuine negro jig; Carolina Chocolate Drops (Musical group)
Sailing alone around the world; Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1909
The Guardian of All Things The Epic Story of Human Memory.; Malone, Michael S.
A genealogical chart of Greek mythology: comprising 3,673 named figures of Greek mythology, all related to each other with a single family of 20 generations; Newman, Harold.
Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation; Judson, Olivia.
Economix how our economy works (and doesn't work) in words and pictures; Goodwin, Michael, 1966-
Chesapeake wildlife: stories of survival and loss; Vojtech, Pat, 1955-
Yokai attack!: the Japanese monster survival guide; Yoda, Hiroko.
What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions; Munroe, Randall, author.
Mathematical sorcery: revealing the secrets of numbers; Clawson, Calvin C.
Flatterland: like Flatland, only more so; Stewart, Ian, 1945-
One to nine: the inner life of numbers; Hodges, Andrew.
Measurement; Lockhart, Paul.
The annotated flatland: a romance of many dimensions; Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926.
Apocalyptic planet: field guide to the everending Earth; Childs, Craig, 1967-
The dawn of the deed: the prehistoric origins of sex; Long, John A., 1957-
Why evolution is true; Coyne, Jerry A., 1949-
Botany in a day: the patterns method of plant identification: Thomas J. Elpel's herbal field guide to plant families; Elpel, Thomas J.
Peterson field guide to medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America; Foster, Steven, 1957-
Walking sideways: the remarkable world of crabs; Weis, Judith S., 1941-
Birdology: adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantankerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingbirds, and one murderously big living dinosaur; Montgomery, Sy.
Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from Nanobacteria to new monkeys;
The variety of life: the meaning of diversity;
American pandemic: the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic; Bristow, Nancy K., 1958-
The mind's eye; Sacks, Oliver W.
Permanent present tense: the unforgettable life of the amnesic patient, H.M.; Corkin, Suzanne.
An astronaut's guide to life on Earth; Hadfield, Chris, 1959-, author.
The American Horticultural Society flower finder; Hériteau, Jacqueline.
The self-portrait: a cultural history: 120 illustrations, 109 in color; Hall, James, 1963- author.
Urban sketching: the complete guide to techniques; Thorspecken, Thomas, author.
Drawing words & writing pictures: making comics: from manga, graphic novels, and beyond; Abel, Jessica.
Mastering comics: drawing words and writing pictures continued: a definitive course in comics narrative; Abel, Jessica.
Hyperbole and a half: unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened; Brosh, Allie.
Children's picturebooks: the art of visual storytelling; Salisbury, Martin.
Drawing cute animals in colored pencil; Akikusa, Ai, author.
20 ways to draw a tree: and 44 other nifty things from nature: a sketchbook for artists, designers, and doodlers; Renouf, Eloise.
The uncommon quilter: small art quilts created with paper, plastic, fiber, and surface design; Williamson, Jeanne.
Fashion designers; Golbin, Pamela, 1970-
The stuff of life; Robertson, Hilary, author.
Fantastic art; Schurian, Walter.
Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster; Krakauer, Jon.
The natural navigator: the rediscovered art of letting nature be your guide; Gooley, Tristan.
Bird dream: adventures at the extremes of human flight; Higgins, Matt, author.
Fic: why fanfiction is taking over the world; Jamison, Anne Elizabeth, 1969-
Utopia's debris: selected essays; Indiana, Gary.
Pale blue dot: a vision of the human future in space; Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood; Sacks, Oliver W.
Here we go again: my life in television; White, Betty, 1922-
The great circle: a history of the First Nations;
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant :; Tyler, Anne.
Cosmos a spacetime odyssey.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd., film distributor.
The legend of Korra. Book one: Air; Faustino, David, 1974-
Holes; Weaver, Sigourney, 1949-
Lilo & Stitch; Spencer, Clark.
Spy kids; Banderas, Antonio.
Les miserables; Crowe, Russell, 1964-
Only lovers left alive; Thomas, Jeremy, film producer.
Robot & Frank; Niederhoffer, Galt.
Sherlock Holmes a game of shadows; Ritchie, Guy.
Singin' in the rain; Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996.
Thor. The dark world; Taylor, Alan, 1965- film director.
Adventure time. It came from the nightosphere; Cartoon Network (Television network)
Avatar, the last airbender. Book 1, water, Vol. 1; Nickelodeon (Firm)
Brooklyn nine-nine season one; Crews, Terry
Community. Season 1; Harmon, Dan, 1973-
Leverage. Season 1; Devlin, Dean.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1; Ming-Na, 1963- actor.
Parks and recreation. Season 1; Poehler, Amy, 1971-
Drift the unmooring of American military power; Maddow, Rachel.
Pretty deadly. Volume one The shrike; DeConnick, Kelly Sue, author.
Imperfect bliss: a novel; Fales-Hill, Susan, 1962-
Guardians of the galaxy. [Volume 1]; Abnett, Dan.
You're all just jealous of my jetpack comics; Gauld, Tom.
The Mathematician's Shiva: a novel; Rojstaczer, Stuart.
Find the constellations; Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977.
Courage has no color . the true story of the triple nickles, America's first black paratroopers; Stone, Tanya Lee
The ElseWhere Chronicles. Book 1, The shadow door; Bannister.
Warriors. 1 The lost warrior; Hunter, Erin.
Dragonbreath. [2], Attack of the ninja frogs; Vernon, Ursula.
Alcatraz Smedry versus the evil Librarians; Sanderson, Brandon.
I'd really like to eat a child; Donnio, Sylviane.
Threads.;
Baltimore ghosts: history, mystery, legends and lore; Okonowicz, Ed, 1947-
The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, an atlas of natural resources.; Lippson, Alice Jane.
Trackside Maryland: from railyard to main line; Gallagher, James P.
The Maryland State Archives atlas of historical maps of Maryland, 1608-1908; Papenfuse, Edward C.
Weird Maryland: your travel guide to Maryland's local legends and best kept secrets; Lake, Matt.
The Hammond-Harwood House atlas of historical maps of Maryland, 1608-1908; Papenfuse, Edward C.
The secret place; French, Tana.
Chesapeake crimes II; Andrews, Donna.
The cuckoo's calling; Galbraith, Robert. author.
Black sun rising; Friedman, C. S.
Ancillary justice; Leckie, Ann.
Kabu kabu; Okorafor, Nnedi, author.
The Martian: a novel; Weir, Andy, author.
"Girl, colored" and other stories: a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in the Crisis magazine, 1910-2010; Musser, Judith, 1959-
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1, Tomorrow's Avengers; Stern, Roger.
The lightning thief; Riordan, Rick.
Fangirl; Rowell, Rainbow.
The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making; Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-
...you get bonus points if you can guess which fandom/writing project inspired any of the nonfiction ones. <_<
I've also been keeping an actual to-read list for the first time ever. I only started it a couple weeks ago, and it only includes media that are available at the library where I work, and it hit 100 items today. (Don't ever work at a library if you want to keep your to-read lists under control.) It's under the cut. If you would like to blather at me in a comment about any of these, here is your chance! (But don't count on me getting around to reading them anytime soon. This just the "check out from library" list. It doesn't include the 50-book-high to-read pile at home, or the 21 books in the 'currently reading' list, or the shelf of withdrawn books I want to read before I sell them on, or----) It also only includes things I've never read/watched/listened to before, and it has a lot of cases where one item is a stand-in for a whole series....
Genuine negro jig; Carolina Chocolate Drops (Musical group)
Sailing alone around the world; Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1909
The Guardian of All Things The Epic Story of Human Memory.; Malone, Michael S.
A genealogical chart of Greek mythology: comprising 3,673 named figures of Greek mythology, all related to each other with a single family of 20 generations; Newman, Harold.
Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation; Judson, Olivia.
Economix how our economy works (and doesn't work) in words and pictures; Goodwin, Michael, 1966-
Chesapeake wildlife: stories of survival and loss; Vojtech, Pat, 1955-
Yokai attack!: the Japanese monster survival guide; Yoda, Hiroko.
What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions; Munroe, Randall, author.
Mathematical sorcery: revealing the secrets of numbers; Clawson, Calvin C.
Flatterland: like Flatland, only more so; Stewart, Ian, 1945-
One to nine: the inner life of numbers; Hodges, Andrew.
Measurement; Lockhart, Paul.
The annotated flatland: a romance of many dimensions; Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926.
Apocalyptic planet: field guide to the everending Earth; Childs, Craig, 1967-
The dawn of the deed: the prehistoric origins of sex; Long, John A., 1957-
Why evolution is true; Coyne, Jerry A., 1949-
Botany in a day: the patterns method of plant identification: Thomas J. Elpel's herbal field guide to plant families; Elpel, Thomas J.
Peterson field guide to medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America; Foster, Steven, 1957-
Walking sideways: the remarkable world of crabs; Weis, Judith S., 1941-
Birdology: adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantankerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingbirds, and one murderously big living dinosaur; Montgomery, Sy.
Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from Nanobacteria to new monkeys;
The variety of life: the meaning of diversity;
American pandemic: the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic; Bristow, Nancy K., 1958-
The mind's eye; Sacks, Oliver W.
Permanent present tense: the unforgettable life of the amnesic patient, H.M.; Corkin, Suzanne.
An astronaut's guide to life on Earth; Hadfield, Chris, 1959-, author.
The American Horticultural Society flower finder; Hériteau, Jacqueline.
The self-portrait: a cultural history: 120 illustrations, 109 in color; Hall, James, 1963- author.
Urban sketching: the complete guide to techniques; Thorspecken, Thomas, author.
Drawing words & writing pictures: making comics: from manga, graphic novels, and beyond; Abel, Jessica.
Mastering comics: drawing words and writing pictures continued: a definitive course in comics narrative; Abel, Jessica.
Hyperbole and a half: unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened; Brosh, Allie.
Children's picturebooks: the art of visual storytelling; Salisbury, Martin.
Drawing cute animals in colored pencil; Akikusa, Ai, author.
20 ways to draw a tree: and 44 other nifty things from nature: a sketchbook for artists, designers, and doodlers; Renouf, Eloise.
The uncommon quilter: small art quilts created with paper, plastic, fiber, and surface design; Williamson, Jeanne.
Fashion designers; Golbin, Pamela, 1970-
The stuff of life; Robertson, Hilary, author.
Fantastic art; Schurian, Walter.
Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster; Krakauer, Jon.
The natural navigator: the rediscovered art of letting nature be your guide; Gooley, Tristan.
Bird dream: adventures at the extremes of human flight; Higgins, Matt, author.
Fic: why fanfiction is taking over the world; Jamison, Anne Elizabeth, 1969-
Utopia's debris: selected essays; Indiana, Gary.
Pale blue dot: a vision of the human future in space; Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood; Sacks, Oliver W.
Here we go again: my life in television; White, Betty, 1922-
The great circle: a history of the First Nations;
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant :; Tyler, Anne.
Cosmos a spacetime odyssey.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd., film distributor.
The legend of Korra. Book one: Air; Faustino, David, 1974-
Holes; Weaver, Sigourney, 1949-
Lilo & Stitch; Spencer, Clark.
Spy kids; Banderas, Antonio.
Les miserables; Crowe, Russell, 1964-
Only lovers left alive; Thomas, Jeremy, film producer.
Robot & Frank; Niederhoffer, Galt.
Sherlock Holmes a game of shadows; Ritchie, Guy.
Singin' in the rain; Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996.
Adventure time. It came from the nightosphere; Cartoon Network (Television network)
Avatar, the last airbender. Book 1, water, Vol. 1; Nickelodeon (Firm)
Brooklyn nine-nine season one; Crews, Terry
Community. Season 1; Harmon, Dan, 1973-
Leverage. Season 1; Devlin, Dean.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1; Ming-Na, 1963- actor.
Parks and recreation. Season 1; Poehler, Amy, 1971-
Drift the unmooring of American military power; Maddow, Rachel.
Pretty deadly. Volume one The shrike; DeConnick, Kelly Sue, author.
Imperfect bliss: a novel; Fales-Hill, Susan, 1962-
Guardians of the galaxy. [Volume 1]; Abnett, Dan.
You're all just jealous of my jetpack comics; Gauld, Tom.
The Mathematician's Shiva: a novel; Rojstaczer, Stuart.
Find the constellations; Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977.
Courage has no color . the true story of the triple nickles, America's first black paratroopers; Stone, Tanya Lee
The ElseWhere Chronicles. Book 1, The shadow door; Bannister.
Warriors. 1 The lost warrior; Hunter, Erin.
Dragonbreath. [2], Attack of the ninja frogs; Vernon, Ursula.
Alcatraz Smedry versus the evil Librarians; Sanderson, Brandon.
I'd really like to eat a child; Donnio, Sylviane.
Threads.;
Baltimore ghosts: history, mystery, legends and lore; Okonowicz, Ed, 1947-
The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, an atlas of natural resources.; Lippson, Alice Jane.
Trackside Maryland: from railyard to main line; Gallagher, James P.
The Maryland State Archives atlas of historical maps of Maryland, 1608-1908; Papenfuse, Edward C.
Weird Maryland: your travel guide to Maryland's local legends and best kept secrets; Lake, Matt.
The Hammond-Harwood House atlas of historical maps of Maryland, 1608-1908; Papenfuse, Edward C.
The secret place; French, Tana.
Chesapeake crimes II; Andrews, Donna.
The cuckoo's calling; Galbraith, Robert. author.
Black sun rising; Friedman, C. S.
Ancillary justice; Leckie, Ann.
Kabu kabu; Okorafor, Nnedi, author.
The Martian: a novel; Weir, Andy, author.
"Girl, colored" and other stories: a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in the Crisis magazine, 1910-2010; Musser, Judith, 1959-
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1, Tomorrow's Avengers; Stern, Roger.
The lightning thief; Riordan, Rick.
Fangirl; Rowell, Rainbow.
The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making; Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-
...you get bonus points if you can guess which fandom/writing project inspired any of the nonfiction ones. <_<