July: Finished:
Book #94: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Reif Larsen), a most
intriguing illustrated novel about a boy genius and cartography; Book #95: The Great Wave: Gilded Age
Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (Christopher Benfey);
Book #96: The Crabtree Affair
(Michael Innes), another classic British mystery; and Book #97: We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (Arthur Ransome), a re-read
of a favorite British children’s novel.
The Big Read
Catch-up: May 2014 Books Read
Nonfiction
Audubon Nature
Encyclopedia, Volumes 9 and 10
Golden Treasury of
Knowledge, Volume 8
A Desert Country Near the
Sea: A Natural History of the Cape
Region of Baja California (Ann Zwinger)
Enchanting descriptions of the plants, wildlife, and landscapes of
this area.
The Extraordinary Voyage of
Pytheas the Greek (Barry Cunliffe)
Interesting, though more about the various European cultures of
that time than about Pytheas himself (about whom, it turns out, very little is
known).
An Eye for a Bird: The Autobiography of a Bird Photographer (Eric Hosking)
Hosking was a renowned British photographer active from
1930s-1980s whose bird photographs were especially innovative; earlier chapters
offer fascinating descriptions of his efforts to get good shots of birds on
their nests using blinds and platforms; later chapters descend into a duller
litany of places he traveled to around the world.
Natural World
(An Eyewitness Book; Steve Parker)
The “Eyewitness” series are oversized picture-laden
coffee table books.
Fiction
Appleby’s End
(Michael Innes)
A Night of Errors
(Michael Innes)
One Man Show
(Michael Innes)
Classic British mysteries.
The Golden Spiders
(Rex Stout)
In the Best
Families (Rex Stout)
Over My Dead Body
(Rex Stout)
Classic American mysteries.
Cold Cereal
(Adam Rex)
Unlucky Charms
(Adam Rex)
First two books in a middle-grade trilogy about a rift
between our world and the realms of fantasy, which was quite funny but had way
too many characters and outlandish plot elements.
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