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4. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda and illustrated by Jonny Sun, added 2018, read 6 Jan
6. How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin, added 2018, read 12 Dec-12 Jan (with only 25% read before 1 Jan)
7. Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany by Neil Gaiman, added 2018, read 12 JanThough this one almost feels like cheating, so much of it is collected elsewhere in books I've already read. I skipped large chunks of it.
You are doing so well! You are on a roll!! I have read 2 books, only one that I own though
I went to the used bookstore yesterday and got rid of some books that I was never going to read and somehow managed to not bring any more home:8. Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D., added 2016
9. Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, added 2016, DNFed
10. The Lost Books of the Odyssey, added 2018
11. Wonder Woman, Volume 3: The Truth, text by Greg Rucka, added 2018, read 1/21/1912. Wonder Woman, Volume 4: Godwatch, text by Greg Rucka, added 2018, read 1/21/19
13. Lumberjanes, Vol. 7: A Bird's-Eye View, text by Shannon Watters, added 2018, read 1/21/19
14. Lumberjanes, Vol. 8: Stone Cold, text by Shannon Watters, added 2018, read 1/21/19
15. Lumberjanes, Vol. 9: On a Roll, text by Shannon Watters, added 2018, read 1/21/19
16. Lumberjanes, Vol. 10: Parents' Day, text by Shannon Watters, added 2018, read 1/21/19
17. Teen Titans, Volume 2: The Rise of Aqualad, text by Benjamin Percy, added 2018, read 1/21/1918. Teen Titans, Volume 3: The Return of Kid Flash, text by Benjamin Percy, added 2018, read 21-22 Jan
19. Spider-Man/Deadpool, Vol. 5: Arms Race, text by Robbie Thompson, added 2018, read 1/22/19
20. Spider-Man/Deadpool, Vol. 6: WLMD, text by Robbie Thompson, added 2018, read 1/22/19
22. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 6: Who Run The World? Squirrels, text by Ryan North, added 2018, read 1/2423. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 7: I've Been Waiting for a Squirrel Like You, text by Ryan North, added 2018, read 1/24
24. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 8: My Best Friend's Squirrel, text by Ryan North, added 2018, read 1/24
Wow, you have sprinted up over a third of your peak already!! Congrats :)
Leslie wrote: "Wow, you have sprinted up over a third of your peak already!! Congrats :)"Ha, comics are helpful with that. I'm doing the 24in48 readathon this weekend, though, with eligible books mostly under 300 pages. Get a big old chunk of it out of there.
25. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff VanderMeer, added 2018, read 1/26/1926. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 9: Squirrels Fall Like Dominoes, text by Ryan North, added 2018, read 1/26/19
27. Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, added 2018, read 1/26/19
28. Princeless, Vol. 1: Save Yourself, text by Jeremy Whitley and art by Mia Goodman, added 2018, read 1/26/19
30. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun by J.R.R. Tolkien, added 2018, read 1/28Oh, wow. Apparently I have two modes--sprinting up the mountain and barely reading at all. I have 22 more short books and comics to read so I can finish up the list I made for 24in48, and then it's time to start hitting the longer ones.
Wow, 30 books in already! You're definitely on a roll! Keep climbing like this and you'll Mt. Kilimanjaro's peak in no time!
32. How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C. Foster, added 2018, read 1/29-2/333.Princeless, Vol. 2: Get Over Yourself, text by Jeremy Whitley, added 2018, read 2/3
34. Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love by Jillian Keenan, added2018, read 2/9-2/10
35. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman, added 2018, read 2/11-2/19
Another chunk of books I sold or deleted:36. Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
37. My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop, edited by Ronald Rice
38. Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
39. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
40.Looking for Jake by China Miéville
42. How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman, added 2018, read 4/2-4/4
44. The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green, added 2014, DNFed 4/11And BOY am I mad I let this book sit on my shelf for five years! Completely frigging unnecessary.
45. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, added 2017, DNFed 4/14It's a shame, I think I would have liked this one, but now isn't the best time for me to be reading anything that could be construed as being about authoritarianism.
46. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, added 2017, DNFed 4/14
I am just DNFing with wild abandon.
48. Scales & Scoundrels, Vol. 1: Into The Dragon’s Maw, text by Sebastian Girner, added ???? (but probably 2018), read 5/3
49. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich, added 2018, read 5/4
51. Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 2: The Blast of War, text by Conor McCreery, added 2018, read 5/1752. Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 3: The Tide of Blood, text by Conor McCreery, added 2018, read 5/17
53. Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 4: The Mask of Night, text by Conor McCreery, added 2018, read 5/17
Oh my goodness I actually read something! And things that count!54. Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition by Elizabeth Zimmermann, added 2018, read 7/3-7/4
55. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 by Gengoroh Tagame, added 2018, read 7/4
59. Uptown Local and Other Interventions by Diane Duane, added 2018, read 7/2160. To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing by Simon Garfield, added, 2018, read 7/21
And now, thanks to #24in48, I have climbed my mountain!
62. Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff, added 2018, DNFed 12/1563. Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea by Katherine Harmon Courage, added 2019, DNFed 12/16
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Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea (other topics)Sing the Four Quarters (other topics)
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention (other topics)
To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing (other topics)
Uptown Local and Other Interventions (other topics)
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1. Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw, added 2018, started/finished 1 Jan 2019