Tiffany Guys at Emperor Point

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, by Jeanne Birdsall
This middle-grade series continues to somehow stay totally wholesome and totally non-saccharine. I am deeply fond of it.
(127/200)

The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Kind of a slog, but worth it. Everything you could want to know about the history of cancer research. I was particularly absorbed by reading about stuff that I had to study in college, because back then it was all confusing and boring, but Mukherjee put it all in context, and I was fascinated.
(128/200)

A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, by Nina Grey et al
This was SO much better than the novel I read about it. Tons of luminous photos of the glass, tons of moving photos of the women artisans, tons of quotes from Driscoll's letters, and a solid historical framework. One of those exhibition catalogues that you'd never know wasn't a regular straight-up book. Solid.
(129/200)

Good Guys and Bad Guys, by Joe Nocera
So business is not high on my list of interests, but Joe Nocera is a fine fine writer. I really enjoyed pushing myself a bit to fill some gaps in my financial knowledge through the vehicle of his stories about the people behind the news. Also, my kneejerk reaction to the people who run corporations is about what you'd expect from someone whose parents were hippies when she was a child, and this helped me think somewhat more broadly about that.
(130/200)

Librarianship as Conversation

The Atlas of New Librarianship, by R. David Lankes
So I wrote class-assignment posts about each of the major sections of this book over on my school blog, Tiny Glass Houses - if you'd like my thoughts in depth, best to mosey over there (and you may want to start with the oldest posts if you don't want things to build backward). Here I will just say that it's one of only two times in my life that a prof assigning his own book turned out to be a very good thing indeed, and that the usefulness of this book as a provocation, guide, and sampler far outweighed the frustrations I occasionally experienced while reading it.
(131/200, 75/100)