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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, edited by Dan Ariely and Tim Folger
Every year I say, "Why don't they call it the Best American Science, Nature, Technology, and Polemic Writing?" They still haven't, but this year there was a technology section, and the collection was extremely light on polemic, so I am largely mollified. Dan Ariely joins the top rank of guest editors of this publication, for more reasons than just those two. Neat choices, though I'd read several of them already - there was a preponderance of stuff from the New Yorker and the Atlantic that had been passed around among my online circles when it first came out.
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Sandman, vol. 6: Fables & Reflections, by Neil Gaiman et al (reread)
Despite enjoying myself, I did think at one point, "Well, this one is definitely NOT my favorite." Looked on Goodreads, and I'd rated it 4 stars a few years ago, when I'd given almost all the other volumes a 5. So at least I am consistent. :)
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Bettie Page Presents: The Librarian by Logan Belle (e-ARC)
If Fifty Shades of Grey had moderate literary aspirations, it would dream of being this book. That's really all I can say without blushing, especially since MY LITTLE SISTER READS THIS BLOG. *blushes anyway* *never accepts erotica review copies ever ever again*
(223, A15)
Rough Hewn, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (nook, public domain)
This romantic novel from the 1920s was lovely - surprisingly nuanced and dark for an author I knew from children's books, full of thinky, full of quotes that I really needed to read right when I read them.
(224, O51)
Electric Ben, by Robert Byrd
OMG, so pretty. And the text is nifty too. Highly recommended for any Franklin-ophile or history buff who likes text-dense picture books.
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Seed by Seed, by Esmé Raji Codell, illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins
I was hoping this would move grown-up me the way the Johnny Appleseed movie moved me as a kid, but no dice. However, there is one incredibly GORGEOUS embroidered two-page spread in here which I am absurdly grateful to have seen.
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Cold Days, by Jim Butcher
YUM YUM YUM GOBBLE IT UP. This was longer than most of the other books in the series, but never dragged.
(227)
Every year I say, "Why don't they call it the Best American Science, Nature, Technology, and Polemic Writing?" They still haven't, but this year there was a technology section, and the collection was extremely light on polemic, so I am largely mollified. Dan Ariely joins the top rank of guest editors of this publication, for more reasons than just those two. Neat choices, though I'd read several of them already - there was a preponderance of stuff from the New Yorker and the Atlantic that had been passed around among my online circles when it first came out.
(221)
Sandman, vol. 6: Fables & Reflections, by Neil Gaiman et al (reread)
Despite enjoying myself, I did think at one point, "Well, this one is definitely NOT my favorite." Looked on Goodreads, and I'd rated it 4 stars a few years ago, when I'd given almost all the other volumes a 5. So at least I am consistent. :)
(222)
Bettie Page Presents: The Librarian by Logan Belle (e-ARC)
If Fifty Shades of Grey had moderate literary aspirations, it would dream of being this book. That's really all I can say without blushing, especially since MY LITTLE SISTER READS THIS BLOG. *blushes anyway* *never accepts erotica review copies ever ever again*
(223, A15)
Rough Hewn, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (nook, public domain)
This romantic novel from the 1920s was lovely - surprisingly nuanced and dark for an author I knew from children's books, full of thinky, full of quotes that I really needed to read right when I read them.
(224, O51)
Electric Ben, by Robert Byrd
OMG, so pretty. And the text is nifty too. Highly recommended for any Franklin-ophile or history buff who likes text-dense picture books.
(225)
Seed by Seed, by Esmé Raji Codell, illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins
I was hoping this would move grown-up me the way the Johnny Appleseed movie moved me as a kid, but no dice. However, there is one incredibly GORGEOUS embroidered two-page spread in here which I am absurdly grateful to have seen.
(226)
Cold Days, by Jim Butcher
YUM YUM YUM GOBBLE IT UP. This was longer than most of the other books in the series, but never dragged.
(227)
