#anatomy is my passion vol 2

[milksr]

a concept,

#deidara #naruto #naruto shippuden #akatsuki #art tag #anatomy is my passion vol 2 #i just vomit these sketches on here whatever the fuck

[elsewhereuniversity]

Why You Should Wear Boots after Picking a Major You Didn’t Want

A university is a place where dreams are thrown away.

Such is the case far too often. It remains Real even between the railroad, highway and train tracks. Even there, people interrogate themselves: ‘This is your dream, but is it realistic? How much is the starting salary? Look at your classmates, elegantly breezing over what you clawed through, tooth and nail. Look at your competitors––’

So many choose to drown their dreams themselves… even though, at Elsewhere University, the dead do not rest quietly. The Wild Hunt is proof of that. Yes, that Wild Hunt, which rides across campus when the fog rolls in. We all know the versions in which they hunt for students unlucky (or unbelieving) enough to be outside when the hounds begin baying. Stay inside, stay quiet, and you’ll be all the better for it, if they ignore you.

What about the other versions, though? What about the versions in which it is best to open your windows and howl back? There are tales like that, too––

Sometimes, those brave enough to shout along with the Wild Hunt will be rewarded with a share of prey or gold. Those kind enough to repair a lost hunter’s sled soon discover this to be the right choice, for upon closer inspection, the hounds are not just hounds. Their bones are laden heavy with wrath.

And sometimes, villagers tell tales of a cloaked rider on a white horse. Horseshoes spark against the night breeze. He will ask you to play an impossible game of tug-of-war. If you are wise, you will tie the other end of the rope to a sturdy oak. The leader of the Hunt likes clever little things. He might even drop a reward in your boot.

Perhaps this is why you see students wearing boots for a while after they declare their majors. Even Magenta (who got her name from always wearing high-heeled loafers of that particular shade) and Ma-Boi-Blanche (who has 17 pairs of white sneakers) wore boots back then. Rumor has it, according to a friend of a roommate of a Forbidden Major, that this footwear will help you abandon your misery.

When the Wild Hunt rides as a group, they come to condemn. The RAs are not wrong in telling you to run for safety when the fog descends.

On the other hand, when the leader of the Hunt appears alone, he comes to test. In this more benign (but not safe, never safe) form, 4% meet a bedraggled man, 2% a king of old, 3% a specimen of demon (the Christian subspecies), 6% a harlequin, and 5% a sledder with a thick Mecklenburg accent.

84% of those who have survived the encounter say that the leader of the Hunt wears a cloak and a wide hat that partially hides his eyes (one of which is duller than the other). He gallops in on a splendid white horse.

95% of those who survived the encounter were wearing boots (one of them was wearing spatterdashes over court shoes, but eh, close enough).

100% of the survivors say that you must be ready to be tested. Be kind, clever, daring. If you are all that––and wary, wise, lucky too––the leader of the Hunt will let you go and stuff something in your boot. A post-it, on which is written the major that they chose, yet hated with every fibre of their being.

Now, put the boot back on and walk. It may be a bit awkward to walk around, what with the paper writhing under your feet, but do so anyway. Every student who has tried it reports that when they got back to their dorms, the paper had vanished from beneath their soles. In its place, they had gained a floating sensation, grafted in their bones.

By the end of the year, Ma-Boi-Blanche and Professor Redd were chattering away like old friends. The Professor had to admit that his student wasn’t very good at dissections, but there was an unmistakable passion for anatomy in his eyes, and he would improve soon. (Very soon, especially with Professor Redd’s talent of acquiring practice bodies, his jaunty hat growing redder with every new specimen.)

On the other side of campus, the law majors learned to listen for the click-clack of high-heeled loafers. Woe betide the unlucky people who faced off against Magenta, who suddenly threw herself into mock trials with gusto. Her opponents gained a Pavlovian fear response to seeing any shade of pink.

This did not go ignored. The Involved went up to the two, in order to warn them.

“The Gentry do not offer things for free,” they said. “And intelligence isn’t cheap. What in Morganwode did you pay?”

To which the ones who met the Huntsman merely laughed, because they weren’t any smarter. The only difference was that now, they were interested in the subjects they found so odious before.

In the old tales, a satisfied rider of the Wild Hunt will reward a human with meat. The person will walk back home in the dark, one shoe on and one shoe off, the boot growing heavier with every step. Once home, they will see that the raw, bloody meat has transformed into gold.

There are a few who still receive this, not always in the payment of gold, but in blessings. (Childe House’s oldest RA is one of them, which explains why the once-every-305-days evacuation has a 100% success rate, even when half a dozen residents don’t understand what a “mandatory house meeting” or a “fire drill” is.)

  Which begs the question: why does the leader of the Hunt help so many?

Rewards are meant to be given to the exceptional few. Yet the unhappy are not part of these few. Given the number of students with newfound rapture in their eyes, one does not need to be exceptionally kind, clever, or daring to transfer their passions. Just wary, wise, and lucky are enough.

When asked, the leader of the Wild Hunt proclaimed that such a spell is child’s play. We’ve already provided the ingredients: two subjects and a passion. The price is low because all he needs to do is to sever the interest from one subject, then attach it to another. Simple work, he said. He would never think of charging so much for something he could do before breakfast. It is not befitting a warrior. Think of it as a favour from a father to his children, he said, then laughs as if there is a joke here that no one else understands.

There are more people who understand than he might think, for the more competent members of the Forbidden Major have another theory. Anyone with passing knowledge of folklore would be able to recognize this person at a glance, they say (quietly, and never to the Huntsman’s face). He is the amalgamation of ghost, fae and old god.

The first rider of the Wild Hunt might be, depending on the amount of fertilizer on the campus lawn and the moon phase, the oldest warrior poet. There are less battlefields for him to watch over now, but still he is song and madness. Still, he is overcome with fury when he sees yet another soldier buckle before the fight has begun.

This child would have made a fine skald. That child could have become a brilliant shield-maiden. This one had the makings of a king, yet they chose to push these futures away, he said through clenched teeth. These children began to think there was nothing left. They started to look at the pond and that single eighth-floor window which could open all the way.

This is not a battlefield, but… to give up before the horn sounds, under his watch?

Unforgivable, he said, with an unblinking smile, all teeth and lone glittering eye. To despair is to slander my hundred names.

So the leader of the Hunt casts a few spells here, a little trickery there, and coaxes the bright frenzy back in their eyes, or so the Forbidden Majors whisper. The price is only low because of who and why he is. He helps them so they can die more valiantly, another day.

  Think of it as a favour from a father to his children, he says, then laughs as if there is a joke here that no one else understands. This is despite the fact that half the Forbidden Majors and a fifth of the Literature Majors know who he is.

(Not that they would reveal that, ever. The all-father’s wrath is a terrible thing.)

  Addendum:

Statistics unavailable for those who encountered the Wild Hunt’s leader alone, while not wearing boots. Mythological references, as well as the Sword-House valet’s intuition, imply it is better not to know.

[Author’s Note]

I did not intend “Why You Should Wear Boots after Picking a Major You Didn’t Want” to be so long. Do pardon me.

There is much debate over the identity of the Wild Hunt’s leader. My personal favourite theory is that the leader is Odin, or some variant of him, which this submission is based on. Still, I couldn’t resist hinting at the others:

“Bedraggled man” = multiple stories, in which the Hunt’s leader is any hunter who preferred hunting to going to church, or else slandered a certain god

“King of old” = Arawn

“Harlequin” = in Vitalis’ Ecclesiastical History Vol. 2 (1140), Hellequin/Herlequin is the herald of a Wild- Hunt-esque procession of tortured souls. There is also King Herla.

“Sledder with a thick Mecklenburg accent” = Frau Gauden

-Louis

#Why You Should Wear Boots after Picking a Major You Didn’t Want #stories #long post #the wild hunt #odin #louis #thanks for the note on tags! was really helpful! #very vague mention of #suicidal ideation #loved this!

[ninja-muse]

January 2022 Wrap-up

Trying a slightly different format this year. A little more info on the diversity within the books, and warnings for any triggers I find to be particularly central to the story or powerfully written. (I.e., not all possible triggers will be given, because triggers are as diverse as anything else and it’s not in my power to catch them all in any case.) If you’re interested in a book I’ve read and want to know more about triggers, rep, or anything else within it, please ask me!

One of my goals this year is to read more books off my physical TBR shelves, or at least make a record of how many I manage by taking a photo. The stacked books above came straight off my shelves. The standing ones are this month’s book haul! Anything else listed below can be assumed to be a library book, another sort of loan, or a reading copy.

And now, my total books read in order of how glad I am to have read them:

Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson Lisa’s brother goes missing at sea, sparking memories of her childhood and family. - Haisla characters, Haisla-Heiltsuk author, 🇨🇦, #ownvoices - warnings for grief, sexual violence, substance abuse, and attempted suicide The Emperor of Scent - Chandler Burr A scientist reimagines a discredited theory of scent while indulging his passion for perfume. Then he struggles to get it accepted. - 🏳️‍🌈 author

The Fabliaux: A New Verse Translation - Nathaniel E. Dubin (Translator) Medieval French stories of sexual impropriety and upending the status quo. - warnings for sexual violence and misogyny, often used for comic effect

Where the Drowned Girls Go - Seanan McGuire Cora decides to switch schools to escape the Drowned Gods. This might be a mistake. - fat protagonist, #ownvoices, 🏳️‍🌈 author, some diversity within secondary cast - warnings for bullying, body shaming, and suicide attempt

Gallant - V.E. Schwab Olivia, an orphan, receives a letter drawing her to the home she must never visit—one with a dark secret. (Out in March) - 🏳️‍🌈 author

The Christie Affair - Nina de Gramont In 1925, Agatha Christie went missing for ten days. This is the Other Woman’s version. Full of tragedy, love, relationships, and need. (Out in February) - warnings for sexual violence and the horrors of mother-and-baby homes

A Man and His Cat Volume 1 - Umi Sakurai with Taylor Engel (Translator) An aging teacher and an unwanted cat find their forever home together. - Japanese characters, Japanese author, #ownvoices

Love & Other Disasters - Anita Kelly Dahlia and London both entered Chef’s Special to prove themselves and win. Falling for each other wasn’t on the table. - 🏳️‍🌈 characters, 🏳️‍🌈 author, #ownvoices, diverse secondary characters - warning for misgendering

What Abigail Did That Summer - Ben Aaronovitch A mysterious invitation draws Abigail and the talking foxes of Hampstead Heath into a magical mystery. - Black protagonist, disabled secondary character

Anatomy - Dana Schwartz Hazel wants to be the finest surgeon in Edinburgh. Her uphill battle will lead to dark places and self-discovery. (Meanwhile, there’s an epidemic and resurrection men are going missing.) - warning for dead bodies, dissection, and medical content

More Bad Days in History - Michael Farquhar Another unfortunate or terrible event for every day of the year.

Along the Saltwise Sea - A. Deborah Baker While searching for the Queen of Wands, Zib, Avery, and their friends spend the night in the wrong cottage. Suddenly there are pirates! And a shipboard mystery. - 🏳️‍🌈 author

The Steel Prince Vol. 2: Night of Knives - V.E. Schwab with Budi Setiawan (Illustrator), Andrea Olimpieri (Illustrator) Maxim needs to prove himself to the soldiers he’s leading. What better way than a magical challenge no one has completed? - dark-skinned protagonist, 🏳️‍🌈 author

Age of Ash - Daniel Abraham While seeking her brother’s killer, Alys is drawn into intrigue and pushed to discover who she truly is. Out in February. - 🏳️‍🌈 secondary protagonist

Attrib. and Other Stories - Eley Williams A collection of stories about quirky people and odd situations. - 🏳️‍🌈 characters, 🏳️‍🌈 author

How to Find a Princess - Alyssa Cole Makeda’s at loose ends, resolved to stop helping people, and wanting a quiet life. Beznaria’s a force of chaos convinced Makeda is a lost princess. It’s attraction at first misunderstanding. - 🏳️‍🌈 leads, Black cast, neurodivergent lead, Black author, #ownvoices

Currently reading:

The View from the Cheap Seats - Neil Gaiman Essays, speeches, and other writings.

A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger Nina’s trying to connect with her heritage through story and to discover if the animal people are still around. Oli is a cottonmouth boy, freshly out of the nest. Soon they will be drawn together. - Lipan Apache characters, 🏳️‍🌈 protagonist, Lipan Apache author, 🏳️‍🌈 author, #ownvoices

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Victorian detective stories - major disabled character



Stats


Monthly total: 16
 Yearly total: 16
 Queer books: 8
 Authors of colour: 3 Books by women: 8 Canadian authors: 1 Off the TBR shelves: 7

#books #booklr #bookblr #adult booklr #book covers #book photography #my photos #reading wrap-ups #read in 2022 #rec lists #stacks of books #book hauls

[matty-paragon]

2 of Cups: LOVE (June 21 to July 1) Astrology Sign: CANCER 

Check out the full project   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTarotExperience/videos

(1rst Decan) Degree 0 - 9 Ruler of Card: VENUS Constellation URSA MINOR Chosen Star: POLARIS (Pole Alpha Rise) The Central Star 

Anatomy: Cancer rules the STOMACH 

Positive Attributes: unity, partnership, attraction, connection, close bonds, joining forces, mutual respect. 

Negative Attributes: separation, rejection, division, imbalance, tension, bad communication, withdrawal. 

The Lord of Love, a card of bliss, deep joyous love reciprocated fully and with great enthusiasm, a card of reconciliations and new growth! Here we see harmonious and contented exchanges of emotion, which vibrate with an ecstatic undercurrent of passion and heat. To see the Two of Cups is an indication of a partnership. A partnership that is built on the union of forces, a strong connection and a balanced and equal partnership. The exchange of cups suggest that each party's emotions are intertwined with the other's, and each participant's feelings have profound affects on the other. A strong pair is indicated here, the joy of two becoming one. This card shows an image of a man and a woman that are exchanging their cups in a ceremony. There is the symbol of Hermes’ caduceus in between which is often related to negotiation, trade, cosmic energy, protection, proper conduct and duality. 

 The Two of Cups refers to something quite positive, for it is one of the most auspicious cards in the tarot for relationships, whether romantic, business, family or otherwise. It suggests a new partnership is in the works, and it will be created with balance, respect, and honor. In some cards, above the caduceus is a chimera, which symbolizes fire and passion also governs this partnership. 

 The Tarot Experience is a Project linking Organic and Electronic Music with the Tarot Cards Energies. Iv'e created Image Videos to play along with my Music to connect dots within the wonderful World of Astro-Theology and Syncretism "The Holy Sciences". I have created the full Tarot Deck, 78 Videos/Songs, to help connect dots from the Stars to your Body to the way certain energies may manifests. The first four albums each contains 14 Songs "1 song per Card for it's respective Suit". This project has four albums: Ace of Cups: Emotional Body: Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) Ace of Swords: Mental Body: Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) Ace of Disks: Physical Body: Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) Ace of Wands: Spiritual Body: Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) Ace of Swords is more of a Trance Electro House Trip-Hop Techno. Ace of Cups is an Electro-Guitar "No Distortion" type of Groove. Ace of Disks is an Electro-Lounge Ace of Wands is what I call Techno-Rock where I have some Rock Distortion intertwined with Electronic music. I also have 2 Albums that consists of the Trump Cards (Major Arcana) Trumps (Vol. I): 0 The Fool (Air) 1 The Magus (Mercury) 2 The High Priestess (Moon) 3 The Empress (Venus) 4 The Emperor (Aries) 5 The Hierophant (Taurus) 6 The Lovers (Gemini) 7 The Chariot (Cancer) 8 Strength (Leo) 9 The Hermit (Virgo) 10 Wheel of Fortune (Jupiter) Trumps (Vol. II) 11 Justice (Libra) 12 The Hanged Man (Water) 13 Death (Scorpio) 14 Art / Temperance (Sagittarius) 15 The Devil (Capricorn) 16 The Tower (Mars) 17 The Star (Aquarius) 18 The Moon (Moon) 19 The Sun (Sun) 20 Aeon (Fire / Spirit) 21 The Universe (Saturn to Earth) 

Let these albums guide you into an out of this world experience and check out The Tarot Experience. 

May be reached at [email protected] or at [email protected]

#Paragon #tarot #mysic #instrumental #music for the tarot #2 of cups #love #matty paragon #the tarot experience #mathieu Bois

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

April 20, 2019: a new episode of The Anatomy Lesson at 11pm EST on CFRC 101.9 FM. Music by B. P., Ruins Maker, Comicide, Deli Girls, Vomit Fraud, Culture of Death  + more. Tune in at 101.9 on your FM dial, stream at http://audio.cfrc.ca:8000/listen.pls or listen to an archive here: https://www.mixcloud.com/cameronwillis1232/the-anatomy-lesson-april-20-2019/

JT Whitfield - “Everything Is Different” Complacent (2019) Black Spring - “Suck Till No Soul Left” Wet Dreams for Platonic Friends (2018) Controlled Bleeding - “Near The Water (vocal remix)” Songs from the Ashes (1989) Vomit Fraud - “Cheree” AK05 (2018) Deli Girls - “I’d Rather Die” I Don’t Know How to Be Happy (2019) Inferior Passions - “No Summer of Love” Summer Scum 2015 (2015) Comicide - “Muscular Jesus (Eve Hill)” Moral Improvement (Live) (1984) Unknown Sister - “Glaciar” Industri & Naring Vol. 1 (2017) Armour Group - “Conditioning” Purge (2016) Ruins Maker - “Our Wrongs” My Skin (2019) B. P. - “Draped In Nothing But Skin” ‘Know Your Worth’ (2016) Culture of Death - “Untitled” 2 (2015) Sibling - “Eulogy” Survivor’s Guilt (2019)

#radio show #college radio #noise #drone #harsh noise #power electronics #dark ambient #black spring #controlled bleeding #deli girls #b.p. #culture of death #armour group #comicide #vomit fraud #radioshowcfrc101.9fm

[all-my-books]

2017 Reading

262 books read. 60% of new reads Non-fiction, authors from 55 unique countries, 35% of authors read from countries other than USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Asterisks denote re-reads, bolds are favorites. January: The Deeds of the Disturber – Elizabeth Peters The Wiregrass – Pam Webber Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi It Didn't Start With You – Mark Wolynn Facing the Lion – Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Before We Visit the Goddess – Chitra Divakaruni Colored People – Henry Louis Gates Jr. My Khyber Marriage – Morag Murray Abdullah Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines – Margery Sharp Farewell to the East End – Jennifer Worth Fire and Air – Erik Vlaminck My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me – Jennifer Teege Catherine the Great – Robert K Massie My Mother's Sabbath Days – Chaim Grade Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me – Harvey Pekar, JT Waldman The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend – Katarina Bivald Stammered Songbook – Erwin Mortier Savushun – Simin Daneshvar The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran Beyond the Walls – Nazim Hikmet The Dressmaker of Khair Khana – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck *

February: Bone Black – bell hooks Special Exits – Joyce Farmer Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose Bright Dead Things – Ada Limon Middlemarch – George Eliot Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey Medusa's Gaze – Marina Belozerskaya Child of the Prophecy – Juliet Marillier * The File on H – Ismail Kadare The Motorcycle Diaries – Ernesto Che Guevara Passing – Nella Larsen Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers The Spiral Staircase – Karen Armstrong Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi Defiance – Nechama Tec

March: Yes, Chef – Marcus Samuelsson Discontent and its Civilizations – Mohsin Hamid The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Patience and Sarah – Isabel Miller Dying Light in Corduba – Lindsey Davis * Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman * The Shia Revival – Vali Nasr Girt – David Hunt Half Magic – Edward Eager * Dreams of Joy – Lisa See * Too Pretty to Live – Dennis Brooks West with the Night – Beryl Markham Little Fuzzy – H. Beam Piper *

April: Defying Hitler – Sebastian Haffner Monsters in Appalachia – Sheryl Monks Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho The Man Without a Face – Masha Gessen Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh Flory – Flory van Beek Why Soccer Matters – Pele The Zhivago Affair – Peter Finn, Petra Couvee The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake – Breece Pancake The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson Chasing Utopia – Nikki Giovanni The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer * Young Adults – Daniel Pinkwater Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel – John Stubbs Black Gun, Silver Star – Art T. Burton The Arab of the Future 2 – Riad Sattouf Hole in the Heart – Henny Beaumont MASH – Richard Hooker Forgotten Ally – Rana Mitter Zorro – Isabel Allende Flying Couch – Amy Kurzweil

May: The Bite of the Mango – Mariatu Kamara Mystic and Rider – Sharon Shinn * Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis Capture – David A. Kessler Poor Cow – Nell Dunn My Father's Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett * Elmer and the Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett * The Dragons of Blueland – Ruth Stiles Gannett * Hetty Feather – Jacqueline Wilson In the Shadow of the Banyan – Vaddey Ratner The Last Camel Died at Noon – Elizabeth Peters Cannibalism – Bill Schutt The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry The Food of a Younger Land – Mark Kurlansky Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue Words on the Move – John McWhorter John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville – John Ransom Such a Lovely Little War – Marcelino Truong Child of All Nations – Irmgard Keun One Child – Mei Fong Country of Red Azaleas – Domnica Radulescu Between Two Worlds – Zainab Salbi Malinche – Julia Esquivel A Lucky Child – Thomas Buergenthal The Drackenberg Adventure – Lloyd Alexander Say You're One of Them – Uwem Akpan William Wells Brown – Ezra Greenspan

June: Partners In Crime – Agatha Christie The Chinese in America – Iris Chang The Great Escape – Kati Marton As Texas Goes... – Gail Collins Pavilion of Women – Pearl S. Buck Classic Chinese Stories – Lu Xun The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West The Slave Across the Street – Theresa Flores Miss Bianca in the Orient – Margery Sharp Boy Erased – Garrard Conley How to Be a Dictator – Mikal Hem A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini Tears of the Desert – Halima Bashir The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs The First Salute – Barbara Tuchman Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski The Want-Ad Killer – Ann Rule The Gulag Archipelago Vol 2 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz – L. Frank Baum * The Blazing World – Margaret Cavendish Madonna in a Fur Coat – Sabahattin Ali Duende – tracy k. smith The ACB With Honora Lee – Kate de Goldi Mountains of the Pharaohs – Zahi Hawass Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Chronicle of a Last Summer – Yasmine el Rashidi Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann Mister Monday – Garth Nix * Leaving Yuba City – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams A Corner of White – Jaclyn Moriarty * Circling the Sun – Paula McLain Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken Believe Me – Eddie Izzard The Cracks in the Kingdom – Jaclyn Moriarty * Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg * One Hundred and One Days – Asne Seierstad Grim Tuesday – Garth Nix * The Vanishing Velasquez – Laura Cumming Four Against the Arctic – David Roberts The Marriage Bureau – Penrose Halson The Jesuit and the Skull – Amir D Aczel Drowned Wednesday – Garth Nix * Roots, Radicals, and Rockers – Billy Bragg A Tangle of Gold – Jaclyn Moriarty * Lydia, Queen of Palestine – Uri Orlev *

August: Sir Thursday – Garth Nix * The Hoboken Chicken Emergency – Daniel Pinkwater * Lady Friday – Garth Nix * Freddy and the Perilous Adventure – Walter R. Brooks * Venice – Jan Morris China's Long March – Jean Fritz Trials of the Earth – Mary Mann Hamilton The Bully Pulpit – Doris Kearns Goodwin Final Exit – Derek Humphry The Book of Emma Reyes – Emma Reyes Freddy the Politician – Walter R. Brooks * Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey * What the Witch Left – Ruth Chew All Passion Spent – Vita Sackville-West The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Curse of the Blue Figurine – John Bellairs * When They Severed Earth From Sky – Elizabeth Wayland Barber Superior Saturday – Garth Nix * The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt – John Bellairs * Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal The Philadelphia Adventure – Lloyd Alexander * Lord Sunday – Garth Nix * The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull – John Bellairs * Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie * Love in Vain – JM Dupont, Mezzo A Little History of the World – EH Gombrich Last Things – Marissa Moss Imagine Wanting Only This – Kristen Radtke Dinosaur Empire – Abby Howard The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett *

September: First Bite by Bee Wilson The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander Orientalism – Edward Said The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan – Carl Barks The Island on Bird Street – Uri Orlev * The Indifferent Stars Above – Daniel James Brown Beneath the Lion's Gaze – Maaza Mengiste The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde * The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi The Drunken Botanist – Amy Stewart The Turtle of Oman – Naomi Shahib Nye The Alleluia Files – Sharon Shinn * Gut Feelings – Gerd Gigerenzer The Secret of Hondorica – Carl Barks Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller The Abominable Mr. Seabrook – Joe Ollmann Black Flags – Joby Warrick

October: Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 – Naoki Higashida To the Bright Edge of the World – Eowyn Ivey Why? - Mario Livio Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Blindness – Jose Saramago The Book Thieves – Anders Rydell Reality is not What it Seems – Carlo Rovelli Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell * The Witch Family – Eleanor Estes * Sister Mine – Nalo Hopkinson La Vagabonde – Colette Becoming Nicole – Amy Ellis Nutt

November: The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing The Children's Book – A.S. Byatt The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta Who Killed These Girls? – Beverly Lowry Running for my Life – Lopez Lmong Radium Girls – Kate Moore News of the World – Paulette Jiles The Red Pony – John Steinbeck The Edible History of Humanity – Tom Standage A Woman in Arabia – Gertrude Bell and Georgina Howell Founding Gardeners – Andrea Wulf Anatomy of a Disapperance – Hisham Matar The Book of Night Women – Marlon James Ground Zero – Kevin J. Anderson * Acorna – Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball * A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel * The Age of the Vikings – Anders Winroth The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction – Helen Graham A General History of the Pyrates – Captain Charles Johnson (suspected Nathaniel Mist) Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers * The Lonely City – Olivia Laing No Time for Tears – Judy Heath

December: The Unwomanly Face of War – Svetlana Alexievich Gay-Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See Get Well Soon – Jennifer Wright The Testament of Mary – Colm Toibin The Roman Way – Edith Hamilton Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Vicente Blasco Ibanez Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O'Brien SPQR – Mary Beard Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild * Hogfather – Terry Pratchett * The Sorrow of War – Bao Ninh Drowned Hopes – Donald E. Westlake * Selected Essays – Michel de Montaigne Vietnam – Stanley Karnow The Snake, The Crocodile, and the Dog – Elizabeth Peters Guests of the Sheik – Elizabetha Warnok Fernea Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg Wicked Plants – Amy Stewart Life in a Medieval City – Joseph and Frances Gies Under the Sea Wind – Rachel Carson The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia – Mary and Brian Talbot Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey * The Treasure of the Ten Avatars – Don Rosa Escape From Forbidden Valley – Don Rosa Nightwood – Djuna Barnes Here Comes the Sun – Nicole Dennis-Benn Over My Dead Body – Rex Stout *

#books #reading #2017