Turning the Pages of 2017--books so far

You can tell a lot about people by the books on their shelves, or by the bedstand, or in our case, scattered throughout the house.  Draw your own conclusions.So far this year--

Currently reading

Susan Rice, Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a world that can’t stop talking

Books completed in 2017

Art

·     Zoltan Szabo Paints Landscapes—watercolor, used

·     Betty Lou Schlemm, Watercolor Secrets for Painting Light, used

·     Oliver Meslay, Turner, Life and Landscape

Fiction

·     William Least Heat Moon, Celestial Mechanics

·     Anne Hillerman, Song of the Lion

·     Michael Crichton, Lost World

·     Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper

History

·     Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower

·     David McCullough, The Wright Brothers,  

General non-fiction

·     Smoke over Oklahoma—The Railroad Photographs of Preston George

·     Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

·     William Least Heat Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere

·     Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

·     Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

·     Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

·     Robert MacFarlane, Landmarks

·     Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees

·     Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself, 1970

Poetry

·     John Erskine, Sonata, 1923

Partial

·     Richard Jefferies, After London, 1885, fiction

·     Peter Davidson, The Idea of North

·     Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds

·     W.G. Sebald. The Rings of Saturn

·     Robert Friedman, The Next 100 Years

·     Linda Gratton & Andrew Scott, The 100-Year Life, Living and Working in an Age of Longevity