But it picked up in December as the year ended, bringing a total of 23 books for the year, plus five partial and unfinished. (All nonfiction except f=fiction; e=poet essays; p=photo/essays.)
It's obvious that I prefer non-fiction, hey, I'm a journalist...concentrating on themes that have to with nature, wildlife, history and the West. There are a lot of "self-help" books having to do with art and attitude--these seem to be increasing with my age. Some partials will be completed, and others won't.
I skip around a lot when I read, and always have more than one book going--ADD, probably.
December: Usually, I write about each of these books, and may later. You can find articles on the earlier books on the blog starting backward in July.
- The War of Art, Pressfield
- Tribe, Junger
- Upstream, Oliver-e
- American Serengeti, Flores
- An Obvious Fact, Johnson-f
- Unbranded, Masters-p
- Partial--A Different Drum, Peck
- Partial--What the Best College Teachers Do, Bain
- Partial--The Next Species, Tennesen
- Happy Potter and the Cursed Child, Rowling-f
- The Timekeeper, Albom-f
- Yellow House Mauve Sky-art/fable
- The Blessing Way, Hillerman (reread)
- Art and Fear, Bayless/Orland (reread)
- American Ghost, Nordhaus
- Deep South, Theroux
- Laguna Pueblo, Marmon/Corbett-pe
- The Highwayman, Johnson-f
- The Great Spring, Goldberg
- The Soul of Octopus, Montgomery
- Coyote America, Flores
- One Man's Wilderness, Keith/Proenneke
- Woe to the Land Shadowing, Shuttlesworth-poetry
- The Beekeeper's Lament, Nordhaus
- Childhood's End, Clarke--sf
- Finding Abbey, Prentiss
- Partial--Reclaiming Conversation, Turkle
- Partial--Cimarron Crucible, Fretwell-f
- Partial--Across the Cimarron, Wilson-f
- Partial--Broken Open, Lesser
- Partial--The Western Cattle Trail, Krasingers