Spurts, in the pages and books of 2016

Spurts. I read in spurts. Fall was not kind, immersed in teaching a new class and the depression of the election. I have to read, or my brain, my creative,  seems to die--which was the case in reading and blogging during the drought of autumn.
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 

July was the last reading month:

• Happy Potter and the Cursed Child, Rowling-f
• The Timekeeper, Albom-f 
• Yellow House Mauve Sky-art/fable

First half of year:

• 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