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I was a bit of a slow reader this year. The year's themes
seem to be natural history writing, the Merrimack River, and
a little detour by the Danube.
On the stack unfinished (carried over to next
year):
- Writings and Drawings by John James
Audubon
- Related Entries: November
23, November
27
- Wild Fruits by Henry David Thoreau
- Related Entries: November
15, December
9
- New England Natives by Sheila Connor
- Related Entries: November
11
- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
- Related Entries: June
15, August
19, October
9
- Living on the Wind by Scott Weidensaul
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Finished this year:
- From Ponkapog to Pesth by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich
- Related Entries: December
15, December
20, December
28
- Two Ornithologists on the Lower Danube by
Kirke Swann
- Related Entries: December
7
- North Woods by Peter J. Marchand
- Autumn: from the Journals of Henry David
Thoreau edited by H.G.O. Blake
- Related Entries: December
11, December
12
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- Related Entries: December
7, December
8
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- Related Entries: December
5
- Woman Alone: A Farmhouse Journal by Carol
Burdick
- Related Entries: November
30
- Bird News by Vernon Laux
- Born Naked by Farley Mowat
- Related Entries: November
15
- Pieces of White Shell by Terry Tempest
Williams
- Related Entries: November
7
- The Secret Reader by Willis Barnstone
- Related Entries: November
6
- Thirty Years by John Marquand
- Related Entries: October
7, October
9 , November
2
- Rhode Island Geology for the Non-Geologist by
Alonzo W. Quinn
- New England Hurricane by Federal Writers
Project
- Related entries: October
15, October
19
- Danube by Claudio Magris
- Related Entries: Sept.10,
Sept.
11, Sept.
22 , October
19
- Food Habits of North American Diving Ducks by
Clarence Cottam
- Related Entries: October
7
- A History of Game Birds, Wild-Fowl, and Shore
Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States by Edward
Forbush
- OK, so I didn't read this cover to cover. It's a
reference book anyway. I read the sections on piping
plovers and buffleheads.
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- Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a
Volcanologist by Richard V. Fisher
- Related Entries: Sept.
5, Sept.
7 , Sept.
11, Sept.
13
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- Up and Down the Merrimac by Pliny Steele
Boyd
- This is the funniest 19th century travelogue I have
ever read. Boyd goes from a simple observation like an
eagle taking off from a rock to pages upon pages of
speculation on why the founding fathers chose it as the
national bird instead of the wild turkey. His chapter on
the Sabbath, which parallels Thoreau's chapter on the
same subject in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers, is as insightful as Thoreau's and way
funnier. He makes his points with humor instead of
philosophy. I hope I can find other stuff by this guy.
- Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
- Related Entries: August
30
Ralph can drive a motorcycle even though he is a mouse.
AJ can read chapter books aloud even though she is old
and tired. The parts I, AJ, liked best dealt with how the
press misconstrued the students' presentation on mice as
a complaint about mice infesting the school and created a
crisis where there wasn't one. This is the subtlest
criticism of the press I've ever seen! And Ralph is so
cute! When I finished it, Andrea wanted me to read
another chapter book aloud.
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- Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson
- I read this on the plane on the way to/from Budapest
and loved it. A romantic tale of the South American
jungle - very escapist.
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- American Nature Writing 1999 edited by
John Murray
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca
West
- Related entries: July
16 - let's face it, I'm going to leave this
unfinished having read the Kosovo and Bosnia
chapters
- Before the Dawn by Shimazaki Toson
- Related entries: June
8, July
1, July
16, July
20
- The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign by Clair
M. Hayes
- Related Entries: July
8
- The Storm Petrel and the Owl of Athena by
Louis J. Halle
- Related Entries: June
29, July
5, July
8
- The Feather Quest by Pete Dunne
- Related Entries: July
3 , July
5
- Salt Tide by Curtis J. Badger
- Related entries: May
18
- The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders by Clair
M. Hayes
- Related entries: May
9 , July
8
- Murder on the Prowl by Rita Mae Brown
- Murder, She Meowed by Rita Mae Brown
- Pay Dirt by Rita Mae Brown
- Murder at Monticello by Rita Mae Brown
- Rest in Pieces by Rita Mae Brown
- Related entries: May
19
- Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown
- Related entries: May
18
- Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
- The Adventure of Birds by Charlton Ogburn
- Waiting to Fly by Ron Naveen
- Related entries: March
8, March 11,
March 12, March
15
- The Trees in my Forest by Bernd Heinrich
- Related entries: January
7, January 28
- The Merrimack by Raymond Holden
- Related entries: January
28, February 3,
October
7
- Summer at Little Lava by Charles Fergus
- Related entries: February
19, March 2
- Winter: From the Journals of Henry David
Thoreau edited by HGO Blake
- Related entries: February
(all month), December
21, December
26
- Timothy Dexter Revisited by John Marquand
- Related entries: February
2, February 9,
February 11, February
18, March 5.
October
7, October
15
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