Friday, April 11, 2025

Books Read - 2024

Well, this list is really, really late! Without having gone to ALA's Midwinter event, I had sort of abandoned this blog. And, for whatever reasons, I have not been reading books -- lots of reading, but mostly email, newspapers, social media. Here's the 2024 list:
    Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
    The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford [Work topic]
     Dawn in the Dooryard: Reflections from the Jagged Edge of America by Timothy Cotton Author signed; family holiday grab bag
    Writing the Big Book: The creation of A. A. by William Schaberg
    A History of the Louisiana Library Association, 1925 - 2000 edited by Alma Dawson and Florence Jumonville @work
    At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier [Book discussion book from a sister-in-law]
    From Prison Cells to PhD: It is never too late to do good by Stanley Andrisse
    Red Harvest: A graphic novel of the Terror Famine in 1930s Soviet Ukraine by Michael Cherkas [GN=Graphic Non-fiction]; ARC @work
    Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng [Book discussion book from a sister-in-law]
    How Far the Light Reaches: A life in ten sea creatures by Sabrina Imbler
    Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender YA - LTRC
    First-Hand: A Memoir of Life in 1950's Mandeville LA by J. Vernon "Butch" Smith
    Let's Talk About It: The teen's guide to sex, relationships, and being a human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan [GN=Graphic Non-fiction]
    Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter [GN=Graphic Novel; LYRTC @work]
    Museums & Women and other stories by John Updike
    Saint Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo [YA, ARC]
    Glengarry Geln Ross: A play by David Mamet [@work]
    My Selma by Willie May Brown [ARC, YA - intro speaker at ALA LibLearnX 2023]
    Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont by Nick Brooks [ARC, YA, signed by the author]
    Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson [@work]
    Jikji, light from the East III published by Cheongju Early Printing Museum

Note that prior year reading lists are linked from this page: