January Come Lately

I try not to think about white rabbits running around with time pieces muttering about being late. Whenever I do I am reminded this is being written three days behind schedule. Nevertheless, here are the books:

Fiction:

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov – in honor of Asimov’s birth month.
• Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown – this is a stretch…All Creatures Great and Small first aired as a television show in January and there is a creature in the title.
• The Good Times are Killing Me by Lynda Barry – in honor of Barry’s birth month.
• A Cold Blooded Business by Dana Stabenow – in honor of Alaska becoming a state in January.

Nonfiction:

• Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn – in honor of Australia’s National Day on January 26th.
• The Turk by Tom Standage in honor of Wolfgang Von Klempelen’s birth month.
• Freedom in Meditation by Patricia Carrington – in honor of January being National Yoga month.
• Sibley’s Guide to Bird Life and Behavior by David Allen Sibley – in honor of Adopt a Bird Month. I read that somewhere…

Series continuations:

• To Lie with Lions by Dorothy Dunnett – to continue the series started in August in honor of Dunnett’s birth month.
• Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman – to continue the series started in November in honor of National Writing Month (Fantasy).

Early Review for LibraryThing:

• Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim – I know what you are thinking. I am neither black nor a girl. I am a middle-aged white woman who barely remembers being a girl. I requested this book because I work in an extremely diverse environment and let’s face it, I want to be known as well-read, regardless of color.

For fun:

• Sharp by Michelle Dean – my sister gave this to me as a Christmas gift. I wonder if she is trying to tell me something.