lorax's 2013 nonfiction
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1lorax
I'm not about to attempt the firehose that is the 75 Book Challenge, but the one time I tried it I did enjoy keeping track of what I read, so I'm going to do this version this year and just track my nonfiction. I've been doing the Dewey and LC Challenges for some time now, so for books that are new categories for either of those I'll link to my threads there, but everything will be here. For the benefit of others doing those challenges I'll list the classification numbers for everything here even if they aren't new ones for me.
3lorax
Sorry for the lengthy delay, everyone. First, through January, I was waiting until I finished a review of an ER book, so I could link to it here. Then, well, let's just say that I started keeping another account. (The adoption placement process went much faster than we had expected it to, and we had one day's notice that we would be getting the kid.)
So that was February and most of March gone in a blur! But I have been keeping track of my nonfiction reading, so I can finally update this thread, more or less in the correct order.
So that was February and most of March gone in a blur! But I have been keeping track of my nonfiction reading, so I can finally update this thread, more or less in the correct order.
4lorax
1. On the Map by Simon Garfield (Dewey 912, LC GA new for me):
This was my ER book from October 2012. My review is here; in a nutshell, it's a very interesting history of cartography with one major flaw, at least in the ARC (though some published reviews I've read suggests the problem persists in the published edition); there are no good reproductions of any of the maps discussed. It's a book with a small target audience, to be sure, but it's good at what it does.
This was my ER book from October 2012. My review is here; in a nutshell, it's a very interesting history of cartography with one major flaw, at least in the ARC (though some published reviews I've read suggests the problem persists in the published edition); there are no good reproductions of any of the maps discussed. It's a book with a small target audience, to be sure, but it's good at what it does.
5_Zoe_
Oh, wow, congratulations on the adoption! I had no idea the process could be so crazy--one day's notice??
6lorax
2. Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day by Doug Mack (Dewey 914, LC G):
One of the bits in On the Map discussed guidebooks, which reminded me I'd picked up this fluffy travel book a few months ago. The author finds a copy of "Europe on $5 a Day" at a garage sale, purchases it for the kitsch value, and his mother mentions that she'd used it on her European vacation decades ago. Off he goes to the cities mentioned in the book, armed only with the obsolete guide, to see what hotels and so forth are still around. Anecdotes of his travels are interspersed with historical discussion of American travel to Europe in the era of the "$X a Day" starting after World War 2. Amusing.
One of the bits in On the Map discussed guidebooks, which reminded me I'd picked up this fluffy travel book a few months ago. The author finds a copy of "Europe on $5 a Day" at a garage sale, purchases it for the kitsch value, and his mother mentions that she'd used it on her European vacation decades ago. Off he goes to the cities mentioned in the book, armed only with the obsolete guide, to see what hotels and so forth are still around. Anecdotes of his travels are interspersed with historical discussion of American travel to Europe in the era of the "$X a Day" starting after World War 2. Amusing.
