• The Fish of Gold and Other Finnish Folk Tales translated by Inkeri Väänänen-Jensen 11.17
• Spaceflight by Michael J. Neufeld 10.28
• Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith 10.26
• Teach Yourself Geology by David Rothery 10.22
• Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time by Brian Aldiss 10.19
• Voorloper by Andre Norton (reread) 10.16
• Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards 10.12
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom 10.05 [this one was barely within my tolerance before a DNF and I’m thinking maybe I should’ve just DNF’ed]
• Civilizations of Ancient Iraq by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster 09.28
• Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction by various edited by Jack Dann 09.22
• A History of the Ancient Near East by Marc Van De Mieroop 09.19

Literature is like pie, one piece is better than none at all.

-- Roger Zelazny, "The Malatesta Collection"

• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier 12.21
• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton (reread) 12.15
• Healing Dream and Ritual: Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy by C. A. Meier 12.10
• A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-one Stories from the Japanese by various, trans. by Lane Dunlop 12.10
• Earth is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov 12.09
• Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation by Steven Levy 10.10
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake 10.01
• How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls: Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future by David L. Hu 09.29
• The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter by Peter Robin Hiesinger
• The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for ... by Alan H. Guth 09.23

There had been one stretch of time when Joe had believed he was almost a hopeless case. Fortunately, afterward, reading had enchanted him. It was those fabricated stories that had saved him, that had brought changes to the look of his life. But stories were only a part of Joe’s life, the sole part possessing meaning. Joe had not thought that in the world there could be a man like Kim, who lived altogether inside of fabrication.

-- Can Xue trans. by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, The Last Lover

• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi 12.30
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (reread) 12.30
• Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick 12.29
• A Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park by Arnold N. Palmer 12.28
• The Last Planet by Andre Norton (reread) 12.23
• Treasury of Finnish Love: Poems, Quotations, & Proverbs in Finnish and English edited by Börje Vähämäki 12.21

• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 12.23
• Triton by Samuel Delany 12.18
• Deep Secrets: The Discovery and Exploration of Lechuguilla Cave by Stephen Reames et al 12.15
• Dog Songs by Mary Oliver 12.07
• The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry 11.19
• Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri 11.13
• Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver 10.19
• A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver 10.19
• Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver 10.19
• Subterranean Climbers: Twelve Years in the World's Deepest Chasm by Pierre Chevalier trans. by E. M. Hatt 10.17
• Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments illustrated by Dinara Mirtalipova 10.16
• Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes by Paul Newsome & Adam Young 09.07
• The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbel...

"The pleasure of buying a new book and reading it in the evening— I have long since forgotten."

-- Takuboku Ishikawa, excerpt from "When I Take My Gloves Off"

• The Gate to Futures Past by Julie E. Czerneda 10.02
• Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth 09.30
• The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts 09.30
• A History of God by Karen Armstrong 09.29
• Women Who Think Too Much by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema 09.27
• The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 09.27
• Disciples of Passion by Hoda Barakat 09.26
• The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur 09.25
• Absolute Solitude by Dulce María Loynaz trans. by James O'Connor 09.23
• The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson 09.22
• The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson 09.20
• Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson 09.19
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson 09.19

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• graupel - precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of crisp, opaque rime.
• misoneism - hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.
• sentential - pertaining to or of the nature of a sentence.
• subdoxastic - Of or pertaining to what underlies the formation of beliefs or opinions.
• isotropic - (physics) Having properties that are identical in all directions; exhibiting isotropy.
• tendentious - Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.

Definitions from dictionary.com, wikipedia, and wiktionary.org.

• littoral - of or relating to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean
• bight - the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends
• exudate - a substance exuded; exudation
• palynology - the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures
• anemogamous - (botany) That reproduces via anemogamy (spread by wind)
• exsert - to thrust out
• factotum - a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house
• stasimon - (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos