I read a lot during our quarantine and binge watched 10 seasons of Shameless. I re–read the five George R R Martin Fire and Ice Series. After visiting the Frederick Remington Museum I binge read 6 Will James novels: Sun Up, Cow Country, Cowboys North and South, Scorpion, The Drifting Cowboy and the Lone Cowboy.
According to my public library I checked out 60+ books since January 2020:
- Life by Richards, Keith, 1943-
- The persuasion by Johansen, Iris,
- Unsinkable : five men and the indomitable run of the USS Plunkett by Sullivan, James, 1965-
- Raft of stars : a novel by Graff, Andrew J.,
- Three-ring circus : Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the crazy years of the Lakers dynasty by Pearlman, Jeff,
- The last trial by Turow, Scott,
- The dangerous river : adventure on the Nahanni by Patterson, R. M. (Raymond Murray), 1898-1984.
- What it’s like to be a bird : from flying to nesting, eating to singing – what birds are doing, and why by Sibley, David, 1961-
- WordPress : the missing manual by MacDonald, Matthew,
- Winter world : the ingenuity of animal survival by Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-
- WordPress by Sabin-Wilson, Lisa,
- The final deception by Graham, Heather,
- Himalaya : a human history by Douglas, Ed, 1966-
- The Best of the American West II : frontier adventure by Gorman, Edward.
- The great alone by Hannah, Kristin,
- Selected stories of Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring camp, The outcasts of Poker Flat, Tennessee’s partner, and other tales by Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.
- Exercised : why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding by Lieberman, Daniel, 1964-
- The MeatEater guide to wilderness skills and survival by Rinella, Steven,
- Of wolves and men by Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
- Roundup at the Double Diamond; the American cowboy today by Surface, William.
- American buffalo : in search of a lost icon by Rinella, Steven.
- Paddle to the Amazon by Starkell, Don, 1932-
- Trails plowed under by Russell, Charles Marion, 1864-1926.
- Cow people by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.
- Meat eater : adventures from the life of an American hunter by Rinella, Steven.
- Warpath & cattle trail by Collins, Hubert Edwin, 1872-
- The biggest bluff : how I learned to pay attention, master myself, and win by Konnikova, Maria,
- Calked shoes : life in Adirondack lumber camps / by Barbara Kephart Bird ; photographs by Royal G. Bird by Bird, Barbara Kephart, 1897-
- The pillars of the earth by Follett, Ken.
- The second wife by Fleet, Rebecca,
- Where the lost wander by Harmon, Amy,
- Vesper flights : new and collected essays by Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
- Inside of a dog : what dogs see, smell, and know by Horowitz, Alexandra.
- The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think by Ackerman, Jennifer, 1959-
- Superman’s not coming : our national water crisis and what we the people can do about it by Brockovich, Erin,
- Utopia Avenue : a novel by Mitchell, David (David Stephen),
- Winter counts : a novel by Weiden, David Heska Wanbli, 1963-
- The back roads to March : the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season by Feinstein, John,
- American boy by Watson, Larry, 1947-
- Dairy Queen days : a novel by Inman, Robert, 1943-
- Flirting with Pete : a novel by Delinsky, Barbara.
- Everywhere you don’t belong : a novel by Bump, Gabriel,
- Oona out of order by Montimore, Margarita,
- Until the end of time : mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe by Greene, B. (Brian), 1963-
- Unconscious basketball: playing the game for keeps, skills that endure by Rosenfeld, Bruce.
- Every tool’s a hammer : life is what you make it by Savage, Adam,
- The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world by Kirkpatrick, David, 1953 June 14-
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI by Dawson, Kate Winkler,
- Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses by Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
- The impossible first : from fire to ice–crossing Antarctica alone by O’Brady, Colin,
- The lost art of reading nature’s signs : use outdoor clues to find your way, predict the weather, locate water, track animals–and other forgotten skills by Gooley, Tristan.
- Oh Florida! : how America’s weirdest state influences the rest of the country by Pittman, Craig,
- American dirt by Cummins, Jeanine,
- Every last lie by Kubica, Mary,
- The good girl by Kubica, Mary,
- Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Fremont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War by Inskeep, Steve,
- Educated : a memoir by Westover, Tara,
- Sandworm : a new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin’s most dangerous hackers by Greenberg, Andy,
- Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast : A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation by LaRusso, Nicholas, 1942- ,