Binge Entertainment

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- ,