Half of these titles were gifts/giveaways from DirtyLibrarian, because in Fiji, I will pretty much read anything "new" since the fiction at my library is either Booker/Pulitzer winners or donated mass market paperbacks and nothing else. Other titles were either already owned and I finally got around to reading them, or ebooks (book club selections, especially ( Read more... )

nonfiction:

1) Kago, kastom and Kalja: the study of indigenous movements in Melanesia today: edited by Marc Tabani and Marcellin Abong (2013) - academic papers on cargo cults. Did not know Papua New Guinea recently had one that was a combination of pyramid scheme and self-help/Tony Robbins blather. probably not of interest to any of you.

2) The Night ( Read more... )

Non Fiction ( Read more... )

Was traveling in June so didn't post book list then. Posting that one and the one that ended in September at the end of October. Island time, or something.

Fiction ( Read more... )

So we made it this far. It's not what I thought it would be, exactly, but no huge surprises. We have experienced a burglary, absences of food and drink we loved in the PNW (alas Morningstar bacon, I'll see you again in June) and a shit-ton of rain but things are mostly okay. Don't know if we will last the whole 3 year contract but we're only 1/6 of ( Read more... )

Okay, what did I do from October to December to make my book count the lowest it's been in the decade since I started doing this booklist? hmm, I dunno, MOVE HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD? Having my routine disrupted apparently affected my reading, not to mention no longer having access to the awesome Seattle Public Library ( Read more... )

nf ( Read more... )

I'm moving to Fiji. Yes, really. Most everyone reading this already knows this from FB, but just in case ( Read more... )

Once again I forget to post this in June and now we're halfway thru the 3rd quarter. Oh well ( Read more... )

(actually includes April's books too, because I procrastinate ( Read more... )