Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature, by Jordan Fisher Smith ( Read more... )

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer.  By Sydney Padua ( Read more... )

Consequence: A Memoir, by Eric Fair ( Read more... )

Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species.  By J. A. Mills

Quick summary: a first-person account of a long fight to save wild tigers, with a focus on legal tiger trade, especially on tiger farming, and how it’s ruining everything.  Would recommend ( Read more... )

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente ( Read more... )

This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for the Magical Body, by Ptolemy Tompkins ( Read more... )

Love’s Promises: How formal and informal contracts shape all kinds of families, by Martha M. Ertman ( Read more... )

Flirting with French, by William Alexander

Out of order, but I’ve not posted most of what I’ve been reading due to moving, and I have to return this to the library now.

It was decent.  Decently funny (though no Bill Bryson), decently heartening and disheartening regarding language acquisition (and heart problems, I guess).

The Sparrow: A Novel, by Mary Doria Russell ( Read more... )

Use of Weapons (Culture Series #3), by Ian M. Banks ( Read more... )