Welcome to the first monthly wrapup of the New Year. My preference in January is to do a grab-bag of topics, a kind of teaser for the year to come. I was….slightly successful in that, since we touched on little politics, a little science, a little southern lit, etc, but the month was mostly marked by fiction of all things: first, a series of short novels about human connection, each one more charming than the other, and then a silly series about the Republic of Texas getting involved in World War 2 in 1940. 

Science Survey:
Distracted by Alabama: Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore, John Seay Brown Jr (Wildcard, I suppose — a mix!)

Reading Dixie:
Distracted by Alabama: Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore, John Seay Brown Jr
My Selma, Willie Mae Brown

TBR Cleanup
In Search of Zarathrustra, Paul Kriwaczek
Human Scale Revisited, Kirkpatrick Sale

Coming up in February…

I’m currently working on two bits of SF and one of Jane Jacob’s last books, and there’s another book I’d lost interest in that I will probably return to just because the title amuses me. You’ll know it when you see it it, trust me. February 14 will mark Ash Wednesday, so don’t be surprised to see Lenten reading starting to appear.