Mecozy: background bits

cat tormenting (though he didn't mind. in fact, he may have liked it.)

flickrs
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where the sea and the sky are the same
next stop greenland

Read/Am Reading

4/2019: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich*
3.2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers
3/2019: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
2/2019: Warlight by Michael Ondaatje*
1/2019: Circe by Madeline Miller
8/2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
7/18: Drop City by T.C. Boyle
6/18: Eight Years We Were in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
4/18: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (paused)
3/18: Lincoln in the Bardo (paused)
2/18: A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe
1/18: House of Spirits by Isabel Allende*
1/18: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
1/18: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward*
12/17: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak*
12/17: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
11/17: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
11/17: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry*
11/17: Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
10/17: The Bees by Laline Paull
9/17: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
8/17: La Rose by Louise Erdrich*
7/17: My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
7/17: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead*
6/17: Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
5/17: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi*
5/17: Their Eyes Were Watching God (second time) by Zora Neale Hurston*
Paused: The Girls by Emma Cline
2/17: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
12/16: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9/16: The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis*
8:16: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson**
7/16: The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
6/16: The Turner House by Angela Flournoy*
4/16: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
3/16: Delicious Foods by James Hannaham*
2/16: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrane
Now reading: Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
11/15: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel*
10/15: How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti
10/15: The First Bad Man by Miranda July*
11/15: Everything I Never Told You* by Celeste Ng
9/15: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
9/15: The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
8/15: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson*
8/15: Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
8/15: Lila by Marilynne Robinson*
7/15: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese*
7/15: Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan*
6/15: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
6/15: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
4/15: Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
3/15: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2/15: Great House by Nicole Krauss
1/15: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss*
1/15: Descendants of Hagar by Nik Nicholson
1/15: Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden*
1/15: Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
12/14: Wake Up, Sir by Jonathan Ames
12/14: Stoner by John Williams*
11/14: Broken Harbor by Tana French
11/14: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
11/14: WIde Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
10/14: Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
10/14: The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin*
9/14: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt*
9/14: Drown by Junot Diaz
8/14: NW by Zadie Smith*
8/14: Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown*
8/14: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri*
6/14: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
5/14: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward*
4/14: The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout*
3/14: Animal Farm by George Orwell
2/14: Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
1/14: Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Now reading: The Infatuations by Javier Marías
12/13: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
11/13: Howard's End by E.M. Forster
10/13: Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
9/13: The Color of Water by James McBride
9/13: Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
9/13: The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
8/13: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers*
8/13: If Today Be Sweet by Thrity Umrigar
8/13: Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
7/13: Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
6/13: Away by Amy Bloom*
6/13: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
6/13: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
5/13: Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie*
5/13: The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes
5/13: May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes
4/13: Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
4/13: Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
4/13: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Now reading: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
3/13: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
3/13: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
2/13: It All Turns on Affection by Wendell Berry
1/13: This is How You Lose Her by Junot DIaz
1/13: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiria*
1/13: A Place in Time by Wendell Berry*
12/12: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
12/12: Home by Toni Morrison
12/12: Perfume by Patrick Suskind
12/12: The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer
11/12: The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich*
11/12: When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
10/12: Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
9/12: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9/12: Doc by Mary Doria Russell*
8/12: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
7/12: Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
7/12: A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
6/12: Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
6/12: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5/12: East of Eden by John Steinbeck*
4/12: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
4/12: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
3/12: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
3/12: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward*
3/12: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers*
2/12: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
1/12: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett*
1/12: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
12/11: Remembering Smell by Bonnie Blodgett
11/11: What is the What by Dave Eggers*
11/11: A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
10/11: Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
10/11: Straight Man by Richard Russo
10/11: Mohawk by Richard Russo
10/11: American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen
9/11: The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
9/11: That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx*
9/11: The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
9/11: You Must Go and Win by Alina Simone
8/11: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck*
7/11: How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers
7/11: The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
7/11: A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
6/11: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie*
5/11: War Dances by Sherman Alexie*
4/11: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
3/11: The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball*
3/11: Just Kids by Patti Smith*
3/11: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen*
2/11: I Know You're Out There by Michael Beaumier
Now reading: Farm Together Now by Amy Franceschini and Daniel Tucker
1/11: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
1/11: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
12/10: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson*
11/10: The Seas by Samantha Hunt*
10/10: A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry*
10/10: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
10/10: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
9/10: The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
8/10: That Distant Land by Wendell Berry*
8/10: The Wild Birds by Wendell Berry*
8/10: Eaarth by Bill McKibben*
7/10: Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
7/10: Spoon Fed by Kim Severson
7/10: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen*
6/10: Diet for a Hot Planet by Anna Lappé
6/10: Uncertain Peril by Claire Hope Cummings*
6/10: Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masumoto
Still in progress: Farmer Jane by Temra Costa
5/10: The Women by T.C. Boyle
4/10: I am the Clay by Chaim Potok
4/10: The Book of Salt by Monique Truong*
3/10: Cheesemonger by Gordon Edgar
2/10: The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry*
2/10: Drenched by Marisa Matarazzo
2/10: Driftless by David Rhodes*
1/10: Watch With Me by Wendell Berry*
1/10: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
1/10: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
1/10: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
12/09: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
12/09: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
12/09: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
12/09 Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
11/09: Remembering by Wendell Berry
11/09: Fields of Plenty by Michael Ableman
11/09: Small Wonder by Barbara Kingslolver
11/09: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry*
10/09: Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
10/09: A World Lost by Wendell Berry
10/09: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry*
10/09: Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout*
10/09: Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Berry*
10/09: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout*
10/09: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry*
8/09: I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
8/09: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
8/09: Deeply Rooted by Lisa Hamilton
8/09: A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
8/09: Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
7/09: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
7/09: Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
7/09: Farm CIty by Novella Carpenter
7/09: A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
6/09: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan*
6/09: I Remember by Joe Brainard
6/09: Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith*
6/09: The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
6/09: Saturday by Ian McEwan*
5/09: Hotel World by Ali Smith
5/09: The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
4/09: The Learners by Chip Kidd
4/09: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
4/09: A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'engle
4/09: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
4/09: Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
3/09: What Now? by Ann Patchett
3/09: A Mercy by Toni Morrison*
3/09: Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin*
2/09: Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen*
1/09: Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
1/09: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
1/09: The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy
12/08: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
12/08: Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
11/08: The Worst Thing I've Done by Ursula Hegi
10/08: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
10/08: Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed edited by Vandana Shiva
10/08: Run by Ann Patchett
9/08: Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini
8/08: Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
8/08: Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon*
8/08: Pink Harvest by Toni Mirosevich
7/08: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan*
7/08: Little Heathens by Mildred Kalish
6/08: The Great Man by Kate Christensen
6:08: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
5/08: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
5/08: The Accidental by Ali Smith
4/08: Orlando by Virginia Wolfe
4/08: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
3/08: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby*
3/08: Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
2/08: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1/08: All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones*
1/08: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton*
1/08: The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
12/07: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
12/07: No one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
11/07: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
11/07: My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames
11/07: The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
11/07: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
10/07: Flight by Sherman Alexie
10/07: Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey
9/07: Evening by Susan Minot
9/07: Everybody Into the Pool by Beth Lisick
8/07: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
8/07: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (again)
8/07: Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle
7/07: The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
7/07: The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1 by Anais Nin
7/07: Last Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
6/07: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
6/07: Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
6/07: The Authograph Man by Zadie Smith
6/07: John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
5/07: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5/07: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
4/07: The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
3/07: The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
3/07: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
taking a break. it's long: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
12/06: The Darling by Russell Banks
12/06: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
12/06: The Chosen by Chaim Potok*
11/06: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
11/06: Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott
10/06: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer**
10/06: Tori Amos Piece by Piece by Tori Amos and Ann Powers
10/06: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
9/06: Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
9/06: The Sea by John Banville
9/06: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall*
8/06: Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove
8/06: The Known World by Edward P. Jones**
6/06: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer*
6/06: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
5/06: Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
4/06: The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
4/06: The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
3/06: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2/06: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
1/06: A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
1/06: The Fourth Hand by John Irving
12/05: A Widow for One Year by John Irving
12/05: Cruddy by Lynda Barry
11/05: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
11/05: The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
10/05: East is East by T.C. Boyle
9/05: Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody*
9/05: Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon by William Saroyan
8/05: You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
8/05: Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle
7/05: latest Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
7/05: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
6/05: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
6/05: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
6/05: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
6/05: Unless by Carol Shields
5/05: Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
5/05: Woman an Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
4/05: Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
2/05: Four Souls by Louise Erdrich
1/05: Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
1/05: Joe Jones by Ann Lammott
12/04: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
12/04: What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo
11/04: Hoochie Mama The Other White Meat by Erika Lopez
11/04: They Call Me Mad Dog by Erika Lopez
11/04: Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
11/04: Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok**
10/04: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
10/04: Folly by Laurie King
9/04: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers*

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