The Read What You Own Challenge - Fail!

Описание: I broke. I caved. I yielded. Yes, I bought a book and broke my Read What You Own rules and failed the challenge. Oh well, 21 out of 40 is not bad. We're going to go through the books I read during this challenge, and the book that broke the challenge - a wonderful read for the Halloween season :)


Book Mentioned:

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing, 2017

The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics
David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee
Oneworld Publications, 2022

Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions
Taco Terpstra
Princeton University Press, 2019

Foundation
Isaac Asimov
1951

Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC Kindle Edition
Philip Matyszak
Pen and Sword Military, 2020

Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
1872

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R.F. Kuang
Harper Voyager, 2022

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
Tom Standage
Bloomsbury USA, 2nd 2014

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2021

Genesis Wave: Book 1, 2, 3
John Vornholt
Pocket Books, 2000-2002

Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Christopher Moore
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dana Sobel
Bloomsbury USA, 2007

The Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science
Adrian Tinniswood
Basic Books, 2019

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
Amy Stewart
Algonquin Books, 2005

The Haunted House From Hell
Mark L'Estrange
Next Chapter, 2021

Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History
Charles Phillips
Lorenz Books, 2019

Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Andrea Wulf
Vintage, 2016

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
Nicholas Spencer
Oneworld Publications, 2023

Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
Leland Hartwell (among others)
McGraw-Hill Education, 2010


And the wonderfully evil book that broke my challenge :)

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
Cassandra Peterson
Hatchett Books, 2021

Flossy's ( ‪@TheGrapeJellyLibrary‬ ) video:    • Elvira: Yours Cruelly, Was It Worth The Read?  

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0:00 Introduction
1:28 The Victorian Internet
1:48 Entangled Life
2:33 Babel
3:05 Greece against Rome
4:17 Carmilla
5:03 Foundation
6:09 The Biggest Number in the World
6:54 Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
8:25 The Lost City of the Monkey God
9:39 Aztec and Maya
10:36 The Haunted House from Hell
11:25 Genesis Wave Series of Books (3 books)
13:41 The Royal Society
14:55 The Earth Moved
15:55 Longitude
18:13 Island of the Sequined Love Nun
19:51 The Invention of Nature
21:33 Reaching for the Moon
23:54 Magisteria
24:21 Genetics
25:21 Yours Cruelly
27:02 In closing