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WHERE A LOVE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND READING MEET
WHERE A LOVE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND READING MEET
It's that time of year...so I'm looking back on my reading. I busted through my reading goal of 80 books to finish 2018 out with a whopping 95. And while quantity is something to be commended for (fist-pumps in the air) quality is always better in my proverbial book. As a reader, quality is pretty subjective though because there are beautifully written stories that arguably have the world's most boring plot and there are novels that really should have had far, far, more editing but have incredible messages, are relatable, or evoke powerful emotions. Enter the 5 novels that fired-up my (archaeology) brain this year. One of these books is achingly beautiful in prose and carries important messages of the lived experience at a Japanese internment camp, one is a gentle reminder of how far women in the natural sciences have come, another is a dark trip where medical science and an obsession with the past collide, and only one of these has admittedly a rather boring plot but is an exemplary testament to mission-era life in the Southwest.
"This Mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of great incompleteness; as if, with all the materials of world-making assembled; the Creator has desisted; gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape."
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Nora
1/4/2019 04:01:24 am
I read Remarkable Creatures and ‘discovered’ Mary Anning on a year we were heading to the UK. No surprise, one of our first stops
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TheArchaeoReader
1/6/2019 02:25:58 pm
Fantastic Nora! I can only imagine how cool those exhibits are!
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