Dirty Books II.

It's that time of year again! I've hit the 100 mark for books for 2015. Celebrations of wine and gluten free desserts commence!

 I thought I'd do this post a little differently than Dirty Books I.
http://storiesofsoil.blogspot.com/2014/09/dirty-books.html

Let's get a little more metaphorical with the categories: Proper soil types!
(Full reading list, in order that they were read, follows at the bottom)

Our categories for these 100 Dirty Books are: clay, silt, sand, loam, organic soil, and mineral soil.


Clay Soil contains a lot of fine-grained natural rock materials that combines clay minerals with some other stuff. Clays are squishy depending on their water content and get hard, brittle and non-plastic when they dry. Clay is fascinating! It's either fun, or fragile depending on the conditions. And the perspective.

•  Beowulf
•  Invisible. Paul Auster
•  Unremitting Entrance Janelle Adsit
•  We'll Always Have Paris: Bradbury Ray
•  Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread by Chuck Palahniuk

Silty Soil
The distinction between silt and clay varies by discipline. -Ologists call it "clay soil' based on particle size. Engineers call it "silty soil" based on the plastic properties of the clay particles in this particular soil. In other words, this is the low-brow on the list. Sorry engineers, by low-brow, I mean perfunctory reading. Reading just for the verb of it. Not to -ology a book.
  

•  Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
• Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
• Merles Door
• Solar by Ian McEwan,
• B is for Beer by Tom Robbins
• Talk talk by T. C. Boyle
•  The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
• Vagina A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
• I Suck At Relationships so You Don’t Have to. by  Bethenny Frankel
•  Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
•  Dead Until Dark ~ Charlaine Harris (and the rest of the series, you True Blood lovers)

Sandy Soil
finer than gravel, coarser than silt, this soil has bunches of rock and mineral-bits in it. If the soil is more than 85%ish sand, then it's just sand. These are the books that had hidden bits in them that, for good mostly, got into my brain and made a pearl.

• What We Talk About When We Talk about Love Raymond Carver
• Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. Marilyn Chin
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Karen Russell
• Relish. Lucy Kinsley
• The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
• "Consider The Oyster" MFK Fisher
•  My New American Life. Francine Prose
• Jennifer Egan The Best American Short Stories 2014 

Loamy Soil 
This type has silt, sand and clay in roughly a 40 / 40/ 20 ratio. So 40% engineer-considered, 40% bits that irritate (to the end of pearls or blisters), and 20% plastic. These books are the nice loamy blends of all the things.

• Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics
• "Geek Sublime" Vikram Chandra
•  the art of asking Amanda Palmer
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ZZ Packer
•  The First Bad Man Miranda July
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Ed. David Sedaris
•  Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images: Finis Dunaway

Organic Soil
What we talk about when we talk about soil is the skin of the earth. The organics in it keep it, and therefore us, alive. These are the books that made life worth reading in.

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

NOX by Anne Carson. depth and beauty in this elegy.

 Anne Carson's Red Doc>

A Guide to Being Born: Stories: Ramona Ausubel

The Feast of Love. Charles Baxter

Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman

Milan Kundera «Life is elsewhere»

The Isle of Youth. Laura Van Der Berg

Book #101 Will be Nicole Patino's Corporate Affairs. Stay tuned for the review in a post soon....

Here is my full reading list, in order that I read them. I couldn't be bothered with a proper bibliography. A proper bibliography is not the point. I highly suggest #22. That's why the second cake had 22 candles. (no one would help me blow out the 22 candles. So they got some birds.)

1. Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
2. NOX by Anne Carson. depth and beauty in this elegy.
3. The Best American Poetry 2013
4. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.
5. Grendel. John Gardner
6. Anne Carson's <Red Doc>
7. jennifer Egan The Best American Short Stories 2014
8. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
9. Beowulf
10. Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health: Charlotte Biltekoff
11. Smoke and Mirrors; Neil Gaiman
12. Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson.
13. Blood Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
14. Mardi Jo Link – Bootstrapper
15. Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics
16. "Geek Sublime" Vikram Chandra
17. What We Talk About When We Talk about Love Raymond Carver
18. Merle's Door
19. Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History (Fifty Things That Changed the Course of Histoy) by Bill Price
20. Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman
21. Milan Kundera «Life is elsewhere»
22. The Isle of Youth. Laura Van Der Berg
23. Solar by Ian McEwan,
24. T.C. Boyle / Wild Child and Other Stories
25. Invisible. Paul Auster
26. B is for Beer (Tom Robbins)
27. Talk talk by T. Coraghessan Boyle
28. Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. Marilyn Chin
29. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
30. if i loved you, i would tell you this. Robin Black
31. By Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
32. A Guide to Being Born: Stories: Ramona Ausubel
33. The Feast of Love. Charles Baxter
34. We'll Always Have Paris: Bradbury Ray
35. Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
36. Charles Baxter 'Gryphon: New & Selected Stories'
37. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
38. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ~ZZ Packer
39. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Ed. David Sedaris
40. An Alphabet for Gourmets. MFK Fisher
41. Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
42. No One is Here Except All of Us By Ramona Ausubel
43. How To Cook a Wolf. MFK fisher
44. The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
45. "Consider The Oyster" MFK Fisher
46. The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
47. Serve it Forth by MFK Fisher.
48. Unremitting Entrance Janelle Adsit
49. The First Bad Man by Miranda July
50. The Soul Thief. Charles Baxter
51. The Locavore's Dilemma
52. After Birth: by Elisa Albert.
53. Blessing The Hands That Feed Us by Vicki Robin
54. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
55. the art of asking amanda palmer
56. The Fault in Our Stars. John Green
57. The 100-Mile Diet. Smith and McKinnon
58. Vagina A New Biography: Naomi Wolf
59. I Suck At Relationships so You Don’t Have to. Bethenny Frankel
60. No one belongs here more than you - Miranda July
61. Bark by Lorrie Moore
62. The Human Age. Acker
63. Kill My Mother. Jules Feiffer
64. 500 Acres And No Place To Hide..Susan McCorkindale
65. Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
66. Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images: Finis Dunaway
67. Lila. Marilynne Robinson
68. Relish. Lucy Kinsley
69. It Must Have Been Something I Ate. Jeffrey Steingarten
70. Haruki Murakami - The Strange Library
71. Drivel, a collection of early works by Amy Tan, Chuck Palahniuk and Gillian Flynn.
72. Golden Grove. Francine Prose
73. Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog
74. My New American Life. Francine Prose
75. Veronica. Mary Gaitskill
76. Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Anne Quindlen
77. Mallory Ortberg's Texts From Jane Eyre.
78. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir: Roz Chast:
79. How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior laura kipnis
80. Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation by Laura Kipnis
81. Dead Until Dark ~ Charlaine Harris
82. Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread by Chuck Palahniuk
83. The Best American Comics 2014
84. Living Dead in Dallas~ Charlaine Harris
85. Dear Husband. Joyce Carol Oates
86. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
87. The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
88. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
89. "The Gastronomical Me," MFK Fisher
90. Dead To The World.Charlaine Harris
91. A Changed Man. Francine Prose.
92. Dead as A Doornail.Charlaine Harris
93. All Together Dead.Charlaine Harris
94. Definitely Dead. Charlaine Harris
95. Profiles From The Kitchen. C A Baker-Clark
96. From Dead To Worse.Charlaine Harris
97. While Mortals Sleep. Kurt Vonnegut
98. Dead and gone. Charlaine Harris
99. San Miguel. T. C. Boyle.
100. As They Were. MFK Fisher 

65/100 came from my library. Support Local Libraries!