Booklist

I've started, read, or finished all these books in the last six months (not counting re-reads, children's books, and the pregnancy/mothering books I've already reviewed, of course!). If you'd like a review of any of them, let me know, and I'll write it up.

• Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power In America, Kristian Williams
  
• American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Kristian Williams
  
• Three Men In a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Jerome K. Jerome
  
• To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
  
• Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders : From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century, James Belich
  
• Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I : The Structure of Everyday Life, Fernand Braudel
  
• His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
  
• It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, Andrea Buchanan ed.
  
• Confessions of a Slacker Mom, Muffy Mead-Ferro
  
• Sunshine, Robin McKinley
  
• The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play , Neil Fiore
  
• In My Skin: A Memoir of Addiction, Kate Holden
  
• Heading Home With Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality, Laura Jana, Jennifer Shu MD
  
• The Mother of all Baby Books: the Ultimate Guide To Your Baby's First Year, Ann Douglas
  
• Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert

I don't promise in-depth reviews, and I know several of these authors personally, so I may be biased, but if you want to know what I thought, as always, just ask.

I'm surprised to see I haven't read more, but between a new baby and all the fanfiction I didn't list, it's probably fairly understandable. What I find most surprising about my own reading habits over the past several years, though, is that I've gone from reading almost entirely contemporary novels and classic literature to reading mostly nonfiction and genre fiction. I never would have predicted that I would cease to read more literary fiction - I used to devour it avidly, and turn my nose up at nonfiction. Plus ça change, plus ça change, I guess, or however they say that in French.