Books read, uh, most of 2017?

Okay, so the last time I posted about what I'd been reading was in February, at which time I noted that I'd fallen out of the habit of book-blogging and wanted to get back into it. Welp, clearly I fell right back out again.

My log for 2017 is not complete, I know -- I failed to log things in my file as well as write about them here. And it will be even less complete as I exclude various things like my own work (re-read for editing purposes), things I've read for review or critique, things I've blogged about already, and the pile of folkloric epics I've been reading for research (the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, the Popol Vuh, the Kalevala, the Táin Bó Cuailnge, and a very abbreviated rendition of Journey to the West). But it's still a decent pile, so let's get started.

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