- Coming to a theater near you: made into a motion picture: About a Boy - Nick Hornby
- No hablo: a translation: Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Rainbow warrior: with a color in the title: The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Still time for more chapters: memoir/biography of someone still alive: An American Demon - Jack Grisham
- What you read as a child: a book I loved as a child: The Woodshed Mystery - Gertrude C. Warner Done
- I’ve met them!: by someone I've seen in real life: Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
- Be the change you want to see: nonfic about a sociopolitical issue: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg Done
- Lol random: from Gutenberg's "Random Titles" page: The Discovery of the Source of the Nile - John Hanning Speke 22% Done
- He did drone on a bit: book over 600 pages A Strangeness in My Mind - Orhan Pamuk
- Support the home team: by an AWer: Mr Katz is a Zombie - Margaret Lesh
- Be your own boss: self-published: I Hate that You Bloody Left Me - Heather Hill
- Ye olde booke shoppe: written before 1700: The Romance of Tristan and Iseult - M. Joseph Bedier
Discovery of the Source of the Nile balances its time between describing how he paid the local chiefs to cross their territory, logistics checklist, and travel adventure. I'm reading the ebook (the Gutenberg page said "download with illustrations"), so although he mentions woodcuts and maps, they aren't included unless they're elsewhere in the file. The place names have changed or places have changed in importance, so it's hard to track where they are. However, it's a great insight into the political dynamics of pre-colonial Africa, albeit through Speke's very pro-English lens. The Indian and Arab traders has been interacting (for good or ill) with the local Africans for over 1000 years, and the Europeans had been coming (for good or ill) for 400 years. Despite my knowledge of Africa, I sometimes mistakenly think everything before the 1880s Scramble for Africa was not well documented and not as cosmopolitan. My pro-American lens is showing