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📚 I read some books in March!
📚 I read some books in February! And the pattern continues!
📚 I read some books in January! And there’s a pattern!
📚 I read 127 books in 2023, slightly down from an all-time high of 138 in 2022. This small drop in number of books does not reflect a drop in time reading, as I spent far more time reading in 2023. I read several very, very long books (👋 Brandon Sanderson). I also took a break from audiobooks to re-listen to the entire run of The History of Rome Podcast, which took the better part of a month.
Here’s the complete 2023 list:
📚 I read some books in December!
📚 I read some books in November!
📚 I read some books in October! For the first time in years (ever?) it was all fiction this month 😳:
📚 I read some books in September!
📚 I read some books in August!
📚 I read some books in July!
📚 I read some books in June!
📚 I read some books in May!
📚 I read some books in April!
📚 I read some books in March!
📚 I read some books in February!
📚 I read some books in January!
Here are some interesting currency conversions from The Iliad:
In 2020 I read 65 books. In 2021 I somehow managed to read 83 books, including a whopping 16 in December, including 12 in the last 12 days of the year. Here’s the list:
📚 I read 36 books in the first half of 2021:
In 2020 I set a goal to read 24 books (two per month). I read 65. Here they are:
📚 Finished reading: Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, ISBN: 9780395670293
This was terrific. It was probably more detailed than most people would care for, but it was right up my alley.
📚 Finished reading: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, ISBN: 9780307476074
I love everything about this book. This was my third read through and I was delighted to remember all the details I had forgotten.
📚 Finished reading: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, ISBN: 9781781100516
This was the second time I read this with my son. I think we both got more out of it this time. This is probably my second favorite book of the series and my favorite of the movies.
📚 Finished reading: Getting Things Done by David Allen, ISBN: 9780743520348
I have mixed feelings about this. The first time I tried to read this I didn’t make it very far on account of the boringness. Recognizing that it is hugely influential (and probably so for a reason) I made a second attempt (this time in audio form), and I was able to get through it without my mind wandering too far away.
There’s a lot to like here. It’s funny to me how much Allen clings to paper even in the updated 2009 version of the book. Some of his principles seem to apply equally well to all humans, while others are highly focused toward corporate managers. This is definitely worth a read.
📚 Finished reading: 1984 by George Orwell, ISBN: 9781784043735
I first read this about seven years ago. It was one of the first fiction books I actually enjoyed. It’s certainly not a happy story, but it is endlessly fascinating. I find it odd how the world Orwell crafted here is so widely known, while the actual story he told in that world is far less so. There were large sections I completely forgot, so much of this seemed new to me. I think I probably enjoyed it even more this time around.