{"id":24056,"date":"2018-12-28T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24056"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:30:15","slug":"2018-reading-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/2018-reading-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Reading in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you might remember, gentle reader, I tend to run my goal year not so much from January 1 to January 1 but from sometime the week after Christmas to sometime the week after Christmas. Something about the holidays makes me reflective and, increasingly, melancholy about the passage of the year.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have that many goals for the year, and I accomplished neither of them. I did, however, meet my annual hoped-for quota of 70 books. And exceed it by 20 or so.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I read this year:<\/p>\n

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  1. More Good Old Stuff<\/a><\/em> John D. MacDonald<\/li>\n
  2. Killer Mine<\/a><\/em> Mickey Spillane<\/li>\n
  3. The Joy of Not Working<\/a><\/em> Ernie J. Zelinski (did not finish)<\/li>\n
  4. Naked Blade, Naked Gun<\/a><\/em> “Axel Kilgore”<\/li>\n
  5. The Library of Great Masters: Raphael<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  6. The Cotswolds<\/a><\/em> Robin Whiteman and Rob Talbot<\/li>\n
  7. Voyage from Yesteryear<\/a><\/em> James P. Hogan<\/li>\n
  8. Of Reading Books<\/a><\/em> John Livingston Lowes<\/li>\n
  9. Virtue and Happiness<\/a><\/em> Epictetus \/ Claude Mediavilla<\/li>\n
  10. The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia<\/a><\/em> Steven Jay Rubin<\/li>\n
  11. Stories of an Outstanding Cat<\/a><\/em> Fr. Michael Sequira<\/li>\n
  12. Weird But True<\/a><\/em> Leslie Gilbert Elman<\/li>\n
  13. Job: A Comedy of Justice<\/a><\/em> Robert Heinlein<\/li>\n
  14. And Eternity<\/a><\/em> Piers Anthony<\/li>\n
  15. Well, Duh: Our Stupid World, and Welcome To It<\/a><\/em> Bob Fenster<\/li>\n
  16. Vendetta in Venice<\/a><\/em> “Don Pendleton”<\/li>\n
  17. The Best of Wheat and A Little Chaff<\/a><\/em> Leah Lathrom<\/li>\n
  18. Iroshi<\/a><\/em> Cary Osborne<\/li>\n
  19. The Beauty of Gesture<\/a><\/em> Catherine David<\/li>\n
  20. Pocket Quips<\/a><\/em> Robert C. Savage<\/li>\n
  21. Cat Fear No Evil<\/a><\/em> Shirley Rosseau Murphy<\/li>\n
  22. Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems<\/a><\/em> James Whitcomb Riley<\/li>\n
  23. I Hate Ann Coulter!<\/a><\/em> “Unanimous”<\/li>\n
  24. The Long Good Boy<\/a><\/em> Carol Lea Benjamin<\/li>\n
  25. The Sword of Genghis Khan<\/a><\/em> James Dark<\/li>\n
  26. A Question of Accuracy<\/a><\/em> Arthur G. Razzell and K.G.O. Watts<\/li>\n
  27. Crosshairs<\/a><\/em> R.P Vogt<\/li>\n
  28. The Song of Hiawatha<\/a><\/em> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/li>\n
  29. Mackinac Island: Its History in Pictures<\/a><\/em> Eugene T. Petersen<\/li>\n
  30. The Dhammapada<\/a><\/em> translated by Juan Mascar\u00f3<\/li>\n
  31. Nightmare Town<\/a><\/em> Dashiell Hammett<\/li>\n
  32. The Promise<\/a><\/em> Robert Crais<\/li>\n
  33. What If?<\/a><\/em> Randall Munroe<\/li>\n
  34. Murder in the Cathedral<\/a><\/em> T.S. Eliot<\/li>\n
  35. Border Sweep<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  36. A Nice Steady Job<\/a><\/em> Gregory Dowling<\/li>\n
  37. Einstein for Beginners<\/a><\/em> Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness<\/li>\n
  38. The Devil Wins<\/a><\/em> Reed Farrel Coleman<\/li>\n
  39. Rogue Warrior: Echo Platoon<\/a><\/em> Richard Marcinko and John Weisman<\/li>\n
  40. Emotional Memoirs and Short Stories<\/a><\/em> Lani Hall Albert<\/li>\n
  41. Me and My Little Brain<\/a><\/em> John D. Fitzgerald<\/li>\n
  42. The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories<\/a><\/em> Mark Twain<\/li>\n
  43. Introvert Survival Tactics<\/a><\/em> Patrick King<\/li>\n
  44. The Case of the Daring Divorcee<\/a><\/em> Erle Stanley Gardner<\/li>\n
  45. Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar<\/a><\/em> James Marcus Bach<\/li>\n
  46. A Minyen Yidn<\/a><\/em> Max B. Perison and Trina Robbins<\/li>\n
  47. Countdown to Super Bowl<\/a><\/em> Dave Anderson<\/li>\n
  48. Theosophy: The Wisdom of the Ages<\/a><\/em> Cherry Gilchrist<\/li>\n
  49. Sally Forth: A Woman’s Work Is Never Done<\/a><\/em> Greg Howard<\/li>\n
  50. Little House in the Big Woods<\/a><\/em> Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/li>\n
  51. Soft Touch<\/a><\/em> John D. MacDonald<\/li>\n
  52. Sally Forth<\/a><\/em> Greg Howard<\/li>\n
  53. The Ozarks: A Picture Book to Remember Them By<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  54. The Life Expectancy of Panyhose and the Poems of Middle Age<\/a><\/em> Wilbur Topsail<\/li>\n
  55. Little House on the Prairie<\/a><\/em> Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/li>\n
  56. Travels in a Donkey Trap<\/a><\/em> Daisy Baker<\/li>\n
  57. The Consolation of Philosophy<\/a><\/em> Boethius<\/li>\n
  58. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/a><\/em> Robert M. Pirsig<\/li>\n
  59. O Pioneers<\/a><\/em> Willa Cather<\/li>\n
  60. Ashes to Ashes<\/a><\/em> Don Pendleton<\/li>\n
  61. Enter the Sandmen<\/a><\/em> William Schlichter<\/li>\n
  62. The Life of a Lab<\/a><\/em> Denver Bryan and E. Donnall Thomas Jr<\/li>\n
  63. Twisted Path<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  64. Mary Cassatt<\/a><\/em> Sophia Craze<\/li>\n
  65. The Etchings of Anders Zorn<\/a><\/em> Greg G. Thielen<\/li>\n
  66. Downton Tabby<\/a><\/em> Chris Kelly<\/li>\n
  67. Chichen Itza<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  68. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai<\/a><\/em> Yamamoto Tsunetomo<\/li>\n
  69. John Singer Sargent<\/a><\/em> Clare Gibson<\/li>\n
  70. Early Del Rey<\/a><\/em> Lester Del Rey<\/li>\n
  71. Mythopoeikon<\/a><\/em> Patrick Woodroffe<\/li>\n
  72. Hallowe’en Party<\/a><\/em> Agatha Christie<\/li>\n
  73. Zen and the Art of Knitting<\/a><\/em> Bernadette Murphy<\/li>\n
  74. Rococo: A Style of Fantasy<\/a><\/em> Terence Davis<\/li>\n
  75. Lecherous Limericks<\/a><\/em> Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n
  76. Specialist from “Hardscrabble”<\/a><\/em> Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n
  77. Ozark Mountain Humor<\/a><\/em> Edited by W.K. McNeil<\/li>\n
  78. Under the Sunday Tree<\/a><\/em> Paintings by Mr. Amos Ferguson\/Poems by Eloise Greenfield<\/li>\n
  79. Bitter Harvest<\/a><\/em> Hazel Hirst<\/li>\n
  80. The Branson Beauty<\/a><\/em> Claire Booth<\/li>\n
  81. Dammit Bre<\/a><\/em> Samuel Rikard<\/li>\n
  82. Matisse<\/a><\/em> Volkmar Essers<\/li>\n
  83. The Tao of Christ<\/a><\/em> Will Keim<\/li>\n
  84. Farmer Boy<\/a><\/em> Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/li>\n
  85. Desert Strike<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  86. Cold Dark Night<\/a><\/em> Mike Daniels<\/li>\n
  87. The Murder of Lidice<\/a><\/em> Edna St. Vincent Millay and Lois O. Meyer<\/li>\n
  88. Hollywood Cats<\/a><\/em> Edited by J.C. Suares<\/li>\n
  89. Painted Treasures<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  90. Tale of the Tigers<\/a><\/em> Juliette Akinyi Ochieng<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I didn’t finish one of them (as noted). I also didn’t count the Shakespearean plays I read at the start of the year when I thought I would power through the complete Shakespeare to finish something with heft this year (but only count as 1 book, strangely enough). I also finished the year about 40% of the way through another 1000 page book in which I’ve bogged down and have read other books between its chapters.<\/p>\n

    Once again, it’s a blend of poetry, drama, nonfiction, philosophy, and genre fiction with only a smattering of Literature this year (not counting the Shakespeare and The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> which I have yet to finish or the portion of the Complete works of Keats and Shelley that I’ve read).<\/p>\n

    Hopefully, next year I’ll come up with some achievable projects and will read enough books that I feel like I’m making progress on clearing out my to-read shelves (spoiler alert: I will buy enough books next year to fall further behind).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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