{"id":29390,"date":"2021-12-28T06:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29390"},"modified":"2021-12-28T06:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T12:25:02","slug":"2021-the-years-reading-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/2021-the-years-reading-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: The Year’s Reading in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herein I present to you the list of books that I read in Book Year 2021, which starts the week after Christmas and runs to the week after Christmas (so this is technically Book Year 2022, wherein the Executioner novel I’ve been nibbling at a chapter a night will likely be the first entry).<\/p>\n

So, my assessment? I started strong with a number of classics finished (Wuthering Heights<\/em>, David Copperfield<\/em>, and The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> among them). The Winter Reading Challenge from the library propelled me strongly along. Later in the year, though, I kind of bogged down and did not read as much–poetry and football browsers being the bulk of Q4. The Eric van Lustbader thriller The Ninja<\/em> really bogged me down late in the year.<\/p>\n

But I read:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Black Hand<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #178<\/li>\n
  2. Boxer’s Start-up<\/a><\/em> by Doug Werner<\/li>\n
  3. War Hammer<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #179<\/li>\n
  4. One-Step Sparring<\/a><\/em> by Shin Duk Kang<\/li>\n
  5. Wuthering Heights<\/a><\/em> by Emily Bronte<\/li>\n
  6. Whiskey Words & a Shovel<\/a><\/em> by r.h. Sin<\/li>\n
  7. Like the Pieces of Driftwood<\/a><\/em> by Jon Francis<\/li>\n
  8. Complete Karate<\/a><\/em> by J. Allen Queen<\/li>\n
  9. We Live on Mackinac Island<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Gettysburg Visions<\/a><\/em> by Sam Weaver<\/li>\n
  11. The House on the Rock<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Sid Meier’s MEMOIR!<\/a><\/em> by Sid Meier and Jennifer Lee Noonan<\/li>\n
  13. Book Lust<\/a><\/em> by Nancy Pearl<\/li>\n
  14. The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder<\/a><\/em> by Susan McBride<\/li>\n
  15. The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/a><\/em> by Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n
  16. The Book of Five Rings<\/a><\/em> by Miyamoto Musashi \/ Translated by Thomas Cleary<\/li>\n
  17. Books: A Memoir<\/a><\/em> by Larry McMurtry<\/li>\n
  18. Widows<\/a><\/em> by Ed McBain<\/li>\n
  19. Danger on Vampire Trail<\/a><\/em> by “Franklin W. Dixon”<\/li>\n
  20. Force Down<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #180<\/li>\n
  21. Vespers<\/a><\/em> by Ed McBain<\/li>\n
  22. Chocolate: The Consuming Passion<\/a><\/em> by Sandra Boynton<\/li>\n
  23. She Had Some Horses<\/a><\/em> by Joy Harjo<\/li>\n
  24. The Judgment of Caesar<\/a><\/em> by Steve Saylor<\/li>\n
  25. Karate!<\/a><\/em> by Russell Kozuki<\/li>\n
  26. A Ginger on a Mission<\/a><\/em> by Lynn Daake<\/li>\n
  27. Alien Nation<\/a><\/em> by Alan Dean Foster<\/li>\n
  28. The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity<\/a><\/em> by Matthew Kelly<\/li>\n
  29. Mission: Impossible<\/a><\/em> by Peter Barsocchini<\/li>\n
  30. Supercarrier<\/a><\/em> by George C. Wilson<\/li>\n
  31. More Book Lust<\/a><\/em> by Nancy Pearl<\/li>\n
  32. The Last Picture Show<\/a><\/em> by Larry McMurtry<\/li>\n
  33. True Lies<\/a><\/em> by Dewey Gram and Duan Dell’Amico<\/li>\n
  34. Men in Black II<\/a><\/em> by Michael Teitlebaum<\/li>\n
  35. On Bullshit<\/a><\/em> by Harry G. Frankfurt<\/li>\n
  36. High Fidelity<\/a><\/em> by Nick Hornby<\/li>\n
  37. The Book Shop<\/a><\/em> by Penelope Fitzgerald<\/li>\n
  38. Hackers<\/a><\/em> by David Bischoff<\/li>\n
  39. Babylon 5: The Coming of Shadows<\/a><\/em> by Jane Killick<\/li>\n
  40. Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse<\/a><\/em> by Lee Goldberg<\/li>\n
  41. Mr. Monk Goes To Hawaii<\/a><\/em> by Lee Goldberg<\/li>\n
  42. David Copperfield<\/a><\/em> by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  43. Home Is Where The Heart Is<\/a><\/em> by “Thomas Kinkade”<\/li>\n
  44. Alien<\/a><\/em> by Alan Dean Foster<\/li>\n
  45. Heroes and Outlaws of the Old West<\/a><\/em> by Shane Edwards<\/li>\n
  46. The Great Optimist<\/a><\/em> by Leigh Mitchell Hodges<\/li>\n
  47. Journey Through Heartsongs<\/a><\/em> by Mattie J. T. Stepanek<\/li>\n
  48. Cocoon<\/a><\/em> by David Saperstein<\/li>\n
  49. The Blues Brothers<\/a><\/em> by Miami Mitch<\/li>\n
  50. Lethal Agent<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #182<\/li>\n
  51. Life After Favre<\/a><\/em> by Phil Hanrahan<\/li>\n
  52. Whoppers<\/a><\/em> by Alvin Schwartz<\/li>\n
  53. Rescue Run<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #204<\/li>\n
  54. Hell Road<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #205<\/li>\n
  55. I Remember Vince Lombardi<\/a><\/em> by Mike Towle<\/li>\n
  56. Moon of Mutiny<\/a><\/em> by Lester del Rey<\/li>\n
  57. Rock On<\/a><\/em> by Dan Kennedy<\/li>\n
  58. Coffee is Cheaper Than Therapy<\/a><\/em> by Ann Conlkin Unruh<\/li>\n
  59. Selected Poems<\/a><\/em> by Mary Phelan<\/li>\n
  60. The Pessimist’s Guide to History<\/a><\/em> by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flecner<\/li>\n
  61. Death Whisper<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #208<\/li>\n
  62. Three Comedies<\/a><\/em> by Aristophanes<\/li>\n
  63. My Cat Spit McGee<\/a><\/em> by Willie Morris<\/li>\n
  64. Asian Crucible<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #209<\/li>\n
  65. Fission Fury<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #214<\/li>\n
  66. Oriental Love Poems<\/a><\/em> by Compiled by Michelle Lovric<\/li>\n
  67. Firefly: The Official Companion Volume One<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  68. Firefly: The Official Companion Volume Two<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  69. Poetics South<\/a><\/em> by Ann Deagon<\/li>\n
  70. Sonic Warrior<\/a><\/em> by Lou Brutus<\/li>\n
  71. Laugh Lines<\/a><\/em> by Alison Pohn<\/li>\n
  72. Fire Hammer<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #215<\/li>\n
  73. Poems<\/a><\/em> by Chris Alderman\/Harold Alderman<\/li>\n
  74. Four Past Midnight<\/a><\/em> by Stephen King<\/li>\n
  75. Descartes in 90 Minutes<\/a><\/em> by Paul Strathern<\/li>\n
  76. Lake Honor<\/a><\/em> by Alan Brown and Brian Brown<\/li>\n
  77. A Bend in the Road<\/a><\/em> by edited by Mary A. Shaugnessy<\/li>\n
  78. Gone in the Night<\/a><\/em> by Alan Brown and Brian Brown<\/li>\n
  79. Shadow Valley<\/a><\/em> by Alan Brown and Brian Brown<\/li>\n
  80. Carver: A Life In Poems<\/a><\/em> by Marilyn Nelson<\/li>\n
  81. The Controlled Clasp<\/a><\/em> by John Bahnke<\/li>\n
  82. Prayers and Meditations<\/a><\/em> by Helen Steiner Rice<\/li>\n
  83. We’re Doing Witchcraft<\/a><\/em> by E. Kristin Anderson<\/li>\n
  84. Thoughts from a Dark Room That Lit Up<\/a><\/em> by Denzel Norris featuring Joel Smith<\/li>\n
  85. The Legend of the One<\/a><\/em> by Orlea Rayne<\/li>\n
  86. Something to Someone<\/a><\/em> by Javan<\/li>\n
  87. One World, One Heart<\/a><\/em> by Susan Polis Schutz with Stephen Schutz<\/li>\n
  88. Thanksgiving<\/em><\/a> Ideals magazine<\/li>\n
  89. American Art Deco<\/a><\/em> by Eva Weber<\/li>\n
  90. Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation<\/a><\/em> by edited by Tom Kratman<\/li>\n
  91. Look What God Did!<\/a><\/em> by Patty E. Thompson<\/li>\n
  92. Whose Job Is It Anyway?<\/a><\/em> by Patty E. Thompson<\/li>\n
  93. Kung Fu Mace #4: The Year of the Dragon<\/a><\/em> by Lee Chang<\/li>\n
  94. Fugitive Blues<\/a><\/em> by Debra Kang Dean<\/li>\n
  95. I Marry You<\/a><\/em> by John Ciardi<\/li>\n
  96. Vengeance<\/a><\/em> by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice<\/li>\n
  97. The Hirschfeld Century<\/a><\/em> by David Leopold<\/li>\n
  98. End Game<\/a><\/em> The Executioner #218<\/li>\n
  99. The Ornament Keeper<\/a><\/em> by Eva Marie Everson<\/li>\n
  100. Little Thoughts On Love<\/em><\/a> by Anne Geddes<\/li>\n
  101. Antoine Watteau<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  102. Edward Hopper: A Modern Master<\/a><\/em> by Ita G. Berkow<\/li>\n
  103. At the End of the Rainbow<\/a><\/em> by Mary Worley Gunn<\/li>\n
  104. Field Stones<\/a><\/em> by Robert Kinsley<\/li>\n
  105. Terse Verse<\/a><\/em> by Roberta Page<\/li>\n
  106. In Praise of East Central Illinois<\/a><\/em> by Alex Sawyer<\/li>\n
  107. The Ninja<\/a><\/em> by Eric Can Lustbader<\/li>\n
  108. The Wisdom of Father Andrew<\/a><\/em> by edited by Kathleen E. Burne<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s a lot of Executioner novels–what, 11? I’m clearly making it a priority to finish that series presently.<\/p>\n

    I have a lot of fine, fine books–the Summa Theologiae<\/em><\/a> now among them–to read, so perhaps I should make a greater priority of reading in the evenings.<\/p>\n

    108 is not as many as SupaTrey<\/a>, but he includes audiobooks he listens to, and I only count the actual books I read (and physical books, too, not ebooks).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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