{"id":33396,"date":"2025-01-01T07:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33396"},"modified":"2024-12-31T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T01:43:12","slug":"the-years-reading-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/the-years-reading-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year’s Reading In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, to sum up, here is what I have read this year:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The Making of the Old Testament<\/a><\/em> edited by Enid B. Mellor<\/li>\n
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front<\/a><\/em> Erich Maria Remarque<\/li>\n
  3. Death in Dittmer<\/a><\/em> James R. Wilder<\/li>\n
  4. Blood Relatives<\/a><\/em> Ed McBain<\/li>\n
  5. Treasure in Hell’s Canyon<\/a><\/em> Bill Gulick<\/li>\n
  6. Karate-d\u014d Ny\u016bmon<\/a><\/em> Gichin Funakoshi<\/li>\n
  7. Generation B Music & Melodies<\/a><\/em> Ernie Bedell<\/li>\n
  8. Sharpe’s Trafalgar<\/a><\/em> Bernard Cornwell<\/li>\n
  9. Tales from the Missouri Tigers<\/a><\/em> Alan Goforth<\/li>\n
  10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/a><\/em> Mark Haddon<\/li>\n
  11. Mine the Harvest<\/a><\/em> Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/li>\n
  12. Lolita<\/a><\/em> Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n
  13. The Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks<\/a><\/em> Leland Payton<\/li>\n
  14. Midnight Cowboy<\/a><\/em> James Leo Herlihy<\/li>\n
  15. Blood Debts<\/a><\/em> Shayne Silvers<\/li>\n
  16. Star Trek 12<\/a><\/em> James Blish with J.A. Lawrence<\/li>\n
  17. Blood Count<\/a><\/em> “Dell Shannon”<\/li>\n
  18. Myths and Mysteries of Missouri<\/a><\/em> Josh Young<\/li>\n
  19. A History of Pierce City Through Post Cards, Photographs, Papers, and People<\/a><\/em> David H. Jones<\/li>\n
  20. Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/a><\/em> Campbell Black<\/li>\n
  21. Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks<\/a><\/em> Terrance Dicks<\/li>\n
  22. Dirty Jokes and Beer<\/a><\/em> Drew Carey<\/li>\n
  23. A Pound of Paper<\/a><\/em> John Baxter<\/li>\n
  24. The Widow’s Ring<\/a><\/em> Mary Schaffer<\/li>\n
  25. George Burns: The Hundred Year Dash<\/a><\/em> Martin Gottfried<\/li>\n
  26. 40 Days of Wisdom<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  27. White Banners<\/a><\/em> Lloyd C. Douglas<\/li>\n
  28. Lake of the Ozarks<\/a><\/em> Bill Geist<\/li>\n
  29. Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayy\u00e1m<\/a><\/em> translated by Edward FitzGerald<\/li>\n
  30. After Worlds Collide<\/a><\/em> \u00a0Edwin Balmer\u00a0and\u00a0Philip Wylie<\/li>\n
  31. The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elizabeth and Other Poems<\/a><\/em> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/li>\n
  32. The Big Frame<\/a><\/em> The Gordons<\/li>\n
  33. The Prophet<\/a><\/em> Khalil Gibran<\/li>\n
  34. The Deserted Village and Other Poems<\/a><\/em> Oliver Goldsmith<\/li>\n
  35. Tigers of the Sea<\/a><\/em> Robert E. Howard<\/li>\n
  36. King Solomon’s Mines<\/a><\/em> Rider Haggard<\/li>\n
  37. Conan the Invincible<\/a><\/em> Robert Jordan<\/li>\n
  38. The Hour of the Dragon<\/a><\/em> Robert E. Howard<\/li>\n
  39. Walking the Labyrinth<\/a><\/em> Shirley Gilmore<\/li>\n
  40. The Way<\/a><\/em> Salesian Missions<\/li>\n
  41. Shin Splints<\/a><\/em> Dorothy Straud<\/li>\n
  42. Songs of Three<\/a><\/em> Shirley Gilmore<\/li>\n
  43. Last of the Breed<\/a><\/em> Louis L’Amour<\/li>\n
  44. Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi<\/a><\/em> Roger Jewell<\/li>\n
  45. The Last Best Hope<\/a><\/em> Ed McBain<\/li>\n
  46. The Cthulhu Stories of Robert E. Howard<\/a><\/em> Robert E. Howard<\/li>\n
  47. The Golden Goddess Gambit<\/a><\/em> Larry Maddock<\/li>\n
  48. Dress Her In Indigo<\/a><\/em> John D. MacDonald<\/li>\n
  49. The Emerald Elephant Gambit<\/a><\/em> Larry Maddock<\/li>\n
  50. Hang Me If I Stay Here Shoot Me If I Run<\/a><\/em> Cody Walker<\/li>\n
  51. Loot the Bodies<\/a><\/em> Cody Walker<\/li>\n
  52. Post Scripts Humor<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  53. Scientific Progress Goes “Boink”<\/a><\/em> Bill Watterson<\/li>\n
  54. The Quest of Kadji<\/a><\/em> Lin Carter<\/li>\n
  55. Flashing Swords! #2<\/a><\/em> edited by Lin Carter<\/li>\n
  56. The Wisdom of Yo Meow Ma<\/a><\/em> Joanna Sandmark<\/li>\n
  57. Priceless Gifts<\/a><\/em> Salesian Missions<\/li>\n
  58. Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians<\/a><\/em> edited by Lin Carter<\/li>\n
  59. Houses of Worship<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  60. Girlfriends and Wives<\/a><\/em> Robert Wallace<\/li>\n
  61. Glory Road<\/a><\/em> Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n
  62. 97 Ways to Make Your Cat Like You<\/a><\/em> Carol Kaufman<\/li>\n
  63. Tough Guys and Gals of the Movies<\/a><\/em> Edward Edelson<\/li>\n
  64. Motels:American Retro<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  65. Horror and Fantasy in the Movies<\/a><\/em> Tom Hutchinson<\/li>\n
  66. Touching the Face of God<\/a><\/em> Howard Klemp<\/li>\n
  67. Cats and Dogs Unleashed<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  68. Who Would Win?<\/a><\/em> Justin Heimberg<\/li>\n
  69. Ethan Allen: The Treasury of American Traditional Interiors<\/a><\/em> <\/li>\n
  70. Renascence<\/a><\/em> Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/li>\n
  71. Hondo<\/a><\/em> Louis L’Amour<\/li>\n
  72. Down the Road and Back Again<\/a><\/em> Cody Walker<\/li>\n
  73. A Few Figs from Thistles<\/a><\/em> Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/li>\n
  74. The Downhill Lie<\/a><\/em> Carl Hiaasen<\/li>\n
  75. Edward the Second<\/a><\/em> Christopher Marlowe<\/li>\n
  76. The Bogey Man<\/a><\/em> George Plimpton<\/li>\n
  77. Silver Canyon<\/a><\/em> Louis L’Amour<\/li>\n
  78. Old School Day Romances<\/a><\/em> James Whitcomb Riley<\/li>\n
  79. Bad Monkey<\/a><\/em> Carl Hiaasen<\/li>\n
  80. Razor Girl<\/a><\/em> Carl Hiaasen<\/li>\n
  81. Ghost Mine<\/a><\/em> Ben Wolf<\/li>\n
  82. 50 Years of Text Games<\/a><\/em> Aaron A. Reed<\/li>\n
  83. 50 Years of Text Games: Further Explorations<\/a><\/em> Aaron A. Reed<\/li>\n
  84. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em> Benjamin Franklin<\/li>\n
  85. Flynn’s In<\/a><\/em> Gregory McDonald<\/li>\n
  86. Exiles to Glory<\/a><\/em> Jerry Pournelle<\/li>\n
  87. Gideon’s Gift<\/a><\/em> Karen Kingsbury<\/li>\n
  88. Sarah’s Song<\/a><\/em> Karen Kingsbury<\/li>\n
  89. Hannah’s Hope<\/a><\/em> Karen Kingsbury<\/li>\n
  90. What’s So Funny About Growing Old?<\/a><\/em> Ed Fischer and Jane Thomas Noland<\/li>\n
  91. Small Lofts<\/a><\/em> Edited by Paco Asensio<\/li>\n
  92. Strive and Succeed<\/a><\/em> Horatio Alger<\/li>\n
  93. The Loser’s End<\/a><\/em> William Heyliger<\/li>\n
  94. Live from the Tiki Lounge<\/a><\/em> Angela Williams<\/li>\n
  95. Christmas Train<\/a><\/em> David Baldacci<\/li>\n
  96. Harvest of Gold<\/a><\/em> collected by Ernest R. Miller<\/li>\n
  97. Golden Moments<\/a><\/em> Salesian Missions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have to say that the Winter Reading Challenge really does kick my year off right. And with this year coming, where I am starting off with extra free time, might prove to be my best year yet! (Although, to be honest, I often ring the bell at hitting all fifteen categories in the challenge, and I once read 16 books, hitting one category twice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    So what did I read in 2024?<\/p>\n

    I dunno, five or six “classics?” A bunch of sword-and-sorcery. A couple of books about television and movie genres. A pile of poetry. Several Westerns and\/or books by Western authors. Three or five books I’ve read before. Two or four books of cartoons or magazine gags.<\/p>\n

    You know, not a bad selection. But maybe next year I will get to that ideal 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, to sum up, here is what I have read this year: The Making of the Old Testament edited by Enid B. Mellor All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Death in Dittmer James R. Wilder Blood Relatives Ed McBain Treasure in Hell’s Canyon Bill Gulick Karate-d\u014d Ny\u016bmon Gichin Funakoshi Generation B Music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33399,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}