Last year, I kept track of how far I ran (miles), how much I wrote for fun/free (words), how much time I spent playing RPGs with friends (hours), and how many books I read.
In order from last January. Asterisked listings are books I had read before – multiple times in some cases.
1. Every Day I Pray for Love – Yayoi Kusama
2. Catching the Big Fish – David Lynch
3. Medieval Wrestling – Jessica Finley
4. Runes of Engagement – Tobias Buckell & Dave Klecha
5. Moby-Dick in Pictures – Matt Kish
6. Spelljammer: Astral Adventurer’s Guide – Christopher Perkins, Jeremy Crawford, Ari Levitch
7. Spelljammer: Boo’s Astral Menagerie – Christopher Perkins
8. Spelljammer: Light of Xaryxis – Justice Ramin Arman, Sadie Lowry, Jeffrey Ludwig
9. Anathem* – Neal Stephenson
10. The Women Who Changed Art Forever – Feminist Art: The Graphic Novel – Valentina Grande & Eva Rosetti
11. Red Mars* – Kim Stanley Robinson
12. The Midderlands – Glynn Seal, Edwin Nagy, Mark Nolan
13. The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
14. Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
15. The Martian Contingency – Mary Robinette Kowal
16. When the Moon Hits Your Eye – John Scalzi
17. A Trail Guide to Aihrde – Stephen Chenault
18. Fantasticland – Mike Bockoven
19. Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey
20. Dandelion Wine* – Ray Bradbury
21. The Mountain of Smoke – Jeffrey Alan Love
22. Sunrise on the Reaping – Suzanne Collins
23. The Human Division* – John Scalzi
24. The End of All Things* – John Scalzi
25. You Remind Me of Me – Dan Chaon
26. Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
27. Open Throat – Henry Hoke
28. The Last Colony* – John Scalzi
29. Hail Mary – Andy Weir
30. The Shattering Peace – John Scalzi
31. Agent to the Stars* – John Scalzi
32. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
33. Lord of the Rings appendices – J.R.R. Tolkien
34. The Ride of Our Lives – Mike Leonard
35. Here is New York – E.B. White
Scalzi is obviously a comfort read: I tend to grab his older books to revisit while I eat breakfast or in places where I’ll have some down time but maybe don’t have the brainwidth for digesting new material.
I’d never actually read the Lord of the Rings appendices, despite having read The Hobbit and the trilogy several times. Interesting to realize how much material in there has made its way to big-screen interpretations. And also, here’s a confession: This whole time, I thought “Eorlingas” was the name of Theoden’s horse.
We read and we learn things.
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