Books Finished in 12021

PUBLISHED ON JAN 1, 2022 — READING
  • Jan 17: Agency, William Gibson 🥈
  • Jan 30: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani 🥈
  • Jan 31: Absolute Carnage, Cates and Stegman

  • Feb ??: Cosmic Ghost Rider, Cates and Burnett
  • Feb 07: Mister Miracle, King & Gerads 🥇
  • Feb 23: This is Tai Chi: 50 Essential Questions and Answers, Paul Read 👂

  • Mar 03: How to Become a Straight-A Student, Cal Newport
  • Mar 27: Mind Gym—An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence, Gary Mack with David Cassteven

  • Apr 24: So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport ➰ 🥇

  • Jun 07: The Widower’s Two-Step, Rick Riordan
  • Jun 29: The Immortal Hulk (vol 1), Ewing and Bennett
  • Jun 30: The Immortal Hulk (vol 2), Ewing and Bennett

  • Jul 02: Conan—The Jewels of Gwahkur and other stories, P. Craig Russell (adapted from Robert E. Howard) 🥇
  • Jul 04: Talking to Humans, Giff Constable
  • Jul 06: Conan—The Death (vol 14), Brian Wood, et al.
  • Jul 14: Stumptown (vol 1), Rucka et al
  • Jul 18: Conan—The Nightmare of the Shallows (vol 15)
  • Jul 23: The Four Agreements—A Toltec Wisdom Book, Don Miguel Ruiz 🥈

  • Aug 11: The Sheriff of Baghdad, King & Gerads 🥈
  • Aug 25: The Immortal Hulk (vol 3), Ewing and Bennett

  • Sept 16: The Immortal Hulk (vol 4), Ewing and Bennett
  • Sept 23: The Immortal Hulk (vol 5), Ewing and Bennett

  • Oct ??: The Immortal Hulk (vol 6), Ewing and Bennett
  • Oct ??: The Immortal Hulk (vol 7), Ewing and Bennett
  • Oct 20: Willpower Doesn’t Work, Benjamin Hardy 👂

  • Nov 13: Zero History, William Gibson ➰ 🥈
  • Nov 15: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, M. Mitchell Waldrop 🥇

  • Dec 21: Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart 🥇

Some parting thoughts for this year’s list of books finished: lots more comics this year. Marvel monthlies were straight-up popcorn (tasting more and more stale), the Conan works were much more sophisticated than I expected, and King & Gerads slay. Two audiobooks 👂 and two re-reads ➰. I didn’t track the dozens of board books I’ve read to our now-toddler, but I could recite most of them from memory.

Looking at how I rated the books I read, I see that there’s a lot of fluff and missing substance. Not the worst, but with less and less time to read, I may have to be more deliberate about what I’m reading to make the most of it.

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