{"id":807,"date":"2017-11-18T20:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2017-11-18T20:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T04:58:24","slug":"the-end-of-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"The end of year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year my goal was to read a book a week, and made it to 49 or 51 (depending on how you count). You can read about it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=83\">here<\/a>. This year I decided to read at my leisure and see where I landed. The answer is 37 books, or about 3 per month. Admittedly, this is better than I expected &#8211; I would have guessed closer to 24 books for the year.<\/p>\n<p>A quick summary: 10 Book Club books, 8 mysteries, 4 nonfiction, 4 pure science, 8 scifi (2 of which were dystopian) and 1 spy novel. Some surprises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought I would read more science books, but I am happy that I fit more in than last year.<\/li>\n<li>My scifi count is WAY higher than I expected, since I consider myself more of a fantasy reader than scifi. Which leads me to &#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>ZERO fantasy! Damn.<\/li>\n<li>It appears that my guilty pleasure is mystery novels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing it again this year, but I plan to set a few goals this time. I will read fewer book club books (which are, in a sense, books you read for other people), I will increase my science books to at least 6 (one every other month), and I WILL find a fantasy series that I love!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene (blog entry pending)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=803\">Good Omens<\/a>, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erdyfriend.com\/?p=784\">Monkey Beach<\/a>, by Eden Robinson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=776\">All The Missing Girls<\/a>, by Megan Miranda<\/li>\n<li>T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=786\">he Island of Doctor Moreau<\/a>, by H.G. Wells<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=770\">The Girls<\/a>, Emma Cline<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=768\">The Travelers<\/a>, Chris Pavone<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=757\">Persons Unknown<\/a>, Susie Steiner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=762\">Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less<\/a>, by Greg McKeown<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=755\">Missing, Presumed<\/a>,\u00a0Susie Steiner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=759\">The Gene, An Intimate History<\/a>; Siddhartha Mukherjee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=712\">Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World&#8217;s Most Outrageous Scams<\/a>, by Andreas Schroeder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=748\">The Outsiders<\/a>, S. E. Hinton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=746\">The Perfect Stranger<\/a>, Megan Miranda<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=728\">Sojourner: An Insider\u2019s View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission<\/a>, Andrew Mishkin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=730\">Little Brother<\/a>, Cory Doctorow<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=720\">My Life on the Road<\/a>, Gloria Steinem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=715\">Ender&#8217;s Game<\/a>, Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=678\">The Help<\/a>, by Kathryn Stockett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=683\">When Breath Becomes Air<\/a>, by Paul Kalanithi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=694\">Into Thin Air<\/a>, Jon Krakauer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=696\">What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim<\/a>, Jane Christmas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=685\">The Likeness<\/a>, Tana French<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=675\">Passion on the Vine<\/a>, by Sergio Esposito<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=657\">Uglies<\/a>, by Scott Westerfeld<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=665\">The Daily Show (the book)<\/a>, by Chris Smith<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=668\">The Particle at the End of the Universe<\/a>, Sean Carroll<\/li>\n<li>T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=662\">he Murder Wall<\/a>, by Mari Hannah<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=654\">Station Eleven<\/a>, Emily St. John Mandel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=659\">I Let You Go<\/a>, by Clare Mackintosh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=652\">Foreigner<\/a>, Robert J. Sawyer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=650\">The Heart Goes Last<\/a>, Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=646\">Fossil Hunter<\/a>, Robert J. Sawyer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=643\">Far-Seer<\/a>, Robert J. Sawyer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=640\">The Widow<\/a>, Fiona Barton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=633\">No Time for Goodbye<\/a>, Linwood Barclay<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=630\">Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two<\/a>, Jack Thorne<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year my goal was to read a book a week, and made it to 49 or 51 (depending on how you count). You can read about it\u00a0here. 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