Sunday, January 05, 2014

I Know What You Read Last Year

End of one year and beginning of another – that means it is time to make reflective/retrospective lists! I have two that I will offer (one at a time) – books and movies. That tells you how I spent most of my time and maybe why I do not have many friends. Sad.

I’m going to start with books: total – 67 books/periodicals
 11,000 pages in total

I am counting periodicals because they take time and energy to read and should count just as much as books gosh darn it! I only count them when I have read the entire issue from cover to cover – no cheating!
I read a lot of fiction this year thanks to a book club with my church. I’m not sure I’m happy about that, it makes me a little less snobbish.
The links are to reflections I have made on that book.

Fiction: 17
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
11/22/63 – Stephen King
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Silver Linings Playbook – Matthew Quick
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Sisterland – Curtis Sittenfeld
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Nonfiction: 7
Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes – Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Preparing the Pastors We Need – George Mason
The Mindful Therapist – Daniel J. Siegel

Periodicals -
Wired –
February 2012
            March 2012
            April 2012
            May 2012
            June 2012

Christian Century –
May 30, 2012
June 13, 2012
June 27, 2012
July 11, 2012
            July 25, 2012
August 8, 2012
August 22, 2012
September 5, 2012
            September 19, 2012
October 3, 2012
            October 17, 2012
            October 31, 2012
November 14, 2012
            November 28, 2012
December 12, 2012
            December 26, 2012
January 9, 2013
January 23, 2013
            February 6, 2013
            February 20, 2013
March 6, 2013
            March 20, 2013
April 3, 2013
April 17, 2013
            April 7, 2013
May 1, 2013

Harper’s –
            December 2011
            January 2012
            February 2012
            March 2012
            April 2012
May 2012

The Atlantic –
November 2011
            December 2011
            January/February 2012
March 2012
           

The American Baptist Quarterly –
Winter, 2009
Spring-Summer 2010


After looking this over I hope to read much more non-fiction next year. I need to keep my snobby little head buried in the minutia of academics, facts, and ideas. We will see how it goes.

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