Tag: Year in Books
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2019 in Books
Prior years Compared to other years, 2019 was a bit odd. My reading was dominated by two long series, Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books, about which more below, and Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer books (which were good, but not truly excellent detective novels). Together, these accounted for more than 20% of all the books I read.…
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2018 in Books
Prior entries: 2015, 2016, 2017 An annual tradition. This year, I continuously told myself that I wouldn’t buy new books until I’d dramatically reduced my to-read list. I half-listened, getting the list to under a hundred for the first time in living memory. It (coupled with me figuring out how to check out books digitally…
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2017 in Books
Prior entries: 2015, 2016 Over the past few years, I’ve lowered the total of books I hoped to read, in an effort to better savor my reading and also because there’s a glut of very long books on my To-Read shelf. Thus, I aimed to read 125 books in 2017 and surpassed that goal, reading…
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2016 in Books
Overall, I feel that 2016 was an average year, reading-wise. In part, this stemmed from a lack of ambition on my part. In 2015, I really strove to improve my knowledge of poetry and had the grand scale project of reading the complete works of Shakespeare, both of which were immensely enjoyable. This year, there…
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2015 in Books
Every year I read a lot of books and spend far too much time playing around with spreadsheets tracking them all. I then promise myself that I’ll use that tracking data to write a lengthy summary of my reading, only to break that promise as soon as humanely possible. This year, I shockingly didn’t break…
Dan Yingst 