{"id":129320,"date":"2015-12-31T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/my-bookish-year-in-review.html"},"modified":"2015-12-31T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:47:11","slug":"my-bookish-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/my-bookish-year-in-review.html","title":{"rendered":"My Bookish Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;ve been slavishly (well, occasionally but thoroughly) recording my reading in Goodreads, just for these sorts of annual listings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2015\/4631805\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2015\/4631805<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it conflates my &quot;text&quot; books with my &quot;audio&quot; books with my &quot;graphic novel&quot; books, which I consider three separate categories. If you want to see a more complete listing, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4631805\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4631805<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the 83 books, 24 this year were re-reads (not counting graphic novel collections where I&#39;d read the original issues).<\/p>\n<p>My top-rated (5-star) books of the year (with caveat noted below):<\/p>\n<p>NEW (FICTION)<br \/>Butcher, <i>The Aeronaut&#39;s Windlass<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1449719350\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1449719350<\/a>]<br \/>Weir, <i>The Martian<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1346297757\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1346297757<\/a>]<br \/>Doctorow, <i>Little Brother<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1181246373\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1181246373<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>REREAD (FICTION)<br \/>Niven &amp; Pournelle, <i>The Mote in God&#39;s Eye<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1487730279\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1487730279<\/a>]<br \/>Heinlein, <i>Stranger in a Strange Land<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1487736590\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1487736590<\/a>]<br \/>Stross, <i>The Atrocity Archives<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/247076707\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/247076707<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>NEW (NON-FICTION)<br \/>Miller, <i>Violence: A Writer&#39;s Guide<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1360042566\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1360042566<\/a>]<br \/>Cushman, <i>These Are the Voyages, TOS Season 2<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1289417582\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1289417582<\/a>]<br \/>Munroe, <i>What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1258845670\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1258845670<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>GRAPHIC NOVELS<br \/>Gillen, <i>Young Avengers Omnibus<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1355765997\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1355765997<\/a>]<br \/>Foglio, <i>Girl Genius Volume 13: Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1265517643\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1265517643<\/a>]<br \/>Zub, <i>Wayward, Vol. 1: String Theory<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1267106823\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1267106823<\/a>]<br \/>Straczynski, <i>Ten Grand, Vol. 1<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1247494331\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1247494331<\/a>]<br \/>Simone, <i>Secret Six, Vol. 6: The Darkest House<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1162716979\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1162716979<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Caveat: A 5-star &quot;It was amazing&quot; rating is an amazingly fragile thing. There are any number of these that could get knocked down to a 4-star (&quot;I really liked it&quot;) on any given day, and many of the many 4-stars that, in the passion of the moment, could have gotten bumped up to 5.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the number there is large enough that it&#39;s probably worth something as a psychological (or at least aesthetic) insight. And I certainly recommend any of the 5-stars (or 4-stars (or even 3-stars)) to your enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>On to next year!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2015\/4631805'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/B8wI2sNl94qqstqcQKVks1XLda3eut5r3xKkQxp2yy4XyPq9hCCND7UBBky_5ythjGy5YOP6fD503HIevheGjZ_z5sAdydCipeJRCsLRT1l-dtoC0T4cAT6SF-QH71adafPvSVn7fSILdQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2015\/4631805'>***Dave&rsquo;s Year in Books<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SL8ntSNa1rP'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;ve been slavishly (well, occasionally but thoroughly) recording my reading in Goodreads, just for these sorts of annual listings. https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2015\/4631805 Unfortunately, it conflates my &quot;text&quot; books with my &quot;audio&quot; books with my &quot;graphic novel&quot; books, which I consider three separate categories. If you want to see a more complete listing, you can visit https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4631805 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/my-bookish-year-in-review.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Bookish Year in Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43539,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/13\/dave-does-the-comics-july-graphic-novel-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":129320,"position":0},"title":"Dave Does the Comics &#8211; July Graphic Novel Edition","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 13-Jul-14 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just caught up on putting a bunch of graphic novel \/ trade paperback reviews in GoodReads:X-Men Visionaries: Neil Adams - One of the best (arguably the best) artist on X-Men ever. 5\/5 stars.https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/995052965Thor: God of Thunder, Vol. 1 \"The God Butcher\" \u00a0- Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic give us the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/courtney35B15D.png.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":46088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-10.html","url_meta":{"origin":129320,"position":1},"title":"Dave Does the Comics &#8211; 2014-10","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Oct-14 3:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been way, way lax in any kind of comic book reviews. 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