{"id":152839,"date":"2020-12-31T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=152839"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:04:44","slug":"2020-in-review-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/2020-in-review-books.html","title":{"rendered":"2020 in Review: Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Goodreads, where I do my book logging<\/a>, has a nifty little widget to show what reading I logged over the year<\/a>. It shows I read 138 books, for a total of 33,007 pages. Which sounds much more impressive than it actually is, since it (a) includes the page count for audiobooks, and (b) includes graphic novels which, while potentially literary, read much faster. Indeed, of those 138, a little over half (76) were graphic novels.<\/p>\n

The audiobook count was down this year. I only listen to those in the car and, working for home and not vacationing at all, my driving time has been pretty limited.<\/p>\n

But besides audiobooks, my overall reading this year was higher than last year<\/a>. Yay, pandemic!<\/p>\n

The most popular book I read in 2020 was The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> (3.1 million other people on Goodreads have logged that one). The least popular was Nice Guys Finish Seventh<\/em> by Ralph Keyes, an interesting book on misquotations (only 45 other people have logged it).<\/p>\n

I tend to rate things high — Goodreads says my average rating is 4. Some books I gave 5-star ratings I gave to this year:<\/p>\n