{"id":32013,"date":"2013-01-01T23:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=32013"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:44:21","slug":"my-favorite-books-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/my-favorite-books-of-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Books of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stacks-of-black-and-white-books1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32017\" title=\"Books! (Well, hardcover books. Most of mine were digital or paperback.)\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stacks-of-black-and-white-books1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stacks-of-black-and-white-books1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stacks-of-black-and-white-books1.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Make that, to be clear, favorite books <em>read<\/em>\u00a0in 2012 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4631805?format=html&amp;page=1&amp;view=covers\">Goodreads<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Five Star Books (amazing, faboo):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/483897810\">Ready Player One<\/a><\/em>, by Ernest Cline<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/479474703\">The Forever War<\/a><\/em>, by Joe Haldeman<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/456927520\">The Devil in the White City<\/a><\/em>, by Erik Larson<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/233831890\">Neverwhere<\/a><\/em>, by Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/402114349\">Hidden Things<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0by Doyce Testerman<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/347284821\">Redshirts<\/a><\/em>, by John Scalzi<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/325418914\">The President and the Assassin<\/a><\/em>, by Scott Miller<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/256925427\">Leviathan<\/a>* <\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/281606147\">Goliath<\/a>*<\/em>, by Scott Westerfeld<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four Star Books (I liked them a lot):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/259224581\">Star Surgeon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/263084106\">Hard Magic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/266929131\">River Marked<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/267526015\">The Hunger Games<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/247109572\">Monster Hunter International<\/a>**,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/271827473\">Monster Hunter Vendetta<\/a>**,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/275265484\">Monster Hunter Alpha<\/a>**,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/275269095\">Behemoth<\/a>*,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/281622286\">Colonel Roosevelt<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/305664981\">The Honor of the Queen<\/a>***,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/310529996\">The Short, Victorious War<\/a>***,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/314803215\">Field of Dishonor<\/a>***,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/314810955\">Flag in Exile<\/a>***,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/315189668\">Honor Among Enemies<\/a>***,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/318003380\">Echoes of Honor<\/a>***,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/349563897\">The Best of Fredric Brown<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/352333642\">Destiny of the Republic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/370512511\">Alpha<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/386882899\">Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/352351071\">Dream Park<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/409407141\">Sten<\/a>****,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/421786985\">The Court of a Thousand Suns<\/a>****,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/422703812\">Pulling Up Stakes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/435492080\">The One Minute Manager<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/444536597\">Return of the Emperor<\/a>****,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/444537595\">Vortex<\/a>****,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/474110309\">The Girl Who Would Be King<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/492273285\">Little Fuzzy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>* Leviathan series<br \/>\n** Monster Hunter series<br \/>\n*** Honor Harrington series<br \/>\n**** Sten series<\/p>\n<p>I read a total of 60 books (text and audio, excluding graphic novels) in 2012. \u00a0Overall, a pretty good year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make that, to be clear, favorite books read\u00a0in 2012 (via Goodreads). Five Star Books (amazing, faboo): Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman Hidden Things,\u00a0by Doyce Testerman Redshirts, by John Scalzi The President and the Assassin, by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/my-favorite-books-of-2012.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Favorite Books of 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32017,"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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stacks-of-black-and-white-books1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135750,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/books-of-2017.html","url_meta":{"origin":32013,"position":0},"title":"Books of 2017","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jan-18 10:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking at my Goodreads records, in 2017 I read 92 books. 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