I fully accept that I’ll never be as good as Liz at book reviews, but I want to do better in 2015 than I am in 2014 which is five finished reviews and 27/30 Tumblr drafts that were unfinished book reviews. So for 2015 I’m “stealing” Sally’s year end template and will keep that as a working draft.
In the mean time, here’s my look at 2014
Books read: 54
Currently reading: 7 (one truly active, three semi active, three that likely need to go to the dead letter file)
I’m thrilled with those and already looking forward to my 2015 challenge. Will I read 54 again? No. Will I complete the A-Z challenge and then some? I think so. One of my 2015 resolutions is more time reading and I look forward to that.
Some more thoughts:
- In breaking it out as I did below, I realized two things:
- I’m missing a few titles. Ill try to edit the post when I find them
- My non fiction/fiction splits weren’t as bad as I feared. That said, I read too much crap
- Those I didn’t finish had about the same genre splits, but some interesting reasons:
FOOTBALL
- Against Football– that wasn’t a book, it was a poorly written and edited rant
- NON FICTION
- All the Centurions – good stories, not a good writer. Got bored
- Christmas Miscellany – nothing new here, got bored quickly despite reading in December
- Happy Hour is for Amateurs – don’t remember
- Inside the Dream Palace – tried to read too many about the Chelsea in too short a time. Not a binge subject
- The Social Employee – don’t remember
- Wedding Babylon – don’t remember
- FICTION
- Brooklyn Noir – don’t remember at all
- Chasing the Dime – no idea as I love Connelly, but I tried this one 3x
On to those I did read, with notes in bold….
Non – Fiction
- Bear in the Back Seat: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Volume 1)
- Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can’t or Won’t Show You (actually reviewed this one)
- The Hotel: A Week in the Life of the Plaza (actually reviewed this one)
- Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult’s Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It’s Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner
- so bad. So stubborn to finish this. For some reason I spent time reviewing it.
- so bad. So stubborn to finish this. For some reason I spent time reviewing it.
- Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with Artists and Outlaws in New York’s Rebel Mecca (actually reviewed this one together with This Ain’t no Holiday Inn, which I read in 2013)
- Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
- great one to read after a trip to Savannah. Would have been better before
- The Museum Effect: How Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Institutions Educate and Civilize Society
- NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
- Say What? The Weird and Mysterious Journey of the English Language
- Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present (actually reviewed this one)
Football
Dixieland Delight
Travel
- 100 Places You Will Never Visit (actually reviewed this one)
- Ghostly Encounters: True Stories of America’s Haunted Inns and Hotels
- Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
- River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America
- What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
Weight Loss
- …then just stay fat.
- Food Rules
Fiction
- Eye for an Eye (Dewey Andreas)
- terrible,and I hated the narrator. But we almost finished it in the car and I needed to know how it ended. Rare I root against “hero”
- Terminal City
- The Heist (Gabriel Allon)
James Patterson
- Burn (Michael Bennett)
- NYPD Red 2
- Private L.A. (Jack Morgan)
- Unlucky 13 (Women’s Murder Club)
Michael Connelly
- Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase
- The Safe Man
- The Scarecrow
- Void Moon
Harry Bosch
- Angels Flight
- Angle of Investigation: Three Harry Bosch Stories
- The Black Box
- The Black Echo
- The Black Ice
- The Burning Room
- City of Bones
- The Closers
- The Concrete Blonde
- A Darkness More Than Night
- The Drop
- Echo Park
- The Last Coyote (A Harry Bosch Novel)
- Lost Light
- The Narrows
- Nine Dragons
- The Overlook
- Trunk Music
Lincoln Lawyer
- The Brass Verdict
- The Fifth Witness
- Gods of Guilt
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- The Reversal
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