{"id":2313,"date":"2013-01-01T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2013-01-01T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:35:32","slug":"words-are-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/words-are-for-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"words are for reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written intermittent posts about reading here, though never a big year-end roundup. But I’m feeling pretty good about the number of non-work books I was able to read last year, as well as inspired by Jenna<\/a> and Alycia<\/a>. So here it is, the list of leisure books I read in 2012, totaling 37. Yeah, there’s lots of YA stuff there, and I know it reads faster than other books, but they still count!<\/p>\n

(I’m not including work-related books in here mostly because I don’t keep track of them in my reading journal and I’m too lazy to corral them all together in my brain. Plus often with work books I’m reading a chapter here and there, not the whole thing).<\/p>\n

Starred are the books I read on my phone, which was mostly new for me this year. I still prefer paper books but it’s definitely convenient to have a phone book for subway rides and other travels. Of course, the library doesn’t always have the books I want for my phone which is a drag. It’s odd, I do have an ipad but I haven’t tended to use it for leisure reading at all, rather just for academic articles (using the awesome iannotate app to take notes on the pdfs and sync with dropbox). I think it’s because the ipad is so heavy and I don’t usually bring it with me to work each day, whereas my phone is always with me.<\/p>\n

These are in reverse order, btw, with the most recently-read first.<\/p>\n

The Lifespan of a Fact, by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
\nDiverse Energies, edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti
\nLynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass, by Susan Kirtley
\nFeed, by M.T. Anderson
\n* Liar and Spy, by Rebecca Stead
\nMortal Engines, by Phillip Reeve
\nThe Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
\nThe Death Cure, by James Dashner
\nThe Scorch Trials, by James Dashner
\nThe Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
\nThis World We Live In, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
\nInsurgent, by Veronica Roth
\nThe Dead & the Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
\nHow to Do Things with Videogames, by Ian Bogost
\nPandemonium, by Lauren Oliver
\nReady Player One, by Ernest Cline
\nThe Maze Runner, by James Dashner
\nLife As We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
\nDelirium, by Lauren Oliver
\nInvisible Things, by Jenny Davidson
\nDivergent, by Veronica Roth
\nAre You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
\nExtras, by Scott Westerfeld
\nDegrees of Inequality, by Ann Mullen
\n* Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver
\n* The Messenger, by Lois Lowry
\nThe Explosionist, by Jenny Davidson
\nSpecials, by Scott Westerfeld
\nPretties, by Scott Westerfeld
\nUglies, by Scott Westerfeld
\n* Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry
\n* The Giver, by Lois Lowry
\nLeviathan, by Scott Westerfeld
\nAll Clear, by Connie Willis
\nBlackout, by Connie Willis
\nThe Curfew, by Jesse Ball
\nReality is Broken, by Jane McGonigal<\/p>\n

And, in the interest of full disclosure, here are the books I put down without finishing. I used to never ever ever do that, but the older I get the more I want to read and the less time I have, so no regrets!<\/p>\n

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente
\nMr. Fox, by Helen Oyeyemi
\n* Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell
\n1Q84, by Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n

Anyway, keep up the good reading work, me, in 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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