{"id":2616,"date":"2014-01-01T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2014-01-01T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:17:06","slug":"2013-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/2013-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm, when I counted up the books on this list I was disappointed to see this year that I didn’t read as many books as last year, only 28 compared to last year’s 36. Starred books are ebooks and tilded books are those I own (rather than borrowed from the library), and the list below is in reverse chronological order. Again this doesn’t count books I read for academic reasons, which would bulk things up a bit. Also I think this reflects that 2013 was perhaps more disjointed than 2012. We didn’t really take any vacations that offered space for lots of reading, and the summer overall (which is when I tend to get most of my non-academic reading done) was sort of scattered. But on the plus side, only one book falls into the started not finished category, so that’s a good thing. And Debt<\/em> is eNORmous, maybe it should count as several books?<\/p>\n

I think I hit the wall with dystopian YA books this past year. I still find them enjoyable to read, but I’m also finding them more disturbing and depressing than I have in the past. I was excited to read Allegiant<\/em> and wind up the series, but found it kind of meh in the end (though I’m *totally* excited for the movie — when we saw the previews there were shots of Mansueto<\/a> and the Reg<\/a>!).<\/p>\n

Balancing out the dystopia were some books I really enjoyed. Every Day<\/em> was fantastic — layered and thoughtful and real. As I babbled about in other posts, I loved Tracey Thorn’s book, Fangirl<\/em>, and Sisterland<\/em>. I did a bit of revisiting books I’d already read — Wrinkle in Time<\/em> and Ender’s Game<\/em> because Gus was reading them (also the latter to prep for seeing the movie), and Wizard of Earthsea<\/em> (just finished yesterday!) because I’m thinking that I need to read more LeGuin in the new year and rereading the trilogy (plus the other two Earthsea books I haven’t read) seems like a good place to start.<\/p>\n

My reading goal for 2014 is to read more, obvs. I’d like to read all of LeGuin’s work, and possibly reread Octavia Butler’s books (in prep for recommending them to Gus). I have some big holes in my knowledge of feminist theory that I’d like to plug, too. I also can’t wait to read Facing the Other Way: The 4AD Story<\/em>. And Gus got 21 (!) books for his birthday and xmas some of which I’d like to read too, including a graphic novel series called Amulet<\/em> and another graphic novel set — this one about the Boxer Rebellion — called Boxers and Saints<\/em>. He tore through them all in less than a week so they’re uncontested.<\/p>\n

With that said, here’s the list:<\/p>\n

~ A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula LeGuin
\n~ Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh
\n~ Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott
\n* Sisterland, by Curtis Sittenfeld
\nFangirl, by Rainbow Rowell
\nAllegiant, by Veronica Roth
\nWool, by Hugh Howely
\n* Shards & Ashes, edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong
\nDebt, by David Graeber
\nFirst Light, by Rebecca Stead
\nAmong Others, by Jo Walton
\n~ A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
\nToo Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room, by David Weinberger
\nPeanut, by Ayun Halliday and Paul Hoppe
\n~ The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
\nMr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
\nThe 5th Wave, by Rick Yancy
\n~ Bedsit Disco Queen, by Tracey Thorn
\n* Every Day, by David Levithan
\nA Darkling Plain, by Phillip Reeve
\nLegend, by Marie Lu
\nRequiem, by Lauren Oliver
\nInfernal Devices, by Phillip Reeve
\nBossypants, by Tina Fey
\n~ Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
\n~ Why Do I Love These People?, by Po Bronson
\nThe Age of Miracles, by Karen Walker Thompson
\nPredator’s Gold, by Phillip Reeve<\/p>\n

Started not finished:
\n* Oryx & Crake, by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmm, when I counted up the books on this list I was disappointed to see this year that I didn’t read as many books as last year, only 28 compared to last year’s 36. Starred books are ebooks and tilded books are those I own (rather than borrowed from the library), and the list below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,33],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}