Saturday, January 3, 2015

Reading in 2014

I fell a bit short of my 1,000-page-a-month goal, but I'm having a hard time feeling bad about it. I read some good books this past year. I re-read some excellent books as well. The best one? Hard to tell. Certainly "Little, Big" by John Crowley was the worst. I'll try to avoid reading stuff like that in 2015.
  • Blonde Bombshell, by Tom Holt. 387 pages.
  • Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley, 819 pages.
  • DeeDee Divine's Totally Skewed Guide to Life, by Diana Estill. 228 pages.
  • Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck. By Jeff Kinney, 217 pages.
  • Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, by Jeff Kinney. 217 pages.
  • Finding Your Way in the Outdoors, by Robert L. Mooers, Jr. 275 pages.
  • Fine and Pleasant Misery, A; by Patrick F. McManus. 209 pages.
  • Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett. 377 pages.
  • I'll Mature When I'm Dead, by Dave Barry. 254 pages.
  • Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett. 295 pages.
  • Invisible Gorilla, The; How Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Christopher Chabris and Danie Simons. 306 pages.
  • Invisible Man, The; by H.G. Wells. 128 pages.
  • Little, Big, by John Crowley. 627 pages.
  • Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel, The; by Don Marquis. 477 pages.
  • Long Earth, The; Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. 336 pages.
  • Medical Detectives, The; by Berton Roueche. 404 pages.
  • Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett. 351 pages.
  • Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett. 254 pages.
  • New Spoon River, The; by Edgar Lee Masters. 325 pages.
  • Non Campus Mentis, by Anders Henriksson. 160 pages.
  • Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson. 117 pages.
  • On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King. 288 pages.
  • Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased, The; by Claude Needham PhD. 132 pages.
  • Owl in the Attic, The; by James Thurber. 113 pages.
  • Perennial Philosophy, The; by Aldous Huxley. 312 pages.
  • R is for Rocket, by Ray Bradbury. 184 pages.
  • Scoutmaster Handbook, The; BSA, 202 pages.
  • Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem. 204 pages.
  • Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters. 146 pages
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The; by Robert Louis Stevenson. 102 pages..
  • Tale of Two Cities, A; by Charles Dickens. 238 pages.
  • Tartarin on the Alps, by Alphonse Daudet. 161 pages.
  • The Whole Truth: The Watergate Conspiracy, by Sam J. Ervin, Jr. 320 pages.
  • Thulsa's Gate, by Robert Shultz. 566 pages.
  • Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 183 pages.
  • Ze page total: 10,279 pages.

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