I just posted my last capsule reviews for 2010, and looked back at the list of books I read this year.\u00a0 I read 44 books this year, less than one a week, but still a fairly healthy number.\u00a0 And it doesn’t count comics.<\/p>\n
I wanted to pick a few that were particularly good and say a few words about them, but that’s proving to be hard.\u00a0 I read a lot of really great books this year. I’m going to throw out a few links to some of the stuff I enjoyed the most.<\/p>\n
In non fiction, this was the year I was blown away by Kevin Roose’s incredible The Unlikely Disciple<\/em><\/a>, found out a ton about the recent Wall Street shenanigans in Michael Lewis’s excellent The Big Short<\/em><\/a>, saw how a serial killer and the World’s Fair danced an abstract tango in Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City<\/em><\/a>, heard a rational plea for coming to terms with our finite planet from Jared Diamond in Collapse<\/em><\/a>, and became a Chuck Klosterman fan by Eating the Dinosaur<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n I read more fiction than usual this year.\u00a0 Partially this was because I discovered Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep<\/em><\/a>, The Long Goodbye<\/em><\/a>, and Farewell, My Lovely<\/em><\/a>) and renewed my interest in Dick (The Man in the High Castle<\/em><\/a> and A Scanner Darkly<\/em><\/a>) and Atwood (The Year of the Flood<\/em><\/a>, Oryx and Crake<\/em><\/a>, and The Handmaid’s Tale<\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 I also got sucked into the Twilight<\/em> thing, knocking off all<\/a> four<\/a> constituent<\/a> books<\/a> in pretty short order.\u00a0 I also finally read The Grapes of Wrath<\/em><\/a>, which is a towering work of literature, and found Lionel Shriver’s spectacular We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/em><\/a>, a harrowing mirror held up to both the reader and the world.<\/p>\n That’s a pretty good year by my standards, and there are other fun things that didn’t quite make a mention here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just posted my last capsule reviews for 2010, and looked back at the list of books I read this year.\u00a0 I read 44 books this year, less than one a week, but still a fairly healthy number.\u00a0 And it doesn’t count comics. I wanted to pick a few that were particularly good and say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}