{"id":1303,"date":"2022-02-23T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2022-02-23T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:23:58","slug":"the-2021-short-list-by-my-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 ‘short list’ (by my standards)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I try to think why I read so (relatively) little this year, I assume (just like I assumed in 2020) it’s because I didn’t have a commute. (And not just for most of the year, but ALL of the year!) So watching TV became more the default, and reading became more of a ‘going to sleep’ activity. That said, when I started thinking about this post late in the year, and looked at what I’d read, I pushed myself to knock off a few more so I could at least get to a nice, round number that looks intentional. So, without further ado, the TWENTY books I read in 2021. (And for what it’s worth, it may have been the weight of the times, but a number of them made me cry! So maybe it was a good year reading-wise in terms of QUALITY!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. I Remember Nothing, and other reflections<\/em>, Nora Ephron<\/li>
  2. I Don\u2019t Seem So Bright In a Well-Lit Room<\/em>, Sean Browning<\/li>
  3. Adventures in the Screen Trade<\/em>, William Goldman<\/li>
  4. You Shall Know Our Velocity!<\/em>, Dave Eggers<\/li>
  5. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions<\/em>, Dan Ariely<\/li>
  6. We Were the Mulvaneys<\/em>, Joyce Carol Oates<\/li>
  7. Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film<\/em>, Patton Oswalt<\/li>
  8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<\/em>, Mark Haddon<\/li>
  9. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Generation Saved Hollywood<\/em>, Peter Biskind<\/li>
  10. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life<\/em>, Christie Tate<\/li>
  11. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue<\/em>, V.E. Schwab<\/li>
  12. The Glass Hotel<\/em>, Emily St. John<\/li>
  13. Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funnier People Be Funnier<\/em>, Alan Zweibel<\/li>
  14. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House<\/em>, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz<\/li>
  15. Leave the World Behind<\/em>, Rumaan Alam<\/li>
  16. Uncanny Valley<\/em>, Anna Wiener<\/li>
  17. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes<\/em>, Maria Konnikova<\/li>
  18. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth: Book One)<\/em>, N.K. Jemisin<\/li>
  19. Klara and the Sun<\/em>, Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>
  20. Hamnet & Judith<\/em>, Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    When I try to think why I read so (relatively) little this year, I assume (just like I assumed in 2020) it’s because I didn’t have a commute. (And not just for most of the year, but ALL of the year!) So watching TV became more the default, and reading became more of a ‘going […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}