{"id":1476,"date":"2023-02-19T20:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T01:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T01:12:38","slug":"reading-is-what-fundamental-2022-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"“Reading is what? Fundamental!”, 2022 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Okay, my numbers were still down relative to my top years\u2026 but I managed more than a book every two weeks, and there were some long ones in there! I apologize for nothing! Ahem\u2026 please enjoy my reading list for 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Sorry I\u2019m Late, I Didn\u2019t Want to Come: One Introvert\u2019s Year of Saying Yes<\/em>, Jessica Pan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Shuggie Bain<\/em>, Douglas Stuart<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/em>, Bill Bryson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Lincoln Highway<\/em>, Amor Towles<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Superman Smashes the Klan<\/em>, Gene Luen Yang (art by Guruhiru)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism<\/em>, Amanda Montell<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Yearbook<\/em>, Seth Rogen<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities<\/em>, Alexandra Robbins<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. All\u2019s Well<\/em>, Mona Awad<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. The Comic Hero\u2019s Journey<\/em>, Steve Kaplan (reread)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. The Secret to Superhuman Strength<\/em>, Alison Bechdel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. New Teeth,<\/em> Simon Rich<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos<\/em>, Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa with Philip Lerman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. The Innocents<\/em>, Michael Crummey<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama<\/em>, Bob Odenkirk<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Butter Honey Pig Bread<\/em>, Francesca Ekwuyasi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Hench<\/em>, Natalie Zina Walschots<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X<\/em>, Les Payne and Tamara Payne<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Sea of Tranquility<\/em>, Emily St. John Mandel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding the Formula for the Cost of Love<\/em>, Haley McGee<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. The Butterfly Revolution<\/em>, William Butler (technically a re-read, but it had probably been about thirty years)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. The Topeka School<\/em>, Ben Lerner<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. How To Write One Song<\/em>, Jeff Tweedy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Tinderbox: HBO\u2019s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers<\/em>, James Andrew Miller (975 pages!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Crossing to Safety<\/em>, Wallace Stegner<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus<\/em>, Samantha Albert<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. A Star Called Henry<\/em>, Roddy Doyle<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Seven Games: A Human History<\/em>, Oliver Roeder<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love<\/em>, Kevin Goetz with Darlene Hayman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present<\/em>, Dara Horn<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory<\/em>, Sarah Polley<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. Hola Papi: How to Come Out In a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons<\/em>, John Paul Brammer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Okay, my numbers were still down relative to my top years\u2026 but I managed more than a book every two weeks, and there were some long ones in there! I apologize for nothing! Ahem\u2026 please enjoy my reading list for 2022:<\/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-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}