{"id":1887,"date":"2025-05-16T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:57:50","slug":"reading-more-in-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Reading more in ’24!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m just going to say it, because I don\u2019t often pat myself on the back: I like the eclectic nature of my reading lists! To anyone who might want to join my unofficial book club, here\u2019s what I got through in 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Circle<\/em>, Katherena Vermette<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Games and Rituals<\/em>, Katherine Heiny<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. How To Kill Your Family<\/em>, Bella Mackie<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade<\/em>, William Goldman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly<\/em>, Anthony Bourdain<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. So You Want to Talk About Race<\/em>, Ijeoma Oluo<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Chain-Gang All-Stars<\/em>, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. That\u2019s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them<\/em>, Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\u2019s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure<\/em>, Simon Morgenstern (The \u201cGood Parts\u201d Version, 30th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition, abridged by William Goldman)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Blindness<\/em>, Jose Saramago<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man<\/em>, Emmanuel Acho<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture \u2013 and the Magic That Makes It Work<\/em>, Jesse David Fox<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain<\/em>, Ryan North<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents<\/em>, Isabel Wilkerson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family<\/em>, Nicholas Pileggi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. The Possible Self: A Leader\u2019s Guide to Personal Development<\/em>, Maja Djikic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Being Dead<\/em>, Jim Crace<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks<\/em>, Chris Herring<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Bottle Rocket Hearts<\/em>, Zoe Whittall<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Glory Days<\/em>, Simon Rich<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV<\/em>, Emily Nussbaum<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Brotherless Night<\/em>, V.V. Ganeshananthan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter<\/em>, Kate Conger & Ryan Mac<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died<\/em>, Jennette McCurdy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Birnam Wood<\/em>, Eleanor Catton<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth<\/em>, Martin Wikelski<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Help Wanted<\/em>, Adelle Waldman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians<\/em>, Joe Quirk with Patri Friedman*<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Old Man\u2019s War<\/em>, John Scalzi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. The Bell Jar<\/em>, Sylvia Plath<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Okay, I was hoping to get another one finished before the new year, if only so this list wouldn\u2019t end on such a bleak note. But hey, it’s a nice round number, and this is a historical record, dagnabbit! The good news is next year\u2019s list will start happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    *Though I did read it, and some parts were interesting, this was research. Lest anyone wonder if I’m going a little cuckoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I\u2019m just going to say it, because I don\u2019t often pat myself on the back: I like the eclectic nature of my reading lists! To anyone who might want to join my unofficial book club, here\u2019s what I got through in 2024: Okay, I was hoping to get another one finished before the new year, […]<\/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-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}