{"id":420,"date":"2012-06-07T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2012-06-07T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:03:34","slug":"a-years-worth-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"A year’s worth of reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, it actually took me substantially longer than a year.\u00a0 But it turns out I’ve read 52 books since last I posted my reading list, so this seemed like a good theme.\u00a0 Read one of these books a week, and a year from now, we’ll have SO MUCH to talk about!\u00a0 (If nothing else, we can talk about my eclectic tastes.)\u00a0 This is my reading list, in the order I read them:<\/p>\n

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  1. Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection, Edited by Shana Liebman<\/li>\n
  2. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, by Bill Simmons<\/li>\n
  3. The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater (oral history), by Mike Thomas<\/li>\n
  4. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich<\/li>\n
  5. Too Fat To Fish, by Artie Lange<\/li>\n
  6. Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies<\/li>\n
  7. Fraud, by David Rakoff<\/li>\n
  8. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, by Sarah Silverman<\/li>\n
  9. And the Dead Shall Rise, Steve Oney<\/li>\n
  10. Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff<\/li>\n
  11. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan, by Mary Phagan<\/li>\n
  12. Flow the Tears, the Policeman Said, by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n
  13. A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews<\/li>\n
  14. I Know I Am, But What Are You?, by Samantha Bee<\/li>\n
  15. Official Book Club Selection, by Kathy Griffin<\/li>\n
  16. The Box: An Oral History of Television 1920-1961, by Jeff Kisseloff<\/li>\n
  17. The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett<\/li>\n
  18. Elliot Allagash, by Simon Rich<\/li>\n
  19. The Stuff of Thought, by Steven Pinker<\/li>\n
  20. Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen<\/li>\n
  21. Bossypants, by Tina Fey<\/li>\n
  22. Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, by Laura Penny<\/li>\n
  23. Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell<\/li>\n
  24. I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and Some That May Not Be Funny At All, Edited by Judd Apatow<\/li>\n
  25. The Power of Ignorance: 14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance, by Vaguen (with Chris Gibbs and TJ Dawe)<\/li>\n
  26. The View from Castle Rock, by Alice Munro<\/li>\n
  27. Superstud (Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin), by Paul Feig<\/li>\n
  28. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath<\/li>\n
  29. And Here\u2019s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft, by Mike Sacks<\/li>\n
  30. Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin<\/li>\n
  31. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman<\/li>\n
  32. Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won, by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim<\/li>\n
  33. After Claude, by Iris Owens<\/li>\n
  34. Disaster Preparedness, by Heather Havrilesky<\/li>\n
  35. A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n
  36. Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records, by Kaitlin Fontana<\/li>\n
  37. A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n
  38. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich<\/li>\n
  39. Disquiet, Please: More Humor Writing from the New Yorker, Edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder<\/li>\n
  40. The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life), by Chris Hardwick<\/li>\n
  41. Paying for It: a comic-strip memoir about being a john, by Chester Brown<\/li>\n
  42. Picnicface\u2019s Canada, by Picnicface<\/li>\n
  43. A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n
  44. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, by Patton Oswalt<\/li>\n
  45. A Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n
  46. I Don\u2019t Care About Your Band, by Julie Klausner<\/li>\n
  47. A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n
  48. Moneyball, by Michael Lewis<\/li>\n
  49. The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, by Nathan Rabin<\/li>\n
  50. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), by Mindy Kaling<\/li>\n
  51. We\u2019re With Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics, by Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian<\/li>\n
  52. Cool, Calm & Contentious, by Merrill Markoe<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thus proving that in many significant ways, I’m a better person than Oprah.\u00a0 See you in a year.\u00a0 Your time starts…now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Okay, it actually took me substantially longer than a year.\u00a0 But it turns out I’ve read 52 books since last I posted my reading list, so this seemed like a good theme.\u00a0 Read one of these books a week, and a year from now, we’ll have SO MUCH to talk about!\u00a0 (If nothing else, we […]<\/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-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}