{"id":845,"date":"2018-01-13T17:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T22:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2018-01-13T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T22:53:24","slug":"book-em-dano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Book &#8217;em, Dano!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, this ongoing list of books I&#8217;ve read is more of a biography than my accounting of events from my life. It certainly tells basically the same story a lot more efficiently! But a few things I&#8217;ve been thinking I should mention.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, inclusion is not endorsement. (See &#8220;Wicked.&#8221; No, seriously. See it. Don&#8217;t read it.) If I include a book here, it does mean I&#8217;ve finished it&#8230;but that&#8217;s a pretty low bar for me. At some point, I&#8217;ll have to start a Goodreads page and give ALL these books at least a starred review&#8230;but for now, feel free to ask. Or read them, and when they&#8217;re bad, commiserate with me!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I list these books in the order I read them, but since the timing of some of this reading may be of interest&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I read the Carrie Fisher books in the wake of her death. Yes, a bit of nostalgia and sentimentality. But they completely justified the decision.<\/li>\n<li>Al Franken&#8217;s book I read BEFORE the revelations about him came to light. Ironically, I was looking for hope. Serves me right?<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Weiner&#8217;s book I read AFTER the revelation about him&#8230;but I&#8217;d put it on hold at the library before AND I&#8217;d seen his reading for it on THE DAY the revelations came out AND it was so short, I had enough curiosity to power through.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.<\/p>\n<p>The books I&#8217;ve read since my last post on the subject to the end of 2017:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Postcards from the Edge<\/em>, Carrie Fisher<\/li>\n<li><em>Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work<\/em>, Chip Heath &amp; Dan Heath<\/li>\n<li><em>The Princess Diarist<\/em>, Carrie Fisher<\/li>\n<li><em>Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can\u2019t Stop Eating It<\/em>, Michael Wex<\/li>\n<li><em>When to Rob a Bank\u2026and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants<\/em>, Steven D. Levitt &amp; Stephen J. Dubner<\/li>\n<li><em>The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds<\/em>, Michael Lewis<\/li>\n<li><em>The Know-It-All: One Man\u2019s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World<\/em>, A.J. Jacobs<\/li>\n<li><em>Based on a True Story (A Memoir)<\/em>, Norm Macdonald<\/li>\n<li><em>Lovecraft Country<\/em>, Matt Ruff<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Rabbi<\/em>, Stephen Fried<\/li>\n<li><em>Superman: Red Son<\/em>, Mark Millar<\/li>\n<li><em>The Adventures of Captain Underpants<\/em>, Dav Pilkey<\/li>\n<li><em>She Comes First: The Thinking Man\u2019s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman<\/em>, Ian Kerner<\/li>\n<li><em>The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World\u2019s Happiest Country<\/em>, Helen Russell<\/li>\n<li><em>Al Franken: Giant of the Senate<\/em>, Al Franken<\/li>\n<li><em>The Uncollected David Rakoff (including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish)<\/em>, David Rakoff<\/li>\n<li><em>King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told<\/em>, Nick Tosches<\/li>\n<li><em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 9<\/em>, various<\/li>\n<li><em>I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids<\/em>, Jen Kirkman<\/li>\n<li><em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>, John Steinbeck (reread)<\/li>\n<li><em>Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Care<\/em>, Dinah Miller, MD &amp; Annette Hanson, MD<\/li>\n<li><em>Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches<\/em>, John Hodgman<\/li>\n<li><em>The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity<\/em>, Esther Perel<\/li>\n<li><em>What Happened<\/em>, Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/li>\n<li><em>The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things<\/em>, Charles Demers<\/li>\n<li><em>Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood<\/em>, Trevor Noah<\/li>\n<li><em>Heather, The Totality<\/em>, Matthew Weiner<\/li>\n<li><em>Indian Horse<\/em>, Richard Wagamese<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yep. I still don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll read all the books I own before I die&#8230;but nice to see that I&#8217;m chipping away!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, this ongoing list of books I&#8217;ve read is more of a biography than my accounting of events from my life. It certainly tells basically the same story a lot more efficiently! But a few things I&#8217;ve been thinking I should mention. Most importantly, inclusion is not endorsement. (See &#8220;Wicked.&#8221; No, seriously. 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