{"id":985,"date":"2020-01-05T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2020-01-05T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:53:56","slug":"again-with-the-reading-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Again with the reading: 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year brought a long commute, which I was not (and am not) a fan of, but I will say, it did allow for some quality reading time. And of course, even time I wasn’t killing was sometimes spent reading, because, well, yay books! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without further ado, here’s what I consumed (in order) in 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Americanah<\/em>, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/li>
  2. Calypso<\/em>, David Sedaris<\/li>
  3. Becoming<\/em>, Michelle Obama<\/li>
  4. The Hate U Give<\/em>, Angie Thomas<\/li>
  5. The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey<\/em>, Rowan Ricardo Phillips<\/li>
  6. The Drunkard\u2019s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives<\/em>, Leonard Mlodinow<\/li>
  7. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir<\/em>, Bill Bryson<\/li>
  8. The Comic Hero\u2019s Journey<\/em>, Steve Kaplan<\/li>
  9. The Sopranos Sessions<\/em>, Matt Zoller Seitz & Alan Sepinwall<\/li>
  10. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing<\/em>, Merve Emre<\/li>
  11. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed<\/em>, Lori Gottlieb<\/li>
  12. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times To Live<\/em>, Heather B. Armstrong<\/li>
  13. Gingerbread<\/em>, Helen Oyeyemi<\/li>
  14. Normal People<\/em>, Sally Rooney<\/li>
  15. Charlie Savage<\/em>, Roddy Doyle<\/li>
  16. I Love You, Nice To Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up<\/em>, Lori Gottlieb and Kevin Bleyer<\/li>
  17. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories<\/em>, Raphael Bob-Waksberg<\/li>
  18. Stay Sexy & Don\u2019t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide<\/em>, Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark<\/li>
  19. Mrs. Everything<\/em>, Jennifer Weiner<\/li>
  20. I Miss You When I Blink: Essays<\/em>, Mary Laura Philpott<\/li>
  21. Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line<\/em>, Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham<\/li>
  22. Educated<\/em>, Tara Westover<\/li>
  23. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine<\/em>, Gail Honeyman<\/li>
  24. The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth<\/em>, Josh Levin<\/li>
  25. Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell<\/em>, Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham<\/li>
  26. Three Women<\/em>, Lisa Taddeo<\/li>
  27. The Friend<\/em>, Sigrid Nunez<\/li>
  28. Fleishman is in Trouble<\/em>, Taffy Brodesser-Akner<\/li>
  29. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World<\/em>, David Epstein<\/li>
  30. Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results<\/em>, Josh Gondelman<\/li>
  31. Had It Coming: What\u2019s Fair in the Age of #MeToo?<\/em>, Robyn Doolittle<\/li>
  32. Batman: The Long Halloween<\/em>, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale<\/li>
  33. Wanderers<\/em>, Chuck Wendig<\/li>
  34. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark<\/em>, Cecelia Watson<\/li>
  35. Spider-Man: Life Story<\/em>, Chip Zdarsky & Mark Bagley<\/li>
  36. Patsy<\/em>, Nicole Dennis-Benn<\/li>
  37. It\u2019s Garry Shandling\u2019s Book<\/em>, edited by Judd Apatow<\/li>
  38. Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the \u201880s Changed Hollywood Forever<\/em>, Nick de Semlyen<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This year brought a long commute, which I was not (and am not) a fan of, but I will say, it did allow for some quality reading time. And of course, even time I wasn’t killing was sometimes spent reading, because, well, yay books! Without further ado, here’s what I consumed (in order) in 2019: […]<\/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-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}