2016: книги
Я целеустремленная и упоротая. Если я что-то решила, то буду двигаться к цели, сметая все на своем пути. В какой-то момент я решила, что хочу прочитать 100 книжек в 2016 году. Потом поняла, что читаю так много, что можно уже прочитать и 150. Итоговый результат - 165! Уф. Все, цель достигнута, можно расслабиться. Цель на 2017, по крайней мере на первые пару месяцев: не читать вообще, или как можно меньше. Это будет гораздо сложнее, я уже так привыкла читать в любую свободную минуту, что не знаю даже, что еще можно делать. У меня был год, когда я все свободное время тупила в комп, год, когда я все свободное время что-то пекла, и год, когда я все свободное время что-то читала - даже любопытно, что будет дальше.
(thank you, manintheboat, if it weren't for you, I'd never get the idea that it's even possible to read over 100 books a year)
(дальше пост из Фейсбука, поэтому по-английски)
Some stats:
Fiction: 115 books (including 11 graphic novels, those including 4 volumes of Absolute Sandman)
Non-fiction: 47 books
Half fiction, half non-fiction, also graphic: 3 books (the three volumes of The Graphic Canon)
Fewest books read in January: only 6 (either I haven’t warmed up yet or I didn’t decide on reading a ton of books in 2016 until later)
Most books read in June: 22 (ok, two of those are short graphic novels, three of those are long or very long graphic novels, but that still leaves 17 words-on-paper-or-kindle-screen books; only 2 of them non-fiction, though)
Most read authors:
Liane Moriarty: 7 books and Favorite Author of the Year (she writes about life, love, relationships, children, work and other things I can relate with)
Jojo Moyes: 8 books and used-to-be-favorite until I discovered Liane Moriarty (by the way, thanks, elka-palka) (Jojo Moyes also writes about life etc, but with more emphasis on love, and everything is more tragic)
Naomi Novik: 10 books (including the 9-volume Temeraire series - dragons and Napoleonic wars!)
Brandon Sanderson: 7 books (yes, I like Young Adult fiction)
Favorite graphic novel, also possibly favorite book of the year:
“The arrival” by Shaun Tan (I could look at the pictures forever, they are unbearably amazing)
Favorite fiction (hard to choose so I’ll arbitrarily limit myself to 5):
“The name of the wind” by Patrick Rothfuss (and the second book in that series as well: “The wise man’s fear”; waiting for the third one eagerly)
“The library at Mount Char” by Scott Hawkins (this wins the Creepiest Book Of The Year for fiction; the Creepiest Non-Fiction is most definitely “This is your brain on parasites”)
“This is where I leave you” by Jonathan Tropper (this is somehow a very funny book about complicated real life; I love all their dialogues)
“Ready player one” by Ernest Cline (ok, I know this isn’t the best and most sophisticated literature, but I really enjoyed it)
“The bone clocks” by David Mitchell (I loved his Cloud Atlas, this is somewhat creepier but similarly great)
Favorite non-fiction:
“Don’t shoot the dog!” by Karen Pryor (how to train animals, including humans; can also double as a parenting book or a relationship book)
“Influence” by Robert Cialdini (eye-opening book about how everyone influences you for their own purposes and what you can do about it)
“Come as you are” by Emily Nagoski (thanks kolsanova for the recommendation) (book about women’s sexuality; I cried when I read it - no, seriously)
“When women stop hating their bodies” by Jane Hirschmann (I cried when I read this one as well; for both of those, I wish society would stop messing with our minds so much)
Not quite favorite, but noteworthy non-fiction (those are the books that would change my life if I only did all the required work, but even without it they are pretty valuable):
“Grit” by Angela Duckworth
“Designing your life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
“Search inside yourself” by Chade-Meng Tan
“The power of habit” by Charles Duhigg
Favorite parenting books:
“Happier, easier, calmer parenting” by Noel Janis-Norton
“Duct tape parenting” (and the follow-up, “Straight talk on parenting”) by Vicki Hoefle
“Oh crap! Potty training” by Jamie Glowacki
This doesn’t cover even a third of what I’ve read (and none of the 52 books I’ve read in 2015), if you need more book recommendations, let me know!
This sums it up nicely:
(thank you, manintheboat, if it weren't for you, I'd never get the idea that it's even possible to read over 100 books a year)
(дальше пост из Фейсбука, поэтому по-английски)
Some stats:
Fiction: 115 books (including 11 graphic novels, those including 4 volumes of Absolute Sandman)
Non-fiction: 47 books
Half fiction, half non-fiction, also graphic: 3 books (the three volumes of The Graphic Canon)
Fewest books read in January: only 6 (either I haven’t warmed up yet or I didn’t decide on reading a ton of books in 2016 until later)
Most books read in June: 22 (ok, two of those are short graphic novels, three of those are long or very long graphic novels, but that still leaves 17 words-on-paper-or-kindle-screen books; only 2 of them non-fiction, though)
Most read authors:
Liane Moriarty: 7 books and Favorite Author of the Year (she writes about life, love, relationships, children, work and other things I can relate with)
Jojo Moyes: 8 books and used-to-be-favorite until I discovered Liane Moriarty (by the way, thanks, elka-palka) (Jojo Moyes also writes about life etc, but with more emphasis on love, and everything is more tragic)
Naomi Novik: 10 books (including the 9-volume Temeraire series - dragons and Napoleonic wars!)
Brandon Sanderson: 7 books (yes, I like Young Adult fiction)
Favorite graphic novel, also possibly favorite book of the year:
“The arrival” by Shaun Tan (I could look at the pictures forever, they are unbearably amazing)
Favorite fiction (hard to choose so I’ll arbitrarily limit myself to 5):
“The name of the wind” by Patrick Rothfuss (and the second book in that series as well: “The wise man’s fear”; waiting for the third one eagerly)
“The library at Mount Char” by Scott Hawkins (this wins the Creepiest Book Of The Year for fiction; the Creepiest Non-Fiction is most definitely “This is your brain on parasites”)
“This is where I leave you” by Jonathan Tropper (this is somehow a very funny book about complicated real life; I love all their dialogues)
“Ready player one” by Ernest Cline (ok, I know this isn’t the best and most sophisticated literature, but I really enjoyed it)
“The bone clocks” by David Mitchell (I loved his Cloud Atlas, this is somewhat creepier but similarly great)
Favorite non-fiction:
“Don’t shoot the dog!” by Karen Pryor (how to train animals, including humans; can also double as a parenting book or a relationship book)
“Influence” by Robert Cialdini (eye-opening book about how everyone influences you for their own purposes and what you can do about it)
“Come as you are” by Emily Nagoski (thanks kolsanova for the recommendation) (book about women’s sexuality; I cried when I read it - no, seriously)
“When women stop hating their bodies” by Jane Hirschmann (I cried when I read this one as well; for both of those, I wish society would stop messing with our minds so much)
Not quite favorite, but noteworthy non-fiction (those are the books that would change my life if I only did all the required work, but even without it they are pretty valuable):
“Grit” by Angela Duckworth
“Designing your life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
“Search inside yourself” by Chade-Meng Tan
“The power of habit” by Charles Duhigg
Favorite parenting books:
“Happier, easier, calmer parenting” by Noel Janis-Norton
“Duct tape parenting” (and the follow-up, “Straight talk on parenting”) by Vicki Hoefle
“Oh crap! Potty training” by Jamie Glowacki
This doesn’t cover even a third of what I’ve read (and none of the 52 books I’ve read in 2015), if you need more book recommendations, let me know!
This sums it up nicely: