2019 in Books

While I continued to read lots of cookbooks in 2019, this was the year of Sequels, Sanderson, and Science Fiction Magazines. On the sequels front, I finished The Cosmere (except for White Sands Vol 3), continued The Expanse, The Asylum Tales, Red Rising, The Dresden Files, The Mogoliad, Wild Cards, and the Illumination Paradox. For Sanderson, I not only finished the Cosmere, but I also started The Reckoners and read from his mentor (Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time) and his protege (Brian McClellan - Powder Mage Trilogy). As for magazines, it was all Clarkesworld, but I wanted to keep the alliteration in that sentence.

I read lots of books on robotics and embedded programming ( which I started messing around with in 2019), taking note of projects I’d like to try in my “copious free time.” I read one book along with the Sword and Laser book club: The Calculating Stars. I also started a few series that I’m looking forward to continuing in 2020: Thesaly, Temeraire, Imperial Radch, and the Powder Mage Trilogy. My biggest surprise was how freakin’ weird Skipped Parts was, and surprise that it was made into a movie.

At the time I write this (5 Jan), I have 1454 books and magazines, an increase of 469 books and magazines. Of course, remember that I get ~12 free books from Amazon (of their choosing) and ~12 free books from Tor.com (of their choosing). In addition to that, this year I discovered the magazines that are published by the same company that makes the Raspberry Pi, and added their entire back catalogue (it was free) so that makes up for maybe close to 100 of those. The rest…well, that’s why I’m trying to reign in my Humble Bundle / Storybundle spending. Of those books and magazines, 1112 are unread.

Some Goodreads stats:

• 19,942 pages across 74 books
• Shortest book: 4 pages - The Eyes have it
• Longest book: 814 pages - The Eye of the World (funny they both have “eye” in the title!)
• Most popular: my re-read of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. (read by >6 million people)
• Least popular: Cook’s Country 2018 (read by 3 people)
• My average rating was 3.8 (last year 3.7)

My favorite book was: Clarkesworld Issue 130

In 2019 I read:

1. What is Obscenity?
2. Arcanum Unbounded
3. Python3 Object-Oriented Programming
4. South’s Best Butts (a cookbook)
5. The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself
6. White Sands Vol 2
7. Then Will the great ocean Wash Deep Above
8. Churrasco
9. Riley Parra Season 1
10. Skipped Parts
11. All That Outer Space Allows
12. Strange Dogs
13. Cook’s Country 2018
14. Project Fire
15. Vegetables on Fire
16. Deadly Class book 1
17. bowls!
18. Bread Illustrated
19. Perseopolis Rising
20. The Just City
21. Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook
22. Grilled Cheese
23. The Calculating Stars
24. Huckleberry
25. His Majesty’s Dragon
26. Wild Cards: Aces High
27. Kingdom Hearts II
28. Dead Man’s Deal
29. Sirena
30. Ancillary Justice
31. The Eyes Have It
32. Mr. Spaceship
33. Childhood’s End
34. The Mongoliad Book 2
35. Promise of Blood
36. Terris
37. One Night in Sixes
38. A Mind Forever Voyaging
39. Clarkesworld 125
40. Astrophysics for people in a Hurry
41. Drive
42. Clarkesworld 126
43. Deadly Class Book 2
44. The Circlet Treasury of Erotic Steampunk
45. Geekomancy
46. Double Life
47. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
48. Love, Fishie
49. Korean Home Cooking
50. Getting Started with Arduino
51. Getting Started with Adafruit Flora
52. Qt5 Python GUI Programming
53. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
54. The Eye of the World
55. A Raspberry Pi controlled Robot
56. Morning Star
57. Working Stiff
58. Fool Moon
59. Make: Bluetooth
60. Clarkesworld 127
61. Breasts
62. Clarkesworld 128
63. Clarkesworld 129
64. Cook it in Your Dutch Oven
65. NBA Jam
66. Noir
67. Clarkesworld 130
68. Grave Peril
69. Clarkesworld 131
70. Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
71. Clarkesworld 132
72. breakfast: the most important meal of the day
73. Steelheart
74. Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket

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