Sunday, January 05, 2014

A Year in Reading - 2013

You'll have to suffer through my &'s in my table.  I'm too lazy to fix the export from Access.  Yet one more year where my average rating decreased.  This year by 3/10 of a percent.  Ouch.  Maybe I am turning into a critical old man.  I'm impressed I read 1000 more pages than last year.  I thought I was really on the road to reading significantly less, particularly as I'd sort of made a commitment to read about 1500 pages a month (50 pages a day) and utterly failed (by over 5000 pages).  It could be argued those graphic novels don't count, but I didn't read them to make up the difference.  They were earlier in the year.  And I always have a few in my list so relatively, they count.

In retrospect, I'd rank Sweet Tooth lower (graphic novel).  Map of Sky lower (almost negative. Damn did I hate that book.  Particularly as Map of Time wasn't too bad - I feel mislead.  Deceived.  Duped.).  The Future is Japanese Higher (I still think about some of the stories).  Cryonic (my RAGBRAI book I purchased from The Vault in Iowa) lower.  Perhaps a negative .5 if Map of the Sky were a negative 1.  Law 101, Joe Hill's books (not graphic novels), Sacre' Bleu, Banks, Scalzi, Howey (I have a book left in the Silo Series - the writing isn't as solid in Shift, but the story was enjoyable), and Expanse were all highlights with The Expanse Series still being my favorite of the last year or so.  Hard scifi usually wins for me.  I'll also point out I really enjoyed Constellation Games, a recommendation from Mean Mr. Mustard.  More than the rating indicates.  He's never led me wrong (yet).

Scooter's Short List Current Year
DateRead Title Author Rate
12/21/2013 Long War, The (Long Earth II) Pratchett, Terry and Stephen Baxter 6.50
12/8/2013 How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control Swain, Frank 8.00
12/7/2013 Goliath Stone, The Niven, Larry & Matthew Joseph Harrington 2.00
12/1/2013 How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You The Oatmeal 3.00
11/25/2013 Evil and the Mask Nakamura, Fuminori 8.50
11/17/2013 Creeps, The Connolly, John 5.00
9/1/2013 Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Silo Saga) Howey, Hugh 8.50
8/14/2013 Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse III) Corey, James S. A. 9.00
8/7/2013 Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest Martinez, A. Lee 8.25
8/7/2013 Half-Made World, The Gilman, Felix 7.50
8/1/2013 Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and the People Who Play It Ewalt, David M. 8.25
7/31/2013 Doctor Who the Wheel of Ice Baxter, Stephen 7.50
7/21/2013 Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law Feinman, Jay M. 9.75
7/14/2013 Cryonic: A Zombie Novel Bradberry, Travis 2.00
6/1/2013 Sword of Shannara Trilogy, The Brooks, Terry 6.00
5/30/2013 Nos4A2 Hill, Joe 8.25
4/30/2013 Sacre' Bleu: A Comedy D'Art Moore, Christopher 9.25
3/22/2013 Map of the Sky, The Palma, Felix J. 2.00
3/15/2013 Constellation Games Richardson, Leonard 8.25
3/1/2013 Horns: A Novel Hill, Joe 8.75
2/22/2013 Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle Scalzi, John 8.00
2/19/2013 Cipher, The Koja, Kathe 7.50
2/15/2013 Locke & Key: Clockworks (5) Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez 7.50
2/14/2013 Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows (3) Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez 7.50
2/14/2013 Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom (4) Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez 7.50
2/1/2013 Sweet Tooth: Out of the Deep Woods (1) Lemire, Jeff 6.00
2/1/2013 Sweet Tooth: In Captivity (2) Lemire, Jeff 6.00
1/31/2013 Blueprints of the Afterlife Boudinot, Ryan 6.00
1/22/2013 Wearing the Cape Harmon, Marion G. 5.00
1/21/2013 Map of Time, The Palma, Felix J. 8.50
1/15/2013 Future is Japanese, The Masumi Washington (Editor), Nick Mamatas (Editor) 7.50
1/8/2013 This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It Wong, David 7.00
1/4/2013 The Hydrogen Sonata Banks, Iain 8.75


Scott's Summary
DateRead By Year Sum Of Pages Avg Of Pages AvgOfRate Min Of Pages Max Of Pages Count Of BOOKSCOT
1994 15144 378.6 6.05 89 914 40
1995 13961 349.025 7.075 55 990 40
1996 18248 331.781818181818 7.21818181818182 7 985 55
1997 7997 333.208333333333 6.85416666666667 54 929 24
1998 9639 459 7.16666666666667 160 780 21
1999 7551 444.176470588235 8 159 835 17
2000 3770 418.888888888889 7.72222222222222 222 774 9
2001 16308 429.157894736842 7.38815789473684 184 1009 38
2002 10455 387.222222222222 7.61111111111111 123 783 27
2003 13203 400.090909090909 7.93181818181818 83 870 33
2004 12479 297.119047619048 7.88095238095238 8 815 42
2005 12890 322.25 7.6 103 1083 40
2006 16616 353.531914893617 7.6436170212766 114 845 47
2007 14219 236.983333333333 7.49166666666667 1 759 60
2008 19524 253.558441558442 7.38961038961039 60 593 77
2009 14273 223.015625 7.6953125 32 582 64
2010 7841 326.708333333333 7.30208333333333 136 1072 24
2011 14004 269.307692307692 7.85096153846154 96 656 52
2012 11735 366.71875 7.2890625 40 954 32
2013 12882 390.363636363636 6.93939393939394 125 1200 33

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