{"id":6310,"date":"2018-01-03T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2018-01-03T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:25:09","slug":"2017-my-year-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/2017-my-year-in-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"2017: My Year in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year that I&#8217;ve really made an effort to keep track of my leisure reading. One of my goals for the year was to read less internet-based news and more books, and I think I was more or less successful, though some months were better for reading than others. In the end, leaving aside everything I read to our son (lots of graphic novels this year!), for my work as an educational technology consultant and for my ongoing dissertation project on the Objectivist poets, I read 60 books for pleasure in 2017. Here&#8217;s the full list of my 2017 leisure reading, nearly all of which I read in ebook form on my iPad, usually at night after our son had gone to bed:<\/p>\n<h2>Fiction [26 titles]<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Michel Faber\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Strange-New-Things-Novel\/dp\/0553418866\">The Book of Strange New Things<\/a><\/em>. [Recommended by Jeff]<\/li>\n<li>Ann Leckie\u2019s <em>Ancillary Justice<\/em>. [Recommended by Josh &amp; Jeff]<\/li>\n<li><em>Ancillary Sword<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ancillary Mercy<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Brandon Sanderson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Elantris<\/em>. [Recommended by Dave]<\/li>\n<li>Gene Luen Yang\u2019s graphic novel\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/americanbornchinese\/geneluenyang\/9780312384487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Born Chinese<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>All 20 books in Patrick O\u2019Brian\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Aubrey &amp; Maturin series<\/em><\/a>. [Recommended by Dave]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My favorite of these were O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s novels.<\/p>\n<h2>Nonfiction [25 titles]<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenneth Cox,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floodeditions.com\/cox-art-of-language\">The Art of Language<\/a>: Selected Essays<\/em>, edited by Jenny Penberthy.<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Bayard\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read\/dp\/1596915439\">How to Talk About Books You Haven\u2019t Read<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Holt\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kansaspress.ku.edu\/978-0-7006-1787-6.html\"><em>By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Rick Telander\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heaven-Playground-4th-Rick-Telander\/dp\/1613213948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Heaven is Playground<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>David Bach\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Debt-Free-Life-Financial-Freedom-ebook\/dp\/B003WUYPM4\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1459303372&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Debt+Free+For+Life\">Debt Free for Life<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>David Graeber\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/books\/debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Debt: The First 5000 Years<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>David Graeber&#8217;s\u00a0<em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/books\/the-utopia-of-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy<\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">David<\/span>\u00a0Graeber\u2019s\u00a0<em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousebooks.com\/books\/220295\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement<\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cathy O\u2019Neil\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Weapons of Math Destruction<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Zephyr Teachout\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674659988&amp;content=reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corruption in America<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Desmond\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evictedbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Evicted<\/em><\/a>. [The Go Big Read book at UW-Madison]<\/li>\n<li>Michael Glennon\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/national-security-and-double-government-9780190206444?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Security and Double Government<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Keaanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/778-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation<\/a><\/em>. [Recommended by Mark]<\/li>\n<li>Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470585501.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Elements of Investing<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Harry Redknapp\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Man Walks On To A Pitch<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Leslie Holmes\u2019<em>\u00a0A Very Short Introduction to Communism<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Sabina Knight\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Very Short\u00a0Introduction to\u00a0Chinese\u00a0Literature<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Damien Keown\u2019s\u00a0<em>Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Owen Davies\u2019\u00a0<em>Paganism: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Nesbitt\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>William Langewiesche\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/98\/06\/28\/reviews\/980628.28gainest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Richard Rothstein\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Color of Law<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Simon Reid-Henry\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/P\/bo19671963.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Political Origins of Inequality<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>David Lagercrantz\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Am-Zlatan-Story-Off-Field\/dp\/081298692X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>I Am Zlatan<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Biswas-Diener and Rajiv Jhangiani&#8217;s edited collection:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubiquitypress.com\/site\/books\/10.5334\/bbc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My five favorite nonfiction books of the year were:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rothstein&#8217;s <em>The Color of Law<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Graeber&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Debt<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Glennon&#8217;s\u00a0<em>National Security and Double Government<\/em><\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Weapons of Math Destruction<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Desmond&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Evicted<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Poetry [9 titles]<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>George Seferis\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/1891.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Collected Poems: 1924-1955<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August Kleinzahler\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/9780571305599-the-hotel-oneira.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hotel Oneira<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ron Czerwien&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriapoetry.com\/czerwienechap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Ragged Tear Down the Middle of Our Flag<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Gabe Gudding\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriapoetry.com\/guddingechap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bed From Government<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Andrea Sloan Pink\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriapoetry.com\/pinkechap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prison and Other Ideas<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Weise\u2019s edited collection\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Products\/9781933996615\/locked-out-voices-from-americas-second-prison.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Locked Out: Voices from America\u2019s Second Prison<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>CA Conrad\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Products\/9781933996547\/circle-m.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Circle M<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ron Silliman\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Products\/9781933996455\/against-conceptual-poetry.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Against Conceptual Poetry<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Fitterman\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Products\/9781933996370\/holocaust-museum.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holocaust Museum<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My favorite of these was Kleinzahler&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny looking back at the list&#8211;I don&#8217;t feel particularly impressed by the overall quality of my reading for the year, despite the volume. My big goal for 2018 is to finish and defend my dissertation, which means that I&#8217;ll dedicate most of my reading energy to that for the first several months of the year. When it comes to leisure reading, my goal is to diminish my online news consumption even further and keep up the pace with books, particularly nonfiction&#8211;my goal is to read another 60 books in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><small>Featured image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vandalog\/8703997248\/in\/photolist-eg9g95-6cvz6R-6cKZLw-2qqrc-fvYFL-rn74T-mNasYu-aLzfEV-8rwpqR-67ik1-4fNyGv-fzmKFF-5UjJNW-YonDcX-6xUMDe-dAjinH-84rDvg-6cFVrD-6uBWsC-mWcTo-6Whc9T-3WQ5XU-7hVXpN-gdJs-5rFjuB-aQHtja-btkbez-5C7wvs-5SNXCd-fpsQk7-7i1omC-oFuqVG-7ckG8p-4rUYE-8jrAQp-6DbHyD-9T2o6W-FFVzM-7zGmty-7PeKDD-8Khy5A-6byfxg-8j22bC-7y4D5d-9s2k5-xiGaA-7hS2JP-q6MRCZ-ecRxBU-4GtBu3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RJ<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year that I&#8217;ve really made an effort to keep track of my leisure reading. One of my goals for the year was to read less internet-based news and more books, and I think I was more or less successful, though some months were better for reading than others. In the end, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"2017: My Year in Reading","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reading"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Steel Wagstaff","author_link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/author\/steel\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?fit=1196%2C735&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8703997248_274eea3496_k-e1515010915522.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd6z5D-1DM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6240,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-summer-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6310,"position":0},"title":"My Summer Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"October 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't kept up as regularly with these monthly updates as I had hoped, but I did keep reading through the summer. I stayed really plugged into my dissertation reading and research, which really cut down my leisure reading, but I still managed to get through several books that struck\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6198,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-june-2017-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6310,"position":1},"title":"My June 2017 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"July 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Books The good news? I read a lot for my dissertation in June 2017. Even better news? Much of it was pleasurable (at least for me)--a lot of \"Objectivist\" poetry, biographical material on Williams and Zukofsky, and histories of late 1920s-early 1930s little magazines. I won't list any of it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"boy reading in garden","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/8515538001_4a12feab52_k.jpg?fit=1022%2C688&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6188,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-april-2017-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6310,"position":2},"title":"My April 2017 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"May 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Books My leisure reading of books slowed down a bit in April, as I continued getting sucked into lots more longform than I had intended and, on a happier note, did a lot more reading for my dissertation (good news!!!). Here's some of what I read last month for pleasure.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Dead moles on a fence in Yorkshire.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4979,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-october-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6310,"position":3},"title":"My October 2016 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"November 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Books I wrote last month that I was on a big reading kick, and that surge of devouring books has continued in full force this month. Outside of the reading I've been doing for my dissertation and my work, here's a list of the books I read for pleasure\/self-education in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"People reading the newspaper on a bench in the street after the American moon landing July 21, 1969","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_mx1olyYcw11sfie3io1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C774&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6078,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-november-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6310,"position":4},"title":"My November 2016 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Books My reading pace slowed a bit in November (the US elections and their sad aftermath have provided me with lots of avenues for distraction and worry), but I still managed to keep up my love affair with books, though I picked a fair amount of duds this month. 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