All that goal-setting required some stock-taking. I keep such close tabs on my business development and my personal growth that all I really want to tally up is my reading list for 2005. I barely read at all this past spring, but really got down to business in the fall. I wish I’d actually kept a list, so that I could name the quantity of books I’d like to read in 2006. Why is a numerical goal so appealing? Je ne comprends pas.
Read in 2005
These go approximately reverse-chronological, from memory only. Emphasis shows stuff I especially enjoyed.
- The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
- Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Loop-d-loop, by Teva Durham
- Knitting without tears, by Elizabeth Zimmermann
- Freakonomics, by Stephen Levitt
- The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
- Post Captain, by Patrick O’Brien
- Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brien
- The Search, by John Battelle
- Designing with Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman
- The Zen of CSS Design, by Dave Shea and Molly Holzscholg
- I Will Fear No Evil, by Robert Heinlein
- A New View of a Woman’s Body, by The Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centres
- Petals, by Nick Karras
- Bazaar Bizarre, by Greg Der Ananian
- Not Wanted on the Voyage, by Timothy Findley
So that’s 19 books, plus a lot of comics. Considering how familiar I got with the library this year, I’m sure I’m missing several no-name typography books and the like. But maybe 30 is a reasonable goal for 2006. 30 then, to be reassessed in June!
To read in 2006, in case I forget…
- Infinite Jest
- Confederacy of Dunces
- Sound and the Fury
- The System of the World
- What the Body Remembers
- Guide to Getting it On (for myvag)
- The Erotic Mind (ditto)
- Godel, Escher, Bach (finally kill it!)
- The Nature of Order #2
- Laws of Media
- Emergence (finish skimming it… I’ve read a lot of the books in its bibliography, but it would be good to put it to bed)