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Reminiscences of Books Past: My 2016 Reading Log

Yall know I like to read every now and again.* I thought I'd go over my 2016 book highlights. So, I started the year with the intention of reading my entire backlog, which was probably 8-9 years old (the astute reader will remember my daughter turned nine in August). I achieved half of that goal, that is, I read about half my back log pile. Even if that had been all I'd read, that still would've been 18 books, so respectable for the year in this day and age of "nobody reads past college". Actually, not including books I read for classes, I recorded a total of 45 books read!! And two audio books (I discovered Tim Ferriss's podcast in mid-summer so started listening to that in the car instead). A lot of those are library books, although I think I did buy enough to replenish my TBR pile for 2017. Outstanding titles: The Society of the Spectacle , by Guy Debord. Classic French not quite existentialism but amazing views on what our society truly has become: