{"id":26430,"date":"2022-12-31T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T02:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26430"},"modified":"2022-12-31T23:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T07:40:56","slug":"2022-reading-round-up-%f0%9f%93%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/31\/2022-reading-round-up-%f0%9f%93%9a\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Reading Round-Up &#x1f4da;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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year, I set myself a goal of reading at least 52 books over the course of the year \u2014 an average of one a week. This year I made it to 68. Here\u2019s a quick (?) overview\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022_reading_goal.png\" alt=\"2022 Reading Goal of 52 books met! 131%, 68 books. Fantastic! You&#39;ve exceeded your reading goal by 16 books.\" title=\"2022_reading_goal.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"754\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/31\/2021-reading-round-up-&#x1f4da;\/\">Continuing a trend<\/a> from the last few years, this year was almost entirely dedicated to escapist fluff. Surprised? I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-fiction<\/strong>: A few this year, though for the most part, they were very much in line with my usual science fiction choices. The two best were Frederik Pohl&#8217;s memoir <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/1ddb2b54-0e2b-4790-a767-0ff7ad4b7e41\">The Way the Future Was<\/a><\/em>, encompassing the early decades of SF fandom, and Randall Munroe&#8217;s delightful <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/570acd7e-8e06-4607-a00b-fb1a51925c6f\">What If? 2<\/a><\/em>, where he once again takes answering silly scientific questions to absolutely ridiculous extremes. Also in this category was <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/8d6bb902-d8b1-4b9a-940f-e8eeafa8fb01\">a series of books<\/a> looking at the design work for various Star Trek ships across several series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-genre-fiction<\/strong> (where \u201cgenre\u201d is shorthand \u2014 though, not very short, if you include this parenthetical \u2014 for science-fiction, fantasy, and horror): Only one this year, but that one &#8212; Fredrik Backman&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/41e5ca73-3daa-4048-beb9-be33c85c1e75\">A Man Called Ove<\/a><\/em> &#8212; was excellent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quality genre fiction<\/strong>: About the same as last year; primarily the Philip K. Dick nominees and my Hugo project, with a few others added here and there.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I read all of the books nominated for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/philip-k-dick-award-reading\/\">Philip K. Dick awards<\/a>, and once again, I failed to pick the winner. My personal favorite of this year\u2019s slate was Tade Thompson&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721\">Far From the Light of Heaven<\/a><\/em>. This is the second time Tade has been nominated for a PKD award, and the fourth novel of his that I&#8217;ve read (after <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/series\/25\">The Wormwood Trilogy<\/a><\/em>, the last book of which was a 2020 PKD nominee), and I very much enjoy his work.<\/p>\n<p>I added eight books to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/hugo-reading\/\">my Hugo reading project<\/a>, bringing me up to 54% of the way through. My two favorites from this year&#8217;s set were Vonda N. McIntyre&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/0a3390e9-913c-4679-8484-1cfe7145dd07\">Dreamsnake<\/a><\/em> and William Gibson&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/0a2e6342-d2a0-45ab-b3e2-364747f6546b\">Neruomancer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fluff genre fiction<\/strong>: Unsurprisingly, this once again ended up being the strong majority of this year\u2019s reading. Almost entirely Star Trek novels, with a few detours here and there. And given everything that was going on in <del>2020<\/del> <del>2021<\/del> 2022, it was very nice to have a bookshelf full of options that wouldn\u2019t take a whole lot of brain power for me to disappear into.<\/p>\n<p>Finally <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/wrap-up\/2022\/djwudi\">Storygraph&#8217;s stats on my year\u2019s reading<\/a> tell me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve read 21,228 pages read across 68 books, with November and December being my reading-est months.<\/li>\n<li>Longest book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/276228f4-2fd3-43c9-802e-e8c4d8ecad00\">Termination Shock<\/a><\/em> by Neal Stephenson (708 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Shortest book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/e9946aee-2f4e-4506-bd88-631eed242f19\">The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories<\/a><\/em> by Kel McDonald et. al. (120 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Most shelved book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/34581b33-ca3a-456c-a12b-3aef10f1a3a1\">A Darker Shade of Magic<\/a><\/em> by V.E. Schwab (148,547 readers)<\/li>\n<li>Least shelved book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/76c8bcc6-e36e-4138-8b9b-8464e54f5cfa\">Star Trek: Designing Starships Volume 3: The Kelvin Timeline<\/a><\/em> by Ben Robinson (2 readers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022_reading_trends.png\" alt=\"A graph of my reading over the year tracking number of books and number of pages. January, November, and December are the busiest months; April, August, and October are the slowest.\" title=\"2022_reading_trends.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"895\" height=\"407\" \/><br \/>\nOn to 2023!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I set myself a goal of reading at least 52 books over the course of the year \u2014 an average of one a week. This year I made it to 68. 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