Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Reading List 2020


Here is what I finished in 2020.  As will be explained in my next post, my normal reading time was turned on its head this year.  One other thing that has happened, is I have started reading more print books.  Food books are better in print. 
  1. The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom 
  2.  Walden, Henry David Thoreau 
  3. The Truth, Michael Palin
  4. Never Turn Your Back on and Angus Cow, Dr Jan Pol 
  5. The Great Book of Ireland, Bill O'Neill
  6. Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  7. The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer
  8. The House on the Irish Hillside, Felicity, Hayes-McCoy 
  9. In Foreign Fields: How Not To Move To France, Susie Kelly
  10. First Time We Saw Paris, Neal Atherton
  11. A Year off, Alexandria and David Brown
  12. The Bluffers Guide to Philosophy, T.V. Morris
  13. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  14. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
  15. More Ketchup than Salsa, Joe Cawley
  16. The Reluctant Expat: Part Three, Alan Laycock 
  17. Get the Picture, Dan Richards 
  18. 100 Plants that almost changed the World, Chris Beardshaw 
  19. Drinking French, David Lebovitz
  20. Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast, Laura Cotterman, D. Waitt, A. Weakley
  21. Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay, James Goodall
  22. Do Not Go Gentle - Go to Paris, Gail Shilling
  23. Undue Influence and Vulnerable Adults, Sandra Glazer et al (work related, very-very good.) 
  24. Get Out of your Own Way, Dave Hollis 
  25. How To Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs. Croncombe, Annie Gray and Andrew Hann
  26. Pieometry, Lauren Ko (more design than pie)
  27. Winter Warmers, by Narrowboat Chefs, Magi and Ryan Duncan 
  28. Oh Cook! 60 Easy Recipes Any Idiot Can Make, James May 

17 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/29/2020

    An eclectic reading list. I tried Cross Creek after it was recommended to me, but I couldn't get into at all and gave up.

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    1. I re-read Cross Creek this year, and was shocked at the outright racism, it has fallen off of my recommendation list.

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  2. Have you tried How to Get That Desk Cleaned in Fifteen Minutes?

    Bwhahahahahahahahahahaha! I see your glasses sitting there...

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    1. What and disrupt the filing system

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  3. Is that YOUR desk? Oh, David, that would drive me CRA-ZEE!!!

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    1. I cleaned my desk before I went on vacation the end of February, that desk is clear and clean, the one at home lacks space for a proper pile of files.

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    2. Thank you, Albert! You sound like SG. "If I had more space, it wouldn't be a mess." Anyway, I've also read "a clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer." That would be me! My public tidiness is simply a cover for the disarray that lies beneath the surface.

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  4. An impressive list, but at first glance I thought that was Carlos' desk and wondered when you got into our house!

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    1. If a cluttered desk if a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?

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  5. my desk at work was always naked, except for the "to do tomorrow" pile next to the computer.

    I like the title of #60. I identify with "idiot" sometimes when in the kitchen.

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    1. A fun and funny book. My desk at home is tiny, and I have had to tame the paper piles, still I have a stack on top of my Printer.

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  6. Did you cook a lot to go with all those cook books?

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    1. I have tried a couple of things, most have nice narrative in them.

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  7. Impressive list! The only two I've read are "Walden" and "Catcher in the Rye."

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    1. I often read books no one has read.

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  8. Good for you! It is a good list in my opinion for the various types; that's a good sign of a curious mind and man.

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    1. For me, what gets counted gets done, I will start the list again for 2021, I received a wonderful 600+ page book on food and the cultural history of Spain as a Christmas gift, started it last night. What did you read this year?

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