{"id":882,"date":"2021-07-27T19:53:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T02:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2021-07-27T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T02:53:13","slug":"50-books-in-2021-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/27\/50-books-in-2021-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Books in 2021: Update 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I slowed down a bit from my earlier breakneck pace and also got… shall we say distracted by lots of shiny objects–the in-progress books below the list of finished books. Despite those intermissions, I’m still relatively on track for 50 this year. I’ll likely revisit this post and add mini-reviews or link each title to a longer reviews at some point in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finished<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Cultural Amnesia – Clive James<\/li>
  2. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer<\/li>
  3. The Hamlet – William Faulkner<\/li>
  4. The Dog Stars – Peter Heller<\/li>
  5. Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry<\/li>
  6. Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck\u00a0<\/li>
  7. The Sunset Limited – Cormac McCarthy\u00a0<\/li>
  8. Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens\u00a0<\/li>
  9. Conscious- Annaka Harris\u00a0<\/li>
  10. The Red and the Black – Stendhal<\/li>
  11. Extraterrestrial – Avi Loeb<\/li>
  12. The Evolution of Desire – Cynthia L. Haven<\/li>
  13. Never Enough – Judith Grisel<\/li>
  14. Unmasked – Andy Ngo<\/li>
  15. La V\u00e9rit\u00e9 sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert – Joel Dicker (the first and only book I’ve read entirely in French)<\/em><\/li>
  16. The Revolt of the Public – Martin Guri<\/li>
  17. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann<\/li>
  18. Gun, With Occasional Music – Jonathan Lethem\u00a0<\/li>
  19. Klara and the Sun – Ishiguro Kazuo<\/li>
  20. Live Not By Lies – Robert Dreher<\/li>
  21. The Virtues of War -Steven Pressfield<\/li>
  22. All About Love – bell hooks\u00a0<\/li>
  23. The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth<\/li>
  24. The Price of Tomorrow – Jeff Booth<\/li>
  25. A Thousand Brains – Jeff Hawkins<\/li>
  26. The Comfort Crisis<\/a> – Michael Easter<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In-progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    • An Elegant Puzzle – Will Larson<\/li>
    • Postjournalism – Andrey Mir<\/li>
    • Battling to the End – Ren\u00e9 Girard<\/li>
    • Human Diversity – Charles Murray<\/li>
    • L\u2019\u00c9l\u00e9gance du h\u00e9risson – Muriel Barbery<\/li>
    • The Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davidson<\/li>
    • Baltasar and Blimunda – Jos\u00e9 Saramago<\/li>
    • The Courage to Be – Paul Tillich<\/li>
    • Novels, Tales, Journeys – Pushkin<\/li>
    • Falcoln Freeway – Christian Hagenlocher<\/li>
    • War and Peace and War – Peter Turchin<\/li>
    • Lila – Robert Pirsig<\/li>
    • The Language of Creation – Matthieu Pageau<\/li>
    • Hollow Kingdom – Kira Jane Buxton<\/li>
    • A History of the World in 10 1\/2 Chapters – Julian Barnes<\/li>
    • Ducks, Newburyport – Lucy Ellman<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I slowed down a bit from my earlier breakneck pace and also got… shall we say distracted by lots of shiny objects–the in-progress books below the list of finished books. Despite those intermissions, I’m still relatively on track for 50 this year. I’ll likely revisit this post and add mini-reviews or link each title to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","tag-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-ee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}