While I didn’t read quite as many books this year as last, it was pretty close. I ended up reading less poetry and drama than last year, but read more fiction and non-fiction. I also made it through several epic non-fiction works. I did write more about the books I read with my kids, and took several camping trips - which cut into my reading time a bit. I also spent some of my blogging time writing on theological and religious issues.
Past installments:
As with last year, I have broken these down by genre: Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.
Non-fiction:
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing James Whittaker 1-3-13
Studies in Words C. S. Lewis 1-19-13
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B Du Bois 2-13-13
The Perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw 2-20-13
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals… Richard White 3-3-13
Why Does the World Exist Jim Holt 3-27-13
Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum 4-3-13
City Life Witold Rybczynski 5-7-13
Alarms and Diversions James Thurber 5-20-13
St. Francis of Assisi G. K. Chesterton 6-3-13
On the Map Simon Garfield 6-17-13
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 8-13-13
England Under the Stuarts G. M. Trevelyan 10-7-13
The Violinist’s Thumb Sam Kean 11-7-13
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein 11-21-13
Divine Vintage Randall Heskett & Joel Butler 12-9-13
Impossible Journeys Matthew Lyons 12-24-13
Fiction:
Thank You, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1-16-13
Rilla of Ingleside L. M. Montgomory 1-23-13
The Man of Property John Galsworthy 2-7-13
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 2-28-13
A Duty to the Dead Charles Todd 3-7-13
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Yiyun Li 3-10-13
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 3-28-13
No Name Wilkie Collins 4-22-13
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 4-24-13
A Curtain of Green Eudora Welty 5-22-13
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 6-26-13
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 7-3-13
Black Swan Green David Mitchell 7-20-13
I am Half-sick of Shadows Alan Bradley 8-1-13
Our Kind of Traitor John le Carre 8-30-13
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 9-15-13
The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 10-1-13
The Quest for Christa T. Christa Wolf 10-13-13
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 10-27-13
The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander McCall Smith 11-22-13
Biffen’s Millions P. G. Wodehouse 12-18-13
Poetry:
archy and mehitabel Don Marquis 1-20-13
Selected Poems Anne Bradstreet 2-18-13
Selected Early Poems W. B. Yeats 4-9-13
The Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott 5-26-13
Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 8-18-13
Poems (1833) Alfred, Lord Tennyson 10-23-13
Drama:
Medea Euripides 1-10-13
Pippa Passes Robert Browning 2-17-13
The Man of Mode Sir George Etheredge 5-15-13
Porgy and Bess (Libretto version) DuBose Heyward 6-10-13
Richard II William Shakespeare 7-17-13
I also was able to see the following plays live this year:
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekov (CSUB) May 2013
Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare (Empty Space) Sept 2013
Henry V Shakespeare (BC) Oct 2013
Reading with the Kids:
Mythology Traditional 2-12-13
The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 4-20-13
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell 5-30-13
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 7-30-13
The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling 10-3-13
Halloween Edition R. Browning, Coleridge, Irving 10-30-13
Non-fiction: 17
Fiction: 21
Poetry: 6
Drama: 8
Kids: 6
Total: 58
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