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Tag: 52 books a year

  • How I Read 52 Books A Year

    My goal, every year, is to read 52 books. Here’s how I do it (as randomly illustrated with pictures from the Wire): 1. I prioritize reading books. I endeavor to read, at least for a couple of minutes, everyday. I’m lucky in that I live in New York City, and can read for about an…

  • 2016: My Year In Books

    In 2016, I embarked on a project where I tried to match my reading to the demographics of the U.S.* I set out to read 52 books broken down like this: 10 books (or ~17%) written by Latino writers 7 books (or ~13 %) written by writers from Africa or of African descent 3 books…

  • Book Review – Diaz’s Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz I’m late to the Diaz game, so probably you’ve already read this. If not, here goes: this is the story of awkward overweight SF fan Oscar Wao and his family. Its also a lot more than that.  Diaz uses the Wao family to tell the story of modern Dominican…

  • 2016: My Reading Goals

    2015 was another pretty good year for my reading. 52 books, half by women. I’ll take it. This year, I have two overarching goals: to dig deeper in a subject matter, and to increase the diversity of my reading further. Here’s how I plan to achieve that: Read fifty two books. I’ve done this now…

  • Review: Lippman’s Baltimore Blues

    Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel Laura Lippman The first book in Lippman’s Tess Monaghan Series of crime novels set in Baltimore. This was a bit of more breezy than I expected, but does what I want a crime novel to do – give me a sense of place, give me characters I believe,…

  • 2014: My Year in Books

    I’m still not really sure how this happened, but in 2014, I read 52 books. I’ve tracked every book I’ve read for the last 26 years, and 52 books is a record. I’m sadly proud of this. A couple of things certainly helped. First, I finished a long-term goal of reading the complete works of…