Books I Read in 2016
I set my goal to read 16 books in 2016 and I started off strong with books I was reading for fun, but the decision to take on teaching a new course meant that come the summer, when I did my course development, the type of book I was reading was predominantly textbook. Also hampering my reading was the launch of PokémonGO, as I used to do a lot of reading on my commute to work, but once I got hooked on trying to catch ‘em all, I ended up spending much of my commute either catching Pokémon or grabbing stuff from PokéStops as I whizzed by them on the bus or train ((Back before they changed the game so that you can no longer get stuff from Pokéstops when you are travelling at fast speeds.)) or doing my Pokémon inventory management ((For the uninitiated, you only have room for 250 Pokémon in your PokéBox, so once you’ve caught that many, you have to free up space by transferring some of the Pokémon to the professor in exchange for candy. This takes some work, as you need to figure out which Pokémon you have extras of and then figure out which is the lowest value Pokémon so you know which one to get rid of.)).
Anyway, I did manage to surpass my goal of 16 books:
The books were:
This list includes:
- 4 fiction books
- 8 non-fiction books
- 9 textbooks
I think my goal for next year should be to read fewer textbooks!
Looking at the list, the book I most enjoyed this year was the Voodoo Killings, followed by Dear Committee Members, and the books I learned the most from were the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and The Spirit Level. The book I liked the least was Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking ((And that includes all the textbooks I read!))
In terms of stats, I read 7,711 pages of books ((I also read some unholy number of pages of journal articles. I wish there were a site like Good Reads where I could track all my journal article reading!)) in total, with book lengths ranging for 181 pages to 704 pages.
Not surprisingly, the most popular book I read was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the least popular book was the textbook I assigned to my class. Apparently only one other person on all of Goodreads read that textbook, which I’m hoping means none of my students are on Goodreads!
I’m not planning to teach any new courses next year, so I’m hopeful that I’ll be reading more books for fun!
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