You'll have to suffer through my &'s in my table. I'm too lazy to fix the export from Access. Yet one more year where my average rating decreased. This year by 3/10 of a percent. Ouch. Maybe I am turning into a critical old man. I'm impressed I read 1000 more pages than last year. I thought I was really on the road to reading significantly less, particularly as I'd sort of made a commitment to read about 1500 pages a month (50 pages a day) and utterly failed (by over 5000 pages). It could be argued those graphic novels don't count, but I didn't read them to make up the difference. They were earlier in the year. And I always have a few in my list so relatively, they count.
In retrospect, I'd rank Sweet Tooth lower (graphic novel). Map of Sky lower (almost negative. Damn did I hate that book. Particularly as Map of Time wasn't too bad - I feel mislead. Deceived. Duped.). The Future is Japanese Higher (I still think about some of the stories). Cryonic (my RAGBRAI book I purchased from The Vault in Iowa) lower. Perhaps a negative .5 if Map of the Sky were a negative 1. Law 101, Joe Hill's books (not graphic novels), Sacre' Bleu, Banks, Scalzi, Howey (I have a book left in the Silo Series - the writing isn't as solid in Shift, but the story was enjoyable), and Expanse were all highlights with The Expanse Series still being my favorite of the last year or so. Hard scifi usually wins for me. I'll also point out I really enjoyed Constellation Games, a recommendation from Mean Mr. Mustard. More than the rating indicates. He's never led me wrong (yet).
Scooter's Short List Current Year
DateRead
Title
Author
Rate
12/21/2013
Long War, The (Long Earth II)
Pratchett, Terry and Stephen Baxter
6.50
12/8/2013
How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control
Swain, Frank
8.00
12/7/2013
Goliath Stone, The
Niven, Larry & Matthew Joseph Harrington
2.00
12/1/2013
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You
The Oatmeal
3.00
11/25/2013
Evil and the Mask
Nakamura, Fuminori
8.50
11/17/2013
Creeps, The
Connolly, John
5.00
9/1/2013
Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Silo Saga)
Howey, Hugh
8.50
8/14/2013
Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse III)
Corey, James S. A.
9.00
8/7/2013
Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest
Martinez, A. Lee
8.25
8/7/2013
Half-Made World, The
Gilman, Felix
7.50
8/1/2013
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and the People Who Play It
Ewalt, David M.
8.25
7/31/2013
Doctor Who the Wheel of Ice
Baxter, Stephen
7.50
7/21/2013
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law
Feinman, Jay M.
9.75
7/14/2013
Cryonic: A Zombie Novel
Bradberry, Travis
2.00
6/1/2013
Sword of Shannara Trilogy, The
Brooks, Terry
6.00
5/30/2013
Nos4A2
Hill, Joe
8.25
4/30/2013
Sacre' Bleu: A Comedy D'Art
Moore, Christopher
9.25
3/22/2013
Map of the Sky, The
Palma, Felix J.
2.00
3/15/2013
Constellation Games
Richardson, Leonard
8.25
3/1/2013
Horns: A Novel
Hill, Joe
8.75
2/22/2013
Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle
Scalzi, John
8.00
2/19/2013
Cipher, The
Koja, Kathe
7.50
2/15/2013
Locke & Key: Clockworks (5)
Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez
7.50
2/14/2013
Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows (3)
Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez
7.50
2/14/2013
Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom (4)
Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez
7.50
2/1/2013
Sweet Tooth: Out of the Deep Woods (1)
Lemire, Jeff
6.00
2/1/2013
Sweet Tooth: In Captivity (2)
Lemire, Jeff
6.00
1/31/2013
Blueprints of the Afterlife
Boudinot, Ryan
6.00
1/22/2013
Wearing the Cape
Harmon, Marion G.
5.00
1/21/2013
Map of Time, The
Palma, Felix J.
8.50
1/15/2013
Future is Japanese, The
Masumi Washington (Editor), Nick Mamatas (Editor)
7.50
1/8/2013
This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
Wong, David
7.00
1/4/2013
The Hydrogen Sonata
Banks, Iain
8.75
"A Year in Reading - 2013"
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