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Books 2011

Books,

I had a somewhat disappointing year in terms of reading. For whatever reason, I read fewer books and listened to fewer audiobooks in 2011 than in 2010. I hope to change this in 2012. See also my reading from previous years (2008, 2009, 2010).

I also started keeping track of my reading using goodreads, which is a bit easier than doing it myself with Google Docs.

Statistics

  • Total # of books: 16
  • Total length of books: 6977 pages
  • Total # of audiobooks: 9
  • Total length of audiobooks: 4 days, 7:31:03

Books

I reread the books highlighted in yellow.

# Title Author Pages Start Date End Date
1 Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food Station Jeff Potter 398 12/23 01/04
2 The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future Laurence C. Smith 336 01/06 01/08
3 Forty Thousand in Gehenna C.J. Cherryh 444 01/09 01/29
4 The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why
We Pay What We Do		 Eduardo Porter 304 01/30 03/05
5 Makers Cory Doctorow 416 03/12 03/28
6 The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives Leonard Mlodinow 256 04/17 05/18
7 Suburban Transformations Paul Lukez 192 03/10 05/21
8 Dragonlance Chronicles Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman 1030 05/19 06/18
9 Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay 480 06/22 07/03
10 Surface Detail Iain M. Banks 627 07/05 07/18
11 Rule 34 Charles Stross 358 07/21 08/01
12 Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of
the Painter Peter Paul Rubens		 Mark Lamster 336 08/03 09/01
13 Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar
Cybercrime Underground		 Kevin Poulsen 288 09/06 09/15
14 The Magician King Lev Grossman 400 09/18 09/23
15 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick 527 09/26 11/23
16 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 585 11/29 12/22

Audiobooks

# Title Author Length Start Date End Date
1 At Home: A Short History of Private Life Bill Bryson 15:57:39 01/10 02/10
2 Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It Gary Taubes 7:57:55 02/14 03/02
3 The Battle of the Labyrinth Rick Riordan 10:33:29 03/18 05/05
4 The Last Olympian Rick Riordan 11:02:17 05/16 05/17
5 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 11:11:32 05/19 05/21
6 Catching Fire Suzanne Collins 11:38:34 08/27 08/30
7 The Money Culture Michael Lewis 6:53:13 08/30 09/02
8 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 11:40:47 09/02 09/03
9 The Lost Hero Rick Riordan 16:35:37 11/28 12/03

Places 2011

Travel, ,

As usual, I’ve compiled a record of my travels in 2011 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). Athens was the most interesting place I visited, though it was for a conference, and I had a relatively little time for sightseeing. I also drove all the way across the country (and back), which was interesting if fairly uneventful. I’ve only included cities in which I spent at least one night, and I’ve starred those that I visited multiple times on non-consecutive days. I stopped at the cities marked with a † on my cross-country drive, so my experience of them was largely limited to interstate hotels I found on Hotwire.

  • Omaha, NE*
  • Ithaca, NY*
  • New York, NY*
  • Santa Clara, CA*
  • Elkhart, IN†
  • Laramie, WY†
  • Salt Lake City, UT*†
  • Reno, NV*†
  • Athens, Greece
  • La Porte, IN†
  • Bowling Green, OH