December List

 December is here again. I always get reflective in December. In terms of reading, it was a good year. I made my goal of 125 books with time to spare. In fact, it is entirely possible that I'll make it all the way to 150; I'm only 11 books away. I, at least until I made my goal, stuck to my parameters of reading primarily gifts and books sitting on the to-be-read-stack. So I made all my goals which doesn't always happen for me. I tend to get a bit ambitious. 

This month's list isn't substantially different than Novembers. I had so overloaded the thing that it barely feels like I made a dent. I'm starting fresh in January, so this is by way of being a last chance fore some of these. I'm going to stick with the random number method of picking next reads...it yielded some interesting results and I ended up blasting through two huge books that I may have otherwise passed over for length.

1. Nothing But the Truth by Avi
2. Machine Man by Max Barry (Ryan's Pick)
3. Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman (Valentines Gift from Ryan)
4. From Standards to Rubrics in 6 steps by Kay Burke (Professional Development)
5. The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney (Finished 12/8/2021)
6. It's Not News, It's FARK by Drew Curtis (Finished 12/29/2021)
7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (Birthday Gift)
8. Finding Freedom by Erin French (Birthday Gift)
9. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (Ryan's Pick)
10. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (Ryan's Pick)
11. Dune by Frank Herbert (Finished 12/15/2022)
12. Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen (Ryan's Pick)
13. Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (TBR)
14. Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
15. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
16. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis (Ryan's Pick)
17. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (Birthday Gift)
18. Invisible Planets translated by Ken Liu (Finished 12/22/21))
19. Swan Song by Robert McCammon (Ryan's Pick)
20. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire (Turns out this is book 2 of a series, waiting on it until I can get book 1)
21. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Finished 12/6/2021)
22. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
23. Transformative Assessment by W. James Popham (Professional Development)
24. An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
25. Otherworld by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
26. The Shut-Down Learner by Richard Selznick (Professional Development)
27. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Ryan's Pick)
28. This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers 
29. Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
30. Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf (Professional Development)