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FEBRUARY 10, 2024
This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.
Librarian.net
JANUARY 5, 2024
Kimball (79) – Most weeks I worked here one day and I stopped by a lot of other times, for sub shifts or just to get a book. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003.
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Librarian.net
JANUARY 2, 2023
I read a lot of books this year but in many ways it wasn’t a great year for me (it’s improving) so I have mixed feelings about the sheer length of this list and am hoping to read LESS this year. I started to read 144 books and finished 142 but kept up with a few I maybe shouldn’t have. average read per month: 12.
Librarian.net
DECEMBER 31, 2021
I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 10, 2023
When I went to college there was a book "famous" in economics called Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics , about the manipulation of data. In reporting on transit ridership, I am bothered when they don't report ridership by bus line or day of the week, but "by the year." Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Michael Lewis has a good book, The Fifth Risk , on the investment by the federal government in the development of science and technology, like weather prediction systems and the work of federal laboratories. This is a pdf of the book.) Also see writings on innovation districts and quarters more generally. Pittsburgh is a great example.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 9, 2023
Note that William Bratton's latest book is very good (" Bill Bratton Explains His Ideas of Good Policing ," New York Times ). And I don't see things changing.
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