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2023 reading list and commentary

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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.

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2023 in Libraries

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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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2022 reading list and commentary

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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.

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2021 reading list and commentary

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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.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that William Bratton's latest book is very good (" Bill Bratton Explains His Ideas of Good Policing ," New York Times ). And there is a lot of work on "violence interruption." I go back and forth about it, but there is some potential there. And I don't see things changing.

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Federal government research hub development initiative

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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Third place issues

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's a term popularized by Ray Oldenburg in a book of the same title. -- Third places” as community builders , Brookings A lot of the time they are commodified spaces, places where you have to spend money to participate. Silent book clubs. Is a thing (" Silent Book Club gains traction in the Pittsburgh region ," Pittsburgh Tribune ).

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