{"id":2234,"date":"2010-12-31T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2010-12-31T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:23:49","slug":"what-i-read-in-2010plans-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/what-i-read-in-2010plans-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Read in 2010\/Plans for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy almost 2011! I’m pleased to be back from my annual Christmas trip to Georgia (Atlanta-ish), and glad to have been re-united with my suitcase, which made it back to NYC two days earlier than I did. I’m planning a very low-key night here in slushy Brooklyn: I’d hoped to go see the steam whistles on the Pratt campus (my favorite New Year’s Eve event, seriously—go watch someone else’s daytime warm-up video of it here<\/a>, and then imagine all that steam and even more of it on a dark and chilly night, and imagine the noise of it, the biggest whistles so deep you can feel them thrum in your chest). But my boyfriend and I are both sick, so leaving the apartment is looking unlikely, and while he bought us some pear cider with which to celebrate, I’m not sure either of us will even be awake at midnight. Honestly, I’m ready for 2010 to be over. There have been good things, including a really fun solo vacation to San Francisco (featuring tons of bookshops, tons of walking, and tons of good coffee) but there’s also been a lot of feeling grumpy and frazzled. I am aiming for a 2011 that will contain less grumpiness and frazzledness, and more of the good stuff (static trapeze! long walks! bike riding! cooking!). <\/p>\n

As for books, though, 2010 has been a good reading year for me: when I was feeling too hot to cook\/too grumpy to do anything, I usually managed to find something I wanted to read. My book list<\/a> for this year contains 63 books, which is significantly more than the amount I read last year<\/a>, though note that I’m counting three picture books, and I read a whole lot of kids’\/YA chapter books this year, too. <\/p>\n

The breakdown:<\/b><\/p>\n