{"id":4910,"date":"2013-01-01T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2013-01-01T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:19:59","slug":"what-i-read-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/what-i-read-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Read in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy 2013! I hope yours is off to a good start: mine definitely is. Today has included, among other things: very good coffee, ice skating on newly-sharpened skates at a not-too-crowded rink, and a handstand on the beach. My day has not yet included any curling up with a book, but that’s coming next: I started The Casual Vacancy<\/em> the other day and am enjoying it so far, and am planning to sit on the couch with it and some rooibos chai shortly. But first: what I read and liked in 2012.<\/p>\n

I read 54 books in 2012—though that does include some picture books, which don’t exactly count, but I’m counting them anyhow.<\/p>\n

The breakdown:<\/strong>
\n Picture books: 2
\n Other kids\u2019\/YA books: 9
\n Fiction (for grown-ups): 29
\n Non-fiction: 11
\n Poetry: 3<\/p>\n

Works in translation: 7<\/p>\n

Favorites:<\/strong> There but for the<\/em> by Ali Smith. So smart and engaged and human<\/em>. Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies<\/em>, which I couldn’t shut up about for months because of how good it was: self-aware and introspective and interesting. NW<\/em> by Zadie Smith, for its stylistic play and cleverness but also for how it’s as much about a corner of a city as it is about the people who inhabit it. When You Reach Me<\/em> by Rebecca Stead, because it’s a play off A Wrinkle in Time<\/em>. Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere<\/em> by André Aciman, for the way Aciman explores place and memory and nostalgia and being in the world as a certain kind of person. <\/p>\n

2013 plans<\/strong>: the plan for 2013, reading-wise, is basically to have no plans, other than the 2013 edition of the TBR Double Dog Dare<\/a>, which means I’ll be reading off my bookshelves between now and April 1. I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy 2013! I hope yours is off to a good start: mine definitely is. Today has included, among other things: very good coffee, ice skating on newly-sharpened skates at a not-too-crowded rink, and a handstand on the beach. My day has not yet included any curling up with a book, but that’s coming next: I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalmeta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}