{"id":878,"date":"2020-04-17T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2021-01-01T01:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:18:19","slug":"2020-books-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"2020 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was going to post a new post for every book I read this year, but then I got behind and realized that I didn&#8217;t have a lot to say about all of them, so here we are. The main point for me was always to just have a record and see how many books I could read in a year, so here&#8217;s a summary for the year so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>05\/05\/20 edit: I&#8217;m modifying this from a one time update to a list I will add to as the year progresses, just so I have them all in one place. Maybe I&#8217;ve always been this way or maybe it is age, but I notice that I&#8217;ll forget reading a book or watching a movie, etc, but if I see the title, on, say, a list like the one below, I can usually recall it and how it made me feel. I just can&#8217;t internally catalog it. So here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Date Completed<\/th><th>Title<\/th><th>Author<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>01\/04\/2020<\/td><td>Wilder Girls<\/td><td>Rory Power<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>01\/05\/2020<\/td><td>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/td><td>David Grann<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>01\/09\/2020<\/td><td>Aftermath<\/td><td>Chuck Wendig<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>01\/14\/2020<\/td><td>Deep Down Dark<\/td><td>Hector Tobar<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>01\/27\/2020<\/td><td>Aftermath Life Debt<\/td><td>Chuck Wendig<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>01\/31\/2020<\/td><td>Still Life<\/td><td>Louise Penny<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>02\/06\/2020<\/td><td>Children of Blood and Bone<\/td><td>Tomi Adeyemi<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>02\/15\/2020<\/td><td>Song of Kali<\/td><td>Dan Simmons<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>02\/18\/2020<\/td><td>The American Plague<\/td><td>Molly Caldwell Crosby<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>02\/21\/2020<\/td><td>How Do We Look<\/td><td>Mary Beard<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03\/04\/2020<\/td><td>A Murder is Announced<\/td><td>Agatha Christie<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03\/12\/2020<\/td><td>Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories<\/td><td>Agatha Christie<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03\/18\/2020<\/td><td>The Collected Schizophrenias<\/td><td>Esm\u00e9 Weijun Wang<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03\/24\/2020<\/td><td>The Future of Another Timeline<\/td><td>Annalee Newitz<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03\/31\/2020<\/td><td>The Center Cannot Hold<\/td><td>Elyn R. 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