{"id":397,"date":"2012-12-30T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.grunschev.com\/wordpress\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-12-30T23:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T06:14:53","slug":"2012-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grunschev.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/2012-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the year I set myself the goal of reading 36 books. Not much of a goal, really, as that’s the number of books I’ve read on average since I started keeping a list in 2008. So in effect my goal was to read an average number of books. I hit the goal back on the 21st. I started reading The Coldest Winter<\/em>, not expecting to finish it until well into next month. But then Genae brought a brand new book home from the library for me, with a seven day limit on it, so I managed to sneak another one in to exceed the goal by one.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking that my goal for 2013 should be 32 because I have several very long books coming to the top of the “to-read” list. The third Game of Thrones book weighs in at nearly a thousand pages, Massey’s Peter the Great<\/em> is something like seven hundred, and Manchester’s MacArthur<\/em> bio is on the order of eight. Each of those should count for two! But I’ll keep it at 36 and aim high.<\/p>\n

Here’s the 2012 list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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01\/09\/12<\/td>\nThe Assault on Reason<\/td>\nGore, Al<\/td>\n308<\/td>\nPolitics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01\/22\/12<\/td>\nA Clash of Kings<\/td>\nMartin, George R. R.<\/td>\n760<\/td>\nFantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/08\/12<\/td>\nMillard Fillmore<\/td>\nRayback, Robert J.<\/td>\n470<\/td>\nBio \u2013 Pres.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/12\/12<\/td>\nRed Orchestra<\/td>\nNelson, Anne<\/td>\n388<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/04\/12<\/td>\nStalin: Triumph and Tragedy<\/td>\nVolkogonov, Dmitri<\/td>\n642<\/td>\nBiography<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/06\/12<\/td>\nThe Fear Index<\/td>\nHarris, Robert<\/td>\n286<\/td>\nFiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/18\/12<\/td>\nWar in the Sun<\/td>\nHodson, James<\/td>\n449<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/27\/12<\/td>\nHitler’s Peace<\/td>\nKerr, Philip<\/td>\n448<\/td>\nFiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/21\/12<\/td>\nFranklin Pierce<\/td>\nNichols, Roy Franklin<\/td>\n625<\/td>\nBio \u2013 Pres.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/25\/12<\/td>\nCounterfeiter<\/td>\nNachtstern, Moritz<\/td>\n288<\/td>\nHolocaust<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/11\/12<\/td>\nEurope and the French Imperium<\/td>\nBruun, Geoffrey<\/td>\n280<\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/21\/12<\/td>\nFatal Crossroads<\/td>\nParker, Danny S.<\/td>\n390<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/23\/12<\/td>\nThe Sharp End<\/td>\nEllis, John<\/td>\n372<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06\/05\/12<\/td>\nCatherine the Great<\/td>\nMassie, Robert K.<\/td>\n625<\/td>\nBiography<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06\/20\/12<\/td>\n1943: The Victory that Never Was<\/td>\nGrigg, John<\/td>\n248<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
07\/17\/12<\/td>\nCaesar’s Women<\/td>\nMcCullough, Colleen<\/td>\n696<\/td>\nFiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
07\/22\/12<\/td>\nAmerican Miracle<\/td>\nSill, Van Rensselaer<\/td>\n301<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08\/14\/12<\/td>\nPresident James Buchanan<\/td>\nKlein, Philip Shriver<\/td>\n506<\/td>\nBio \u2013 Pres.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09\/01\/12<\/td>\nExistence<\/td>\nBrin, David<\/td>\n556<\/td>\nSci Fi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09\/10\/12<\/td>\nPenalty Strike<\/td>\nPyl’Cyn, Alexander<\/td>\n204<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09\/16\/12<\/td>\nThe Great Gates<\/td>\nSprague, Marshall<\/td>\n468<\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09\/20\/12<\/td>\nFate of Worlds<\/td>\nNiven, Larry; Lerner, Edward M.<\/td>\n317<\/td>\nSci Fi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09\/27\/12<\/td>\nFrom Nazi Sources<\/td>\nSternberg, Fritz<\/td>\n208<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/16\/12<\/td>\nThe Transparent Society<\/td>\nBrin, David<\/td>\n384<\/td>\nPolitics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/18\/12<\/td>\nEscape from the Deep<\/td>\nKershaw, Alex<\/td>\n270<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/02\/12<\/td>\nWith Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln<\/td>\nOates, Stephen<\/td>\n492<\/td>\nBio \u2013 Pres.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/05\/12<\/td>\nLionel Asbo: State of England<\/td>\nAmis, Martin<\/td>\n255<\/td>\nFiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/08\/12<\/td>\nThe Flame Keepers<\/td>\nHandy, Ned<\/td>\n325<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/10\/12<\/td>\nTeam Lotus: My View from the Pit Wall<\/td>\nWarr, Peter<\/td>\n240<\/td>\nMotor Sports<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/16\/12<\/td>\nA Dead Hand<\/td>\nTheroux, Paul<\/td>\n279<\/td>\nFiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/25\/12<\/td>\nThe American Axis<\/td>\nWallace, Max<\/td>\n465<\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/06\/12<\/td>\nCaesar<\/td>\nMcCullough, Colleen<\/td>\n664<\/td>\nFiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/08\/12<\/td>\nRome Was My Beat<\/td>\nPackard, Reynolds<\/td>\n338<\/td>\nMemoir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/11\/12<\/td>\nStormtrooper on the Eastern Front<\/td>\nBlosfelds, Mintauts<\/td>\n207<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/15\/12<\/td>\nKoba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million<\/td>\nAmis, Martin<\/td>\n320<\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/21\/12<\/td>\nThe Battle of Midway<\/td>\nSymonds, Craig L.<\/td>\n452<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/30\/12<\/td>\nHell in the Pacific<\/td>\nMcEnery, Jim<\/td>\n305<\/td>\nWW II<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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