{"id":1617,"date":"2010-01-08T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2010-01-07T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:28:57","slug":"books-ive-read-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/08\/books-ive-read-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I&#8217;ve read in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last list I&#8217;ll be posting on stuff from 2009, I promise. After this it&#8217;s all about looking forward. I&#8217;ve been tracking my reading on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anobii.com\/kaeru\/\">aNobii<\/a> for some time. Here&#8217;s a list of the books I&#8217;ve found particularly worthwhile, ordered chronologically. My three absolute favorites are marked in bold.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faith in Fakes, Umberto Eco<\/li>\n<li>Cat&#8217;s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n<li>What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami<\/li>\n<li>Black Dogs, Ian McEwan<\/li>\n<li>Out of Control, Kevin Kelly<\/li>\n<li>Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino<\/li>\n<li>Game Design Workshop (2nd edition), Tracy Fullerton<\/li>\n<li><strong>The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fight Club, Chuck Paluhniuk<\/li>\n<li>A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess<\/li>\n<li>The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch<\/li>\n<li>Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Underworld, Don DeLillo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Ground, Malcolm McCullough<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Common themes: cities, complexity, society &#038; the individual, inner &#038; outer space, design.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been quite picky with what I read last year and will probably continue to do so this year. Many of these have heaps of dog ears and margin notes and its a wonderful feeling to have them sitting in my studio bookshelf, ready to be picked up and used when required.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last list I&#8217;ll be posting on stuff from 2009, I promise. After this it&#8217;s all about looking forward. I&#8217;ve been tracking my reading on aNobii for some time. Here&#8217;s a list of the books I&#8217;ve found particularly worthwhile, ordered chronologically. My three absolute favorites are marked in bold. Faith in Fakes, Umberto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/08\/books-ive-read-in-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books I&#8217;ve read in 2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[751,104,70,105],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-751","tag-books","tag-lists","tag-reading"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}