I read a lot this year, but mostly magazines or to my son. To carry on tradition, if a few weeks late, here’s the list of what I read last year. I wrote about the first one and so it’s linked.
- Dark and Like a Web: Brief Notes On and To the Divine – NS (reread)
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern – Stephen Greenblatt
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (reread)
- One Stick Song – Sherman Alexie
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein (reread)
- Sailing Alone Around the Room – Billy Collins
- The Magic of Mechanics – Lawrence J Clark
- Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq – Stephen Kinzer
- Ancient Lights – Dick Jones
- The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep – Harvey Karp, MD
- The Most Beautiful Thing – Fiona Robyn
I also read Good Night Moon, The Going to Bed Book, Little Blue Truck, The Book of Sleep, Kittens, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?, and a few others hundreds of times each. Those were, of course, the most wonderful reading experiences of 2012.
And did you know that in Good Night, Moon, the young mouse is on nearly every full room page and always in a different place? This is why I like rereading.
James Brush is a teacher and writer who lives in Austin, TX. He tries to get outside as much as possible.
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