{"id":1077,"date":"2021-01-20T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:28:26","slug":"read-more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/read-more-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Read More Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year started out well reading-wise. I was reading a book about every five days or so on average; then, when the pandemic hit, and it slowed up a lot.<\/p>\n<h2>Total Books Read<\/h2>\n<p>I finished the year strong in December and managed to read 23 books.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, I forgot about a few digital JavaScript books I read with a remote JavaScript book club.<\/p>\n<p>So I ended up with 26 books. There might be others I missed too.<\/p>\n<h2>My Plan<\/h2>\n<p>I had hoped to read a book a week as my plan, but other things happened, and I didn&#8217;t. No, worries since it&#8217;s the most books I read in a read ever besides comic books as a kid.<\/p>\n<h2>Book Length in Pages<\/h2>\n<p>Some books were longer than others and others not so much. A bunch were between 120 and 150 pages others were over 450+ pages.<\/p>\n<h2>More YouTube Learning<\/h2>\n<p>I started watching more YouTube to learn about different ways to cook, start a small farm, ideas for a tiny house, etc. More on that in another post.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of books I read. I had planned to put them in the order I read them, but I managed to knock over the two piles. So they got all mixed up.<\/p>\n<h2>List of Books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tiny MBA &#8211; 100 Very Short Lessons about the Long Game of Business by Alex Hillman.<\/li>\n<li>Do Agile &#8211; Future Proof Your Mindset. Stay Grounded by Tim Drake.<\/li>\n<li>How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia<\/li>\n<li>Twenty Bits I Learned about Design, Business, and Community by Dan Cedarholm<\/li>\n<li>Whatcha Mean, What&#8217;s a Zine? &#8211; The Art f Making Zines and Mini-comics by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson<\/li>\n<li>The Rancho Gordo Heirloom Bean Guide by Steve Sando and Julia Newberry<\/li>\n<li>Elements of Fire &#8211; A Comic Anthology of Color! edited by Taneka Stotts<\/li>\n<li>Do Bee-keeping &#8211; The Secret to Happy Honeybees by Orren Fox<\/li>\n<li>Do Disrupt &#8211; Change the Status Quo. Or Become it. by Mark Shayler<\/li>\n<li>Cool Beans &#8211; The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World&#8217;s Most Versatile Plant-based Protein with 125 Recipes by Joe Yonan<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Saly<\/li>\n<li>Do Preserve \u00a0&#8211; Make Your own Jams, Chutneys, Pickles, and Cordials by Anja Dunk, Jen Goss, and Mimi Beaven<\/li>\n<li>Cartooning &#8211; Philosophy, and Practice by Ivan Brunetti<\/li>\n<li>Do Listen &#8211; Understand What&#8217;s Really Being said. Find a New Way Forward. by Bobette Buster<\/li>\n<li>Oishinbo &#8211; A la Carte &#8211; Ramen and Gyoza story by Tetsu Kariya and Art by Akira Hanasaki<\/li>\n<li>Do Story &#8211; How to Tell Your Story, so the World Listens. by Bobette Buster<\/li>\n<li>Form Design Patterns &#8211; A Practical Guide to Designing and Coding simple and Inclusive Forms for the Web by Adam Silver<\/li>\n<li>Inclusive Design Patterns &#8211; Coding Accessibility Into Web Design by Heydon Pickering<\/li>\n<li>The Fermented Man &#8211; A year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution by Derek Dellinger<\/li>\n<li>The Noma Guide to Fermentation: Including Koji, Kombuchas, Shoyus, Misos, Vinegars, Garums, Lacto-ferments, and Black Fruits and Vegetables by Rene Redzepi and David Zilber<\/li>\n<li>Glenn Ganges in The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga<\/li>\n<li>The Public Library &#8211; A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson<\/li>\n<li>Drawing Book of Faces by Ed Emberley<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know JavaScript Yet&#8221; series books by Kyle Simpson\n<ul>\n<li>Get Started &#8211; 2nd Edition<\/li>\n<li>Scope and Closures &#8211; 2nd Edition<\/li>\n<li>this and Object Prototypes &#8211; 1st Edition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will do a more in-depth write up of the ones I like the best in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>More Reading in 2021<\/h2>\n<p>Here to as much reading in 2021 as in 2020 and more if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave a comment if you read any of these books and what you thought of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year started out well reading-wise. I was reading a book about every five days or so on average; then, when the pandemic hit, and it slowed up a lot. Total Books Read I finished the year strong in December &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/read-more-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,263,61,268,300,291,173,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-262","category-263","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-cooking","category-food","category-graphic-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}