{"id":1361,"date":"2022-01-25T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:27:51","slug":"2021-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/25\/2021-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 2021 book reading started well and continued with a slow plod through the longer books.<\/p>\n<h2>Total Books Read<\/h2>\n<p>I started strong and finished the year strong too by reading 26 books, which was three more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>My plan was to read when I could and see how much I could get through.<\/p>\n<h2>Book Length in Pages<\/h2>\n<p>Like last year (2020), the books I read were both long and short and were between 120 and 150 pages, while others were over 450+ pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Need More YouTube Learning<\/h2>\n<p>To break up my reading, I continued watching YouTube to learn about different ways to cook, start a small farm, create videos\/movies, ideas for a tiny house, etc. More on that likely in another post.<\/p>\n<h2>List of Books<\/h2>\n<p>Below is the list of books I read. They are more or less in the order I read them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book &#8211; Lynda Barry<\/li>\n<li>Austin Kleon\n<ul>\n<li>Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative<\/li>\n<li>Show Your Work! 10 Ways To Show Your Creativity And Get Discovered<\/li>\n<li>Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One Percent Better &#8211; Yearbook Five by Hiut Denim<\/li>\n<li>Do Sea Salt &#8211; The Magic of Seasoning. by Alison, David, and Jess Lea-Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Amoralman &#8211; A True Story and Other Lies by Derek DelGaudio<\/li>\n<li>Charles Dowding\u2019s No Dig Gardening, Course 1: From Weeds to Vegetables Easily and Quickly by Charles Dowding<\/li>\n<li>The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow &#8211; and fall in love with! &#8211; your brand new food garden (Volume 1) by Jessica Sowards<\/li>\n<li>How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates<\/li>\n<li>Restoration Agriculture Real-world Permaculture for Farmers by Mark Shepard<\/li>\n<li>Do Walk: Navigate earth, mind and body. Step by step. by Libby DeLana<\/li>\n<li>Do Make: The Power of Your Own Two Hands by James Otter<\/li>\n<li>How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell<\/li>\n<li>Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Norman Maclean<\/li>\n<li>The Backyard Adventurer: Meaningful and Pointless Expeditions, Self-experiments, and the Value of Other People&#8217;s Junk by Beau Miles<\/li>\n<li>The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide by John Seymour<\/li>\n<li>Fermentation as Metaphor by Sandor Ellix Katz<\/li>\n<li>Do Preserve: Make your own jams, chutneys, pickles, and cordials. (Easy Beginners Guide to Seasonal Preserving, Fruit and Vegetable Canning and Preserving Recipes) by Anja Dunk, Jen Goss, and Mimi Beaven<\/li>\n<li>Do Open: How a Simple Email Newsletter Can Transform your Business by David Hieatt<\/li>\n<li>Food Rules: An Eater&#8217;s Manual by Michael Pollan<\/li>\n<li>How to Eat by Thich Nhat Hanh<\/li>\n<li>Make a World 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>Types &amp; Grammar &#8211; 1st Edition<\/li>\n<li>Async &amp; Performance &#8211; 1st Edition<\/li>\n<li>ES6 &amp; Beyond &#8211; 1st Edition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>List of Magazines<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Growers &amp; Co\n<ul>\n<li>Celebrating the Movement of Small-scale Organic Agriculture &#8211; Issue 01<\/li>\n<li>A Promise of Renewal &#8211; Shaping Stronger Food Systems and Social Change in the Movement of Small-scale Organic Agriculture &#8211; Issue 02<\/li>\n<li>A Regenerative Movement &#8211; Explore How Growers are Redefining the Agricultural System in Favor of Traditional Practices that Preserve te Health of Ecosystems and Their Communities &#8211; Issue 03<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I plan to do a more in-depth write-up of the ones I liked the best in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>More Reading in 2022<\/h2>\n<p>Here to as much or more reading in 2022 as in 2021 if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave a comment if you read any of these books and your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2021 book reading started well and continued with a slow plod through the longer books. Total Books Read I started strong and finished the year strong too by reading 26 books, which was three more than last year. 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