{"id":1459,"date":"2025-01-09T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:32:38","slug":"2024-reading-list-with-lots-of-books-about-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/2024-reading-list-with-lots-of-books-about-food\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Reading List with Lots of Books about Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2024 was my year where I read six books about making or cooking food, and one about compost, which helps grow food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2025, I need to read a few more books by Edward Carey, Silas House, creativity, and cooking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My Yearly Plan<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Each year, the plan is to read a book a week, and this year<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> I <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">managed two books a month. It&#8217;s not bad for thinking I <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was going to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> spend less time reading this year and more time learning on YouTube and other websites. I spent <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">too<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> much time watching creators to see what was going on in their lives, more than the ones teaching me things or letting me learn from them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Again, from mid-November\/Thanksgiving until the end of the year, I attempted to finish up a handful of books I was partway through, along with some shorter\/more straightforward\/easier-to-read books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The short, easier-to-read ones are between 120 &#8211; 150 pages and smaller in size. So I can read them in a few days or a day, depending On how much time I have. The others are 250 &#8211; 400 pages and are more involved, and I need to pay more attention while reading them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NOTE<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> &#8211; I typically read a handful of books at once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reading more than a book at a time allows me to switch around depending on my mood. If I need light reading or have time to read through something a bit denser that needs more attention, I can.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My List of Books I Read in 2024<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My list of books is in the order I read them.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Edith Holler &#8211; Edward Carey<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Hobbit &#8211; J. R. R. Tolkien<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Steal Like an Artist &#8211; 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative &#8211; Austin Kleon (re-read)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Show Your Work -10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered &#8211; Austin Kleon (re-read)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Keep Going &#8211; 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad &#8211; Austin Kleon (re-read)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Start with Why &#8211; How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action &#8211; Simon Sinek<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Botany of Desire &#8211; A Plant&#8217;s-Eye View of the World &#8211; Michael Pollan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Crying in H Mart &#8211; A Memoir &#8211; Michelle Zavner<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Persepolis &#8211; The Story of a Childhood &#8211; Marjane Satrapi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Persepolis 2 &#8211; The Story of a Return &#8211; Marjane Satrapi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck &#8211; A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life &#8211; Mark Manson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Desert Oracle &#8211; Volume 1 &#8211; Ken Lake<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Compost &#8211; Transform waste into new life &#8211; Charles Dowding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Never to Small &#8211; Creative, compact, and joyful ways to design and live &#8211; Never to Small Magazine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It&#8217;s Not How Good You Are<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, It&#8217;s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> How Good You Want to Be. &#8211; The world&#8217;s best-selling book by Paul Arden<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dignity &#8211; Desert Oracle Books Joshua Tree, Calif. &#8211; Ken Lake<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Everything is F*cked &#8211; A Book about Hope &#8211; Mark Manson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Bean Book &#8211; 100 Recipes for Cooking with all Kinds of Beans &#8211; Steve Sando with Julia Newberry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Feck Perfuction &#8211; Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life &#8211; James Victore (re-read)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Crossroads of Should and Must &#8211; Find and Follow Your Passion &#8211; Elle Luna (re-read)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Breath &#8211; Calm your mind. Find focus. Get stuff done. &#8211; Michael Townsend Williams<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Finding the Mother Tree &#8211; Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest &#8211; Suzanne Simard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Diet for a Small Planet (50th Anniversary Edition) &#8211; Frances Moore Lappe<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Smoke &#8211; A modern guide to cooking and curing. Jen Goss and Scott Davis (<strong>NOTE<\/strong> &#8211; I finished the last 26 pages on the morning of January 1st and was too tired to stay up on New Year&#8217;s Eve. )<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Total Books Read<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I finished the year strong and managed to read <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">24<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> books.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">More Learning from YouTube<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Again this year<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> I <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">continued watching more YouTube to learn about cooking, shooting videos, storytelling, starting a YouTube channel, starting a small farm, etc., and taking a few courses I purchased about editing with DaVinci Resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My Reading Plans for 2025<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Here&#8217;s to reading about a book every week to two weeks in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2025, I plan to continue to spend more time learning how to shoot, edit, and add special effects\/graphics to videos to start my YouTube channel. It didn&#8217;t turn out that way last year, but I need to put more effort into it in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Please comment if you have read any of these books, what you thought of them, and if you have any suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 was my year where I read six books about making or cooking food, and one about compost, which helps grow food. In 2025, I need to read a few more books by Edward Carey, Silas House, creativity, and cooking. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/2024-reading-list-with-lots-of-books-about-food\/\">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":[348,306,268,291,182,294,173,118,301,276,328,107,202,295,151,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-348","category-beans","category-books","category-cooking","category-creativity","category-farming","category-food","category-fun","category-graphic-novels","category-learning","category-rancho-gordo","category-reading","category-research","category-tiny-house","category-writing","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}