{"id":1517,"date":"2026-01-06T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:49:53","slug":"2025-even-more-reading-about-food-than-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/06\/2025-even-more-reading-about-food-than-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Even More Reading about Food than Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2025 was my year where I read four graphic novels about making\/ cooking food, and a dozen related to food, crime, and extra powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2026, I still need to read a few more books by Stephen King, Edward Carey, and Silas House, as well as books about creativity and cooking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My 2025 Plan<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Each year, the plan is to read a book every two weeks, and this year, I managed more than one book a week, since I read a lot of food-related graphic novels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It\u2019s way better than I planned, since I was planning to spend less time reading this year and more time learning on YouTube and other websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Per usual, 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 (120 \u2013 150 pages).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NOTE<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> \u2013 I typically read a handful of books at once. Doing so allows me to switch around depending on my mood.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The List of Books I Read in 2025<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I read the following books\/graphic novels in this order, for the most part, but grouped by author or organization\/company.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Creative Act: A Way of Being &#8211; Rick Rubin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Elephant in My Backyard &#8211; A Memoir &#8211; Rajiv Surendra<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Little &#8211; a Novel &#8211; Edward Carey<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast &#8211; No 119 &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pricing Design &#8211; Pricing Projects Can Feel Tricky, but It Doesn\u2019t Have to Be &#8211; Dan Mall<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Life of Pie &#8211; a Novel &#8211; Yann Martel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Art of Asking &#8211; or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help &#8211; Amanda Palmer (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So Good They Can\u2019t Ignore You &#8211; Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love &#8211; Cal Newport<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Old Man and the Sea &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Catching the Big Fish &#8211; Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity &#8211; David Lynch<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You\u2019re Not Listening &#8211; What You\u2019re Missing and Why It Matters &#8211; Kate Murphy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Something Wicked This Way Comes- a Novel &#8211; Ray Bradbury<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Things Becoming Other Things &#8211; A Walking Memoir &#8211; Craig Mod<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Food Rules &#8211; An Eater\u2019s Manual &#8211; Michael Pollan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Muybridge &#8211; Guy Delisle<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lost in Translation &#8211; An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World &#8211; Ellen Frances Sanders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Notes on Creativity &#8211; Ferran Adria<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let My People Go Surfing- The Education of a Reluctant Businessman &#8211; Yvon Chouinard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A Drive into the Gap &#8211; Kevin Guilfoile<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">American Sfoglino &#8211; A Master Class in Handmade Pasta &#8211; Even Funke with Katie Paria<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Choi of Cooking &#8211; Flavor-Packet, Rule-breaking Recipes for a Delicious Life &#8211; Roy Choi with Tien Nguyen and Natasha Phan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What It Is &#8211; Lynda Barry (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How to Eat &#8211; Thich Nhat Hanh (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Barbara Kingsolver<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Bean Trees<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pigs in Heaven<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dan Buettner<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Blue Zones Solution &#8211; Eating and Living Like the World\u2019s Healthiest People<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Blue Zones Second Edition &#8211; 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who\u2019ve Lived the Longest<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Blue Zones Kitchen &#8211; One Pot Meals &#8211; 100 Recipes to Live to 100<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Blue Zones &#8211; Secrets for Living Longer &#8211; Lessons from the Healthiest Places on Earth<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Danny Gregory<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Creative License &#8211; Giving Yourself Permission to be the Artist You Truly Are<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Make It Anyway &#8211; More Essays on Creative Living<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Books<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Hope &#8211; Why You Should Never Give Up. &#8211; by Gail Muller<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Maintain &#8211; How to Sharpen Knives, Scissors, and Garden Tools. &#8211; Gareth Heaton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Ferment &#8211; Gut Busters and Foods that Fizz. &#8211; Mathew Pennington and Nicola Cradock<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Nourish &#8211; How to Eat for Resilience. &#8211; Sarah Bayliss<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Sea Salt \u2013 The Magic of Seasoning. by Alison, David, and Jess Lea-Wilson (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do Breath \u2013 Calm your mind. Find focus. Get stuff done. \u2013 Michael Townsend Williams (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Side Project\u00a0 Report &#8211; Do Lectures (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">John Steinbeck<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of Mice and Men<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Pearl &#8211; John Steinbeck<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stephen King<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Writing &#8211; A Memoir of the Craft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Green Mile<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Seth Godin<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Practice &#8211; Shipping Creative Work<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the dip &#8211; A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Graphic Novel Cook Cookbooks<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cook Korean \u2013 A Comic Book with Recipes \u2013 Robin Ha (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let\u2019s Make Dumplings! \u2013 A Comic Book Cookbook \u2013 Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let\u2019s Make Ramen! \u2013 A Comic Book Cookbook \u2013 Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan (reread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let\u2019s Make Bread &#8211; A Comic Book Cookbook &#8211; Ken Forkish and Sarah Becan<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Chew &#8211; Graphic Novels &#8211; John Layman and Rob Guillory<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume &#8211; One: Taster\u2019s Choice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Two: \u201cInternational Flavor\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Three: \u201cJust Desserts\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume &#8211; Four: Flambe<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Five: Major League<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Six: Space Cakes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Seven: Bad Apples<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Eight: Family Recipes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Nine: Chicken Tenders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Ten: Blood Puddin\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Eleven: The Last Supper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume Twelve: Sour Grapes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Never Too Small Magazine \u2013 Creative, Compact, and Joyful Ways to Design and Live<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume 2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume 3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume 4<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Volume 5\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Total Books and Graphic Novels Read<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I finished the year strong, reading <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">66<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> books, of which <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">9<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> were rereads.<\/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, I 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 2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Here\u2019s to reading about a book every week to two weeks in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2026 is the time to do more towards creating a cooking YouTube channel by learning DaVinci Resolve, 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 was my year where I read four graphic novels about making\/ cooking food, and a dozen related to food, crime, and extra powers. In 2026, I still need to read a few more books by Stephen King, Edward Carey, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/06\/2025-even-more-reading-about-food-than-last-year\/\">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":[349,268,291,182,173,301,276,107,151,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-349","category-books","category-cooking","category-creativity","category-food","category-graphic-novels","category-learning","category-reading","category-writing","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","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=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}