{"id":25097,"date":"2019-12-14T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=25097"},"modified":"2019-12-15T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T14:43:53","slug":"books-my-top-ten-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=25097","title":{"rendered":"Books: My Top Ten for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the spirit of end-of-year lists, here are the ten books I read in\u00a0this year that stand out in my mind. For me, it hasn’t been a year for pipe smoking and high literature. I’ve been enjoying myself instead. Of all the books I read this year, I enjoyed these ten the most.<\/p>\n

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Some of the covers stand for\u00a0books in a series I read\u00a0(or am still reading) in 2019:<\/p>\n

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  • Philip Pullman’s “The Secret Commonwealth” is the second book of a planned trilogy called “The Book of Dust,” of which “La Belle Sauvage” was the first (I read & reviewed that one in 2018)<\/li>\n
  • “Abaddon’s Gate” is a placeholder for the entire 9-novel “The Expanse” series (it’s\u00a0#3 in the series\u00a0… I’m currently reading #6, and plan to write an overall review when I’ve finished them all)<\/li>\n
  • “The Calculating Stars”\u00a0is\u00a0the 1st of\u00a02\u00a0science fiction novels\u00a0by Mary Robinette Kowal (the other is “The Fated Sky”)<\/li>\n
  • Michael Connelly’s “The Late Show” is the first of a new series featuring Ren\u00e9e Ballard,\u00a0a woman police detective in Los Angeles, who occasionally works with\u00a0a certain Harry Bosch<\/li>\n
  • The Lee Child cover, “Blue Moon,” represents the entire 24-novel Jack Reacher series,\u00a0which I started reading in 2018 (and will keep reading as long as Lee Child keeps cranking them out)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Each cover links to my Goodreads review of the book or the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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