A Year in Reading - 2013

You'll have to suffer through my &'s in my table.  I'm too lazy to fix the export from Access.  Yet one more year where my average rating decreased.  This year by 3/10 of a percent.  Ouch.  Maybe I am turning into a critical old man.  I'm impressed I read 1000 more pages than last year.  I thought I was really on the road to reading significantly less, particularly as I'd sort of made a commitment to read about 1500 pages a month (50 pages a day) and utterly failed (by over 5000 pages).  It could be argued those graphic novels don't count, but I didn't read them to make up the difference.  They were earlier in the year.  And I always have a few in my list so relatively, they count.

In retrospect, I'd rank Sweet Tooth lower (graphic novel).  Map of Sky lower (almost negative. Damn did I hate that book.  Particularly as Map of Time wasn't too bad - I feel mislead.  Deceived.  Duped.).  The Future is Japanese Higher (I still think about some of the stories).  Cryonic (my RAGBRAI book I purchased from The Vault in Iowa) lower.  Perhaps a negative .5 if Map of the Sky were a negative 1.  Law 101, Joe Hill's books (not graphic novels), Sacre' Bleu, Banks, Scalzi, Howey (I have a book left in the Silo Series - the writing isn't as solid in Shift, but the story was enjoyable), and Expanse were all highlights with The Expanse Series still being my favorite of the last year or so.  Hard scifi usually wins for me.  I'll also point out I really enjoyed Constellation Games, a recommendation from Mean Mr. Mustard.  More than the rating indicates.  He's never led me wrong (yet).

Scooter's Short List Current Year

DateRead	Title	Author	Rate
12/21/2013	Long War, The (Long Earth II)	Pratchett, Terry and Stephen Baxter	6.50
12/8/2013	How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control	Swain, Frank	8.00
12/7/2013	Goliath Stone, The	Niven, Larry & Matthew Joseph Harrington	2.00
12/1/2013	How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You	The Oatmeal	3.00
11/25/2013	Evil and the Mask	Nakamura, Fuminori	8.50
11/17/2013	Creeps, The	Connolly, John	5.00
9/1/2013	Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Silo Saga)	Howey, Hugh	8.50
8/14/2013	Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse III)	Corey, James S. A.	9.00
8/7/2013	Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest	Martinez, A. Lee	8.25
8/7/2013	Half-Made World, The	Gilman, Felix	7.50
8/1/2013	Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and the People Who Play It	Ewalt, David M.	8.25
7/31/2013	Doctor Who the Wheel of Ice	Baxter, Stephen	7.50
7/21/2013	Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law	Feinman, Jay M.	9.75
7/14/2013	Cryonic: A Zombie Novel	Bradberry, Travis	2.00
6/1/2013	Sword of Shannara Trilogy, The	Brooks, Terry	6.00
5/30/2013	Nos4A2	Hill, Joe	8.25
4/30/2013	Sacre' Bleu: A Comedy D'Art	Moore, Christopher	9.25
3/22/2013	Map of the Sky, The	Palma, Felix J.	2.00
3/15/2013	Constellation Games	Richardson, Leonard	8.25
3/1/2013	Horns: A Novel	Hill, Joe	8.75
2/22/2013	Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle	Scalzi, John	8.00
2/19/2013	Cipher, The	Koja, Kathe	7.50
2/15/2013	Locke & Key: Clockworks (5)	Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez	7.50
2/14/2013	Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows (3)	Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez	7.50
2/14/2013	Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom (4)	Hill, Joe & Gabriel Rodriguez	7.50
2/1/2013	Sweet Tooth: Out of the Deep Woods (1)	Lemire, Jeff	6.00
2/1/2013	Sweet Tooth: In Captivity (2)	Lemire, Jeff	6.00
1/31/2013	Blueprints of the Afterlife	Boudinot, Ryan	6.00
1/22/2013	Wearing the Cape	Harmon, Marion G.	5.00
1/21/2013	Map of Time, The	Palma, Felix J.	8.50
1/15/2013	Future is Japanese, The	Masumi Washington (Editor), Nick Mamatas (Editor)	7.50
1/8/2013	This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It	Wong, David	7.00
1/4/2013	The Hydrogen Sonata	Banks, Iain	8.75

Scott's Summary

DateRead By Year	Sum Of Pages	Avg Of Pages	AvgOfRate	Min Of Pages	Max Of Pages	Count Of BOOKSCOT
1994	15144	378.6	6.05	89	914	40
1995	13961	349.025	7.075	55	990	40
1996	18248	331.781818181818	7.21818181818182	7	985	55
1997	7997	333.208333333333	6.85416666666667	54	929	24
1998	9639	459	7.16666666666667	160	780	21
1999	7551	444.176470588235	8	159	835	17
2000	3770	418.888888888889	7.72222222222222	222	774	9
2001	16308	429.157894736842	7.38815789473684	184	1009	38
2002	10455	387.222222222222	7.61111111111111	123	783	27
2003	13203	400.090909090909	7.93181818181818	83	870	33
2004	12479	297.119047619048	7.88095238095238	8	815	42
2005	12890	322.25	7.6	103	1083	40
2006	16616	353.531914893617	7.6436170212766	114	845	47
2007	14219	236.983333333333	7.49166666666667	1	759	60
2008	19524	253.558441558442	7.38961038961039	60	593	77
2009	14273	223.015625	7.6953125	32	582	64
2010	7841	326.708333333333	7.30208333333333	136	1072	24
2011	14004	269.307692307692	7.85096153846154	96	656	52
2012	11735	366.71875	7.2890625	40	954	32
2013	12882	390.363636363636	6.93939393939394	125	1200	33