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2018: The Year In Books

Another year has come to an end and it is time to take a look back at the 22 books I read over the past year, 6 less than last year.  Of those 22, 7 were non-fiction and, of the 15 novels, only 1 was a TV show tie-in.  Only one of the books came out of my dwindling “to-read” drawer, and 12 were e-books.  I read over 7,000 pages, my lowest total since at least 2013.

Once again, a majority of the books I read this year were by authors I’ve never read before. The 15 authors that I read for the first this year were:
Mamrie Hart
Dan Harris
Ginger Zee
Krysten Ritter
Karin Slaughter
Michelle West
Paul Ruditis
Michelle McNamara
David Ross
Don Yaeger
Araminta Hall
Amber Tamblyn
Laura Lippman
Lauren Graham
Drew Magary

There was not a single author that I read multiple titles from during 2018.

6 of the books I read were released this year, while 1 of them was released last century, exactly 60 years ago

Finally, the breakdown by month.  My vacation in September certainly helped pad its totals a tad bit.

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Book 4 (of 52) – Bonfire

Bonfire – Krysten Ritter

Actress Krysten Ritter, star of the hit Netflix show Jessica Jones, set the literary world ablaze with Bonfire, her first novel.  In it, a lawyer returns to her hometown hoping to both prove that a local company is poisoning the water table and solve the disappearance of her one-time best friend after high school.  Along the way, she rekindles old relationships and, eventually, finds the answers she was looking for.

I was a bit surprised at how good this book was.  When a celebrity gives some other creative endeavor a try, it is easy to dismiss it as a vanity project.  That certainly was not the case here.  I don’t know if there is more in the works from Ritter, but I would certainly be interested in reading it should there be.

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Post Mortem – Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23

Dont-Trust-the-BDon’t Trust The B—- In Apartment 23 debuted on ABC last spring as a mid-season replacement and earned itself a surprising renewal for a second season.  Sadly, whatever charms the show had in its first season were overshadowed in the second by a disjointed approach that mixed in first season episodes that had been held back with newly shot episodes, leaving no continuity to the show and having characters relationships change week to week.  Hopefully stars Dreama Walker and Krysten Ritter find themselves in new projects soon, as any problems this show had was not with them.

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2012 New Fall Season – Tuesdays

It’s time to take a look at the Tuesday night offerings for this season.

7:00

Raising Hope – The quirky Fox drama returns for its third season with more of the same hilarity.

7:30

Ben and Kate – The premiere episode wasn’t bad, and I was pretty impressed with Dakota Johnson as Kate, but I could feel Nat Faxon’s Ben starting to grate during the first half hour.  I’m not sure how much more of him I am willing to take.

8:00

Go On – Matthew Perry’s latest attempt to escape the shadow of Chandler Bing has aired three episodes already and it isn’t bad.  Perry plays a sports radio host who joins a support group after his wife died.

New Girl – Zooey Deschanel returns in one of last season’s break out comedy hits.  The show got stronger as the season went on and the writers found their footing, and I’m looking forward to its return.

Happy Endings – This went from a late season replacement to one of the most consistently funny comedies on TV last season.  The ensemble group plays well off of each other and the writers bring the funny every week.

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