{"id":907,"date":"2005-01-04T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:16","slug":"2004-book-log-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"2004 Book Log in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

20 books. That’s all I read in 2004. It seems light. I feel like I must have missed some. But perhaps I just had a toddler.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Cartoon History of the Universe Book 1<\/u> – Larry Gonick <\/li>\n
  2. The Cartoon History of the Universe Book 3<\/u> – Larry Gonick <\/li>\n
  3. The Mismeasure of Man<\/u> – Stephen Jay Gould <\/li>\n
  4. Business Lessons for Entrepreneurs: 35 Things I learned before the Age of Thirty<\/u> – Mark D. Csordos <\/li>\n
  5. The Fun Of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town – New Yorker<\/u> – Edited by Lillian Ross <\/li>\n
  6. Shadow Puppets<\/u> – Orson Scott Card <\/li>\n
  7. Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle<\/u> – Neal Stephenson <\/li>\n
  8. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced look at the Right.<\/u> – Al Franken <\/li>\n
  9. How to Buy & Manage Rental Properties<\/u> – Irene and Mike Milin. <\/li>\n
  10. Dress Your Family in Coruroy and Denim<\/u> – David Sedaris. <\/li>\n
  11. The Well of Lost Plots<\/u> – Jasper Fforde’s <\/li>\n
  12. Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings<\/u> – Christopher Moore. <\/li>\n
  13. The Rattlesnake Master<\/u> – Beaufort Cranford <\/li>\n
  14. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal<\/u> – Eric Schlosser. <\/li>\n
  15. Running With Scissors: a memoir<\/u> – Augusten Burroughs <\/li>\n
  16. The Richest Man in Babylon<\/u> – George S. Clason <\/li>\n
  17. Monstrous Regiment<\/u> – Terry Pratchett <\/li>\n
  18. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002<\/u> – Edited by Dave Eggers and Michael Cart. <\/li>\n
  19. The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer<\/u> – Doron Swade <\/li>\n
  20. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin<\/u> – Stephen Jay Gould <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Currently on my reading table are:<\/p>\n

    Value Investing with the Masters<\/u> – Kirk Kazanjian
    \nThe Confusion: Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle<\/u> – Neal Stephenson
    \nThe Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World<\/u> – A.J. Jacobs
    \nMade In America: My Story<\/u> – Sam Walton (with John Huey)<\/p>\n

    —–Edited to add:
    \n21! I forgot about:<\/p>\n

    21. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason<\/u> – Helen Fielding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    20 books. That’s all I read in 2004. It seems light. I feel like I must have missed some. But perhaps I just had a toddler. The Cartoon History of the Universe Book 1 – Larry Gonick The Cartoon History … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[48,81],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2004","tag-book-log-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}