{"id":2055,"date":"2022-01-04T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/2022\/01\/04\/2021-mein-jahr-in-buechern\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:25:38","slug":"2021-my-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2022\/01\/04\/2021-my-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: My Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already <a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2020\/12\/30\/2020-my-year-of-books\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1463\">last year<\/a> I presented a few books I read during the first pandemic year 2020, and in 2021 I could add one more. The pandemic is still here, new variants come and dominate, and that leaves time for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this year I read 87 non-fiction books, 109 (mostly French) comics, a few picture books, children&#8217;s books and lots of magazines. I also acquired about a hundred old Mickey Mouse issues on ebay, which I&#8217;m halfway through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have the (almost) entire list of comics and books on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/mherger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Librarything<\/a>, where I&#8217;ve been maintaining this content for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, therefore, a slight increase in my reading volume from last year. And also this year, some books particularly caught my eye, either because of their content and\/or because of the graphic presentation of the story (comics). Here is a small selection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"comics\">Comics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2021\/11\/30\/black-burlesque\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noir Burlesque<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2021\/12\/08\/i-dream-of-djinn-an-erotic-excursion-into-the-world-of-sultans-goddesses-and-maharajas\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Djinn<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2021\/11\/04\/despite-everything-the-story-of-a-love\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Malgre Tout<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2021\/11\/30\/foolhardy-stories\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contes Dr\u00f4latique<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2021\/11\/04\/are-there-differences-in-love-tots-philosophize-about-profound-things\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sur le chemin<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"non-fiction\">Non-fiction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>framers<\/li><li>Data feminism<\/li><li>The Innovation Illusion<\/li><li>Scale<\/li><li>Innovation Capital<\/li><li>The Zoologist&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already last year I presented a few books I read during the first pandemic year 2020, and in 2021 I could add one more. The pandemic is still here, new variants come and dominate, and that leaves time for reading. So this year I read 87 non-fiction books, 109 (mostly French) comics, a few picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2022\/01\/04\/2021-my-year-in-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2021: My Year In Books<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8770504,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/globalmelange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Books-2021.png?fit=2000%2C1127&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa4blB-x9","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8770504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}