Twenty Twenty-One began here in the U.S. with a violent insurrection waged against the government. By the end of June, I was a father and forty. Here on the last day of December, we’re staring down a difficult January thanks to an evolved, fast-spreading virus. A lot happened in between. Please stop the rollercoaster, I’d like to get off.

I do hope you are all well and stay well. Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. Do it for yourself and for those around you who for whatever reason may suffer more greatly than you should they get ill.

Through all of that, I managed a bit of reading:

Fiction and Non-Fiction

• Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails: Practical Tips for Building Web Applications that Last by David Bryant Copeland
• SOLID is not Solid: Five Object-Oriented Principles To Create a Codebase Everyone Will Hate by David Bryant Copeland
• Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm
• Exceptional Ruby: Master the Art of Handling Failure in Ruby by Avdi Grimm
• Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers edited by Mike Ashley
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans
• The Airs Of Earth by Brian W. Aldiss
• Socialism… Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation by Danny Katch
• Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk About It) by Elizabeth Anderson

Graphic Novels

• Rise of the Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Evan Narcisse, and Paul Renaud
• Batman: Haunted Knight (New Edition) by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
• Spider-Man: Life Story by Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley
• The Life of Captain Marvel by Margaret Stohl and Carlos Pacheco
• Batman Noir: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
• The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta
• The Vision, Volume 2: Little Better than a Beast by Tom King and Michael Walsh
• Scarlet Witch by James Robinson: The Complete Collection by James Robinson, Vanesa R. Del Rey, Marco Rudy, Steve Dillon, and Chris Visions
• Black Widow, Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread by Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto
• Black Widow, Volume 2: The Tightly Tangled Web by Nathan Edmondson, Phil Noto, and Mitch Gerads
• Black Widow, Volume 3: Last Days by Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto

I’ve posted my reading lists since 2015. Previous posts are available at:

• Year-To-Date Reading Report (Mid-2015 Edition)
• End-Of-Year Reading Report (2015 Edition)
• End-Of-Year Reading Report (2016 & 2017 Edition)
• End-Of-Year Reading Report (2018 Edition)
• Year-To-Date Reading Report (Mid-2019 Edition)
• End-Of-Year Reading Report (2019 Edition)
• End-Of-Year Reading Report (2020 Edition)

If you’d like to follow along more regularly, you can find me on Goodreads.