The Exposition
2010 marks the sixth year of my 52 Books in 52 Weeks meme, where I challenge myself to read a minimum of 52 books in the coming calendar year, and then briefly review each book here on A Modest Construct.
The Others
Other bloggers doing this meme or some variant:
- JMadigan (Not 52-in-52, but reading & reviewing nonetheless)
- Dennis Kennedy
The Books
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Fire in the Grove
by John Esposito - Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 288
- №1
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Still Life With Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins - Publisher: Bantam Books
- Year: 1980/1990
- Pages: 277
- №2
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Last Words
by George Carlin - Publisher: Free Press
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 320
- №3
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An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green - Publisher: Speak
- Year: 2006/2008
- Pages: 272
- №4
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card - Publisher: Tor
- Year: 1985/1994
- Pages: 384
- №5
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Perfect Rigor
by Masha Gessen - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 256
- №6
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson - Publisher: Spectra
- Year: 1992/1993
- Pages: 480
- №7
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The Wild Things
by Dave Eggers - Publisher: McSweeney's
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 300
- №8
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The Guinea Pig Diaries
by A.J. Jacobs - Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 256
- №9
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
by John Perkins - Publisher: Plume
- Year: 2004/2005
- Pages: 303
- №10
Love the new layout! Looks great!
I’ve just stumbled upon your site and wanted to tell you how great I think your layout is. I too review books at my website – not sure I’ll manage 52 in 52 this year but I do have a big stack of books to get through and I’m taking part in lots of reading challenges.
Always good to find another book blogger :)
If you mean the current, theme, I can’t take the credit for that. It’s Renegade, by Matt@FrostPress, with some minor customizations by me.
Always glad to see more book-bloggers, especially those undertaking 52-in-52.
I found your ‘Now Reading Reloaded’ plugin and just love it! I have been wanting a way to share what I am reading/have read with others on my blog. I plan on adding reviews as well. I am still working on entering in the books first. It’s a good start though. I think I may take up the same challenge as you have: 52 in 52.
I have a couple questions.
How do you format the book listings as you do on your site? When I install the plugin on my site, it only shows the author and title. Yours is laid out much nicer and includes more information (Publisher, Year, Pages, cover image). How do I get that info to show up? Can I also get an excerpt from a review to show up on the book list? I even installed the same theme you are using to see if that would make a difference, but it doesn’t show the same as yours.
On your page ‘http://heliologue.com/52-books-in-52-weeks/’ you have a list of different years and the stats for each year. How did you get this to display? Is it automatic using a script or a plugin? Or did you do this manually?
How do you get only the books for each year to show without showing the rest of the years?
And lastly, is there a way to have the books show for different categories?
Thank you for sharing such a great plugin and for any help you are able to offer.
Hi, Kegan. Glad you like the plugin. The book listings you see on my site aren’t part of the NRR plugin; they’re a custom thing that I maintain, specifically a set of shortcodes to separate the presentation into a single place, and they’re entirely separate from my library display, etc.
How’d you set up the yearly index? Is that using WP’s ‘add option’ or is it something that could be packaged with NRR?
No; it’s just me manually entering books into a standard WordPress post. You could, I suppose, approximate something using the standard NRR facilities, but it would need to be expanded to accommodate all this other information.