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      End of Year Chart

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      BOOKS

      The Vegan Slow Cooker
      Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
      Conversations with Friends
      A Man With One of Those Faces
      Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
      Life Photographers: What They Saw
      20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Other Fabulous Flowers: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers
      The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
      Marian Bantjes: Pretty Pictures
      Homegoing
      Tomorrow I'll Be Brave
      Tomorrow I'll Be Kind
      Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
      Native Son
      Your Power to Create: From Wishful Thinking to True Manifestation
      Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
      The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
      Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
      The End of Your Life Book Club
      The Snow Child

      Top Ten Books for 2020

      1. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
      2. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon – Tom Spanbauer
      3. Range: Why Gerealists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein
      4. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet – Andrew Blum
      5. Pretty Pictures – Marian Bantjes
      6. Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
      7. Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
      8. Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn from Art – Helen Birch
      9. A Man With One of Those Faces – Caimh McDonnell
      10. Your Power to Create – Caroline Myss

      2020 was a good year for reading.

      Only three of the books from my reading list were published in 2020. Nine of the bookswere published in 2019. With 44 of the books published this millennuim. 

      View Books for 2020 Reading List.

      2020 Reading Challenge

      2020 Reading Challenge
      Gary has
      completed his goal of reading
      52 books in
      2020!
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      MUSIC

      Put your hands together one more time mix. It was great fun making the mix and thank you for the wonderful feedback. 

      2020 Playlist

      2020 was quite a good year for music.

      Jessie Ware, Roisin Murphy, Elder Island, and Dua Lipa were all on heavy rotation.  

      2020 – Song of the Year

      Note sure why my song of the year didn’t hit the heights it deserved. 

      The only thing that could make Honey by Wildligh and The Polish Ambassdor any better would be to obtain a copy of the lyrics.

      PODCASTS

      My Top Ten Podcasts

      1. Talk Art
      2. Design Matters
      3. The Art Angle
      4. Wordfence
      5. The CSS Podcast
      6. Getting Curious
      7. In Our Time: Philosophy
      8. History of Japan
      9. The History of Rome
      10. This Way Out

      I didn’t include links to the podcasts – as the same content is available on different Podcast services. Simply look up the podcast with the Podcast service you use.

      If the podcast is not available. Search for the podcast online.  

       

      2020 is the Year of the Podcast.

      While everyone is now publishing content. I found that I had to limit how many podcasts I could follow.

      Art, Design, Coding, Philosophy, and History are my main interests.

      With TalkArt & Design Matters topping my list of favorite podcast for 2020. I actually listened to the entire back catalog of TalkArt – so feeling inspired. 

      You couldn’t listen to a better creative blog than Design Matters by Debbie Millman. Debbie Millman has been broadcasting independently for over 15 years. And sets a high bar for quality  content.