{"id":9639,"date":"2025-01-04T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/2025\/01\/04\/2024-my-year-in-books-and-with-commissario-brunetti\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T01:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:39:36","slug":"2024-my-year-in-books-and-with-commissario-brunetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/2025\/01\/04\/2024-my-year-in-books-and-with-commissario-brunetti\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: My Year in Books And With Commissario Brunetti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The new year has begun and, somewhat belatedly, I would like to take another look at the past year, specifically at my reading workload. I already summarized and presented my list in 2019<\/a>, 2020<\/a>, 2021<\/a> and 2022<\/a>. Unfortunately, I didn’t get around to it in 2023, but 2024 is now on the agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what and how much did I read in 2024? Quite a lot. I read 339 books, magazines and comics. This figure eclipses last year’s record with an increase of 18%. On average, I read almost 1 book, magazine or comic per day, in three languages: German, English and French. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Number of books, magazines and comics read from 2019 to 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I keep a close record of my book reading, because as an author I have to do research from time to time and be able to efficiently search my library, which currently contains around 4,000 to 5,000 books, including around 1,000 French comic books. On the one hand, I have a Google spreadsheet in which I enter my reading workload, and on the other, I use Librarything<\/a> to catalog my books. The latter helps me to quickly look up what I already have when I’m traveling, especially when I’m in a French comic store and wonder which volumes in a series I already have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how does my 2024 reading list break down? Of the 339 works, 184 were comic books (mostly French and a few German), 56 non-fiction books, 2 biographies, 32 magazines, 1 illustrated book, 4 children’s books, one memoir and 46 novels. And of the latter, three quarters were crime novels, namely those by Donna Leon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissario Brunetti<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the last six months of 2024, I devoured Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series. In the 33 volumes, Venice is at the center of the murders and other strange occurrences that Guido Brunetti investigates together with Signorina Elettra, a fashion-conscious employee who can hack every computer system in her flower-filled office, the beautiful, The case must be solved by the beautiful Commissario Claudia Griffoni from Naples, Brunetti’s best friend Sergente Bruno Vianello and, of course, her Vice-Questore Patta, who is always smartly dressed and readily takes credit for successes and blames others for failures. The biggest villain? The machinations of her associate Tenente Scarpa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The books are full of descriptions – not only of the gruesome murders – but of the food that Brunetti’s wife Paola prepares for him every day, despite her work as an English professor at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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