Books read 2018: July-September
Dec. 10th, 2018 12:16 am07/09 Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
07/12 The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
07/13 Top Secret Recipes, Todd Wilbur
07/14 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compiled by Paul Reps (rr)
07/15 The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff (rr)
07/17 Tao Te Ching
07/20 How to Travel with a Salmon, Umberto Eco
07/23 Mort (DW 4), Pratchett (rr)
07/23 Sourcery (DW 5), Pratchett (rr)
07/24 The Light Fantastic (DW 2), Pratchett (rr)
07/25 Equal Rites (DW 3), Pratchett (rr)
07/26 Wyrd Sisters (DW 6), Pratchett (rr)
07/27 Eric (DW 9), Pratchett (rr)
07/30 Pyramids (DW 7), Pratchett (rr)
08/03 Moving Pictures (DW 10), Pratchett (rr)
08/11 Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson (rr~)
08/15 Reaper Man (DW 11), Pratchett (rr)
08/20 Witches Abroad (DW 12), Pratchett (rr)
08/22 Small Gods (DW 13), Pratchett (rr)
09/02 Lords and Ladies (DW 14), Pratchett (rr)
09/06 Men at Arms (DW 15), Pratchett (rr)
09/08 Soul Music (DW 16), Pratchett (rr)
09/12 Interesting Times (DW 17), Pratchett (rr)
09/20 Maskerade (DW 18), Pratchett (rr)
09/24 Feet of Clay (DW 19), Pratchett (rr)
These 25 plus the previous 36 brings me up to 61 as of the end of September, so well beyond one a week average. Pratchetts are quick reads, that helps a lot, it's easy to knock off two or three a week if I'm not otherwise very busy.
HUGE amount of re-reads, mainly because I started re-reading my Terry Pratchett cannon in June and continued. Of 25 books read, none were physical and five were first-time reads with one, Snow Crash, being what I thought was a re-read but there was so much material that I didn’t recognize I think that I had never read the whole thing through. Most likely I read an excerpt in Analog Magazine or something.
The reason for the dive in to Buddhism is I had a dream that was crazy vivid and made for a really cool short story, but was set at a Buddhist temple. I’ve read two of those books before, so I re-read them and started reading some more. The story is still in progress and is far beyond short story length, in fact it’s forked and spun-off into a sort of origin story for the protagonist. It continues in fits and starts.
On to the comments! I’m going to change the order a bit so that the non-Discworld books are together, which only requires moving Snow Crash.
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07/12 The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
07/13 Top Secret Recipes, Todd Wilbur
07/14 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compiled by Paul Reps (rr)
07/15 The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff (rr)
07/17 Tao Te Ching
07/20 How to Travel with a Salmon, Umberto Eco
07/23 Mort (DW 4), Pratchett (rr)
07/23 Sourcery (DW 5), Pratchett (rr)
07/24 The Light Fantastic (DW 2), Pratchett (rr)
07/25 Equal Rites (DW 3), Pratchett (rr)
07/26 Wyrd Sisters (DW 6), Pratchett (rr)
07/27 Eric (DW 9), Pratchett (rr)
07/30 Pyramids (DW 7), Pratchett (rr)
08/03 Moving Pictures (DW 10), Pratchett (rr)
08/11 Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson (rr~)
08/15 Reaper Man (DW 11), Pratchett (rr)
08/20 Witches Abroad (DW 12), Pratchett (rr)
08/22 Small Gods (DW 13), Pratchett (rr)
09/02 Lords and Ladies (DW 14), Pratchett (rr)
09/06 Men at Arms (DW 15), Pratchett (rr)
09/08 Soul Music (DW 16), Pratchett (rr)
09/12 Interesting Times (DW 17), Pratchett (rr)
09/20 Maskerade (DW 18), Pratchett (rr)
09/24 Feet of Clay (DW 19), Pratchett (rr)
These 25 plus the previous 36 brings me up to 61 as of the end of September, so well beyond one a week average. Pratchetts are quick reads, that helps a lot, it's easy to knock off two or three a week if I'm not otherwise very busy.
HUGE amount of re-reads, mainly because I started re-reading my Terry Pratchett cannon in June and continued. Of 25 books read, none were physical and five were first-time reads with one, Snow Crash, being what I thought was a re-read but there was so much material that I didn’t recognize I think that I had never read the whole thing through. Most likely I read an excerpt in Analog Magazine or something.
The reason for the dive in to Buddhism is I had a dream that was crazy vivid and made for a really cool short story, but was set at a Buddhist temple. I’ve read two of those books before, so I re-read them and started reading some more. The story is still in progress and is far beyond short story length, in fact it’s forked and spun-off into a sort of origin story for the protagonist. It continues in fits and starts.
On to the comments! I’m going to change the order a bit so that the non-Discworld books are together, which only requires moving Snow Crash.
( Read more... )