I turned in my Read 100 list to the Kanawha County library earlier this week, and obtained my “gold” (yellow) library card. I realize that this is a pretty minor accomplishment, but I’m still very pleased.
I’m less pleased about the fact that my Xbox 360 died, again, but rumors that this fact had anything to do with my completion of the Read 100 challenge are absolutely incorrect.
Since the move, I’ve slacked a bit on my reading, and I’ve definitely slacked on logging the books I’ve read for the Read 100 challenge. Since my last post, I’ve read:
That puts me at eight books so far this year, and we’re just over two months into the year. I have 92 books to go in ten months, so I need to average 9.2 books a month… I’ve got to more than double my pace if I want to get this done.
The good news is that I’ve been reading a lot less than normal because of the move and some stuff at work; once that’s over, I should be back up to normal and catch back up to where I should be.
I hope.
We moved last weekend, and the preparations for the move (not to mention the move itself) kind of interfered with my Read 100 challenge. In order to get my pace back up where it needs to be, I picked up a couple of Nero Wolfe novels (by Rex Stout). I finished one this morning, Please Pass the Guilt, and just started Before Midnight.
I’ve got a lot of blog reading to catch up on in addition to reading in general, so I’m off.
I finished Founding Brothers and have started Bellwether by Connie Willis. Founding Brothers was a good read, but a more detailed summary will have to wait, as I’m unfortunately tied up with packing for our move next weekend.
Finished Darkness of the Light (by Peter David) last night. That’s two books in four days, for an average of two days per book. The way I figure it, since I started in the Read 100 challenge on the thirteenth, I need to average about 3.52 days per book, so I’m doing pretty well.
Darkness of the Light was pretty much typical Peter David. I’m not sure if it counts as Science Fiction or Fantasy; it seems to be about Earth many, many years after it was overrun by twelve races from an alternate dimension. However, since those races are mythological races from ancient tales (the Oculars are cyclopses(?), Trulls are Trolls, etc.), and the tone of the story is mostly fantasy (if one ignores the presence of cars). Either way, it was very good.
As one can always expect from PAD, the story has plenty of puns and jokes based on literal interpretations of various figures of speech. There are also plenty of interesting plot twists. Unfortunately, there are still two more books in the series (to my knowledge, these haven’t been published yet), and the book’s end feels very unfinished.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the story.
My next book is Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis.