Another stellar month. I got so far ahead of my needed Reading 50 Books This Year pace that I stopped a few that weren’t doing it for me, and even dared to get another physical book out to read.
What? But Reay, you read so painfully slowly!
I know, right? But I was that far ahead that I threw all caution to the wind.
Hey, listen, I make no apologies… my wife knew I was a loose cannon when she married me.
Here’s how the month shook out:
Read
Made Things – Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie – Freida McFadden
Savage Skies – Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Permafrost – Alastair Reynolds
And Put Away Childish Things – Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Defenders and Other Stories – Philip K. Dick
The Orville: Sympathy For The Devil – Seth MacFarlane
Started and Stopped
Remake – Connie Willis
Nightflyers – George R.R. Martin
Control Freaks – J.E. Thomas
The Circumference of the World – Lavie Tidhar
Reading
How To Write Funny – Scott Dikkers
We Need Your Art: Stop messing around and make something – Amie McNee
This month taught me that expectedly super engaging stories can burn slowly (The Orville story went seemingly needlessly far into the setup, I think well over half the book, to get to the real meat of the story, but it turned out to be solid), and great writers don’t always hit it out the park for everyone (this particular collection of Philip K. Dick stories was… lacklustre, and the George R.R. Martin story didn’t click with me at all, which was disappointing).
On the other hand, I’m close to half way through We Need Your Art, and I’ve suspected from its first few pages that it would be a positive seismic shift of reality for me. Really looking forward to the remaining part. And then I’ll likely purchase it after returning this copy to the library, so I can keep referring back to it for insight and inspiration. So, so good.
Onward!