Jamie B's Fall/Winter Reading Log

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Jamie B's Fall/Winter Reading Log

1JBarringer
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 1, 2022, 6:45 pm

As much as I like Goodreads, I'll never get used to LibraryThing unless I start using it to track my reading.
I am playing a 'reading relay' with my reading this season, with my huge TBR divvied up into stacks roughly by categories, and as I finish a book in my actively-reading stack, it gets swapped out by another from its category/stack. Each week I can reset my TBR and adjust my stacks.
Here's my current reading stack:
SciFi & Fantasy-
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
The Magicians
Hollow Kingdom
Camouflage
The Complete Book of Swords
The Tower of Nero
The Further Adventures of Lucky Starr
Eyes of the Calculor
The Burning Page
The Jekyll Legacy
Ride the Green Dragon

Non-fiction-
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Apollo: The Race To The Moon
The Gift
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
The Twelve Caesars

Literature/short stories/other-
Solovyov and Larionov
The Simple Art of Murder
Seven Short Novels
Everything's Eventual
A Widow for One Year
Tiger Burning Bright
White Fur
Tea with the Black Dragon
The Dragon Rises

Crime/murder mystery-
Hamlet, Revenge!
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Dark Places
The Minotaur's Head: An Eberhard Mock Investigation
The Sound and the Furry
The Real Macaw
The Night of the Fire
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.
Ink and Shadows
The Final Curtain
Paw and Order
The Coldest Night
Murder in Merino
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Nursing Homes Are Murder
Silent City
Madam

Literature-
The Greenlanders
The Reader
Baltasar and Blimunda
Modern American Plays(1942) - no Goodreads page yet for this one, apparently
In Evil Hour
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wind off the Small Isles

Library reading game - (I go to the main library here on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month, so the game is that I started with 5 books from the 'A's in general adult fiction. Week 2 I picked 5 from the B's, etc.)
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Make Russia Great Again
The House of Rust
Arcadia
Tooth and Claw
In the Kingdom of Men

The Sister's Books -
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Marlfox
On Wings of Magic
Blood Trillium
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Fledgling
Purple Hibiscus
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
Post Captain
Commodore Hornblower
Desolation Island
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians
Poor Folk and Other Stories
The Government Inspector and Other Russian Plays: The Infant; Chatsky; Thunder
Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers
Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Doctor Who: Escape Velocity
Doctor Who: Players
Doctor Who: Earthworld
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Combat Magicks

L'amour/Marsh/Francis books-
The Sky-Liners
Shalako
The Warrior's Path
The Lonely Men
Sitka
A Grave Mistake
Last Ditch
When in Rome
Passin' Through
Hand in Glove
Dead Water
Whip Hand
Trial Run
Reflex
Decider
The Danger

Auxillary Stack -
Ghost Abbey
Rite of Passage
Deeper than the Darkness
All Under Heaven
Here Abide Monsters
Now and Forever
The Rider of Lost Creek
Operation Time Search
Sea Siege

This week I've finished: Showdown at Yellow Butte(Louis L'Amour), Poseidon's Wake
(Alastair Reynolds), Singing in the Shrouds (Ngaio Marsh), Mirror of Destiny (Andre Norton), Star Well (Alexei Panshin), The Chinese Gold Murders (Robert van Gulik), At Night We Walk in Circles (Daniel Alarcon), A Guide to Being Born: Stories (Ramona Ausubel), The Long Sunset(Jack McDevitt), The Big Needle(Ken Follett)

2Carol420
syyskuu 24, 2022, 10:11 am

>1 JBarringer: Hi Jamie. Great to have you here. I see you joined in 2017 so you've piled up quite a reading list. If you have any questions, please feel free to just ask. We may not have all the answers, but we'll be happy to help.

3JBarringer
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 1, 2022, 7:19 pm

Viestin kirjoittaja on poistanut viestin.

4JBarringer
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 30, 2022, 1:24 pm

October, Week 1 TBR
New month, new reading stacks. I am still organizing my reading as relays, so my small stack of books I am actively reading includes 1-2 books from each group and as I finish them they get replaced with others from their respective groups. Each week I can adjust the stacks, but only at the start of the week (except w/the library stack that gets replenished every 2 wks).

SciFi & Fantasy
The Magicians
Hollow Kingdom
Camouflage
The Complete Book of Swords
The Tower of Nero
The Further Adventures of Lucky Starr
Eyes of the Calculor
The Burning Page
The Jekyll Legacy
Ride the Green Dragon

Non-fiction
The Twelve Caesars
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Apollo: The Race To The Moon
The Gift
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
The Five "Confucian" Classics
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
Islands of Abandonment
The Oak Papers
Barnacle Love
Ten Philosophical Mistakes

Literature/short stories/other
The Simple Art of Murder
Seven Short Novels
Everything's Eventual
Tiger Burning Bright
White Fur
Tea with the Black Dragon
The Dragon Rises
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1993
We Others: New and Selected Stories

Crime/murder mystery
Hamlet, Revenge!
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Dark Places
The Sound and the Furry
The Real Macaw
The Night of the Fire
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.
Ink and Shadows
The Final Curtain
Paw and Order
The Coldest Night
Murder in Merino
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Nursing Homes Are Murder
Silent City
Madam

Literature
The Greenlanders
The Reader
Baltasar and Blimunda
Modern American Plays(1942) - no Goodreads page yet for this one, apparently
In Evil Hour
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wind off the Small Isles
A Widow for One Year

Library reading game (will get new books Sunday)
Make Russia Great Again
The House of Rust
Tooth and Claw
Ragnarok
Fear: A Novel of World War I
Edge Case
Piranesi
Summerland

The Sister's Books
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Marlfox
On Wings of Magic
Blood Trillium
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Fledgling
Purple Hibiscus
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
Post Captain
Commodore Hornblower
Desolation Island
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians
Poor Folk and Other Stories
The Government Inspector and Other Russian Plays: The Infant; Chatsky; Thunder
Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers
Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Doctor Who: Escape Velocity
Doctor Who: Players
Doctor Who: Earthworld
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Combat Magicks

L'amour/Marsh/Francis books
The Warrior's Path
The Lonely Men
Sitka
The Rider of Lost Creek
A Grave Mistake
Last Ditch
When in Rome
Passin' Through
Hand in Glove
Dead Water
Whip Hand
Trial Run
Blood Sport
Reflex
Decider
The Danger
Banker
Enquiry
Smokescreen
Driving Force

Auxillary Stack
Rite of Passage
Deeper than the Darkness
All Under Heaven
Here Abide Monsters
Now and Forever
Operation Time Search
Sea Siege
The White Bone
The Fault in Our Stars
Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 4
Me and Orson Welles
Me Before You
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
The Abode of Life
Vulcan's Glory

Finished:
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Emily Austin)
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy(Jeff Vandermeer)
Arcadia (Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam)
The Sky-Liners (Louis L'Amour)
Ghost Abbey (Robert Westall)
The Minotaur's Head: An Eberhard Mock Investigation (Marek Krajewski)
Shalako (Louis L'Amour)
Land of Big Numbers: Stories (Te-Ping Chen)
In the Kingdom of Men (Kim Barnes)
Solovyov and Larionov (Eugene Vodolazkin)

5JBarringer
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 30, 2022, 1:22 pm

October Week 2 TBR Stacks
I'm leaning towards doing a theme for the readathon in a few weeks, either focusing on my sister's books or maybe on murder mysteries. In the meantime I have a few more of the pre-readathon challenge prompts left to finish. I added a couple new books to the mix, and this time organized them in groups of 5, still reading relay style, so the top book, in bold, is the active book for its group.
Started:

The Magicians
The Hydrogen Sonata
The Twelve Caesars
Baltasar and Blimunda
Deeper than the Darkness

Finished:
Doctor Who: Escape Velocity
Summerland
The Warrior's Path
Last Ditch
Me and Orson Welles
Whip Hand

7JBarringer
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 30, 2022, 1:09 pm

October, Week 4 TBR

The Magicians
Hollow Kingdom
Camouflage
The Complete Book of Swords
The Tower of Nero
The Further Adventures of Lucky Starr
Eyes of the Calculor
The Burning Page
The Jekyll Legacy
The Hydrogen Sonata
Runebinder
Roadside Picnic
China Mountain Zhang
Spinning Silver: A Novel

The Twelve Caesars
Apollo: The Race To The Moon
Making Malcolm: The Myth And Meaning Of Malcolm X
Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
The Gift
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
The Five "Confucian" Classics
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
Islands of Abandonment
The Oak Papers
Barnacle Love
Ten Philosophical Mistakes

The Simple Art of Murder
Seven Short Novels
Everything's Eventual
Tiger Burning Bright
Searoad
White Fur
Tea with the Black Dragon
The Dragon Rises
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1993
We Others: New and Selected Stories

Hamlet, Revenge!
Ink and Shadows
For the Love of Parvati
Buried In Books
A Real Basket Case
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Dark Places
The Sound and the Furry
The Real Macaw
The Night of the Fire

The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.
The Final Curtain
Paw and Order
The Coldest Night
Murder in Merino
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Nursing Homes Are Murder
Madam

The Greenlanders
The Reader
How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories
The Long Valley
The Pocket Book of Modern American Plays
In Evil Hour
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wind off the Small Isles
A Widow for One Year

Library reading game
Make Russia Great Again
The House of Rust
Tooth and Claw
Edge Case
Piranesi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The President and the Frog

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Marlfox
On Wings of Magic
City of the Beast: Or Warriors of Mars
The Litigators
Blood Trillium
Fledgling
Purple Hibiscus
Post Captain
Commodore Hornblower
Desolation Island
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians

Poor Folk and Other Stories
The Government Inspector and Other Russian Plays: The Infant; Chatsky; Thunder
Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers
Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Doctor Who: Players
Doctor Who: Earthworld
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Combat Magicks

The Lonely Men
Sitka
The Rider of Lost Creek
Under the Sweetwater Rim
Passin' Through
Hand in Glove
Dead Water

Trial Run
Reflex
The Danger
Driving Force

Deeper than the Darkness
All Under Heaven
Here Abide Monsters
Now and Forever
Operation Time Search
Sea Siege
The White Bone
The Fault in Our Stars
Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 4

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
The Abode of Life
Vulcan's Glory
Options
Lord Jim
Death By Misadventure
The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One
Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Age of Treachery

Finished: Ride the Green Dragon, Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490, Claire of the Sea Light, Ragnarok, Silent City, Attack Surface
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, Content, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Enquiry Breath, Eyes, Memory Underland: A Deep Time Journey

8JBarringer
Muokkaaja: marraskuu 26, 2022, 10:40 pm

November TBR
My shelves are over-stuffed, so this month I am prioritizing bigger books, that when finished will free up more shelf-space more quickly. Thus, my TBR stacks look huge, but actually have fewer books in them.

Big books:
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Mara and Dann
The Night of the Fire
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S
Joust

White Fur
All Day and a Night
Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
11/22/63
Somersault
Collapse
The Drowning

The Splendid and the Vile
The Wheel of Darkness
Killing Commendatore
The Apache Wars
Vitals

The Magician's Lands
The Magician King
Double Blind
The Middleman
The Coincidence Makers

Madam
Miranda and Caliban
Stargazer
Brisingr
Inheritance

The City of Falling Angels
The Darkangel Trilogy
The Great Hunger
Complete Tales and Poems
Broke in America

Dragonfly
Babel Tower
A Widow for One Year
The Complete Book of Swords
The Five "Confucian" Classics

Library Reading Game:
Tooth and Claw
The House of Rust
Piranesi

Finished: All Is Not Forgotten, Make Russia Great Again, The Magicians, Edge Case, The President and the Frog, The Hydrogen Sonata, Blue Mars, Stiff, Troy, Dead Man's Folly Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress