Ten books read in December brings the total for 2014 up to eightyeight in total, six up from 2013. I’d hoped to have more of an end spurt, but a short illness put paid to that. 2014 has been the most unbalanced reading year since I started keeping count in 2001: seventyfour fiction books, of […]
Nine books read this month, which began strongly but petered out a bit as a couple of tough books slowed me down. Schitterende Wereld — Mel Hartman A disappointing collection of sf short stories based on an interesting concept: twelve stories based on the work of six world famous scientists. Broken Homes — Ben Aaronovitch […]
October was a fruitful month for me, with twelve books read in total. The Zero Stone — Andre Norton A great, fast paced space opera adventure story made somewhat weird by the conspicuous lack of female characters. Ordeal in Otherwhere — Andre Norton This instead had an actual female protagonist and was a good coming […]
Guess what? I actually read some non-fiction this month, in the shape of a history of the 1953 Iranian coup. Apart from that, I’ve also dipped my toes in the troubled waters of Dutch science fiction and fantasy, thoroughly enjoyed Kameron Hurley’s new novel but was slightly dissappointed to still have only read six books […]
August has been a milestone month for me; not only did I turn forty, I also went to my first Worldcon. I had wanted to go to the Glasgow Worldcon nine years ago, but what with having been unemployed the year before and buying a house with Sandra, there just wasn’t either the money or […]