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My 2011 Reading List
14 years ago
UPDATE 1/13/2011: Added links to My GoodReads Profile where I've decided to keep track of this, post ratings/reviews, etc. For books I've read, click on the star rating to see my review.
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I used to read a lot. Up through high school, at least. Since then I've gradually let other things take over my time and attention, and I've been reading less and less, to the point where I think I had read one book cover-to-cover in the past 4-5 years. At the same time, though, I've had a constant nagging thought in the back of my head that I really should get back to reading. I never got up the motivation to actually go to the bookstore or a library and pick something up, though.
Then I was gifted a Kindle for Christmas.
I've already completed a couple of books, and I've loaded up a few more in a sort of "to read later" list. Amazon lets you load a sample of the book - usually the first couple of chapters or so - and I've been using that as a way of keeping track of what I want to read, without buying them yet.
Here's where I stand so far:
READ: (click the stars to see my review)
1. [***__] 2600: The Hacker Digest - Volume 26 (More of a compilation of articles than a book, but hey)
2. [*****] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. [**___] Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love - Larry Levin [finished 01-09-2011] (not as poorly written as I first thought, first chapter is a slog but it gets better)
4. [****_] The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson [finished 01-11-2011]
READING NOW:
5. Out of Position - Kyell Gold [started 01-14-2011]
TO BE READ (not necessarily in this order):
6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
7. Life, The Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
8. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
9. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
10. Waterways - Kyell Gold (yup, it's gay furry erotica)
11. Lightning - Dean Koontz
12. Mr. Murder - Dean Koontz
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
14. The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett (first book of the Discworld series)
15. It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News - Drew Curtis
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
17. The Definitive HP Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume (Halcyon Classics) - H. P. Lovecraft
18. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman [added 01-09-2011] (saw the movie, figure I'll read the book)
19. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card [added 01-09-2011]
I'm open to suggestions for anything else I should add! :)
I also started following the MobileRead forums, which are all about e-readers and what you can do with them. Someone started a "100 books in 2011" challenge, which I was tempted to try until I realized that's about 2 books a week. I'm not sure I can find that sort of time. But I'd like to try for at least 25 - that's 2 books a month.
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I used to read a lot. Up through high school, at least. Since then I've gradually let other things take over my time and attention, and I've been reading less and less, to the point where I think I had read one book cover-to-cover in the past 4-5 years. At the same time, though, I've had a constant nagging thought in the back of my head that I really should get back to reading. I never got up the motivation to actually go to the bookstore or a library and pick something up, though.
Then I was gifted a Kindle for Christmas.
I've already completed a couple of books, and I've loaded up a few more in a sort of "to read later" list. Amazon lets you load a sample of the book - usually the first couple of chapters or so - and I've been using that as a way of keeping track of what I want to read, without buying them yet.
Here's where I stand so far:
READ: (click the stars to see my review)
1. [***__] 2600: The Hacker Digest - Volume 26 (More of a compilation of articles than a book, but hey)
2. [*****] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. [**___] Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love - Larry Levin [finished 01-09-2011] (not as poorly written as I first thought, first chapter is a slog but it gets better)
4. [****_] The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson [finished 01-11-2011]
READING NOW:
5. Out of Position - Kyell Gold [started 01-14-2011]
TO BE READ (not necessarily in this order):
6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
7. Life, The Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
8. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
9. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
10. Waterways - Kyell Gold (yup, it's gay furry erotica)
11. Lightning - Dean Koontz
12. Mr. Murder - Dean Koontz
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
14. The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett (first book of the Discworld series)
15. It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News - Drew Curtis
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
17. The Definitive HP Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume (Halcyon Classics) - H. P. Lovecraft
18. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman [added 01-09-2011] (saw the movie, figure I'll read the book)
19. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card [added 01-09-2011]
I'm open to suggestions for anything else I should add! :)
I also started following the MobileRead forums, which are all about e-readers and what you can do with them. Someone started a "100 books in 2011" challenge, which I was tempted to try until I realized that's about 2 books a week. I'm not sure I can find that sort of time. But I'd like to try for at least 25 - that's 2 books a month.
Susan Cooper - the Dark is Rising sequence - Over Sea, Under Stone - 1st book of 5
Angie Sage - Septimus Heap series - Book One: Magyk - Book 6 is coming out this summer, and they have a companion book as well
Jonathan Stroud - the Bartimaeus Trilogy - The Amulet of Samarkand
The Last Apprentice (the Spook's Apprentice in the UK) - Revenge of the Witch - First of 7 so far, with 2 additional books that are not necessary, but do add more info and having just finished the 2nd one, made stuff in the 7th make more sense.
Also, Jonathan Stroud did a one off called Heroes of the Valley. It was a Viking coming of age story with a twist. You may like that as well.
That's all I can find right now... That and not stating the obvious of the whole Harry Potter series. But yeah, I'll see if I can think of more. But 23 books should be enough, right?