You've got the Becky Chambers twice in non-fiction and once in SF...

I've not posted my list in a few years, though I'm still more or less logging everything in a fragmented way. The site I started years ago doesn't handle ASINs, must nag myself to fix that, Goodreads is a pain when it comes to repeat reads, and I need to find a way to feed the Calibre "last read" data it gets from my ereader on to something else. I've generally been clearing somewhere between 120 and 150 books a year, but despite retiring 3 years ago I seem to have slowed down rather than reading more. Oddly the slow down seems to coincide to my sofa disintegrating and me not replacing it, seems I want to read with my feet up as bedtime reading still happens, and so does feet up on the corner of the computer desk while a few turns of Civilization V play through.

Overlaps on the Jim Butchers which I don't remember much about, and the Novik Scholomance books which are excellent, although as James Nicoll mentions in his reviews the family size and casualty rates don't match up. The Swallows and Amazons series are lined up for the not too distant future, my mother died a year ago and was very protective about her set of the books. My siblings agreed I could have them as part of my inheritance!

A quick look through my logs doesn't trigger any more outstandings, lots of next books in series, Ben Aaronovitch, Charlie Stross, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Martha Wells and Marko Kloos among others. Wasn't overwhelmed by any of the Hugo nominees this year, I think I voted for around 3 in each of the written fiction categories and left the others off. Several rereads of older stuff triggered by reviews and Reddit, Alan Dean Foster and the early days of the Humanx Commonwealth, John Varleys Titan trilogy and Jack Vance Demon Princes.

If you don't follow tor.com, Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit is a short story by K J Parker set in the same world as 16 Ways To Defend A Walled City that you may manage to squeeze in.

Just don't have much to say, other than "Where the heck do you find the time?" I'm lucky to find the time for 8 or 10 total a year.

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and have a tendency to pick up a small handful from your diaries every year. Keep it up.

On the rate, I added audio-books (subscription) to my routine. Added a few extra books per year, not the same as reading, but for simple fiction it entertains me and "keeps the numbers up".
-- The revolution will not be televised.

never give up, never surrender.

Thanks: this looks interesting and I'll give it a look.


"These days it seems like sometimes dreams of Italian hyper-gonadism are all a man's got to keep him going." -- CRwM

that is all.

She has effectively checked out. She's an un-person of her own making. So it falls to me.--ad hoc (in the hole)

I read The Knowledge Machine back to back with Zimmer's Soul Made Flesh--highly recommended if you haven't read it.

Soul Made Flesh says it's about the brain, but really traces very early experimental biology/physiology and puts it squarely in the context of British political history of the time. Reading about how they were figuring stuff out and then reading The Knowledge Machine made for an interesting juxtaposition with post-Kuhn, post-Popper contrasted with how they were trying to make real and reliable measurements, to understand the basics of physics, chemistry and biology.

AND, at the present moment, I'm reading Selections from Science and Sanity, which I bought after one of your blogs and finally managed to crack. I'm finding it very interesting to read the original of ideas I've been exposed to through other filters (Robert Anton Wilson, for example). Wouldn't have known to buy it but for you.
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